Remember back in the day when games were still 2D, and you had to use your imagination to make that lonely pixel turn into a space ship, or a human, or a mouse in a maze? Okay now remember earlier than that? You know back in the back in the day. You had to type everything and REALLY use your imagination to make that word conjure up images of daring sword fights, dangerous pirate battles, or exciting princess rescues? Yeah, okay so go back even farther, you know when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. ER maybe that was too far. Let’s fast forward to the days of wine and text adventures. The days where one wrong move could kill you, and if you didn’t have a save game you had to play the whole blasted thing over. Or where you could ultimately get stuck and not ever be able to finish the game and not know where you went wrong. Well those days are over, so get over it!
Posts Tagged ‘independent’
Midwinter Rites – Ahh winter, the season of Orc-love
Monday, April 13th, 2009I Heart Hearts!
Friday, April 10th, 2009
I don’t really love hearts the game, but, it is interesting to play none-the-less. Hearts supposedly belongs to the Whist family of card games. Yeah I don’t know what Whist is either, except Bridge is another member of the family. There’s like a ton of card games out there, and a ton of computer versions. This version is online, in the form of a Java applet. It took me a bit to catch on to how to play, because it’s just so off the wall, it isn’t hard, however.
Jumping Jack’son – I’m Jumping Jack’son, it’s a gas, gas, gas!
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Before there were guitar hero’s and dance revolutions there was Dance Aerobics a relatively obscure NES game that had you hit buttons on the “power pad” (much like Dance, Dance, Revolution). Before that there was Simon in like the 70’s. You know you had to hit the lit but tons in the exact order they played, and it would play notes. I guess that’s the first rhythm game. Of course I went too far back, so let’s jump back after Simon, after Dance Aerobics and before what is arguably called the first influential music game to a game called Jumping Jackson by Infogrames. Of course I am not reviewing that game, I’m reviewing a remake for the retro remakes competition. It’s called, guess what? Jumping Jack’son! It’s by Puzzle House Finland Okay so there’s a little difference in the name spelling. Actually after looking at screenshots it looks pretty faithful.