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 ‘retro’
Midwinter Rites – Ahh winter, the season of Orc-love
Monday, April 13th, 2009Jumping 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.
When you can’t call Rambo, you can call ROMBO!
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
“You are the apprentice of the great Wizard, sent in the unholy lands to recover the Black Rombo from the hands of the evil mage’s castle. In your journey through the lands, you’ll encounter several creatures in evil mage’s service. Do not think twice before sending them to meet their creator; these are damned souls, lost forever in the realm from where the evil mage came and transformed an once healthy place to a dead zone where only the darkest entities enter.” – That’s what the webpage for Rombo by BadSector aka Kostas Michalopoulos (at least I’m assuming his name is that since he’s copyrighted the page this game is on.) Okay so Rombo is a thing and not a person, big deal, Rambo, Rombo, Jimbo, it’s all the same to me. Rombo is a first person “3D” flash game in the vein of the greats like Wolfenstein 3D, or Doom. So essentially you need to find this Rombo.