We’re not talking about an episode of that new-fangled Dr. Who here. We’re talking about the ghosts of Amiga Computer’s past. Er, Games of Amiga’s past. According to the know-all see-all Wikipedia, The Amiga was a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in ‘82 and Commodore International bought Amiga Corp and introduced the machine in ‘85. What does this have to do with our game? Because of the Amiga’s superior audio/video capabilities a majority of the Amiga community was into games, including the person who created this game. They wanted to bring that feeling back to modern machines. The game is called BOH by Simone Bevilacqua and is, according to the website, an original, retro-flavored game of exploration and action searching for the “Evil Masters” whatever that means. So how does this game fare? Unfortunately for me, it didn’t fare too well, read on to find out more.
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The face of BOH
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Rocks – Can you smell what the rocks are cookin’?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Obviously rocks can’t cook, I mean, they have absolutely no utensils. You could cook some rocks though. Well it wouldn’t make for a tasty meal, but you could toast them with laser fire! You know. Beep…… Boop…… Beep……. Boop……. Jing-jing-jing. Beep… Boop… Beep… Boop… Jing-jing. Do-de-do-de-do-de-do-de-do. Beep. Boop. Beep. Boop. Jing-jing-jing. Pash! Next ship. Okay so the beeps and boops is the music or background ambient sound, the jing-jing is the sound of the laser fire, the do-de-do is that little flying saucer that comes out for extra bonus points, and the “Pash” is the sound of your ultimate demise. Okay so it’s hard to faithfully reproduce the sounds of Asteroids in text, but I did the best I could, did I not? Asteroids one of the founding fathers of games. Well I guess it’s not a person, so it wouldn’t be a founding father exactly. Part of the bedrock of games. Or something. Rocks by Ooeyug. Is generally an Asteroids clone. Of course shooting rocks isn’t the only thing you can do in it.
What I think of it: It’s great, the graphics, and sounds (and the few musical snippets) are frosting. It also has a few things inspired by games like Geometry Wars. It’s fun, but with a warning. It is EXTREMELY challenging. My butt got handed to me quite early.
So read on, all you rock blasting fanatics!
Tombed by dessgeega
Monday, May 18th, 2009
I’ve linked to the update of tombed. Apparently the author felt the Z and Spacebar could be used along with the shift and also removed blur. Okay this is neat and pixelly. You play Danger Jane as she tries to dig her way to treasure. Only there’s an ADVANCING WALL OF DOOM, DUH duh DUHHHHH! Okay well I’m beat after that. Essentially you use the shift key to dig and arrow keys to move. Not so tough, except the huge spikes just keep coming down and are relentless. I couldn’t keep up, eventually I came to a part that was too hard and the wall overtook me. Graphics are as I said neat and pixelly, and the sounds, sounded like they almost came from the pc speaker, except they were coming out of the regular speakers. Nice little retro game. Get it here: tombed.
Name: tombed
Developer: dessgeega