Way ahead of its time: SEAL Team

Another great oldie I picked up over Christmas this year was SEAL Team.It was not too hard to find on eBay, but it was a little expensive (around $20). It comes in a great big box with a packed manual. Previously I only had the budget, all-on-one CD version, which was simply not cutting the [...]

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20 years of Sword of the Samurai

I discovered this game about 10 years ago during one of my abandonware trawling trips on the then 56k enabled interwebs. It was originally released by awesome hit machine Microprose (Sid Meier’s original company), written by a team led by Lawrance Schick. Late last year I finally found a copy on Amazon.
In many ways it [...]

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Adult Swim games reinvents Cannon Fodder

Adult Swim games has some interesting free flash games available. The one where play a guy trying to whack chips out of a vending machine, the one where you play a hooker killing zombies. For their latest offering they have decided to pay homage to one of the great games of the 16 bit era: [...]

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I am the oldies-game-collecting master!

Since I arrived, I have been scouring the three branches of Half-Price books (U-District, Redmond, Bellevue and Capitol Hill) for oldies (specifically oldie sims and strategy games). It has been a good haul so far:

All these gems together set me back about $30. Woohoo! In case you are wondering – most of these come on [...]

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Best games you never played: Wizard of Wor

I have only recently discovered this one: Wizard of Wor. It came out in 1981, on arcade first, then on other systems, including the Atari VCS 2600 and the Commodore 64.
I do admit, I have been drawn to looking up old VCS games after watching too many Code Monkeys episodes
This is one of [...]

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Flashthulu attacks: Necronomicon

Every now and then another little Cthulhu mythos gem appears. This time it is a free flash game released by Games of Cthulhu – Necronomicon

It is a collectible card game style game, with simple rules, but very fun gameplay. I would say it is good for coffee breaks, but it will suck you in and [...]

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