Category: PC Games
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Friday Finds – Alligator Biodiesel and a Supernova
Missed a week due to unforseen circumstances, but here are the most recent posts: Movie Review -Â Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Long title, good movie. Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary – Star Trek’s best game? Second Class Citizen – They don’t care about us folks that still watch…
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Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary
First, a note: this is the PC game, not the console game of the same name. Now, as a young science fiction fan growing up, there weren’t that many options out there. So you were pretty much watching Star Trek, even if you were more of a Star Wars fan. I believe young me begged…
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Vintage Gaming – Star Wars: Rebellion
Star Wars: Rebellion (or Supremacy, as it was known across the pond) is a real-time 4X game Lucasarts released in 1998 to quite mixed reviews. I bought it and played it quite a bit, though almost always from the Rebel side.  I have a hard time playing the bad guys.  Rebellion is set just after…
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Old Game Tuesday – Heroes of Might and Magic
We will be focusing on the first few games in the series, as that’s mostly what I’ve played, but things aren’t too different even now. Heroes of Might and Magic holds a special place for me, if only for the fact that it’s one of the games my wife consistently beats me in. When we…
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Call for Contenders – Best Star Wars Game
Since it began all those years ago with Star Wars (A New Hope), Lucas’s universe has spawned dozens of computer and console games of widely varying quality. I’m very curious to see if we can come up with any sort of consensus of what the best Star Wars games are, and if one rises to…
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Old Game Tuesday – X-Wing
First, a confession: I never played X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. This might wound my geek cred, but I just never got to it, and I had moved on to game styles than the flight sims of my youth. I also was a bit nervous about a ‘multiplayer only’ game being fun since I didn’t know…
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Old Game Tuesday – American McGee’s Alice
In honor of the release of the long-awaited sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, I thought I’d talk a bit about the original game, Alice. American McGee’s Alice (with American McGee, a former id Software employee as the designer) is a third-person shooter and platformer set years after Alice’s original adventures in Wonderland. If that seems familiar,…
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Old Game Tuesday – SimCity 2000
Man, how many hours did I spend on SimCity 2000? More than my parents would probably like to hear about, that’s for sure. ;) I enjoyed the original SimCity quite a bit, but was only dimly aware of other Sim games (I did rent SimEarth on SNES once, that was fun), but as woon as…
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Old Game Tuesday – Wing Commander: Privateer
One of my all-time favorites, and to me, the best game of the Wing Commander series, is Wing Commander: Privateer. Unlike the other games of the WC series, in this one you play a free pilot with your own inherited ship. At that point, you are completely free to do what you want. Fly around…
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Old Game Tuesday – Lemmings
Ah, Lemmings. One of the best puzzle games of the early PC era (indeed, it was developed for the Amiga!), it’s also one of the hardest to describe. What are the lemmings, exactly? They just…walk? That’s the gist of it, really. You have to guide the lemmings, who don’t really resemble the animal of that…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Worms Series
The Worms series of games has it’s roots in the earliest recesses of computerized gaming, as a spiritual successor to the various ‘artillery games‘ like Scorched Earth. At their core, you have two teams of cartoony worms facing off, firing weapons ranging from simple shotguns to homing missiles to holy hand grenades to the super…
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Vintage Gaming – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, another Koei game, actually I will cover the whole series of games, at least the ones I’ve played. Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are at their core turn based strategy games centered around the eponymous timeframe in Chinese history. You’ll remember that from my talk about Destiny of an Emperor. There have been…