August 31st, 2008 by Craig (email author)
Description
“Liquid Dezign featured many of the Digital Illusions team who developed 21st Century’s hit pinball games, and after the generally-disliked Pinball Mania from another team, they produced one last Amiga pinball game. The game features four different tables, each with different layouts and features. A large number of sub-games are included, as well as a variety of animations on the LCD panel at the top. Each table has multi-ball features, with the view automatically switching to full-screen when this is activated. in total there are six different viewpoints, and no less than 47 different game modes are promised.” [mobygames]
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August 24th, 2008 by Craig (email author)
Description
“Stardust is basically Asteroids, but with a lot of modifications to the basic gameplay. There are 30 standard levels split into groups of 6 – you can take these on in any order, but most fight an end-of-level bad guy once you finish all 6. While each level has the standard disintegrating rocks to destroy, all but 2 of them have extra bad guys, with a range of attack patterns.
There are a number of different weapons available, which are collected by moving your ship so that it crosses their paths as they float through space. Each of these can be powered up – some weapons start strong but can’t be powered up as much as others; fortunately you can power up one weapon while using another. Extra lives, shield enhancements and a smart bomb are also on offer.
Along with the standard levels, there are also 4 tunnel levels, which involve shooting what you can and dodging everything else as you dart through a ray-traced tunnel, and 2 optional Thrust-style bonus levels in which lives can be won or lost.” [mobygames]
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August 19th, 2008 by Craig (email author)
Hello and welcome to my own little bit of the Internet.
Using this site, I am hoping to track down some of the old computer and console games I played when I was younger and see how they hold up today. I’ve been playing games ever since I was given my first Sinclair Spectrum as a child and have enjoyed hundreds of games for multiple systems ever since and have quite a range to draw from.
I am going to try and mainly focus on the two systems that have given me the most joy over my games-playing life, the Commodore Amiga and the PC. However, don’t think I’m just going to restrict myself to them! There are quite a few other systems that I’m planning to revisit. Also, where ever possible I am going to attempt to track down original disk images of the games to get the full experience and also let you know where to get hold of them yourself.
Now the uncomfortable first post is out of the way, where do I start?
