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Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun. Westwood Studios (1999) PC

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 5 Comments

I have been looking forward to this. I never really played it back in the day. I remember my mate had it. He bought a top of the range PC in around 1997/98 and unlike him went out and bought…

Hardwar. The Software Refinery (1998) PC

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Metabera — 3 Comments

I’ve never been much of a fan of flight sims, but something about Hardwar kept me coming back for more, year after year. Story The skies of Saturn’s Moon, Titan, are littered with dogfights, traders scurrying to hide from pirates,…

Tagged with: 1998, Flight Simulator, Gremlin Interactive, Hardwar, PC, Retro Gaming, Review, The Software Refinery, Trade Simulator
Posted in Internet Archive, PC

Command & Conquer. Westwood Studios (1995) PC

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 15 Comments

GDI DISC DETECTED. Wait, that only happened on the PlayStation version!!! Immediate 10 point reduction for the PC version off the bat. I did a short Twitter Poll of people’s favourite defunct Developers of the 90s and our good friend…

Theme Park. Bullfrog Productions (1994) PC

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Van Rockingham — 8 Comments

We have a long history of loving Bullfrog. They were honestly one of our favourite developers of the 90s and you can see why. Theme Park, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper, and that is ignoring groundbreaking games such as Magic…

Tagged with: 1994, Bullfrog Productions, Management, Mega Drive, PC, PlayStation, Resource Management, Retro Gaming, Review, Simulation, Theme Park
Posted in PC

Portal. Valve Corporation (2007) PC

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Van Rockingham — 3 Comments

Holy hell Portal is way older than I though it was and up until now I’ve never actually played it. No reason for that, just other things to do at the time (I mostly played a lot of World of…

Tagged with: 2007, Action Platformer, Aperture Science, First Person Shooter, Gaming, GLaDOS, PC, Portal, Puzzler, Retro Gaming, Valve Corporation
Posted in PC

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Infocom (1984) Web Browser

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Van Rockingham — 6 Comments

For a long time I considered the BBC TV series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Douglas Adams’ book* to be the funniest thing ever written. Sure the show is dated and has that classic BBC look of…

Tagged with: 1984, Douglas Adams, Infocom, PC, Retro Gaming, Review, Text Adventure, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Posted in Web Browser

The Secret of Monkey Island. LucasArts (1990) PC

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Van Rockingham — 10 Comments

I’ll cover the Special Edition of Secret of Monkey Island, AND the Original in this review as they are the same game; except the remake has better graphics, better music, better sound FX, and better voice acting. On top of…