This is one of those strange games for me. I first played it at my then girlfriends house in circa 1998/99 thinking this was an “old game”. What I guess that means is that even in circa 1999 Anno 1602…
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Anno 1602: Creation of a New World. Max Design (1998) PC
Tagged with: 1998, Anno 1602, Anno 1602 A.D, Anno 1602 AD, Anno 1602 Creation of a new world, Colony Building, Max Design, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Trading Game
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UFO: Afterlife. Altar Games (2007) PC
Phew that was exhausting! About 100 hours has been poured into UFO: Aftermath, Aftershock and Afterlife. The series is a little mixed, and with a 3rd game trying the UFO: Apocalypse route going into the game I am skeptical.
Tagged with: 2007, Altar Games, Beastmen, Laputa, PC, Real Time Strategy, Reticulan, Retro Gaming, Review, RPG, Squad Tactics game, terraforming, Turn based Strategy, UFO Series, UFO: Afterlife
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UFO: Aftershock. Altar Games (2005) PC
UFO: Aftershock is the sequel to UFO: Aftermath, and is not officially related to UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com: UFO Defense). Interestingly, the 3rd game in the series, Afterlight, is not a sequel to Aftershock in terms of the story. Of all…
Tagged with: 2005, Altar Games, Cyborgs, Laputa, Mutants, Myrmecols, PC, Psionic, Real Time Strategy, Reticulan, Retro Gaming, Review, RPG, Squad Tactics game, Starghosts, Turn based Strategy, UFO Series, UFO: Aftershock, Wargots
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UFO: Aftermath. Altar Games (2003) PC
UFO: Aftermath started off “The Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge” by Mythos Games, but was eventually abandoned. It is an homage to X-Com, and is partly based on the abandoned X-Com: Genesis. It is *NOT* officially related to UFO: Enemy Unknown (X-Com:…
Tagged with: 2003, Altar Games, Biomass, Mutants, Myrmecols, Nightfall, PC, Real Time Strategy, Reticulan, Retro Gaming, Review, RNGesus, Squad Tactics game, transgenetics, Turn based Strategy, Twilight, UFO Series, UFO: Aftermath
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The Oregon Trail. MECC (1990) Internet Archive
The Oregon Trail is one of those games that is bafflingly creeping into top game lists, so when I discovered you could play it for free on the Internet Archive I figured it was time to take a trip… down a…
Tagged with: 1990, Adventure, Apple II, DOS, Educational, Hunting, Independence, Internet Archive, Macintosh, MECC, Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, Missouri, Real Time Strategy, Resource Management, Retro Gaming, Review, RNGesus, Simulation, The Oregon Trail, Web Browser
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Jagged Alliance 2. Sir-Tech (1999) PC
Jagged Alliance 2 was the first game I bought on Good Old Games. This isn’t an interesting fact, but it is true.
Tagged with: 1999, Arulco, Crepitus, Deidranna Reitman, Enrico Chivaldori, Isometric, Jagged Alliance 2, PC, Real Time Strategy, Retro Gaming, Review, Sir-Tech, Squad Tactics game, Tactical Role-Playing game, Turn based Strategy
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Z. The Bitmap Brothers. (1996) PlayStation/PC
Z, pronounced ZED (urgh), is sometimes called Z: Origins, other times just Zee. I guess they added the “origins” part just so you could Google this game!
Tagged with: 1996, COMMANDER Zod, General Zod, PC, PlayStation, Real Time Strategy, Red, red vs blue, Retro Gaming, Review, RTS, The Bitmap Brothers, Z
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