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Playing Switchblade (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 16 March 2011 · 272 views

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Beware! Another case of "don't judge a game by its graphics" ahead!

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This production got me puzzled a bit, since the original Amiga version of Switchblade was Core Designed, yet the C64 version was converted by Gremlin themselves. Normally Core would handle...

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Playing North & South (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 11 March 2011 · 339 views

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Infogrames wouldn't give up on licensing comics - after Tintin on the Moon came North & South:

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I have fond memories of this one, spending hours upon hours playing the Miggy version against my cousin 20 years ago. I don't think I ever saw the C64...

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Playing Turbo Out Run (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 10 March 2011 · 504 views

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Long before Street Fighter, Out Run was the first game to get a Turbo sequel:

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Considering that I played the original game on the Genesis, choosing the C64 version for the sequel probably looks like one step forward and two steps back. But believe it or not,...

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I know a Secret!

Posted by Cybergoth, 09 March 2011 · 163 views

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Assume last E³ I saw the debut trailer of a game, which I somehow associated with a band.
Assume I contacted the band and the game developer, establishing a contact between them.
Assume the band now just recorded a brandnew song for the game.

More I'm not telling. But I have a totally unrelated video for...

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Playing Hero's Quest (DOS)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 28 February 2011 · 637 views

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And so Sierra decided it finally was time to cross adventure and RPG games:

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Well, I've been ignoring most Sierra games so far, because they usually require struggling with a text parser. After playing Manhunter not too long ago, which was completely menu...

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Another Damned Rumour!

Posted by Cybergoth, 25 February 2011 · 173 views

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This just came in. The Damned might play at the Wave/Gothic Gathering in Leipzig this year. This is one of the biggest annual Gothic events in Europe and the ~100 bands already confirmed for it so far already include:

A Flock Of Seagulls
Deine Lakaien
Fields Of The Nephilim (YES!!)
File Not Found (Friends of mine. Really....

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Playing Terry's Big Adventure (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 04 February 2011 · 487 views

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Let's have a look at the one and only game from a publisher named "Shades":

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Easy to guess from the screenshot already, this is once again a sidescrolling platformer in the tradition of Super Mario Bros. It actually borrows ideas from several NES games, not...

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Playing Toobin' (NES)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 30 January 2011 · 349 views

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Let's have a look at Ataris one and only innertubing simulator:

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Okay, 'simulator' is a bit far fetched and actually I think Ski or Die also had an innertubing discipline, albeit there you were going down a mountain on snow, not water :lolblue:

Thank heavens the NES...

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Playing Fighting Soccer (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 22 January 2011 · 254 views

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Look mom, someone wrote a Spectrum emulator for the C64:

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Oh. My. God.

I think this is definitely one of the worst C64 games ever. What did the guys at Activision only think when releasing such a trainwreck of an arcade conversion, demanding real cash for such a...

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Playing Wonder Boy in Monsterland (C64)

Posted by Cybergoth, in Playing... 18 January 2011 · 476 views

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Early in 1990 the sequel to Wonder Boy arrived on the C64:

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And while the C64 verion is technically inferior to its Sega Master or PC-Engine counterparts, it's still surprisingly fun. Another surprise fact I never realized before doing some...

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