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Doom 2600 does something that is technically impossible. It brings id Software’s Doom to the classic gaming console. The Atari 2600 was obviously not designed to do 3D games so seeing something like Doom 2600 is impressive. 99% of the game is lost in translation, what is here is still spiritually “Doom”. That is the […]
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Ion Fury Brings 90’s First Person Shooter to PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch
May 17th, 2020 
Carl Williams Raise your hand if you remember 3D Realms First Person Shooters (FPS). Get ready because Ion Fury is not only a call back to the 90’s, it uses the same tech. Yep, you read that right, the Build Engine has been ported to modern consoles like the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. That […]
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Kickstarter- STRAFE Looks to Return First Person Shooters to the Mid 90’s, and You Are Going to Love It
January 28th, 2015 Carl Williams Remember the first time you fired up Space Hulk on 3DO, Saturn or Playstation? Remember how the sprite based enemies just piled up in the level? It was unfortunate that they disappear as you explore but the idea was there, as did the blood stains on the walls. STRAFE looks to build on that level […]
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New Game- Red Olympus Takes First Person Shooters back to the Basics
January 23rd, 2015 Carl Williams Ah, First Person Shooters (FPS) are a genre that is going quite strong, and have been doing so for several decades now. When you think of the genre you probably think of over detailed massive games that require a beast to run. The Gravedigger, the developer responsible for Red Olympus, has decided to take the […]
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Bandit Gaming: It Came From the Desert Re-Imagined as First Person Shooter on Commodore Amiga
December 31st, 2014 Carl Williams The game, It Came from the Desert, is a classic Cinemaware title that hit multiple computers platforms and the Turbo Grafx-16 CD-ROM a few decades ago. Recently, Cinemaware announced they were going to release the Sega Genesis version (almost completely different than other versions) but that version has yet to materialize. An enterprising fan has […]
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John Romero Auctioned Personal Copy of Castle Wolfenstein
May 25th, 2020 Carl Williams Castle Wolfenstein was originally released in 1982 for various computers. John Romero, one of the members of id Software behind Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, has auctioned off is his personal copy of Castle Wolfenstein. The price it went for on eBay is astonishing.
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Sky Force Reloaded Review – Android Vertical Shooter Full of Challenge
June 5th, 2016 Carl Williams What do you do when you are sitting on one of the most iconic overhead scrolling shooting games? Why, you continue the lineage with a sequel that gives more of what brought fans in the first place. I reviewed Sky Force 2014 awhile back and felt it was one of the leading titles in the […]
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Bungie Shows the Macintosh Can Rock 1st Person Shooters with Marathon – December 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
December 21st, 2014 Carl Williams It is no small secret that First Person Shooter (FPS) games are still raging on within the gaming world. Whether on console or computers or mobile, they are still going strong. With the advent of the newer consoles, we saw even more FPS games racking up sales and continuing franchises. 20 years ago, Bungie (the […]
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New Game: Pizzarian Retro Styled Shooter Released for Windows
May 28th, 2014 Carl Williams In this day and age new scrolling shooters, not the First Person kind, are rare. Even rarer are the ones that harken back to the good old days of limited graphics and sound in what is commonly called, retro. Pizzarian is a new overhead/side scrolling shooter that has a lot in common with Game Boy […]
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Doom Sees SymbOS Port
October 12th, 2021 Carl Williams Doom was that release that made computers cool again. A release that transcended the stuffiness of computers of the time. Much like Myst did the same year (1993), just a different genre. Considering id Software opened their FPS to gamers the world over, it helped keep it in the spotlight. One area this helped was […]
