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When Halloween slips around, you have tons of choices for hosting a retro-themed scare-a-thon on your big screen. It’s easy to dive straight into the likes of Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, or even Friday the 13th. Formerly obscure titles like Run Like Hell for Xbox/PS2 and Clock Tower for the PS1 have been around […]
Posts Tagged ‘1990’
The Black Sheep of Horror Gaming: Abadox
October 7th, 2016 
Michael Crisman 
Posted in Console, News, Nintendo 
Tags: 1990, Abadox, ad, black sheep of horror gaming, deadly inner war, Halloween, Milton Bradley, natsume, nes, nintendo, shooter 
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Wing Commander Brings Cinematic Space Battles to PC Players – September 26th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
September 25th, 2016 Carl Williams To say Origin was ahead of their time is quite an understatement, Wing Commander proves that. It is almost pointless to bring that back up. Retro gamers that were gaming around the “Origin Era” on PC’s know this well. For everyone else, Origin was this development company that was doing stuff gamers only dreamed of. […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: 1990, computer, dos, origin, pc, retro gaming, retro retrogaming, September 26th, wing commander No Comments »
Square Enix Launches Final Fantasy and Saves Company – July 12th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
July 11th, 2016 Carl Williams Final Fantasy represents just how close Square, now Square Enix, was to bankruptcy. They had enough money to release one more game, a role playing game was ready so they released it. Since this could have been their final game, they chose Final Fantasy as the title. Little did they know at the time that […]
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Posted in NES, News, Nintendo Tags: 1990, final fantasy, July 12th, role playing game, rpg, square enix 2 Comments »
Commander Keen Proves Computers Can Game – December 14th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 14th, 2015 Carl Williams What do you do when you have spent a lot of money and time creating a pretty damn good rendition of Super Mario Bros 3 but for PC? First, you shop it out to Nintendo and when they say no, you take your superior engine and rework the graphics and levels to make something new […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 14th, 1990, 2d, action, Commander Keen, december, dos, John Carmack, John Romero, pc, platform, shareware, side scrolling, super mario 3, Tom Hall 2 Comments »
Forgotten Classic – Alien Brigade (7800)
July 20th, 2014 Michael Crisman Yes, we know, technically the entirety of the Atari 7800 library could be considered a forgotten classic thanks to the Nintendo Entertainment System juggernaut steamrolling Atari like a patch of wet asphalt in the US. But while Atari’s systems are known for a voluminous amount of shovel-ware, digging through the crap will occasionally yield a […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 1990, 7800, action, alien, alien brigade, aliens, atari, atari corporation, on rails, shooter No Comments »
