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Diablo is one of those few games that made you proud to be a computer gamer. There were not many that made console gamers jealous, Blizzards Rogue-like was one of them. It joined the ranks of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Command & Conquer, and a few flight sims. Even Rogue was a PC exclusive for most […]
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Diablo Pits Gamers Against Hell – January 3rd, 1997 – Today in Video Game History
January 3rd, 2021 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Windows 
Tags: blizzard, Condor, Diablo, dungeons, hell, Lord of Terror, Nethack, randomly generated, rogue, rogue-like, role playing game, rpg 
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GreedVentory Updates Roguelike
November 1st, 2016 Carl Williams The world of retro gaming is full of classic genres that are pretty much ignored today. Well, ignored if your gaming appetite is only handled via mainstream publishers. Now if you venture outside of the world of Sony and Nintendo you may just find some developers and publishers remember most of these genres quite well. […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: Black Tower Basement, GreedVentory, linux, macintosh, rogue, roguelike, role playing game, rpg, windows No Comments »
Atari 2600 Game Bigfoot Family Currently on Kickstarter
August 23rd, 2016 Carl Williams The Atari 2600 and Kickstarter are not exactly synonymous. Most people that want new Atari 2600 games probably already know about AtariAge and their store. If not, they do now. That has not stopped Bobby Alexander from hitting the popular crowdsourcing service to seek assistance in getting his new game on cartridge. Bigfoot Family is […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: action, adventure, Bigfoot Family, Gemintronic, Jason S. Kickstarter, Northern Lights, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, rogue No Comments »
New Colecovision Homebrew Title, Cave, Brings 3D Rogue-like Adventure to Dead Console
August 24th, 2015 Carl Williams The Colecovision was a platform that was one of the unfortunate fatalities that occurred due to the 1983/1984 video game crash. The console, up to this point and for a while afterwards, was doing quite well but things dropped off considerably as we neared 1985- to the point that Coleco, the parent company of the […]
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Posted in Console, News Tags: 1983, 1984, Atari Age, Coleco, colecovision, forums, FredTheFred, homebrew, magazine, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, rgm, rogue, roguelike 1 Comment »
OpenBOR: Marvel First Alliance 2 Released
July 29th, 2014 Carl Williams We are continuing to cover the more interesting OpenBOR releases and with that we bring you Marvel First Alliance 2. Brazilian developer Zvitor has really put the spit and polish to this one, just check out the video below for proof of this labor of love.
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: avengers, Beast, beats of rage, Black Widow, brawler, Brazil, Brazilian, Captain America, carl williams, Cyclops, Fantastic Four, fighting, final fight, Hawkeye, Hulk, Human Torch, Iron Man, Jean Grey, Marvel First Alliance 2, Mr. Fantastic, openbor, Phoenix, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, rogue, streets of rage, Thing, windows, x-men, Zvitor No Comments »
Hack Slash Loot Coming to the Atari Lynx
September 28th, 2013 Carl Williams The Atari Lynx was one of the systems to die at the feet of the venerable Nintendo Game Boy (as chronicled here). The Lynx was released during a time that Atari was coming off the slow demise of the Atari 7800 (another system they handled extremely badly). This should have left Atari open to focus […]
