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If you are a fan of classic adventure games, then you already know about ScummVM. For the few that don’t know about this engine already here is a quick synopsis. Basically, this engine allows fans to enjoy classics using a new, up to date, rendition of the original engine used. ScummVM brings compatibility with newer […]
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ScummVM Update Brings Tons of New Games Compatibility
December 20th, 2017 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, Linux, Macintosh, News, Windows 
Tags: adventure, point and click, SCUMMVM, windows 
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The Top Retro Games that Bring People Together
December 13th, 2017 Carl Williams Video games are a social experience. Either through playing with people or chatting to them about games, it’s a widespread hobby with thousands of different niches and nuances, including retro gaming! But some games still reign higher than others: a great example would be comparing Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, which has brought millions of players […]
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Posted in Android, Arcade, Console, iPhone, Macintosh, NEC, News, Nintendo, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Portables, PSOne, Sony, Super Nintendo, Windows, Xbox, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One Tags: arcade, fighting, pokemon, Pokemon Go, resident evil, street fighter II turbo No Comments »
Fans Recreate Interior Levels from Jurassic Park on Super Nintendo
November 12th, 2017 Carl Williams Did you know that a fan has recreated the interior levels from the Super Nintendo Jurassic Park game called Visitor Center? They are doing it for Windows and Mac OS computers over on Itch.io and you can grab a demo of their work in progress for free. What is there is rather interesting already.
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Posted in Macintosh, News, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Windows Tags: dinosaurs, first person shooter, Itch.io, jurassic park, snes, super nintendo, Visitor Center No Comments »
Icewind Dale Takes R.A. Salvatore’s Story in New Direction – June 29th 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Icewind Dale is an exemplary example of how to port a rich book to a computer game. The world in the book is a detailed, living, entity. How do you port that to a video game? Simple. You don’t. That is what Black Isle Studios did with Icewind Dale when they ported it to PC’s […]
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Quake Brings Gamers 3rd Dimension Death – June 22nd 1996 – Today in Video Game History
June 21st, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, where were you 20 years ago? Were you a PC gamer or were you a console gamer? Either way, you probably heard about Quake by id Software when it was released. It was a game changer for all of the right reasons. While Doom, id Software’s previous series, was iconic and popular, Quake took […]
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Posted in Comp, Dreamcast, Linux, Macintosh, News, Saturn, Sega, Windows Tags: 3d, first person shooter, fps, id software, John Carmack, John Romero, quake, Shambler 3 Comments »
Psychonauts Wouldn’t Die – April 19th, 2005 – Today in History
April 19th, 2015 Carl Williams To say that Psychonauts had a storied development would be kind of an understatement. What started out in the wild world of the classic LucasArts title Full Throttle expanded. The game nearly died and was revived again by the hands of one man, Tim Schafer. Psychonauts was originally to be a drug filled romp through […]
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Posted in Comp, Macintosh, News, Playstation 2, Sony, Windows, Xbox, Xbox Tags: adventure, Ed Fries, Full Throttle, lucasarts, majesco, Tim Schafer 2 Comments »
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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Posted in Comp, Macintosh, News Tags: Bungie, December 21, first person shooter, Marathon, Marathon Trilogy, Pippin, Super Mararthon 1 Comment »
