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Sea Wolf video
2008-01-17 10:12:00 An excellent shooting game that used a periscope-based cabinet when it first debuted, the object is to shoot as many of the enemy ships as possible in an allotted time. If you can achieve a certain amount of points within the time limit, it'll be extended, so do your best to acheive a big amount of points here! More About: Video , Wolf
Final Fight Revenge recording
2008-01-17 09:30:00 A decade after the first arcade game, and a few years after the made-for-console games they produced, Capcom came up with this one-on-one fighting game featuring almost all the characters seen in the previous ones that belonged to the beat-em-up genre. A most intriguing idea featured in this game is that it's possible to obtain firearms, not something the beat-em-up games actually featured, and More About: Recording , Fight , Final , Revenge , Cord
Posts get better with expandable summaries
2008-01-15 23:35:00 I just installed a new option that enables expandable post summaries to be used. This means that the full post can be viewed by clicking the permalink to go to the specific topic itself. It'll help save some space on the main menus. I'm going to add it to more posts soon. Excellent! More About: Posts
I, Robot: the first 3-D video game!
2008-01-15 14:26:00 If Zaxxon was the first game with isometric graphics, then I, Robot was the first with really 3-D ones. You guide a robot whose object is to defeat Big Brother, and to do this you need to travel through some very sophisticated 3-D lanes in space. Despite having one of the best gameplay programs and designs of its time, I, Robot, unfortunately, failed to attract much of a crowd when it was first More About: Video , Game , Video Game , I Robot
Amazing Maze multimedia
2008-01-14 11:57:00 One of the first maze games ever produced, it's also one of the first to feature different arrangements with every game played. You just move simple squares, which are basically cursor-shaped objects, around the maze to try and find the goal. A very enjoyable challenge from the early days of video games. More About: Multimedia , Amazing , Maze
Astro Invader: another Space Invaders clone
2008-01-13 21:43:00 This is a fast-paced game that's more challenging than it looks, where you need to shoot the enemy sattelites that go between those shafts and even the flying saucers coming through there as well. Make sure that the saucers don't manage to reach the bottom, because you'll lose a turn that way. A most interesting game. More About: Space , Clone , Space Invaders , Astro , Invader
Mappy multimedia
2008-01-12 13:25:00 In this charming game, you guide a mouse through a house to collect special treasures and at the same time need to dodge all the enemy cats appearing. A wonderful game of strategy and skill. More About: Multimedia , Mappy
Post for Gee Bee, Bomb Bee and Cutie Q
2008-01-11 18:42:00 Assuming I ever find any, I'll be posting the other games named here as well. Gee Bee, a form of computerized pinball combined with elements from Breakout, was Namco's first video game, with Bomb Bee and Cutie Q being the sequels they made a year afterwards. They were designed by Toru Iwatani, who would soon afterwards design Pac-Man. Interesting thing about the game as shown here is that it More About: Post
Recording of Bomb Jack
2008-01-11 11:18:00 A delightful little game where you need to complete the stages by gathering all those red-colored explosives, and with the right icon, you can turn the enemies momentarily into gold to collect for extra points. It was made by Tecmo at the time they were still calling themselves Tekhan, the name they began under in 1967 (it was in 1986 that they changed their name to Tecmo). The music is More About: Recording , Jack , Bomb , Cord
Sony streamlines their PS3
2008-01-10 21:05:00 They're doing away with 2 Japan-sold console models: TOKYO (AP) - Sony 's game unit is discontinuing two PlayStation 3 game machine models sold only in Japan to streamline its lineup and boost software development, a company official said Thursday. Sony Computer Entertainment will stop shipping PS3 machines equipped with 20-gigabyte and 60-gigabyte hard drives to Japanese vendors this month, game More About: Streamline
P-47: The Freedom Fighter
2008-01-10 20:30:00 In 4 recordings: I think this may be either the Japanese or the European version of the game, which is subtitled The Phantom Fighter , but anyway, it's a great game set on the WW2 battle scene, as you pilot the title plane and smash those creepy nazi enemies into oblivion. I'm not sure, but the game may present the stages at random, meaning that every time you start a new game, you'll find a More About: Freedom
Japan's big 2007 sales
2008-01-09 16:42:00 Here's some news on Nintendo's success last year with the Wii: TOKYO (AP) - The booming popularity of Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld sent the combined sales of game machines and gaming software in Japan to a record high last year, according to research by a Japanese publisher. The results underline the stellar success of Nintendo Co., the Japanese maker behind Super Mario and Pokemon More About: Sales
Circus Charlie cassette
2008-01-09 11:17:00 Ah, isn't circus life wonderful? And this was a most charming game where you guide a circus clown through many daring stunts, on the backs of animals and the flying trapeze. Ah, to just listen to the cheering crowd as they marvel at our hero's bold stunts and leaps of faith. One of the best games I've seen. More About: Charlie , Cassette , Circus
Donkey Kong Junior video
2008-01-09 10:59:00 In the second game in this series, Mario is the de facto baddie, the only time it was really done, and the hero here is the son of the big ape, who's got to rescue his dad from the cage that Mario's put him in. To do that, of course, he's got to overcome some pretty difficult obstacles, such as the live snapjaw devices that go crawling around, and even deadly birds. With good strategy and timing More About: Video , Donkey Kong , Donkey , Junior
Recording of Night Driver
2008-01-08 09:56:00 This was an early car driving game, one of the first to use a "first person" perspective, as you race an auto down a highway signaled by the special lines at the side, trying to get the best time result possible, as well as the score (many of the earliest games were based on earning points within the best time frame possible, not how many turns you have left). We sure have come a long way since More About: Recording , Driver , Night , Cord
Teen zombie problem
2008-01-07 18:40:00 Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal (via Debbie Schlussel) argues that video games like those from Nintendo are turning children into virtual zombies. And you know what? I'm not going to argue with that if but for one reason: I think that they took away from book reading, is why! Much as there are many video games I do enjoy, I still think book reading is better. More About: Problem , Zombie
Nintendo isn't making a price cut for the Wii
2007-10-27 20:34:00 Sony may be making one, but so far, Nintendo isn't: TOKYO (AP) - Fresh off bumper earnings, Nintendo Co. ruled out a price cut for its smash-hit Wii video game console Friday and announced the company will begin selling the Wii in China next year. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata also unveiled a gift-giving feature that will allow users to send each other games over the Internet, boosting the More About: Price
Some Street Smart videos
2007-10-25 18:01:00 One could say that Street Smart was a precursor to the fighting games that SNK made during the 1990s, though it was pretty simple when it was first made. Here's a short recording of this early fighting game they designed in 1989, when the genre was just getting started: And, here's another recording that features the game's ending: Street Smart may not have been a big success when it first More About: Videos , Some
Wii's sports products win Bafta awards!
2007-10-25 07:54:00 Who would've thought? I had no idea they were into this kind of stuff, or that they were getting into it! But, that's what happened just recently, Nintendo's new console won the Bafta awards: LONDON (Reuters) - A Nintendo computer game that allows players to practice their golf swing or fine-tune their tennis stroke in their living room has won six Bafta awards. The Japanese company's More About: Sports , Products , Awards
Road Runner recording (really!)
2007-10-23 11:27:00 I never even knew there was a game based on Warner Brothers' famous cartoons from the swingin' sixties that was made! But it sure looks spiffy, as you take up the role of the speedy bird named Road Runner who's gotta outrun Wile E. Coyote on the desert highways of Arizona (though since this tape was done on cheat mode, it's not easy to tell). And one of the most important steps here is to gobble More About: Recording , Ally , Cord
Rock music games
2007-10-22 21:18:00 Okay, and now, here's an article from the AFP about music-based games! LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The slashing riffs of Metallica, the solos of Deep Purple, the rage of the Sex Pistols: an increasing crop of video games are inviting players to live out their dreams of being a rock star. Pick up your mock guitar, plug in your gaming console and become Keith Richards or Kurt Cobain from the comfort of More About: Music , Games , Rock , Rock Music
Recording of P.O.W: Prisoners Of War
2007-10-22 21:13:00 A game that draws from the Vietnam war, the idea is to escape from a POW camp and make your way to where a friendly helicopter will come to rescue you. Note that this recording was done on cheat mode, so what you can't tell at ease here is that it's fairly difficult for a game that was made in the wake of Double Dragon, though like that game, it's not much more than four stages, though they are More About: Recording , Prisoners of War , Prisoners , Cord
E3 will be downsized considerably
2007-10-22 21:06:00 If you're going to attend the E3 convention, you'll notice some changes to it this time: LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When the annual trade show once known simply as E3 kicks off this week, attendees will discover a distinctly downsized event. The video game industry's premier trade show has been scaled down considerably after years of an escalating arms race of ever-larger booths, More About: Consider , Downsize
Xbox 360 will be cheaper in Japan
2007-10-22 21:00:00 Microsoft is thinking wisely about how they'll sell their console over in Japan : TOKYO (AP) - Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season. The Xbox 360 console will sell in Japan for 34,800 yen ($304) beginning Nov. 1, down from 39,795 yen ($348), the U.S.
Ugh, I wouldn't want to wear this vest
2007-10-20 18:44:00 The following invention for game playing is most definitely NOT something I would want to use: LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US surgeon working on a "tele-health" breakthrough has devised a way for video game warriors to feel shots, stabs, slams, and hits dealt to their on-screen characters. A vest designed by doctor Mark Ombrellaro uses air pressure and feedback from computer games to deliver pneumatic More About: Vest , Wear
Dragon Unit video
2007-10-19 13:38:00 A simple magical kingdom game, in which you play a knight battling to rescue a princess from all sorts of sinister beasties, dragons included. Best part about this is hands down the part where the hero and the lovely princess kiss each other at the end. That's a little something that needs to be seen in more video games, if you ask me (Tecmo's Dead or Alive series is one place where I think it More About: Video , Dragon , Unit , Drago
PS3 will now be cheaper
2007-10-18 17:10:00 Yep, Sony is cutting down the price at last: NEW YORK (AP) - Sony Corp. on Thursday cut the price of its PlayStation 3 game console in the U.S. and announced an even cheaper model that will arrive before the holiday shopping season. The top-line PlayStation model, with an 80 gigabyte hard drive, now costs $499, down from $599. That effectively eliminates the lower-end model, which has a 60-
A study tells that online games are more appealing
2007-10-18 17:01:00 But according to this article, they can also deprive people of sleep: NEW YORK (AP) - Role-playing games with an Internet element are so much more captivating than equivalent electronic games that they change users' lives, cutting into their sleep and boosting the time they spend playing, a new study shows. So-called massively multiplayer online role-playing games, or MMORPGs, have become a huge More About: Games , Study , Online Games , Online , Tells
Zelda, Folklore, and Eternal Sonata
2007-10-17 21:40:00 Here's an AP review of three new games by tech reviewer Lou Kesten, including the latest installment in Shigeru Miyamoto's famous adventure game: The video-game industry tosses around the word "legend" pretty freely. This year alone has brought "The Legend of Dragon," "Soulcalibur Legends," "Power Rangers: Super Legends," "The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night," "Kengo: Legend of the 9," "Izuna: More About: Zelda , Folklore , Sonat
Wii makes 85 billion a share
More articles from this author:2007-10-17 21:32:00 Nintendo continues to make loads off of the Wii. There's also info here on a new game Capcom's developed: TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd zipped past 10 trillion yen ($85 billion) in market value on blistering demand for its red-hot game machines, having almost tripled in value since launching its new Wii console late last year. Nintendo is now Japan's third-most valuable listed company behind More About: Share , Billion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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