Easter!
AR, or Abandonia Reloaded adds a Zuma-cloned easter themed game, namely Easter Crisis. You control a white bunny and have to match 3 or more eggs to make them disappear.
C:DOS Abandonware, adds a review for Ascendancy. According to the reviewer, this game is "a turn based space strategy game, sort of in the same family as the Master of Orion series, or Galactic Civilizations.".
DJ Oldgames takes us both back to the island, as well as to the holidays with Jurassic Park and Jazz the Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare 1994 and 1995. Jurassic Park is a mix between a top-down and a first-person shooter with puzzle element. And Jazz? I guess everybody remembers the green rambo hare.
Mr. Oldgames turns to carnage in Carmageddon. You know, run over old ladies, crash cars and grab bonuses? This game was teh stuff in the day.
Old Games For You, at the time of writing the website/server was apparently struggling by serving tons of retro goodies to its users. Therefore, I couldn't see what they updated. Stay tuned for an update.
Starinky wants you to gamble in Ultra Slot. It's exactly what the name implies, a one-armed bandit game, neither more nor less.
We at The DOS Spirit packs a punch in the third dimension with Descent! That's true, that awesome title all 12-year olds played in the day. There was truely something special about navigating halls filled with enemies of complete polygon terror - in complete 360 degrees! Great stuff.
The House of Games adds two games, both featuring James Bond. First is "A View to a Kill", a movie to game adaption with Max Zorin as the bad buy trying to destroy the microchip market by targeting Silicon Valley. The second one is named "James Bond 007: A View to a kill". Don't be fooled though, they're different games, and the latter is a pure text adventure.
World of Abandonware adds Albion, a true classic from Blue Byte from 1995. You control Tom Driscoll, who is a space pilot and on a mission to harvest the resources of a planet called Albion. He's told that there's no or little life down there, but once his ship accidentally crashlands on the planet, he finds out that the truth is quite different - and out there. I never got into this game, but RPG-knowers say it's pure gold.
That's that for this update,
stay retro
- bakkelun
Hey people, remember me?
Another fine week with several updates. Besides the usual games, there's some cool stuff I'd like to point out for your retro-gaming greatness:
- The web-based Legends of Zork was finally officially released to public! As you already knew, Zork was a somewhat popular interactive fiction series back in the 80s. As far as web-based adventures go, this one is fairly varied (a fair measure of different locations, equipment, enemies, puzzles, spells, and some unusual interactions such as group adventuring and the PVP arena). Click here to try yourself.
- The DOS Spirit has updated their cool old-games-web-based-Flash-radio-player to a much more usable pop-up window which won't stop playing if you leave the main page. I strongly recommend you try Rayman 2 "Disconnected".
- Oops I just remembered. I haven't been raving about The Good Old Days for a full two weeks now! To compensate, here goes some ravin':
Oh and by the way, I couldn't review all applicants, so I ask all of you to be a little patient. Thanks a lot!
Take care, everyone!
Back once again, for the retro master!
Want back in the loop after a hectic weekend? Have no fear, here's what's going on:
Now, it may not be easter yet, but that doesn't stop Abandonia Reloaded from giving us some quality crime noir anno the 50s. In Fate By Numbers you control Alice, a private investigator that needs to get a certain briefcase. Now, except for being a massive download (1.2GB) for a freeware game, everything is done FMV, with similarities to i.e Wing Commander. Now that's something you don't see every day!
C:DOS Abandonware adds a review for D-Day: The Beginning of The End - a World War II simluator much in the same sense a niché SSI made big bucks with back in the day.
The retro records keeps spinning over at DJ Oldgames, and this time around we're heading out to the seven seas! Take up your sword, because there be landlubbers ahoy in Sid Meier's Pirates! Aye, thar be rum to be had here laddie.
GoFish Games added the freeware version of Crayon Physics, (not the paid deluxe one!), and this is something everyone should play! Remember those sketches you made when you were bored in class? Well, here they're brought to life, as you take on gravity in order to get the star on each level. Highly recommended!
Mr.Oldgames reminds us that sunday is, you guessed it, newspaper day! And who else than the Paperboy has to deliver 'em? That's right, you take control over a delivery boy on his bike, cycling around throwing papers (hopefully) on people's doorsteps. Of course, the obstacles makes that hard to accomplish sometimes..
My man Liso1 over at Starinky (which I was told means "Old crap" in checzk) always suprises us with games you never heard of. Today it's Highway Fighter, a top-down driving game that looks much like SpyHunter mixed with some healthy arsenals.
We at The DOS Spirit added something I've been longing for a long time. It's a pastiché of the 40s generation's love for sci-fi in Flight of the Amazon Queen! You control Joe King (Joking), a vagabond and pilot who crashes in the jungle while in transit. But for those wanting a quiet stroll down jungle-lane can forget that, there's mad scientists and dinosaurs abound!!
The Good Old Days follows the steps of Abandonia Reloaded, and packs more crime in this update. Under investigation is "The Hollywood Murders", where you as a private detective have to find a lady's missing husband. Sound cliché? Well, the twist here is that you can play it both in a graphical and textual version, which adds some variation.
That's it this time around. Until next time,
stay retro!