Weeeeeeoooooooooo, Weeeeeeoooooooooo, Weeeeeeoooooooooo, Blough, Blough, Blooouuuggghhhh, Bllllllooooooouuuugggggggghhhhhhh. The PC squeaker effects in this classic are so memorable. I sometimes imagine those squirly blibbledy broogloguglup noises during movies or games that have weak explosion noises. To myself of course… never out loud… definitely not in the middle of meetings or randomly around the office… ehhem. 👀 Anyway, this classic was one of my absolute favorite games back in the day. I would play for…
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Retro review: Tank Wars (1990)
This epic series (Made by the guys who brought you Doom, kids) enchanted my early gaming years. Granted I only ever played the shareware episodes, it still turned out to be countless hours of fun. My earliest memories of Commander Keen were watching my Dad play “Marooned on Mars”. The first episode of the “Invasion of the Vorticons” trilogy. He played it on his computer in his office, which was shiny and new…
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Retro review: Commander Keen (1990 also 1991)
Another ECA (EA) title, LHX attack chopper was an excellent flight sim for its time. The shareware edition is what I played most, which featured a couple of missions only for the LHX chopper. Sometime later I wound up with the full version of the game and was able to play the whole enchilada. This is another of the ‘Lazy Sunday’ games. The hours of quiet I had being necessary to navigate the…
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Retro review: LHX Attack Chopper (1990)
Catacomb was one of the games I would play on Sunday afternoon on one of the computers at the place my Mom worked. There were several games that I played on these days of leisure. I’ll make note of which were played on these "Lazy Sundays". I will also note that this is one of the few games that I watched my brother play. I feel like he finished the game. I know…
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Retro review: The Catacombs (aka Catacomb II) (1989 also 1991)
