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Archive for the ‘Commodore’ Category

July 24th, 2008

Double Dribble? Arch Rivals seems better

Curious. I remember playing Double Dribble. I remember enjoying every minute I spent playing Konami’s sports masterpiece on my Nintendo Entertainment System. I remember executing those righteous dunks with my faceless players. So what’s so strange about my recollection?
This picture comes to mind whenever I think of Double Dribble:

Actually, according to some serious retro gamers […]

By Joel -- 2 comments

July 3rd, 2008

Street Fighter II: Ken’s Touch of Death Combo

I found this really nick trick for Ken Masters on Street Fighter II for the arcade, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and Sega Genesis. It’s called the Touch of Death Combo, and I’ve been trying it out (trying being the operative term). The move actually entails two combos: the first disables an opponent, the second knocks […]

By Joel -- 1 comment

June 29th, 2008

The Goonies: 8-bit gaming goodness

As promised, I’m here to talk about The Goonies, not really much about the movie of the same name, but the 8-bit video game that inspired an entire generation of video game addicts.
Actually, there’s not much to talk about as game features go. The only news concerning The Goonies is the fact that it has […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

April 30th, 2008

Video game consoles, then and now

Did you know that there have been at least 63 video game consoles and personal computers in the past 50 years? Well, I didn’t … honestly. So imagine my surprise when I came across this video:

The author of this mish-mash, however, missed the entire Apple line of personal computers. I owned an Apple IIc, so […]

By Joel -- 1 comment

March 16th, 2008

Archon: Battle chess, anyone?

How many of you have watched the Harry Potter movies? Okay. How many of you remember watching Harry and Ron Weasley play a round of Wizard Chess, with Hermione Granger commenting how barbaric the game is? No, this post is not about an old Harry Potter video game since the Boy Who Lived probably wasn’t […]

By Joel -- 0 comments

February 21st, 2008

I’ve never seen Spider-Man this, uhmm, clumsy

Or maybe I’m the one who’s clumsy. I’ve recently downloaded an old Spider-Man game, expecting to play a sorta choose your own adventure type of game—you know, the one that we all used to spend countless of idle time on the Apple II or Commodore? You never had an Apple II? Not even a Commdore? […]

By Joel -- 3 comments

February 9th, 2006

Stuck on “Everyone’s a Wally”?

Admit it, “Leather Godesses of Phobos” has left you entirely stymied… It’s ok, we’ve all been there…
Well, C64 fan, suffer your embarrasment no more, for Gnome has revealed a cave, a secret cave bursting with walkthroughs to all the Commodore 64 games you remember so fondly… And about eleventy billion you’ve never even heard of… […]

By Jonic Linley -- 3 comments

January 6th, 2006

Commodore comeback?

Alright, this is getting ridiculous. Today’s news of a new Genesis game were unexpected, but who saw this one coming?
Next Generation have news of a new handheld device by the thought-to-be-defunct Commodore. That’s right. Commodore.
Including a color-screen, 20gb hard drive, GPS and five free 8-bit games (with up to ninety available to download) this is […]

By Jonic Linley -- 1 comment

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