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July 3rd, 2009
T-Pow is jumping in again, providing today's update: a boxscan of Martian Dreams (PC).
Mr Creosote
T-Pow is jumping in again, providing today's update: a boxscan of Martian Dreams (PC).
Mr Creosote
June 27th, 2009
Level 9 never was quite as popular as Infocom or as well-known as Magnetic Scrolls, but they nevertheless made very good games. Here's an introductory level one: Lancelot (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
Level 9 never was quite as popular as Infocom or as well-known as Magnetic Scrolls, but they nevertheless made very good games. Here's an introductory level one: Lancelot (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
June 24th, 2009
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares (PC) is the sequel to one of my favourite games ever. One of those games which I couldn't wait to get my hands on.
Mr Creosote
Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares (PC) is the sequel to one of my favourite games ever. One of those games which I couldn't wait to get my hands on.
Mr Creosote
June 22nd, 2009
Nine years after it has been added to the site, Alone in the Dark (PC) gets a boxscan.
Mr Creosote
Nine years after it has been added to the site, Alone in the Dark (PC) gets a boxscan.
Mr Creosote
June 20th, 2009
Sim City 2000 (Amiga) - reviewed by me, but you have to blame T-Pow, because he (unknowingly) requested it.
Mr Creosote
Sim City 2000 (Amiga) - reviewed by me, but you have to blame T-Pow, because he (unknowingly) requested it.
Mr Creosote
June 17th, 2009
Magic Carpet (PC), a good, but vastly overrated game from the mid-90s. So I guess most people will enjoy it.
Mr Creosote
Magic Carpet (PC), a good, but vastly overrated game from the mid-90s. So I guess most people will enjoy it.
Mr Creosote
June 15th, 2009
Monday, but this Monday not only comes with an alternate boxscan of History Line 1914-1918 (PC), but also disk images of that game for download.
Mr Creosote
Monday, but this Monday not only comes with an alternate boxscan of History Line 1914-1918 (PC), but also disk images of that game for download.
Mr Creosote
June 13th, 2009
The Quest for the Holy Grail (ZX Spectrum) lets you meet the three-headed knight, the knights who say... something and a few more of your favourite movie characters - and they'll bore you to death.
Mr Creosote
The Quest for the Holy Grail (ZX Spectrum) lets you meet the three-headed knight, the knights who say... something and a few more of your favourite movie characters - and they'll bore you to death.
Mr Creosote
June 10th, 2009
Borrowed Time (Amiga) is a classic in the mystery adventure genre I like so much.
Mr Creosote
Borrowed Time (Amiga) is a classic in the mystery adventure genre I like so much.
Mr Creosote
June 8th, 2009
Scans from my collection: box, map and three other documents of Croisière pour un cadavre (Amiga) (also known as Cruise for a Corpse).
Mr Creosote
Scans from my collection: box, map and three other documents of Croisière pour un cadavre (Amiga) (also known as Cruise for a Corpse).
Mr Creosote
June 6th, 2009
A new game entry: Heavy Metal Paradroid (C64). On a very much related note, we're currently discussing how to handle alternate versions of the same game in the future. Feel free to join in and let the world know what you think - the more people take part in such discussions, the better the results.
Mr Creosote
A new game entry: Heavy Metal Paradroid (C64). On a very much related note, we're currently discussing how to handle alternate versions of the same game in the future. Feel free to join in and let the world know what you think - the more people take part in such discussions, the better the results.
Mr Creosote
June 5th, 2009
An image of T-Pow's box of Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge (PC) has been posted.
Mr Creosote
An image of T-Pow's box of Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge (PC) has been posted.
Mr Creosote
June 1st, 2009
International Championship Athletics (Amiga) is my attempt to kick-start the site goal initiative.
Mr Creosote
International Championship Athletics (Amiga) is my attempt to kick-start the site goal initiative.
Mr Creosote
May 30th, 2009
Annoucing the Site Goal 2009:
700 games until the end of the year
Time to pick up speed. Let's all help the site reach 700 game entries until the end of this year ('year' according to the Gregorian calendar)!
Please note that this is not a 'Mr Creosote and Wandrell' goal. It's the site goal. We two will do our best help make it happen, but it won't be enough with more people lending a hand. Every visitor (i.e. you) is part of the site just like Wandrell or me - so it's our shared reponsibility to make this happen!
So ask yourself: How many games have you submitted lately?
Mr Creosote
Annoucing the Site Goal 2009:
700 games until the end of the year
Time to pick up speed. Let's all help the site reach 700 game entries until the end of this year ('year' according to the Gregorian calendar)!
Please note that this is not a 'Mr Creosote and Wandrell' goal. It's the site goal. We two will do our best help make it happen, but it won't be enough with more people lending a hand. Every visitor (i.e. you) is part of the site just like Wandrell or me - so it's our shared reponsibility to make this happen!
So ask yourself: How many games have you submitted lately?
Mr Creosote
May 29th, 2009
The most popular game on the whole site, Colonization (PC), gets a box scan.
Mr Creosote
The most popular game on the whole site, Colonization (PC), gets a box scan.
Mr Creosote
May 27th, 2009
Castle Master (Amiga) is another one of those classics which aren't really as great as you probably remember it.
Mr Creosote
Castle Master (Amiga) is another one of those classics which aren't really as great as you probably remember it.
Mr Creosote
May 23rd, 2009
Apparantely, poor little Barbie isn't all that popular with our visitors: only very few people checked that game out. Maybe this'll be different for the incredibly manly Dark Legions (PC).
Mr Creosote
Apparantely, poor little Barbie isn't all that popular with our visitors: only very few people checked that game out. Maybe this'll be different for the incredibly manly Dark Legions (PC).
Mr Creosote
May 13th, 2009
Next is a boxscan of Bundesliga Manager Professional (PC) as well as a disk image download of the same game from our collection.
Mr Creosote
Next is a boxscan of Bundesliga Manager Professional (PC) as well as a disk image download of the same game from our collection.
Mr Creosote
May 9th, 2009
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (PC) is one of the later games from one of my favourite Adventure makers: Legend Entertainment.
Mr Creosote
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (PC) is one of the later games from one of my favourite Adventure makers: Legend Entertainment.
Mr Creosote
May 7th, 2009
Still trying to improve on the existing game entries, here's a box scan and a manual scan of Mean Streets (Amiga) from my collection.
Mr Creosote
Still trying to improve on the existing game entries, here's a box scan and a manual scan of Mean Streets (Amiga) from my collection.
Mr Creosote
May 3rd, 2009
After announcing it a few weeks ago, Wandrell and I (and T-Pow, too) have worked hard on tagging the game entries with theme information. We have now done more than half of the games and that is why I've now activated all the theme-related functions for the public. I.e. you can now search and list games by theme.
Mind you that about 250 games still aren't classified, so you won't ever find them if you use themes to generate a listing. Most of these games have been added by former crewmembers which aren't with us anymore, so we can't count on them to suddenly reappear and tag 'their' games. Which is where you guys come in: Please help us give the rest of the games themes, too! Wandrell and I don't even know many of those games, so we will never be able to give them themes. You can read more in the forum and a list of games without themes can be found here.
Mr Creosote
After announcing it a few weeks ago, Wandrell and I (and T-Pow, too) have worked hard on tagging the game entries with theme information. We have now done more than half of the games and that is why I've now activated all the theme-related functions for the public. I.e. you can now search and list games by theme.
Mind you that about 250 games still aren't classified, so you won't ever find them if you use themes to generate a listing. Most of these games have been added by former crewmembers which aren't with us anymore, so we can't count on them to suddenly reappear and tag 'their' games. Which is where you guys come in: Please help us give the rest of the games themes, too! Wandrell and I don't even know many of those games, so we will never be able to give them themes. You can read more in the forum and a list of games without themes can be found here.
Mr Creosote
May 1st, 2009
This review from T-Pow has been in the making for several months... so you should rightfully expect a true masterpiece. Why he chose such an incredibly ugly game as Syndicate Wars (PC) for this epic review will probably remain his secret, though.
Mr Creosote
This review from T-Pow has been in the making for several months... so you should rightfully expect a true masterpiece. Why he chose such an incredibly ugly game as Syndicate Wars (PC) for this epic review will probably remain his secret, though.
Mr Creosote
April 29th, 2009
Here's another of those fine updates you keep coming here for. Today, I bring you no less than seven document scans for Lords of the Realm (AGA) (Amiga). Along comes the much requested German version of the game which is played on a map of Germany instead of England. Enjoy!
Mr Creosote
Here's another of those fine updates you keep coming here for. Today, I bring you no less than seven document scans for Lords of the Realm (AGA) (Amiga). Along comes the much requested German version of the game which is played on a map of Germany instead of England. Enjoy!
Mr Creosote
April 25th, 2009
As you won't have noticed so far, I'm currently adding the games which came up in this forum topic. Today's entry is Grave Yardage (C64).
Mr Creosote
As you won't have noticed so far, I'm currently adding the games which came up in this forum topic. Today's entry is Grave Yardage (C64).
Mr Creosote
April 12th, 2009
You can tell it was made by Coktel at a glance, The Prophecy (PC) has its distinctive look and weirdness.
Wandrell
You can tell it was made by Coktel at a glance, The Prophecy (PC) has its distinctive look and weirdness.
Wandrell
April 8th, 2009
Going back to an older game entry, I scanned the box, the manual, the reference card and the map of Lords of the Rising Sun (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
Going back to an older game entry, I scanned the box, the manual, the reference card and the map of Lords of the Rising Sun (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
April 6th, 2009
Vier Gewinnt (PC) has actually been up for 15 hours approximately, but didn't announce it, because due to a technical error, the rating somehow got lost. Had to wait for Elwood to come online again to re-add it.
Mr Creosote
Vier Gewinnt (PC) has actually been up for 15 hours approximately, but didn't announce it, because due to a technical error, the rating somehow got lost. Had to wait for Elwood to come online again to re-add it.
Mr Creosote
April 4th, 2009
Weekend - new game day. You know how much I like detective mystery games, and this one didn't disappoint: The Hollywood Murders (PC).
Mr Creosote
Weekend - new game day. You know how much I like detective mystery games, and this one didn't disappoint: The Hollywood Murders (PC).
Mr Creosote
April 1st, 2009
Alright, now that we're through (for now) with Western games, I can finally add all the stuff which has piled up over the last month, but which has been put on the shelf so that it won't interfere with the 'themed' updates. Thanks for your patience, everyone!
Starting out, T-Pow has scanned the manual, the reference card and the box of Syndicate (PC). The manual is quite a large download - but it's worth it. Thanks a lot, keep the stuff coming!
Mr Creosote
Alright, now that we're through (for now) with Western games, I can finally add all the stuff which has piled up over the last month, but which has been put on the shelf so that it won't interfere with the 'themed' updates. Thanks for your patience, everyone!
Starting out, T-Pow has scanned the manual, the reference card and the box of Syndicate (PC). The manual is quite a large download - but it's worth it. Thanks a lot, keep the stuff coming!
Mr Creosote
March 30th, 2009
Saving the best for last, here's my personal favourite game of this run: Law of the West (C64). Which means that as for me, this concludes this month's Wild West theme. Thanks for following, I hope you found something which sparked your interest.
Mr Creosote
Saving the best for last, here's my personal favourite game of this run: Law of the West (C64). Which means that as for me, this concludes this month's Wild West theme. Thanks for following, I hope you found something which sparked your interest.
Mr Creosote
March 28th, 2009
Our old comrade Elwood joined in with our little Western scheme and sent in Western Games (C64) - if that isn't the epitome of that theme...
Mr Creosote
Our old comrade Elwood joined in with our little Western scheme and sent in Western Games (C64) - if that isn't the epitome of that theme...
Mr Creosote
March 26th, 2009
Staying with Atari for a moment, my next game is Lucky Luke (Atari ST).
Mr Creosote
Staying with Atari for a moment, my next game is Lucky Luke (Atari ST).
Mr Creosote
March 24th, 2009
I was planning on making a review of Outlaws, a Sierra shooter. But it was too boring, and too obsolete. It looked like a bad attempt to copy Duke Nukem 3D. So I decided to remove a letter from the title and bring you Outlaw (Atari 2600).
Wandrell
I was planning on making a review of Outlaws, a Sierra shooter. But it was too boring, and too obsolete. It looked like a bad attempt to copy Duke Nukem 3D. So I decided to remove a letter from the title and bring you Outlaw (Atari 2600).
Wandrell
March 22nd, 2009
Colorado (PC) is a curious game from Silmarils. Not bad, not too good, but interesting at least.
Wandrell
Colorado (PC) is a curious game from Silmarils. Not bad, not too good, but interesting at least.
Wandrell
March 20th, 2009
Silverload (PC) has cowboys and Werewolves. You can't go wrong with that? Think again.
Mr Creosote
Silverload (PC) has cowboys and Werewolves. You can't go wrong with that? Think again.
Mr Creosote
March 18th, 2009
Short interruption of the usual updates with a 'structural' announcement of importance: As discussed in the forum, we decided to implement game themes as yet another way to list and search for games. Now we're faced with the problem of applying that information to the vast back catalogue of games. For this, we need your help. Needless to say any help provided will not go unrewarded. Come on, help make this site even better!
Mr Creosote
Short interruption of the usual updates with a 'structural' announcement of importance: As discussed in the forum, we decided to implement game themes as yet another way to list and search for games. Now we're faced with the problem of applying that information to the vast back catalogue of games. For this, we need your help. Needless to say any help provided will not go unrewarded. Come on, help make this site even better!
Mr Creosote
March 17th, 2009
The Oregon Trail (PC) has quite a fame of being about traveling through the west and dysentery. I can assure that at least you will get more than you can chew from the first.
Wandrell
The Oregon Trail (PC) has quite a fame of being about traveling through the west and dysentery. I can assure that at least you will get more than you can chew from the first.
Wandrell
March 15th, 2009
The Town With No Name (Amiga) is one of those early CD games, i.e. very interesting piece of history, but hardly one of the greatest games ever made. I enjoyed it, though.
Mr Creosote
The Town With No Name (Amiga) is one of those early CD games, i.e. very interesting piece of history, but hardly one of the greatest games ever made. I enjoyed it, though.
Mr Creosote
March 13th, 2009
Here we are again searching for treasure: Der Schatz im Silbersee (PC).
Mr Creosote
Here we are again searching for treasure: Der Schatz im Silbersee (PC).
Mr Creosote
March 10th, 2009
Who knows Alone in the Dark 3 (PC)? I didn't play it before, always thought it was going to be quite bad. But then I tried it and liked what I saw. But then I kept playing and found after all it was a bad game.
Wandrell
Who knows Alone in the Dark 3 (PC)? I didn't play it before, always thought it was going to be quite bad. But then I tried it and liked what I saw. But then I kept playing and found after all it was a bad game.
Wandrell
March 7th, 2009
Now, more gold search: Lost Dutchman Mine (PC). And still western things will keep coming.
Wandrell
Now, more gold search: Lost Dutchman Mine (PC). And still western things will keep coming.
Wandrell
March 1st, 2009
Oh, you thought that last update was it? Sorry to disappoint you, but we'll torture you with 'Wild West' related games for the rest of this month! You won't believe how many there are. So be prepared to total greatness! Today, the 601st game on the site: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
Oh, you thought that last update was it? Sorry to disappoint you, but we'll torture you with 'Wild West' related games for the rest of this month! You won't believe how many there are. So be prepared to total greatness! Today, the 601st game on the site: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 26th, 2009
This time it's my turn to say this, we have an anniversary. No, we didn't get married. I mean the webpage's anniversary.
It lasts. I can barely recall when I first saw this page (years before I would have anything to do with it) and it was immorally ugly. But things have improved, and will keep improving (it's always your chance to say what to improve, we listen to feedback).
This time the biggest improve will be the addition western games. We were thinking on keeping it just on disturbingly manly cowboys but I'm sorry to say we will have to do with indians (without workers nor policemen), deserts and everything western.
But don't despair, the first one which comes here is all about cowboys: Los Justicieros (PC). It adapts an arcade named Zorton Brothers, which I never played. But the game itself was quite popular in Spain, and people still remembers it fondly.
Wandrell
This time it's my turn to say this, we have an anniversary. No, we didn't get married. I mean the webpage's anniversary.
It lasts. I can barely recall when I first saw this page (years before I would have anything to do with it) and it was immorally ugly. But things have improved, and will keep improving (it's always your chance to say what to improve, we listen to feedback).
This time the biggest improve will be the addition western games. We were thinking on keeping it just on disturbingly manly cowboys but I'm sorry to say we will have to do with indians (without workers nor policemen), deserts and everything western.
But don't despair, the first one which comes here is all about cowboys: Los Justicieros (PC). It adapts an arcade named Zorton Brothers, which I never played. But the game itself was quite popular in Spain, and people still remembers it fondly.
Wandrell
February 23rd, 2009
As many of you will have noticed, Home of the Underdogs, one of the best sites of its kind, went down a few weeks ago. Although the owner is allegedly working on getting it back online in some form, it all sounds like it'll take a while.
The site is / was one of the very few informed sources of game criticism (i.e. not run by a 12-year-old for whom everything released three years ago is "old"), so it would be a disaster to lose it. Yes, yes, it has been critisized all the time for various reasons (by me, too), but let's be honest: To get an overview, it's the best reference point there is / was.
So, to help out for now, I've put up what I have of the site here: http://www.goodolddays.net/hotud/. Note that this is not the site 'Home of the Underdogs' itself! It's just what I had of its contents. I'm neither trying to build a 'new' Home of the Underdogs, nor do I see this as an actual long-term solution. I'm still hoping for the real site to come back in some form. Once that happens, this temporary reference point will disappear again.
To make the difference between this and the real site clear from a technical point of view: What I did was write a simple Perl script which opens the HTML review pages one by one, parses them to extract all the relevant game information and write all that back into a database. The contents of that database are displayed with this simple frontend to allow listing and search methods as they were on the real Home of the Underdogs. I haven't double-checked each game entry, so if you notice any errors, please let me know.
Mr Creosote
As many of you will have noticed, Home of the Underdogs, one of the best sites of its kind, went down a few weeks ago. Although the owner is allegedly working on getting it back online in some form, it all sounds like it'll take a while.
The site is / was one of the very few informed sources of game criticism (i.e. not run by a 12-year-old for whom everything released three years ago is "old"), so it would be a disaster to lose it. Yes, yes, it has been critisized all the time for various reasons (by me, too), but let's be honest: To get an overview, it's the best reference point there is / was.
So, to help out for now, I've put up what I have of the site here: http://www.goodolddays.net/hotud/. Note that this is not the site 'Home of the Underdogs' itself! It's just what I had of its contents. I'm neither trying to build a 'new' Home of the Underdogs, nor do I see this as an actual long-term solution. I'm still hoping for the real site to come back in some form. Once that happens, this temporary reference point will disappear again.
To make the difference between this and the real site clear from a technical point of view: What I did was write a simple Perl script which opens the HTML review pages one by one, parses them to extract all the relevant game information and write all that back into a database. The contents of that database are displayed with this simple frontend to allow listing and search methods as they were on the real Home of the Underdogs. I haven't double-checked each game entry, so if you notice any errors, please let me know.
Mr Creosote
February 21st, 2009
Today's game comes from T-Pow, and it's called Creepers (PC). See, it's not that hard, is it?
Mr Creosote
Today's game comes from T-Pow, and it's called Creepers (PC). See, it's not that hard, is it?
Mr Creosote
February 15th, 2009
After 8.9 years of preparation to get this particular game on the site, here's Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (PC).
Mr Creosote
After 8.9 years of preparation to get this particular game on the site, here's Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time (PC).
Mr Creosote
February 7th, 2009
The Child Murderer (Amiga) is a game which certainly isn't mediocre. Anything but mediocre, I can assure you. Promise. Really!
Mr Creosote
The Child Murderer (Amiga) is a game which certainly isn't mediocre. Anything but mediocre, I can assure you. Promise. Really!
Mr Creosote
February 1st, 2009
I swear I thought this one was going to be quite good. I love megaman games, and this looked like a nice clone. Anyway, other people may like it more than me.
Oh, I didn't say what I'm talking about? Well, today's update: Little Samson (NES).
Wandrell
I swear I thought this one was going to be quite good. I love megaman games, and this looked like a nice clone. Anyway, other people may like it more than me.
Oh, I didn't say what I'm talking about? Well, today's update: Little Samson (NES).
Wandrell
January 24th, 2009
Judging from last week's update, it seems Wandrell had the same idea as me: Lately, we've mostly been covering games which were just 'somehow ok'. Time for some good games again. Today: Discworld (PC). This is the third computer game based on the novels. The first one might find its way to the site one day, too, the second is very unlikely to. Oh, and downloads will be posted tomorrow (Update: They're online now).
Mr Creosote
Judging from last week's update, it seems Wandrell had the same idea as me: Lately, we've mostly been covering games which were just 'somehow ok'. Time for some good games again. Today: Discworld (PC). This is the third computer game based on the novels. The first one might find its way to the site one day, too, the second is very unlikely to. Oh, and downloads will be posted tomorrow (Update: They're online now).
Mr Creosote
January 18th, 2009
In the last minutes of the week: this week's update. Here you have Guerrilla War (NES). A game where el Che and Castro, I mean, two nameless guys who look suspiciously familiar win a war on an island.
Wandrell
In the last minutes of the week: this week's update. Here you have Guerrilla War (NES). A game where el Che and Castro, I mean, two nameless guys who look suspiciously familiar win a war on an island.
Wandrell
January 10th, 2009
Disk images - remember? Here are a few new ones:
* Another World (PC)
* Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom (PC)
* Red Baron (PC)
* Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls (PC)
* Witness (PC)
* Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (PC)
To organize this a little better, I've put some basic information about what we've collected so far into a simple database to be able to provide you with a disk images collection frontend. There, you can see what we already have. Everything else is still needed.
What you'll also be able to see there is that there are often various versions of the same game listed. There was quite a number of different floppy disk formats in those years, and the same game might have been released on several. Of course, we're trying to collect all of those versions. What we would use some help with is information about a few formats, though. For example, I'm not very proficient with self-booting disk formats. There seem to be many disks with 160KB capacity, and some with 200KB, 320KB and 400KB. If anyone could share some information about those, I'd be happy to hear it!
Mr Creosote
Disk images - remember? Here are a few new ones:
* Another World (PC)
* Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom (PC)
* Red Baron (PC)
* Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls (PC)
* Witness (PC)
* Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (PC)
To organize this a little better, I've put some basic information about what we've collected so far into a simple database to be able to provide you with a disk images collection frontend. There, you can see what we already have. Everything else is still needed.
What you'll also be able to see there is that there are often various versions of the same game listed. There was quite a number of different floppy disk formats in those years, and the same game might have been released on several. Of course, we're trying to collect all of those versions. What we would use some help with is information about a few formats, though. For example, I'm not very proficient with self-booting disk formats. There seem to be many disks with 160KB capacity, and some with 200KB, 320KB and 400KB. If anyone could share some information about those, I'd be happy to hear it!
Mr Creosote
January 3rd, 2009
I've been thinking about adding this game more than once, as I used to play it as a kid. But playing again it doesn't seem so good. What game I'm talking about? Well, take a look at Rescue: The Embassy Mission (NES).
Wandrell
I've been thinking about adding this game more than once, as I used to play it as a kid. But playing again it doesn't seem so good. What game I'm talking about? Well, take a look at Rescue: The Embassy Mission (NES).
Wandrell
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