June 28th, 2008
Elwood's source of reviews has dried up for now, and Wandrell is without Internet access at the moment, so you're stuck with me. Once it became clear this would happen, I decided to fill in some obvious blanks, i.e. add games which have already been missing for very long. For example, we have had the first two Kyrandia games online for years already, so
Legend of Kyrandia 3 - Malcolm's Revenge (PC) has been more than overdue.
Mr Creosote
June 21st, 2008
Mah Jongg for Windows (PC) - another game entry quite typical for Elwood.
Mr Creosote
June 15th, 2008
To get back on the weekend schedule:
billiards (PC).
Mr Creosote
June 11th, 2008
As you can see, we're down to weekly updates again. Simple reason: We're busy trying to get the next incarnation of the site running. Me developing it and all of us alpha testing it. Anyway, for now, here's
Gemline (PC).
Mr Creosote
June 5th, 2008
Another drug-related (and probably drug-induced) game on the site:
Vaxine (PC).
Mr Creosote
May 29th, 2008
First of all, sorry about the extended downtime yesterday and today. Although we're trying to avoid things like that, it's not always possible. Anyway, here's another game for your enjoyment
Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge (PC) (better known as Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny abroad).
Mr Creosote
May 26th, 2008
After this slightly longer break between the updates (caused by some server problems I had to take care of first), here's another one of Elwood's reviews:
Deluxe Trivial Pursuit (PC).
Mr Creosote
May 22nd, 2008
Right - I knew it! There I was going to surprise Mr Creosote and while I sneak in that game he does an update as well without showing up on ICQ. Here's what you get for it:
Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom (PC)
Elwood
May 22nd, 2008
It's going very, very well at the moment. The more people participating in expanding the site, the more diversified it gets - which is good. Today, Jumpman Junior adds
World Karate Championship (C64).
Mr Creosote
May 20th, 2008
The
results of the last poll (about your favourite game) are online, along with an explanation for those who didn't get the point.
Mr Creosote
May 17th, 2008
With the addition of
Ultima VIII (PC), we now have most of the series online.
Mr Creosote
May 15th, 2008
Incredible - an update from Elwood, even though he's on vacation:
Double Dragon 3 - The Rosetta Stone (PC)!
Mr Creosote
May 13th, 2008
And once again, we have the
results of a poll to show. It was about your year of birth / your age. In the new poll, we want to know about your favourite game.
Edit: Since this has been asked a few times already - yes, everything's alright with this poll. The options you see are exactly the ones which should be there.
Mr Creosote
May 9th, 2008
Aye... me again. This one's Tetris:
Bricks 2000 (PC)
Elwood
May 8th, 2008
Darts isn't exactly a game which translates well onto the computer. However, at least according to Elwood,
World Darts (PC) doesn't seem to be such a bad choice if you're looking for such a game after all.
Mr Creosote
May 6th, 2008
How to classify
Blödtris (PC)? I'd say it's probably a game in the same vein as
Advanced Lawnmower Simulation (ZX Spectrum)...
Mr Creosote
May 4th, 2008
Heyah! Basically this is my first newspost here, but I doubt anyone will remember me anyway. So well... I used to run a big abandonware site aaaages ago. Now I review a game for Mr Creosote every once in a while.
Today I reviewed
Puzznic (PC) - a game from the golden era of puzzle-games. Hope you enjoy it!
Elwood
May 3rd, 2008
Kick Off 2 (PC) - do we see a problem with that combination? Yes, we do.
Mr Creosote
May 1st, 2008
Manchester United - The Double (PC) is another sports game.
Ironic, isn't it?
Mr Creosote
April 29th, 2008
Poll time again. 'Why do you come here?' has been
answered, now we want to know about your age.
Mr Creosote
April 26th, 2008
Another review from Elwood:
TV Sports Basketball (PC). If you read carefully, you'll know that there's more where this came from.
Mr Creosote
April 25th, 2008
A real classic reviewed by Elwood again. I played this one a lot on my A500, too, even though I usually don't even like these sports management games much:
Bundesliga Manager Professional (PC).
Mr Creosote
April 18th, 2008
Today's game has been provided by veteran Elwood:
Actua Soccer (PC). A comical name, and quite a bad game.
Mr Creosote
April 15th, 2008
Once again, it's time for a new poll and the
results of the previous one have been posted. Now, we want to know about the reasons you have for coming here.
Mr Creosote
April 9th, 2008
Our newest contributor, sandy21, who has been translating quite a few reviews into German already, makes his debut as a reviewer today:
Red Storm Rising (PC).
Mr Creosote
April 6th, 2008
I think you can imagine of which game this one is the second part:
The Island of Dr Brain (PC).
Not as good as the first one, but nice enough to play through it.
Wandrell
April 2nd, 2008
The next poll has expired, and its
results are online. Again, thanks to everyone who voted and please take a minute for the next one.
Mr Creosote
March 30th, 2008
Castle of Dr Brain (PC) is a game filled with puzzles. Maybe somewhat short, but fun.
Wandrell
March 22nd, 2008
Maybe I'm in a bad mood lately and can't appreciate things or maybe it's just luck, but here comes another mediocre yet popular game which I thought we had reviewed already.
I used to like
Heimdall 2 (PC), well I still find it good if you look for a short game. But also I think that probably there was a good reason for it being a popular choice on the cheap games collections.
Wandrell
March 21st, 2008
Results of the first poll about the games' year of release have been posted. Unfortunately, only very few people voted. I hope this will become better with the next poll (see right side) - it's only in your best interest to voice your opinion, after all.
Mr Creosote
March 16th, 2008
I had played more than once
Hexx (PC) but never much until now. Looked good but not too fun, so I wasn't surprised to discover that it really is good but not too fun.
Wandrell
March 9th, 2008
I nearly forgot I had this review prepared:
Don't Go Alone (PC), a curious dungeon crawler, nothing special if it weren't for a few details.
Wandrell
March 6th, 2008
It's been a while (year, in fact) since we last had a poll here on the site. Now it's time again:
Decide about the future focus of the site!
Mr Creosote
February 26th, 2008
And what do we have today?
It's the site's eigth birthday! Of course, you already knew since we've been celebrating all month. We promised to add a new game each day until the birthday itself. Successfully done. We hope you enjoyed the run.
This special day itself is dedicated to the other main part of the site, though. It's the complete renovation of the
comics section. So far, it has almost always been a side-product of the rest of the site code-wise, added as an afterthought.
This changes today. To make the change completely apparant and also to force myself not to fall into this old habit again, the comics section is now written in Perl (while PHP is used for the rest of the site). In fact, what I've used there is a generic website framework I've written many years ago (with some modernizations and minor changes). It can host any kind of contents. To achieve this, it uses a page-centric approach, turning the content-centric idea which had been used before upside-down.
Anyway, I doubt many people are interested in the technical background (which
is quite fascinating in fact), so I'll just say: Enjoy it! Error reports are welcome, and they should be easy, since the system basically tracks itself and should show errors and warnings to you directly, without the whole displaying of the respective page failing.
So, let's all raise our glass to the next year!
Mr Creosote
February 25th, 2008
Yet another game. Will it ever stop? Of course, so better enjoy it while it lasts. Today's game was one of the most requested ones a few years ago. These days, it's not in such high demand anymore, so I guess we can risk putting it up without facing certain bancruptcy due to exploding bandwidth costs. So here it is:
Die total verrückte Rallye (PC).
Mr Creosote
February 24th, 2008
Today's update once again comes from Wandrell:
Goody (PC) might not look overly attractive, but he praises the gameplay very highly.
Mr Creosote
February 23rd, 2008
Italy 1990 (Amiga): Man, did I play this game in the early 90s... sitting in front of the TV for hours and hours, ruining my eyesight. Even though I already knew the game was bad back then. Those were different times...
Mr Creosote
February 22nd, 2008
Here's the game which turned into one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever to be started by a computer game magazine:
Advanced Lawnmower Simulation (ZX Spectrum).
Mr Creosote
February 21st, 2008
I neglected to let you know what day the site anniversary is exactly so far (this piece of information can easily be found in the news archive, of course). So maybe the promise to add a game every day didn't sound that impressive at first. I hope this has changed by now as we're still going, and there are also still a few more days
to go. Anyway, today, we have
Zeewolf 2: Wild Justice (Amiga). Stay tuned for more.
Mr Creosote
February 20th, 2008
Wandrell's next review is
La abadía del crimen (PC). Obviously, a Spanish game, but sounds interesting from his description.
Mr Creosote
February 19th, 2008
From Wandrell's exciting and popular games back to the boring ones I'm usually covering:
Tony & Friends In Kellogg's Land (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 18th, 2008
Wandrell reviewed
Jungle Strike (PC) for today's update. Fits extremely well with the helicopter games and helicopter-like games which have already been part of this update series.
Mr Creosote
February 17th, 2008
Dropping from very new to very old and from very good to not-so-great:
Fishing Derby (Atari 2600).
Mr Creosote
February 16th, 2008
This update is to cater to the average visitor of the site. The average visitor who wants his games as young as possible and as good as possible. So, here's a high quality game from the mid-90s:
Zeewolf (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 15th, 2008
Karamalz Cup (Amiga) is an addition to the evergrowing number of promotial games covered here on this site.
Mr Creosote
February 14th, 2008
Today, we have a nice low-budget game:
Pub Trivia Simulator (Amiga). Very educational.
Mr Creosote
February 13th, 2008
Next on the list is
Virus (Atari ST) (no, we don't have an Acorn section yet - anyone?). Widely regarded as a classic, and rightly so, yet not a game I personally could give a positive rating.
Mr Creosote
February 12th, 2008
For all those who haven't visited this month yet: We're in the middle of the site anniversary celebrations, with one new game being added every day. Today, that game is
Fire Fighter (Atari 2600).
Mr Creosote
February 11th, 2008
Paradroid II (Amiga) concludes the flood of Paradroid-related games for now. I'm perfectly aware of the two additional C64 versions Graftgold made back in the day, but as you might be able to imagine, it's a little hard to come up with yet another way to describe the same gameplay idea... The anniversary updates will continue in spite of that, of course.
Mr Creosote
February 10th, 2008
Tenth day of the anniversary celebrations, but you haven't even seen half of it yet.
Dingsda (Amiga) once again proves the most common prejudice against games made from TV shows.
Mr Creosote
February 9th, 2008
Although I tend to review bad games more often these days, this doesn't mean there aren't any good games left to cover:
Road Rash (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 8th, 2008
The eigth day of the celebrations of the eigth birthday of the site. Today, I'd like to presend
Paradroid 90 (Amiga) to you. Another Graftgold classic, yet not quite as good as the original.
Mr Creosote
February 7th, 2008
Magnetron (ZX Spectrum) is a lot better than the previous game, but at the same time, nowhere near as good as its prequel (which is already available on this site).
Mr Creosote
February 6th, 2008
Old games is not always good games. In fact, many were quite terrible. Sites like this one tend to concentrate on the good aspects of the past for obvious reasons, but to set this record straight at least to some degree, here's
Deathbringer: The Sword of Abaddon (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 5th, 2008
Since the best of the anniversary games hasn't been viewed enough yet, here's a scheme to drive more traffic towards it:
Quazatron (ZX Spectrum) is its sequel.
Mr Creosote
February 4th, 2008
Crackpots (Atari 2600) is one of those ultra-simple games which you can learn to play within seconds. Completely intuitive, but also quite shallow, of course.
Mr Creosote
February 3rd, 2008
Game #3 is another classic by the fabulous company Graftgold:
Paradroid (C64).
Mr Creosote
February 2nd, 2008
The second game is a very good computerized version of a very good board game:
Cluedo: Master Detective (Amiga).
Mr Creosote
February 1st, 2008
As you all know (ha, ha), the site's anniversary is approaching fast. In fact, it's at the end of this month. Each year, there's the question of what to do... and this year, we're doing something we've never done before: We're starting the celebrations early. In other words: today.
As a special gift, there'll be a new game on the site
every day until the actual anniversary. Starting today. So keep visiting for juicy new additions! Starting today... with
Battlezone (Atari 2600).
Mr Creosote
January 26th, 2008
Boxing (Atari 2600) has always been one of my favourite Activision games.
Mr Creosote
January 19th, 2008
Abuse (PC) fills your screen with enemies and explosions. Action packed and hard, it's a quite good game with some novelties, mainly that even though it's 2D, you shoot with the mouse.
Wandrell
January 13th, 2008
Nr. 10 concludes the Interpart series. Phew.
As you've probably already noticed, I removed the offer to scan more series' as soon as they're completed some time ago already. This isn't a mistake - the offer is over. Although looking back, some people have thankfully jumped in and provided other comic scans, but it didn't have the overall effect I had hoped for. I wanted to expand the comics section collaboratively, sharing the work with others more or less equally. This never happened. Not even close! I received a few scans, sure, but I was still the one processing all the images and writing each and every word of the plot synopsis, the quick comment after it and the running commentary of the 'read online' versions.
I don't think anyone even
considered helping with any of this. Shows how people are only interested in 'sharing' (i.e. downloading) the comics. Since I have absolutely
no advantage of that (it costs me money, and it burns my free time), I'm at a low point of motivation (which stems from
sharing a common passion, i.e. not just things flowing into only
one direction) once again.
So don't expect much in the future. I still have a few scans lying here which people have sent in, and I
will put those up sooner or later. Same if you send in more. But it might take its time.
Mr Creosote
January 11th, 2008
Nr. 9 - one more down, one more to go.
Mr Creosote
January 9th, 2008
In a desperate attempt to fulfill my promise, here's
Nr. 8.
Mr Creosote
January 6th, 2008
I can't really seem to get a grip on the comics anymore. Always trying to take it more seriously, but still, it's just not happening. But this time I promise: no other updates from me until the Interpart series is completed! Starting with
Nr. 7 today.
Mr Creosote
