December 25th, 2003
As per previous notes, some downloads are unavailable for the rest of the year. Also fixed the error message appearing on the front page.
Mr Creosote
December 20th, 2003
All downloads are working again since last night. The same ones which were down recently will be taking another vacation starting on the 24th, so if you urgently need some of the big files, I suggest you get them now.
Mr Creosote
December 17th, 2003
Important: Due to hardware problems, some downloads aren't available at the moment. Mailing us about it won't help. We're working on a solution.
Mr Creosote
December 16th, 2003
Updated the
Amiga emulators to the most current versions and added the versions for Linux and MacOSX of the new 'experimental' UAE branch.
Mr Creosote
December 7th, 2003
An addition, worse than even Last Action Hero and King's Quest combined:
Helicopter Mission.
Mr Creosote
November 18th, 2003
An extraordinarily big update today, with
Karate Champ,
The Way of the Exploding Fist,
Fist 2: The Legend Continues and
Fist + being added. That was possible, because all these games are basically the same. That influenced the review length as well, of course, but what would be the point of copying and pasting the general description into each review?
Mr Creosote
November 16th, 2003
Goblins 3
Mr Creosote
November 7th, 2003
Seems like I lied in my last update. Not on purpose, of course. Things just turned out different than I expected. You're still stuck with me and my tight schedule.
Gobliins 2.
Mr Creosote
October 16th, 2003
Just finished the last exam of the last semester yesterday, and now the new lectures are already starting on Monday. That's life, eh? Anyway, I've resumed my usual updating again. It didn't go as well as planned, but I've decided to put up
Gobliiins anyway. It's game No. 275 on our site by the way!
Mr Creosote
October 12th, 2003
And one of
Mega Lo Mania. In case you missed the earlier news about the reason why there aren't that many big updates at the moment: I still have another week of exams at university before me, and my little free time goes into the 'similar games' system (which turned out to be more time consuming than I hoped) at the moment.
Mr Creosote
October 11th, 2003
Box of
Dark Seed.
Mr Creosote
September 25th, 2003
While the comparisons are slowly creeping in (will continue adding more after writing this newspost), I found the time to scan the box of
James Pond 2.
Mr Creosote
September 24th, 2003
After two months of 'having it planned', we've now started to actually implement a system of 'comparisons with similar games' (if you're not sure what that means, check
here). The first examples can be found
here and it'll be extended to the whole site over time of course. I'll be pretty much busy with that in the near future, so please don't expect many new game entries.
Mr Creosote
September 21st, 2003
And as a final consequence
Warlock: The Avenger. If you don't understand why this is a consequence, better learn reading, because then you'll be able to follow my explanations about this.
Mr Creosote
September 20th, 2003
Upgraded the offered version of
ScummVM to the current 0.5.0R2 (huge step forward!) and added
WHDLoad to our collection.
Mr Creosote
September 18th, 2003
You all knew what'd come next:
Druid 2: Enlightenment.
Mr Creosote
September 16th, 2003
The specials have been neglected for a looooong time now. That's not my fault, though - if I don't receive anything from you, I can't put it there. So anyway, a really great addition there today:
A psychological study about fish.
Mr Creosote
September 8th, 2003
New game:
Druid.
Mr Creosote
September 6th, 2003
Scanned boxes of
Prisoner of Ice and
The Last Express.
Mr Creosote
August 27th, 2003
Online again.
Mr Creosote
August 24th, 2003
Scheduled downtime of the bigger downloads until Wednesday night.
Mr Creosote
August 16th, 2003
Followup to one of the last updates:
International Karate +.
Mr Creosote
August 12th, 2003
...and an older, but way more popular game:
Impossible Mission.
Mr Creosote
August 11th, 2003
A current game again:
The Last Express.
Mr Creosote
August 10th, 2003
A very well-known game today:
International Karate.
Mr Creosote
August 8th, 2003
The next game:
Mafia.
Mr Creosote
August 7th, 2003
A current open-source operating system is something we only rarely offer. No rule without exception of course:
Contiki.
Mr Creosote
July 29th, 2003
New box and a second version of the comic for
Beneath A Steel Sky.
Mr Creosote
July 28th, 2003
Big downloads are up again. During the next few days, there will still be a lot of reboots of the server, so you are now
even more adviced to use a download manager!
Mr Creosote
July 26th, 2003
Status update: The basic work has been done, you can expect the server for the bigger downloads to be up again on Tuesday. No, that is not a promise, but an estimation.
Mr Creosote
July 19th, 2003
Big downloads are down for an unspecified time, because I have to work on my hardware setup.
Mr Creosote
July 12th, 2003
Once again something for the fans of current games:
Prisoner of Ice.
Mr Creosote
June 30th, 2003
My own addition:
Mean Streets.
Mr Creosote
June 29th, 2003
A new game, not from my, not from Tapuak, but from INCISE-66. He promised to come up with more reviews in the future, so the dry period for PC freaks might be over. For today, enjoy
Transport Tycoon.
Mr Creosote
June 24th, 2003
Several downloads which had been taken down because of file size have been enabled again. Not in the usual way though - less reliable. I guess it's still better than nothing, though. Details can be found on the respective download gateways (try
Case of the Cautious Condor for example). Note that this is an experiment. It can be gone again just as fast as it appeared. Also keep in mind that this doesn't affect any games copyrighted by IDSA members.
Mr Creosote
June 23rd, 2003
New box:
WWF Raw
Tapuak
June 23rd, 2003
Who drives a black car and wears a coat with bat ears? Right, an idiot who beats up clowns (some call him
BATMAN).
Tapuak
June 22nd, 2003
I've dug through some lesser known games again:
Case of the Cautious Condor.
Mr Creosote
June 20th, 2003
Since I've received many complaints from Amiga users who thought they have to convert the .rar-files we offer to another format on a PC first, I've added
UnRAR 3.10 to the applications page. As you can see, all you have to do is download the games directly to your Amiga and then open the archives there :)
Mr Creosote
June 17th, 2003
A game from my personal pet-category of promotial games:
Abenteuer Europa.
Mr Creosote
June 15th, 2003
And the sequel you've all been waiting for:
Pinball Fantasies.
Mr Creosote
June 13th, 2003
I'm currently enjoying a free week and it shows:
Pinball Dreams.
Mr Creosote
May 17th, 2003
And the next one:
Guild of Thieves. As you will have noticed, the latest reviews lacked a bit of quality. That always happens periodically if I'm writing too many of them in too little time. I'll take a little break to get some creativity back. That doesn't necessarily mean there won't be any updates of course...
Mr Creosote
May 15th, 2003
Flashback to the 80s:
The Pawn.
Mr Creosote
May 10th, 2003
Due to requests, you can now also download
Antheads - It Came from the Desert 2 from here. Enjoy!
Mr Creosote
May 8th, 2003
Another update: Two versions of the essential program
ScummVM.
Mr Creosote
May 8th, 2003
Next:
In the Dead of Night.
Mr Creosote
May 7th, 2003
The original one again:
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. 1.
Mr Creosote
May 4th, 2003
As promised, a game from the CD-ROM generation. You probably won't find it on any other website:
Sixth Sense Investigations. Sorry for the low amount of screenshots, but as mentioned in the review, it is quite hard to make any. I'll add more later.
Mr Creosote
May 2nd, 2003
Today, I proudly present you the 250th game on The Good Old Days! This is the amount we wanted to reach for our anniversary last February in fact, but we simply didn't manage. Now we're there at last - with the addition of
Murder. By the way: I still remember my promise to add some CD-ROM games - the next ones (from me - can't speak for the rest of the crew) definitely will be :)
Mr Creosote
May 1st, 2003
A really big update today. In alphabetic order:
1st Devision Manager,
Dictator,
geOS 2.0 and
Stunt Car Racer. Have to try that Dictator game out myself ;)
Mr Creosote
April 29th, 2003
A bit unusual coming from me, but I promised I would:
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.
Mr Creosote
April 28th, 2003
Added a download for
Monkey Island.
Mr Creosote
April 25th, 2003
And another one:
Deja Vu 2. Reviewing those four last games in a row was of course easy, because they're all based on the same engine ;)
Mr Creosote
April 24th, 2003
Next one:
Shadowgate.
Mr Creosote
April 23rd, 2003
More of the same:
Uninvited.
Mr Creosote
April 22nd, 2003
I'm in Adventure-mood again these days. First result:
Deja Vu. This genre had another (and last) high time in the mid-90s, so there probably will be a few games from the CD-Rom generation appearing here shortly. Don't expect such huge downloads of course.
Mr Creosote
April 13th, 2003
Added
a comic which I had lying around (someone had sent it to me some time ago). Because this is apparantely incomprehensible (or because people simply don't read), I've now automated the download rotation of the comics. It'll change every week and it'll also tell you when the ones which aren't downloadable will be up again. I hope this saves me answering the same question all over again.
Mr Creosote
April 3rd, 2003
Yet another update. Really an interesting project:
LUnix - a Unix variant running on the C64. I took the opportunity and added more
emulators for that system in order to cover more 'emulating systems'.
Mr Creosote
April 3rd, 2003
Due to a shitty Internet connection, we've gone back to me presenting the updates:
Hacker 2.
Mr Creosote
April 1st, 2003
Here is something for Mr Bush to play with:
Battle Isle. Maybe
then he'll understand what the difference between a computer game and reality is!
Mr Creosote
March 15th, 2003
OK, here's my first 'true' message :) added new game in C64 section - Archon.
std
March 9th, 2003
And an update for which I'm only the 'messenger':
Breakthru in 3D. A bit of a strange name for a game...
Mr Creosote
March 8th, 2003
In case you're wondering why the output of games has decreased so much lately, I can assure you it won't change in the near future. Still one more month of exams to go. I'm trying my best though:
Wetten Dass..?
Mr Creosote
March 6th, 2003
Today, I made several internal changes to the database to make it easier for you visitors. The visible effect are that some elements are now placed on 'better' spots. Boxscans have been moved into the 'area' of all the other available files and the 'alternate downloads' of some Amiga games (which according to our download stats were impossible to find for most visitors - they were
only directly under the review in bold letters and underlined) are now right below the 'main downloads'. Hope this helps to avoid more confusion.
Mr Creosote
March 4th, 2003
Comics download rotation switched to
minicomics.
Mr Creosote
March 2nd, 2003
Major upgrade of our
forum: We now reached board version 2.0. This update makes posting easier to newbies with clickable smilies, easy board code and more comfort functions.
Mr Creosote
February 28th, 2003
C64 - the home of
Ping Pong. More than 10% of the games released for that system deal with this sport!
Mr Creosote
February 26th, 2003
Today's the third anniversary of the site. There won't be anything special for personal reasons though.
Mr Creosote
February 16th, 2003
New boxes:
Battle Bugs &
Die Siedler.
Mr Creosote
February 12th, 2003
Buggy Boy. I just hope this continues without my own help that well, because my free time will be severely cut down to almost nothing in the next two months - exams, exams...
Mr Creosote
February 9th, 2003
Did some work this weekend myself, too. A game you all know:
Die Siedler. Yes, I'm really sure you
do know it!
Mr Creosote
February 8th, 2003
New in C64:
Garrison.
Mr Creosote
February 7th, 2003
All downloads have been moved to the same server as the site again. That should ensure better download speeds. If you find any broken links, please report them.
Mr Creosote
February 1st, 2003
Here is my own addition, of course from one of the usual genres:
The Perfect General.
Mr Creosote
February 1st, 2003
8 Bit time again:
Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness. Yes, to my own surprise, this
is the real name of the game! I'm more than happy to be able to present another RPG on the site now, this genre has been close to non-existent here until now. We need more of those games! In case there are more fans who want to help to fill this gap, just contact me.
Mr Creosote
January 29th, 2003
New boxes:
Monkey Island and
Monkey Island 2.
Mr Creosote
January 26th, 2003
As promised:
Loom.
Mr Creosote
January 25th, 2003
And another of this kind:
Der Rasende Reporter. Those of you who like to read about games they already know will be served on the next update.
Mr Creosote
January 24th, 2003
As so often after a common game, here is a lesser known one:
Victor Loomes.
Mr Creosote
January 23rd, 2003
New boxscan:
Mag.
Mr Creosote
January 21st, 2003
Back to the best of all genres:
Beneath A Steel Sky.
Mr Creosote
January 18th, 2003
New game:
Lemmings.
Mr Creosote
January 15th, 2003
Added boxes of
Populous 2,
Kult and
It Came From The Desert as well as a rare map for the latter.
Mr Creosote
January 14th, 2003
The missing part of yesterday's comic has been added and in addition, I have a 'new' comic for you which I had promised to scan quite some time ago:
The Power of Point Dread / Danger at Castle Grayskull.
Mr Creosote
January 13th, 2003
This is a comic which none of you English-speaking people will know:
Die Jagd nach dem Zauberschwert.
Mr Creosote
January 11th, 2003
Games: added
Virocop.
Comics: After 1.5 months, it was time for the rotation again.
Ladybird,
UK and
DC comics are now up for download.
Mr Creosote
January 9th, 2003
No, we're not dead yet. As you might imagine, everyone needs breaks from writing reviews though, thus the slightly longer pause than usual. Today's addition is worth a small celebration, because it is the 50th Amiga game on the site (not counting games which
should be in the Amiga section, but have been foolishly added for another system):
King of Chicago.
Mr Creosote
