A curious game is Ice Climber (NES). You just have to climb a mountain, but is not as easy as it sounds. A classic game from the NES.
Sadly, I lack quality docs for Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World. But what I had now is on the page.
Keeping with the M&M docs, now Might and Magic: The Secret of Inner Sanctum got manual, map and cluebook.
I decided to review Blood & Magic not because it was good, but because it's little known. A RTS based on D&D which could have been better.
Now Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen got downloads. If somebody has the game in any other language, please share it. I'm sure there a Spanish and a German version of the game somewhere. And also, probably a German version for the previous one also exists.
Time for the obligatory end-of-the-year update. In previous years, I usually posted a summary of games added to t he site in the course of the year. This, however, ignored all other contributions. Whether it is reviews or files, it is all valuable. So instead, here is the table or users sorted by the contribution points they earned in 2011. Check out the full list of contributors and everyone's profiles for a detailed breakdown of who did what. And since there have been a number of questions concerning these in the past months, let me state again that the points of course are not supposed to measure the time and effort someone puts into the site with complete accuracy. Such a thing would not be possible. It is only an approximation. So, without further ado, here is the list – thanks to all of you for making this site better for everyone! Maybe we'll see your names again in next year's news.
| User | Points |
|---|---|
| Mr Creosote | 1128 |
| Wandrell | 387 |
| Josh | 101 |
| ibmpc5150 | 63 |
| Kiomlrak | 60 |
| Elwood | 30 |
| Underdogs | 30 |
| Teset | 20 |
| mgtroyas | 20 |
| Feik001 | 20 |
| Wayfarer | 13 |
| te_lanus | 11 |
| bacheshatonee | 10 |
| tautology | 10 |
| allanwer | 9 |
| anabate | 6 |
| cloudrunner | 5 |
| KevinLancaster | 3 |
| ueda_mizukage | 3 |
| meyou | 2 |
| luisbotelho | 2 |
| AnnaWu | 1 |
| gernot66 | 1 |
| Nebros | 1 |
| hydr0x | 1 |
| Osgos | 1 |
| Lexcort | 1 |
| comradesean | 1 |
Another article, about yet another game competition. This one is significantly smaller than the last one: Herbstlaub 2011.
Still filling the RPGs with all the content I have, this time Might and Magic IV: Clouds of Xeen has received several docs and downloads.
One of the best games I know is System Shock. And I found it just by chance many years ago. Sadly, it's also another game which tried to create a new genre, but was forgotten, even if some new games like BioShock supposedly evolve from it (or from System Shock 2 at least), they just end going to the linear shooter kind of game.
Josh provides a second manual for Sim City. Sorry, that has been sitting in the queue for quite some time. Entirely my fault.
Menzoberranzan has received docs and a few downloads.
New docs, this time for Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra.
luisbotelho took care of integrating Home of the Underdogs' review of The Manager into our site. That removes another game from the list of incomplete stubs.
It's again Kiomlrak who is responsible for this update. This time, he took on one of these cheesy promotial games we all love so much: Claas APS-Spiel. I didn't even know this one before - good job!
Kiomlrak adds Bundesliga Manager Hattrick. That was quite a controversial game at the time it was released: Some reviewers considered it too detailed.
Inspektor Zebok is a game which most certainly everybody involved would rather forget about. We can't do them this favour, though, because preservation is important both for the good and the bad sides of history.
The results of the The 17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition are out - congratulations to the winners and thanks to all participants! As promised I wrote a general article with comments about specific games as well as general observations. Enjoy!
PataNoir concludes the run of this year's IF Comp reviews. The list is complete, slightly more than half of the games got a full review and those remaining ones I was able to run at least received a short comment. After the results have been announced (should happen in a day or two), I will update the article to have something less placeholder-y, so check back soon!
So here is Kiomlrak game: Biing!. Thanks a lot!
Luster... I'm getting close to the end of the list of IF Comp games.
Repeating yesterday's call: Kiomlrak, please get in touch with me concerning your submission!
Last Day of Summer is a game I cannot recommend. Read why.
On an unrelated note, will the user Kiomlrak please check his e-mail in relation to his submission?
Only very little time left in the IF Comp, but I'm doing my best to get through as many of the last ones as possible. Blind made it!
ueda_mizukage uploaded a great map of the first level of Flashback - very useful!
Elwood adds Mortal Pong, providing something he calls a "drunken re-review". Curious what this is? Read for yourself.
Josh provides manual scans of The Settlers.
Cursed is a game which really should not have been entered into the IF Competition. It would have been a good candidate for Spring Thing, instead. And I mean this in a positive way.
Oh no... yet another religiously themed game? Well, I did fight my way through this one: Beet the Devil.
Josh provides a manual scan for Die Siedler.
Martian Dreams now has several new docs, only missing for now the cluebook.
Edit: The cluebook is now also among the new docs.
The next one is Taco Fiction - another great game!