A major contributor for over ten years, Wandrell not only filled many painful gaps in our game collection (such as the ever-popular NES or RPGs), but co-ran many of the special features we had over the years. His mark can be found all over the website.
The three ages of darkness have finished, now a golden one starts and with it a new way of living through philosophy and virtue. A call is sent to summon a new kind of hero, one that does not triumph through the sword, one that can become a spiritual guide and help others to walk the path, an avatar of the virtues.
Blasteroids! One of the first three Amiga games I owned. Expect a bit of nostalgia here.
Mr Creosote
Back in the mid-90s, you basically had the choice between butt ugly rendered cut scenes or full motion video cutscenes staged by awful actors. It was also a time of consolidation between game genres. On the computer side of things, so-called real-time strategy was the latest craze, with tons of ultra-formulaic titles being released. SSI's War Wind received favourable reviews for breaking away from some such conventions.
Mr Creosote
Cartoon characters are subject to artistic freedom and are naturally endowed with superpowers that only fictionally exist. One representative of this species is the sheep Sven Bømwøllen. His creator didn't equipped him with horns like a real ram, but he gave him super-virility. A game from Sven’s perspective therefore obviously revolves around only one specific theme. See for yourself!
LostInSpace
Time to revisit an old acquaintance again. 1869 was first featured on this website 20 years ago. Since then, my view on it hasn't fundamentally changed. Although widely recalled as a beloved memory from years gone long by, it simply isn't a good game. Nevertheless, it was ripe for another look as my old write-up was a tad too polemic to get a pass.
Mr Creosote
LostInSpace covers another (fairly) modern-day C64 title called Woolly Jumper. In his review, he mentions "minimalist graphics". Certainly can't see this on the excellent title screen! Then again, there is a certain tradition to making a cover which has little to do with the in-game looks 
If the night sky is clear and cloudless on Halloween, you might see her riding on the broom: Witchy, the witch. In this funny casual game for the C64, a whole pack of undead ghosts is hot on her heels and you can literally hear their battle cries: "Get Witchy"!
LostInSpace
Like the rest of the geek world, we're following the hype and taking a look back at the first Dune computer game. Not having really played for almost 20 years (you can find my previous account of it here on the website, too), it was surprisingly painless and actually rather pleasant to revisit. Can't claim this for all those games from those times
There we are at the end of the trilogy, Jungle of Doom! The game features a jungle, but preciously little doom. It's in fact a rather relaxed title, especially compared to the predecessors. Upon replaying it, it was also by far the one I had least recollection of. Could this correlation be interpreted as causality?
Mr Creosote
Of course, when you've done one, you can't just stop, can you? Especially when these games are so mercifully short. Then again, Hugo II: Whodunit is by a large margin the longest of the trilogy. If you give it a try, you'll very quickly learn which approach the developer took to achieve this increase in size. Spoiler: not the ones you've been hoping for.
Mr Creosote
Back into the House of Horrors! Inspired by the DOS Game Club (an initiative to play old-ish games together), I started this one up again. First impression: surprised by how well I remembered pretty much everything. Second thing which came to mind: how on earth did I actually solve it back in the day? On that, my memory is unfortunately fuzzy.
Mr Creosote