My Game Tree
April 4th, 2011 at 11:24am

Over at No High Scores, Bill Abner wrote this weekend about the games that make us who we are, and referred to the collection as a Gaming Tree, even going so far as to map his out. The idea was so fascinating to me that I went ahead and drew up my own gaming tree […]

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List of Shame: Ultima VI
March 16th, 2011 at 9:35am

Back in 1990, I was in high school. I remember reading in a computer magazine that Ultima VI had been released for the Commodore 64. At the time, Ultima V was one of my favorite games of all time, and I really wanted to play the sequel. But for whatever reason – money, girls, college applications […]

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Platforming: A Retrospective
January 20th, 2010 at 11:15am

One of the oldest game genres is the platformer, so named because you play a character that jumps to and from suspended platforms. Contra, Bionic Commando, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Super Mario Brothers all fall into this category. I should make it clear here that I never got into Super Mario World or Mario 64, […]

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Variations on a Theme, Part VII: Construction
December 10th, 2009 at 9:45am

Since I first played Adventure Construction Set on the Commodore 64, I’ve been a big fan of games that let you create your own worlds. The more detailed, the better. After the fourteen-year-old me played through Rivers of Light and dissected it with the editor, I created many an adventure. I assembled fantasy worlds where […]

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Gaming Made Me: Greg Waxes Nostalgic
July 21st, 2009 at 9:00am

I’ve been following Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s “Gaming Made Me” series for the past week or so now, and I’ve really enjoyed reading nostalgic tales from different people in the industry about which games most influenced them. The series has inspired me to go back and re-evaluate which games most inspired me as I grew up. […]

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Free Game Friday: The Hobbit
October 10th, 2008 at 7:40am

This game is part of the Retro Remakes project. I remember playing The Hobbit on my Commodore 64. I never really got any further than the goblins’ cells, but that’s largely because I had no walkthroughs back then, and I suck at adventure games. If you like adventure games, or retro games, give it a […]

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