Well I guess it’s just as well that I begin this series with a game that I quickly kicked from my installed games list again… As part of working through my backlog, I selected Helldivers as the first title to try out. After a little under 2 hours I have my personal verdict on it….
Month: December 2018
Gaming Memories: Castle of the Winds
In the time before Windows 95, when Windows 3.1 / 3.11 were around, there were pretty much 2 “classes” of games: DOS games that were as you knew them at the time, taking up the whole screen, the interface seamlessly integrating into it (of course dependent on the quality of the developer) etc.. And then…
Classic Comics – Transformers G1 US #8
Title: Repeat Performance! Original Release Date: May 1985 When did I first read it: Like issue #7, in ‘92, the summer holiday after the issue got released in Hungary (in one comic book that combined issues #7 and #8) Cover This one is a bit less exciting compared to some previous ones. It’s just showing…
Classic Comics – Transformers G1 US #7
Original Release Date: April 1985 When did I first read it: Must’ve been in 92, the summer holiday after the issue was released in Hungary (which was in October 91), the comic book also included issue #8. Cover On the cover we see a pretty bad situation, with Ratchet being confronted by Megatron, presumably in…
Game Design Elements – Dragon Crystal – “Your” Dragon
It’s interesting how thoughts can differ/change over the years. Back in the days when I was young, my thoughts while playing a game mostly were in the area of “how to beat the game”, while nowadays design aspects also actively interest me. One specific early example would be the game Dragon Crystal (that I wrote…
Gaming Memories – Game Wizard
Back in the days when I switched from the Game Gear over to the PC (with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 at the time), I was used to being able to cheat in games easily. Sometimes through codes in a game, but mostly due to the Action Replay Pro I had (an alternative to the…