Diamond was a childish dick but made up for it by being funny. Perry just came across as childish, egotistical and lacking a sense of humour.
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Diamond was a childish dick but made up for it by being funny. Perry just came across as childish, egotistical and lacking a sense of humour.
often amazing but I do miss the days when there was a consistent stream of new games, genres and ideas that had never been seen before.
My favourite period in gaming. Endless innovation on Amiga, PC, ST, SNES & MD: Zelda LTTP, Sonic, Lemmings, Populous 2, Wing Commander, Civilization...the future of gaming looked so bright. And now we're in that future with fully immersive 3D games and persistent multiplayer worlds and it's ..
I guess this is good for Youtube channels in that it generates views for them, but yeah not exactly cutting edge journalism.
What Future Video Game scenario would you most like to see come true?
Was this based on an arcade game?
Ok, so what's this? Mirrors, released on PC-88 and FM Towns, and previewed here in Ace #41 Feb '91. A Japanese adventure featuring Depeche Mode & Duran Duran, according to Ace. And apparently Jason Vorhees going by these screens taken from @mobygames.com. #retrogaming #fmtowns #adventuregames
Name & shame. Screenshot their user name & the offensive comment. Post it on here or wherever you have the most followers & warn people not to do business with that account. Link them & eBay to the post. Sorry, but I don't think "be cool" when ppl behave like this. I think fucking learn 'em.
It's weird because SH2 has all the ingredients in place to make a really, really good horror movie. They could more or less just copy the game. Perhaps make James a little more expressive.
Is there a photo storage/sharing option that's as good as Google Photos/ Apple Photos?
From what I remember, yes! Can't remember the exact details but Google AI summary tells me "the Doom Slayer (Doomguy) is a descendant of B.J. Blazkowicz, with creators ...confirming Doomguy as a descendant, often linked through Commander Keen, making B.J. his great-great-grandfather.."
Well they kind of are, if the characters are implied to be related to each other, no?
What about Mario / Donkey Kong?
Also (and this one is definitely later but still fun) there's the lineage running from B.J. Blazkowicz of Wolfenstein to Commander Keen to Doom Guy.
Is there a big difference? Not sure I've played the Genesis one.
When some kid at school first told me about the Sega Mega Drive I thought he was talking about some kind of peripheral, I'd heard you could buy "disk drives" and "hard drives" for other computers, so I assumed it was like a hardware add-on for the Master System (the only Sega I knew at the time).
Hmm, as someone who played and enjoyed Vampire back in the day, I'm going to agree with your verdict and say No, too. Mainly because access to unexplored parts of the map aren't locked behind ability upgrades (an essential requirement for a MV, IMO).
Sorry, "Empruve", not "Empurve". Not as amusing sounding. Here's a blog post about it from 2008: paleofuture.com/blog/2008/7/...
#retro computers that didn't quite make it: The Empurve Cornucopia, previewed in Ace #40 Jan '91. Designed for interactive CDs and hypermedia:2 screens; 10" b&w for text & 4" colour for images. Expensive at £2,000+, But Ace expected it to be the template for a new generation of multimedia machines.
Never played this and don't ever seem to hear much about it compared to the original. Might have to take a look.
It was just as interesting to read about the expansions, add-ons & peripherals available for the machine, capable of taking it way beyond the base specs, for those with the money (not me). This Mega Midget Racer accelerator boosted the CPU speed from 7 Mhz to up to 33 Mhz and the ram to up to 8Mb.
Graduating from a purely games-playing Spectrum owner, it was a real eye-opener to see the huge scope for productivity and creativity provided by the Amiga. Amiga Format was great at covering this aspect of the machine, which is probably why it was the most popular Amiga mag for a long time.
But I think the real reason I remember it so fondly is the beginner's guide, taking new owners through the first steps to becoming competent Amiga users. From knowing not to remove a disk when the drive light is on, to making a backup of Workbench.
The free full game Interphase didn't get much playtime (a bit complicated) but the playable demo of Lemmings on the second coverdisk was life changing. I guess it was the first glimpse anyone outside of Psygnosis got of these loveable, suicidal little fellas.
Sadly the scans aren't available on Archive but #AmigaMagazineRack has some pages available amr.abime.net/issue_174_pa...
Probably my all-time fave retro-era computer/games mag Xmas issue. Mainly because I got it with my Amiga for Xmas 1990. #Amiga #retrogaming
I'm not trying to cover for Rowling. But I do think you are subconsciously downplaying the fact that fantasy has always had strong elements of outdated ideas running through it. We should all be trying to do better, not overlooking or sweeping aside problematic elements that have always been there.
Indeed.
Goblins have been greedy and obsessed with gold/jewels going right back to the original folklore.
Didn't know that, interesting. Although I guess there had already been 50+years of purely evil goblins in mainstream swords n sorcery fiction before that.
Don't know about those other cases, I don't follow her closely. I know she is racist from the tropes in the books, though.