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USA Today has some reviews of the latest offerings for the Sims series, which has been around for about a decade now.
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Blake Stone: Planet Strike, part one
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And now, here’s the sequel to Aliens of Gold, with Blake going on another mission to defeat Dr. Goldfire, who’s reamassed his forces of evil, and is continuing with his plot for global/galactic conquest. I’m not sure if this is formatted the same way as the first game, so [...]
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, part three
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Now comes the third part of this old dandy, in another eleven parts:
There don’t seem to be any crates that need to be shot to open in this episode, but there are at least 3 new enemies featured: a tall green alien, a liquid-based monster, and even a zombie [...]
EA takes another dive
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Electronic Arts is suffering from more weak sales:
NEW YORK (AP) - A disappointing outlook from Electronic Arts Inc. sent shares of the video game publisher sharply lower Monday, a sign that significant cost-cuts and layoffs have not ended the company’s slump.
The company, whose games include the popular “Madden” series [...]
Private army battle
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USA Today writes about a new game called MAG - Massive Action Game - where you’re a soldier in what’s described as a war set in a future era 15 years from now where governments hire private armies to protect their country’s interests.
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Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, part two
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Okey dokey, here comes the second part of this overlooked first-person production, in another eleven parts, with the second secret level coming penultimately here, since, logically speaking, it does need to be worked through prior to what’s really the last level.
I ought to note that it’s difficult to tell [...]
Sonic 4 Episode 1 arriving
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Sega announces that a fourth game for Sonic the Hedgehog is on the way. What’s interesting is that it’s advertised as the first episode in what I assume is going to be a special series connected together.
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Thunder Heroes taping
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Actually, it’s a Japanese version of Gaia Crusaders, slightly different from the version more commonly seen in the US and Europe, and here’s a recording of it in 4 parts:
This has some kind of explosive devices available that I don’t think were available in the version for the US/Europe, [...]
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: GDI mission, second part
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Now, here’s the second part of the GDI side of the game. Let’s see what we have here.
Getting set up on this stage in Corinth, Greece, is not easy. The object here is to evacuate a spy, and you need to get foot units or vehicles to the foot [...]
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: GDI mission, first part
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Now, here’s the other side of the game, with the GDI missions. Let’s begin:
First mission is taking out NOD troops on this shore. The gunboat can help take out the turrets.
You don’t get any engineer options with your barracks on this second mission, but if you can capture the [...]
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: NOD mission, second part
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Here are the latter missions in the NOD side of Tiberian Dawn. The following is in 4 videos:
In this level, you first use the commando, who can slay foot units with a single bullet, to reach a special base setting where you need to capture some of the rest, [...]
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, part one
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Another first person shooter, in eleven parts:
The star of the show is a British intelligence agent who’s sent to infiltrate the headquarters of a Dr. Goldfire, an evil scientist who’s manufacturing mutants and other vermin for conquest and destruction. It’s a very impressively layered setup, with a lot of [...]
A video of Catacomb Abyss
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The followup to Catacomb 3D:
This came out the year after the first game did, and features more battles against the supernatural forces. It’s actually part of what was soon called “The Catacomb Trilogy”, since there were 3 games of this that came out during 1992, including Catacomb Apocalypse and [...]
Major Stryker multimedia
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It looks like Raiden had a competitor in the shareware market, that being this nifty item. First, here’s a video of the beginning with demos:
But for the complete runthrough, you’ll need to go to the rest of the videos off site, because yet again, it’s a compilation with the [...]
Tropical Angel taping
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Two videos of a remarkable water skiing game:
The challenge here is to guide a hot water skiing bikini babe through an ocean path filled with rocks, sharks, and special jumping ramps. One of the earliest games with a woman as the star, this is surely the earliest that comes [...]
A posting for Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage
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Another neat shareware actioner with cartoony design. Here’s a video of it:
Evil aliens have raided New York City, turning many citizens into green-skinned zombies, and it’s up to the one-man-army of Harry, a commando armed with flamethrower and rocket launcher, to save the Earth.
It’s worth noting that some of [...]
An Apple tablet for game biz
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Here’s some news on a new device from Apple:
NEW YORK (AP) - When Apple introduced the iPhone, it shook up the cell phone business but it also changed the way people play video games. About a quarter of the 100,000 applications that you can download to the iPhone are [...]
Doom video
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The game that really popularized the first-person shooting genre. Here’s a short video of it:
An alien invasion into military research facilities on two of the moons of Mars leads to a marine having to fight and stop them all. It’s a game with impressive 3D texture layouts for its [...]
NBA Jam Extreme video
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Here comes the next entry in this sport series, and this time, it’s in more 3D format:
Midway lost the license to develop this series to Acclaim, who took over some of the franchise, and frankly made an even more impressive game than they did.
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Facebook farmers
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A new game available on Facebook lets you work in agriculture:
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Even while calling Chicago home, Laura Hawkins Grimes is a country bumpkin. Her scenic rural spread has three dairy farms, two ponds and a log cabin, all skirted by a white picket fence as scarecrows [...]
Dungeon Magic quest
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Possibly inspired by Capcom’s own efforts with Dungeons & Dragons, though it came out shortly afterwards, here’s another sword-and-sorcery adventure, in about 8 parts:
A lovely young princess has been kidnapped by evil forces hoping to use her as the means of resurrecting an evil demon. Four fighters are chosen [...]
Duke Nukem 2, parts three and four
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And now, here’s the latter half of the second adventure of America’s greatest, most badass computer hero. Up comes the third episode, in 6 parts:
Duke continues to make his way through lava-laden pits, and towards the end, there’s even a moving belt making for quite a ride! This part [...]
Duke Nukem 2, parts one and two
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He’s back! This is the second adventure our bold troubleshooter’s had over the years, and it’s in four episodes this time. Here comes the first one, starting with the intro, in seven recordings:
Duke’s been abducted by an evil alien race called the Rigelatins who’re hell bent on using his [...]
Motion controller delayed
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Sony has pushed back the release of their new PS3 gizmo:
TOKYO (AP) - Sony Corp. said Wednesday it has pushed back the release of its highly anticipated motion controller for the PlayStation 3 game console to the fall.
The device will be available in North America, Europe, Japan and other [...]
Journey with Jill of the Jungle
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Here’s a pretty good shareware adventure, and I think I can fit all the 3 episodes in here without too many problems. First, here’s the first part in 4 videos:
As the beginning episode, this is pretty simple, starring a lovely female counterpart to Tarzan who adventures through several difficult [...]
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