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8/29/20- Master of Monsters (1991)

Master of Monsters (1991) developed and published by Systemsoft for PC-98, Genesis, Saturn, and Playstation. No joke, when I saw screenshots of this game, I had to do a double take; it reminded me vividly of Godzilla: Monster of Monsters on NES! This game and the people who worked on it have nothing to doContinue reading “8/29/20- Master of Monsters (1991)”

8/28/20- Mail Order Monsters

Mail Order Monsters (1985) by Paul Reiche III and Evan and Nicky Robinson, published by Electronic Arts for Atari and Commodore 64. This game is cute, I like it. Pick a monster from a pleasingly large selection of creatures, name it, and duke it out with other monsters. After a fight, you can upgrade yourContinue reading “8/28/20- Mail Order Monsters”

8/27/20- Utopia: Creation of a Nation

Utopia: Creation of a Nation (1993) by Celestial Software, published by Gremlin Interactive (love that name) for SNES, originally released on Amiga and DOS. This one’s great. Utopia was initially conceived by its creators as an attempt to improve on the SimCity concept by introducing more involved social elements. In what is essentially SimCity onContinue reading “8/27/20- Utopia: Creation of a Nation”

8/26/20- Infiltrator (1986)

Infiltrator (1986) Developed by Chris Gray Enterprises and published by Mindscape for NES. This is a classic kind of NES game, one that is surprisingly ambitious and unrelentingly punishing. It has a tongue-in-cheek attitude, calling on the main character, Johnny “Jimbo Baby” McGibbits to stop the Mad Leader’s evil scheme. The game is divided intoContinue reading “8/26/20- Infiltrator (1986)”

8/25/20- Randamn

I was making daily posts to the Instagram page, and figured why not post the content here as well? Randamn (1983) programmed by Ron Nepsund with art by Scott McTyre and Murleen Parnell, published by Magnum Software. I was immediately interested in this game just from looking at the artwork, lots of weird horror andContinue reading “8/25/20- Randamn”

8/22/20 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead feature

This one’s coming out a little late, but oh well. This week’s featured game is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. This is absolutely the best survival game I know of, and it’s entirely free! It’s not quite a “retro” game, but it has a great ASCII art style and I think it appeals to that low-resContinue reading “8/22/20 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead feature”

8/9/20 New Project

I’m opening up a new page on the site: The Cellar. This is more of a personal space for me to talk about old games I’m interested in. I’ve also started an Instagram account @Retro.Game.Cellar which will be regularly posted to. I want it to be a spotlight on cool little games otherwise forgotten; expectContinue reading “8/9/20 New Project”

Shades of Orion: Ascendancy (1995)

One summer, I was no older than eleven, I happened across a title in the app store that caught my eye. “Ascendancy?” More

7/18/20- Hangman Update

Nightmare track added to Hangman I figured out how to use bullet points Ever played the ’93 Doom? Holds up super well. Got scammed out of $300 by someone impersonating a family member. Don’t ever trust me with your finances.

7/1/20- Verses 4-5 of Hangman Redraft

-“Finding it Over Again” track added under Fictions>Hangman.My goal right now is to finish redrafting all of HighTension by the end of the month, then take some time to finish the series before I jump into HeartBlitzCrossing. If you want, you can read the subpar first drafts on tinyurl.com/451press when you’re done with what’s alreadyContinue reading “7/1/20- Verses 4-5 of Hangman Redraft”