Category Archives: The Cellar

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)”

8/22/20 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”