Tag: ogt
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Vintage Gaming – Star Wars: Rebellion
Star Wars: Rebellion (or Supremacy, as it was known across the pond) is a real-time 4X game Lucasarts released in 1998 to quite mixed reviews. I bought it and played it quite a bit, though almost always from the Rebel side.  I have a hard time playing the bad guys.  Rebellion is set just after…
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Old Game Tuesday – Heroes of Might and Magic
We will be focusing on the first few games in the series, as that’s mostly what I’ve played, but things aren’t too different even now. Heroes of Might and Magic holds a special place for me, if only for the fact that it’s one of the games my wife consistently beats me in. When we…
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Old Game Tuesday – X-Wing
First, a confession: I never played X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. This might wound my geek cred, but I just never got to it, and I had moved on to game styles than the flight sims of my youth. I also was a bit nervous about a ‘multiplayer only’ game being fun since I didn’t know…
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Old Game Tuesday – American McGee’s Alice
In honor of the release of the long-awaited sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, I thought I’d talk a bit about the original game, Alice. American McGee’s Alice (with American McGee, a former id Software employee as the designer) is a third-person shooter and platformer set years after Alice’s original adventures in Wonderland. If that seems familiar,…
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Old Game Tuesday – SimCity 2000
Man, how many hours did I spend on SimCity 2000? More than my parents would probably like to hear about, that’s for sure. ;) I enjoyed the original SimCity quite a bit, but was only dimly aware of other Sim games (I did rent SimEarth on SNES once, that was fun), but as woon as…
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Old Game Tuesday – Wing Commander: Privateer
One of my all-time favorites, and to me, the best game of the Wing Commander series, is Wing Commander: Privateer. Unlike the other games of the WC series, in this one you play a free pilot with your own inherited ship. At that point, you are completely free to do what you want. Fly around…
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Old Game Tuesday – Lemmings
Ah, Lemmings. One of the best puzzle games of the early PC era (indeed, it was developed for the Amiga!), it’s also one of the hardest to describe. What are the lemmings, exactly? They just…walk? That’s the gist of it, really. You have to guide the lemmings, who don’t really resemble the animal of that…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Worms Series
The Worms series of games has it’s roots in the earliest recesses of computerized gaming, as a spiritual successor to the various ‘artillery games‘ like Scorched Earth. At their core, you have two teams of cartoony worms facing off, firing weapons ranging from simple shotguns to homing missiles to holy hand grenades to the super…
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Vintage Gaming – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, another Koei game, actually I will cover the whole series of games, at least the ones I’ve played. Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are at their core turn based strategy games centered around the eponymous timeframe in Chinese history. You’ll remember that from my talk about Destiny of an Emperor. There have been…
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Vintage Gaming – Destiny of an Emperor
I’m showing my age again to some of you young bucks, but when I mention my favorite classic RPGs, this one probably elicits the most blank stares. Destiny of an Emperor was released by Capcom way back in 1990 for the NES, and was a fairly typical JRPG. There were a few key differences, and…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
I came to know Morrowind (I only figured out it was the third game in a series after the fact) through a friend. He had taken time out from Everquest to play a new single player RPG that I hadn’t heard of. I sat and watched for a while, and was intrigued. There were a…
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Old Game Tuesday – Red Storm Rising
I mentioned previously that a good bit of my early gaming was wargames. This was due in large part to my dad being in the Navy and me growing up obsessed with the massive ships and salty dogs I saw with him. Red Storm Rising is one of my favorite games from that time in…