DOS Nostalgia Podcast #02: Audio in the MS-DOS era
My Twitter friend djbriandamage joins me to discuss the history of IBM PC audio.
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A Tribute to Rise of the Triad
My tribute to the classic first person shooter Rise of the Triad: Dark War by Apogee in a form of a music video.
Goin’ Down the Fast Way remix by The Hamster Alliance
Website: www.hamsteralliance.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/hamsteralliance
by Lee Jackson
MobyGames page: www.mobygames.com/game/rise-of-the-triad-dark-war
Buy the game on GOG: www.gog.com/gamecard/rise_of_the_triad__dark_war
DOS Nostalgia Podcast #01: MS-DOS in post-Soviet Russia
A former video game journalist Igor Artyomov joins me in discussing Russian video games (and the state of Russian gaming in general) during the early 90s.
Mild profanity. You’ve been warned.
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Anatoly remembers #1: DOS games in 1992
With 2012 almost gone, I reminisce about 1992 and its MS-DOS releases. Sit back, relax and enjoy the showcase of 20-year-old pc gaming goodness.
“Alone in the Dark” review
An old Derceto mansion has zombies, demons, ghosts and a Chthonian. And now it also has you (in the role of a private detective Edward Carnby.) It’s now up to you to get out of the house, dispel the evil, save the world and your own life in the first 3D survival horror adventure inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft. (Cthulhu not included).
Available on GOG.com:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/alone_in_the_dark
MobyGames page:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/alone-in-the-dark
“Ivan Lozhkin: Price of Freedom” Russian Space Quest ripoff playthrough
Иван Ложкин: Цена Свободы is a 1998 Russian adventure game that is relatively obscure even in the Motherland. I’ve seen a bunch of ads for it in various magazines throughout ’98, but only seen it in a store once. It was never hiding the fact that it was… erm… “inspired” by the Space Quest series by Sierra and even used graphics and music from the VGA version of Leisure Suit Larry in a failed attempt at an in-joke.
I’ve decided to show the complete playthrough, but I won’t be translating any of the dialogue – trust me, it’s not worth it. Now it’s just interesting to see a commercial game that came out years after the games it was referencing, and yet was still inferior to them in every aspect. Written in Turbo Pascal and suffering from deadly pascal runtime error 200 (dig up you 486!) the game hasn’t aged gracefully to say the least.
Enjoy!
If you liked the Space Quest series of adventure games go to Two Guys’ website and help to finance their new SpaceVenture:
http://guysfromandromeda.com
“RoboCop 3″ review
A police cyborg Alex Murphy once said: “They’ll fix you. They fix everything.” Well, nothing can fix a bad sequel like RoboCop 3, but there’s still a small chance that if you try really hard you can force yourself to think of this game instead of the movie when someone says “RoboCop 3″. Car chases, gyropack action, android fights and a lot of flat shaded polygons in this movie tie-in from the UK-based creators of ‘F29 Retaliator’ and ‘Epic’.
MobyGames page:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/robocop-3_
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“Gobliiins” review
This game is French. That doesn’t mean that it’s full of pretentiousness, baguettes and “le fromage”; instead it’s full of charm, puzzles and peculiar visuals. Three brave goblins are on a mission to save the King by solving brain twisting puzzles, and to help you get your daily dose of laughter along the way. Exploiting mythical creatures has never been so much fun!
MobyGames page:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/gobliiins
Available from GOG:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/gobliiins_pack
Also available from DotEmu:
http://www.dotemu.com/en/download-game/25/gobliiins-trilogy
Any release functions well in DosBox as well as ScummVM.
“Duke Nukem 3D” review
Guts, guns, mutants, pixelated boobs and plenty of toilet humor in the third installment of Duke Nukem series. An instant classic of its day and a retro gaming legend that still lives on. But is it only tits and bathrooms that made Duke3D an enjoyable game? I beg to disagree. Duke Nukem 3D is in my top 5 of my favorite first person shooters of all time.
MobyGames page:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/duke-nukem-3d
Available from 3D Realms:
http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d
Also available from GOG:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/duke_nukem_3d_atomic_edition
The best source port EDuke32:
http://eduke32.com
Gameplay footage was recorded in EDuke32 with all enhancements turned off to bring it as close as possible to the original game. Check out this video to see what the polymer renderer and high resolution pack are capable of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQGDasWl6Eo
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