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!
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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’.
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!
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.
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
Mr. Nukem swapped his pink EGA tank-top for a red VGA one, got himself an Arnie-like voice, an assortment of weapons, soundblaster music & sound effects, an in-level save feature and plenty of cosmetic improvements. But can the second Duke Nukem installment withstand the test of time?
Cameras, robots, lasers, tons of pixel explosions and not a single bare breast in sight in the first game about everyone’s favorite ultimate alien ass kicker. Before 3D Realms was 3D Realms, before violence and controversy and before the black shades Duke Nukem was wholesome fun for the whole family.
Bikes, gangs, betrayal, asphalt and trouble in this amazing 1995 Tim Schafer masterpiece. A game with tons of charisma. An adventure game that coined the verb coin.
As I have mentioned before I play and record my games in DosBox, the most wonderful IBM PC MS-DOS emulator. It’s fast, very compatible and configurable in many ways. I love it. Now, most people use different front ends to run the games (like the great D-Fend Reloaded), I on the other hand want my experience to be complete, so I emulate a dos machine that I would be happy with. I’ve edited my dosbox.conf file to match my liking and now I rarely touch it (and occasional game can be more specific to the hardware and I actually have to go and change my configuration, but those times are few and far between). So I’ve decided to share with you my changes to the default config file. I’m going to leave out the parameters if I’ve never changed the default value. Ok, here goes:
