Quake
It’s 1996, and the hype machine is in full force. iD’s next game is on the horizon. John Carmack has written a true 3D engine that runs just as fast as Doom with no extra hardware required. Gaming rags publish astounding in-game shots of spooky 3D castles and true rooms over rooms. The public-beta-of-sorts Qtest1 [...]
No Comments »Superhero League of Hoboken
The future ain’t what it used to be. A post-apocalyptic New Jersey and the surrounding area plays host to a handful of cobbled villages and desperate survivors; each banding together for protection against dangerous, mutated relics from the past. But the real threat is not the feral, roving lawyers, disfigured corporate mascots, or ex-marketing executives [...]
No Comments »Crazy Taxi
[Transcript of an interview with Gus the Cab Driver] I have a feeling that today is going to be a good day. I have been assigned to do business on the Original part of town, which is much better than the Arcade part – customers are more lenient, you go to much better locations, and [...]
No Comments »Checkered Flag
If you’re going to brag that you can do something just as well as someone else can, you really should make sure you’re going to be able to pull it off. Otherwise, you’re going to come off looking like a complete berk. Here’s a case in point: Sega’s Virtua Racing hit the arcades in 1992, [...]
No Comments »Flashback: The Quest for Identity
I loved Flashback when it was released. It was exactly the kind of sci-fi action mystery I could totally dig (big, futuristic cities, crazy conspiracies, gadgets, a Total Recall brainwashing machine…). Not only that, it deftly combined elements of platforming and adventure games into something that felt new and right. You weren’t pixel-hunting or getting [...]
No Comments »Jeopardy!
Are you reasonably intelligent? Do you like showing that off? Do you own a Sega CD? Have you tried Jeopardy! before in its 8-bit incarnations, and found yourself missing Alex Trebek’s smarmy Canadian attitude? Sony Imagesoft to the rescue! A multimedia version of Jeopardy! makes good sense, and Sony Imagesoft’s early attempts here would set [...]
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