Category Archives: Video Games

Good and bad news (and some other stuff)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Dehumanizer

First, the good (great, in fact) news: Julian Gollop, author of Chaos, Laser Squad, and the original X-COM: UFO Defense (known in Europe as UFO: Enemy Unknown; note that the recent Firaxis remake combines the two names) has announced that … Continue reading →

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Now playing: The Bard’s Tale II – The Destiny Knight

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dehumanizer

First, sorry for not writing here for a long time. Some big career changes happened (whether good or bad, the jury is still out, but I’m mostly optimistic), and I haven’t had quite a lot of free time, though I … Continue reading →

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Violence Fight: the quarrelers! (2 of 2)

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dehumanizer

After getting to know Bat/Bad Blue, Ben “Fierce Eagle of Nevada” Smith and, last but certainly not least, Lick Joe, let’s meet the rest of Violence Fight‘s colorful personalities, shall we? First, we have Lee Chen, the fourth and final … Continue reading →

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Violence Fight: the quarrelers! (1 of 2)

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dehumanizer

With such a great plot, you’re probably expecting the characters in Taito’s Violence Fight to be (ahem) colorful, interesting characters, and I believe you won’t be disappointed… Let’s start with the main character, mentioned in the intro: Bat Blue (sometimes called Bad … Continue reading →

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Best plot in a video game EVER?

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dehumanizer

So much examples of utter brilliance here! The fact that the competition portrayed in the video game was in vogue among “Mafia, reckless drivers (!) and general businessmen”! That the game was a struggle for “No. 1 Quarreler”! That fighters … Continue reading →

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Laser Squad (ZX Spectrum, 1988)

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Dehumanizer

Note: this post is expanded from one in my old blog, The Games of My Life. From the mind and programming skills of Julian Gollop, author of Chaos, came this masterpiece in 1988: Laser Squad, quite probably the best and … Continue reading →

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Conversion Wars #1: Post Mortem

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dehumanizer

As I had mentioned before, the first entry on the Conversion Wars series (Out Run) revealed its format to be far too cumbersome; three long posts for a single game is simply too much. So, the second entry in the series … Continue reading →

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Conversion Wars #1: Out Run (part 3 of 3: console ports / scores)

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dehumanizer

(Note: please see parts 1 and 2 for the rest of the ports.) Not many more to go, now. First, let’s look at the Sega Master System port: We’ve already seen two versions (MSX2 and PC) that appear to be … Continue reading →

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Time Commanders

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Dehumanizer

When I started this blog, one of the conscious decisions I made back then was to avoid the common “look at this cool thing I’ve just found!” posts. The reasons are several: because that tends to “date” posts (i.e. what’s … Continue reading →

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Conversion Wars #1: Out Run (part 2 of 3: 16-bit home computer ports)

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Dehumanizer

(Note: part 1 is here.) Moving on to 16-bit home computer versions of Out Run, there are just three to look at. Let’s begin with the one I believe came out first, the Atari ST version, released by US Gold … Continue reading →

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