Zen of Gaming

Two of the better games on the Commodore Amiga were Rick Dangerous I and Rick Dangerous II. Designed, developed and coded by the then up and coming CORE Design (who later came to fame with the Lara Croft franchise), these simple yet very entertaining platform jump-and-runs were a delight to play - despite their relative […]

Recently I’ve been doing a bit of research towards Nintendo DS emulation (NDS emu). What I’ve found out so far is that there a basically two relatively stable emulators out there: iDeaS and DeSmuME and No$GBA.
All three have issues with some games, even in the newest versions. Only No$GBA is able to play multiplayer on […]

The special appeal of Fax machines, the cause that makes them still linger around, is that they are “self-contained appliances” (see WIRED: Why Are Faxes Still Around?): it’s easy to understand what the machine’s purpose is, if you can place a call you can fax a document and nearly everyone has them so you can […]

A little late though, I was told that German music magazine KEYS has an interview with Chris Hülsbeck (official site), as part of their feature about game scoring and game music in issue February/2008. If you have the chance to get hold of that issue, there is also an interview with composer Alex Pfeffer.

It’s now seven years since the initial release of “Uplink: Hacker Elite“, time to have another look.
In 2001 British developer Introversion Software released Uplink. What started as a demo version has developed into a cult game with an active fan and developer/contributor community and numerous re-relases and versions. I’ve always been a fan of Cyberpunk […]

there is a film of that name, and the game itself has five different titles (see below), depending on the market it was released in. So, it might be difficult to track down, but it’s worth the effort…
Let’s flashback to 1989, when a dense game atmosphere could compensate for limited system capabilities. That was the […]

Let’s start to build the system. For this Gaming PC here, I chose to use a Dell OptiPlex as base. While not a perfect choice, these systems bring most of what we need right out of the box: a black case, nice design, small form factor, Gigabit Ethernet, USB connectivity and sometimes even an S-Video […]

Over the years I’ve collected quite a few games. The problem is, they are literally scattered over multiple platforms and formats. Some are Commodore C64, PC games, lots of Commodore AMIGA disks while others are SNES/Super Famicom, Sega MegaDrive/Genesis, Sega Saturn, Nintendo64 cardridges and last but not least some real arcade ROMS. I own the […]

Have you played The Outfoxies lately? It’s a true gem and worth another play. In fact, this clever arcade platform game from 1994 is on my list of all-time-favorite arcade titles.
The story itself is quickly told: A group of hitmen, quite unique characters like a mad scientist in a wheelchair, a chimp in tuxedo, a […]