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"I am the Law!"
Judge Dredd for the SNES came out roughly at the same time as the film starring Sylvester Stallone in June 1995. I guess hard deadlines are one of the reasons tie-in games are usually not great.
It seems decent at first, but disappointment comes quickly once you realise that blowing up the wrong box, or jumping off a platform at the wrong time, turns levels uncompletable.
It's hard to play a game never knowing if you're making progress or already a zombie.
love how amateurish the ads in early PC Magazine are as they try to compete with the flood of multi-function cards littering the magazine and stand out (March 1984 issue)
In "Sam & Max Hit the Road" (1993) you control the dog Sam who, together with the rabbit Max, form the Freelance Police.
Your orders (which you take out of a cat on the street) are to bring back a thawed Bigfoot that has escaped a carnival along with Trixie, the Giraffe-Necked Girl.
LucasArts adventure games are known for their zany humour, but S&M takes it one step further: the jokes are less subtle and sometimes spicy, keeping up with their maturing audience.
TIL about the Pulfrich effect, whereby lateral motion can be perceived as depth due to timing differences (signal delay) between the eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-v4LsbFc5c
The effect can be triggered by wearing sunglasses in such a way that only one eye is covered. 🤪 🕶️
Then you can play "Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D" (SNES, 1993) and the background layer will appear further away (but only when moving).
Is "Limbo" (2010) retro yet? I guess it has always been retro, at least in style.
Limbo was originally released on the Xbox 360, download-only. With Xbox Live Arcade dead since 2024, my copy of the game is stuck on my Xbox 360 and will only live as long as its spinning-rust hard drive lives. Not a retro situation, really. 🫠
I like this game. The puzzles are logical and I finished it back then in a few days. I saw it's just €0.50 on Android, and couldn't resist.
Four games at once this time: four bullet-hell shoot 'em ups from the same series, whose names are puns on the sound of gunfire and bees in japanese, all but one by CAVE.
• "DonPachi" (1995)
• "DoDonPachi" (1997)
• "DoDonPachi II" (2001)
• "DoDonPachi DaiOuJou" (2002)
I meant to point out the differences in style, but they look very similar as static screenshots... 🤷♂️
So, I'll just say that I prefer the more classical look of the first "DonPachi". Also, fewer bullets.
Wow... and if that wasn't impressive enough, this is really mind-blowing! 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDERfRP2GI0
It's 31:41 minutes long, how cute. 🥧
Now, *this* is a demo... 🌀
The visualisation is the music, and the music is the visualisation, on a vintage oscilloscope in X-Y mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCukVSqoZyI
And it really picks up about halfway through. 🔊
Gourd
Marcin Wichary