r/historyofvideogames
Combat School - "Don't be a chicken!" (blog post)
I've written about the making of Ocean's conversion of Konami's Combat School, and how it was covered in the games press of the time. Read about how the keyboard player from Marillion enjoyed the game and how Your Sinclair's editor won a Combat School competition by being "completely skillo"
u/superchartisland — 3 days ago
MicroProse Soccer (1988) – The top-down classic that paved the way for Sensible Soccer!
Hey fellow retro gamers!
Before Sensible Soccer and FIFA dominated the scene, Sensible Software’s Jon Hare and Chris Yates changed sports gaming forever with MicroProse Soccer in 1988.
Whether you played it on the Commodore 64 rocking David Whittaker's classic SID tunes or on the Amiga, this game set the benchmark for top-down football. It gave us the iconic "banana shot" aftertouch, muddy pitches with wild slide-tackles, and that lightning-fast indoor 6-a-side mode.
I've put together a retrospective looking back at its mechanics, hardware releases, and lasting legacy:
(Note: The article is written in Norwegian, but Google Chrome's built-in translation feature handles it effortlessly!)
u/123shait — 11 days ago
Game, Set and Match – “Over 20 exciting events” (blog post)
Something slightly different for my latest post - tracing changing trends in compilations via Ocean's collection of sports games Game, Set and Match. Any Spectrum compilations that stand out in your memory?
u/superchartisland — 10 days ago
WE'RE THE DEVILS / AMIGA TWINTRIS COVER by JMDj Joel Morris
Great original music from 1990's Amiga tetris game "Twintris" by Digital Marketing and was composed by Tor Bernhard Gausen also known on demoscene as Walkman. This a cover by JMDj Joel Morris.
u/123shait — 12 days ago