I don´t know how it has happened but I have missed a whole line of good RPGs over the last decade, starting with Divine Divinity which I completed in the beginning of the summer. I have to say it is one of the best isomentric RPGs I have ever played. […]
Upcoming text based C64 adventure features Pirate text!
Text Adventures were many of our first forays into video gaming. Similar to the Adventure stories we would get as books each adventure was usually a unique, and fulfilling story combined with puzzles, traps, loot, and enemies. Thankfully many still see this as a rather unique story telling experience, and […]
Nova the Squirrel – Charming homebrew platformer for the NES
Thanks to a heads up by our good friends RetroVideoGamer they’ve come across a lovely platformer for the NES called ‘ Nova the Squirrel ‘ developed by NovaSquirrel. Available as a free download with a possible commercial cartridge down the line, Nova the Squirrel puts you in control of a lovable […]
PTFC Challenge #2: The Women of the Wood
Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 21, 2018 Continuing the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge, I have a story by Abraham Merritt, an outstanding pulp-era fantasy writer whom I only discovered last year. He was an inspiration to and contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft among others. He certainly gets pretty lush in his […]
Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home
This series of articles so far has been a story of business-oriented personal computing. Corporate America had been running for decades on IBM before the IBM PC appeared, so it was only natural that the standard IBM introduced would be embraced as the way to get serious, businesslike things done […]