August 2018 – Page 3 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

PTFC Challenge #1: Black God’s Kiss

On August 14, 2018September 4, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 14, 2018 Fellow modern pulpy author Alexandru Constantin issued a challenge on Friday – the Pre-Tolkien Fantasy Challenge. It’s partly a reminder to people that Tolkien didn’t invent the fantasy genre, and to shed some light on the breadth of the genre long before […]

Cleaning a Classic: BMC BM-12A Monochrome Monitor

On August 13, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Alone in the Dark: Kitchen Nightmares

On August 13, 2018September 4, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By Andy Panthro To my right, a suspicious suit of armour, holding a very sharp sword. Ahead, a pair of locked doors that closed as I arrived on this floor. So I choose to go to my left, towards the unknown. This direction leads me to a corridor and some […]

NewQ Gold: A Graphic Equalizer for PCs from 1999!

On August 10, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders

On August 10, 2018September 4, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

Microsoft Windows 3.0’s conquest of the personal-computer marketplace was bad news for a huge swath of the industry. On the software side, companies like Lotus and WordPerfect, only recently so influential that it was difficult to imagine a world that didn’t include them, would never regain the clout they had […]

Missed Classic 57: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1984)

On August 9, 2018September 4, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Joe Pranevich Infocom may have been the masters of text adventures, but they aspired to more. They wanted to be “interactive fiction”, to have the recognition that gaming could be an art form on the same level of a good book. To this end, they pursued authors, most […]

Color Photos from a Black and White Camera

On August 8, 2018September 6, 2018 By The 8-Bit Guy

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Alone in the Dark – Man in the Mirror

On August 7, 2018September 4, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Andy Panthro This is a game that wants to kill the player character, and it begins from the start, even as you’re just getting used to your surroundings and used to the controls and user interface. I try to get my bearings in the attic, this large open […]

LGR – Using a Floppy Disk Drive on a Smartphone

On August 6, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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King’s Quest VI – Knight of the Leaving Dead

On August 5, 2018September 4, 2018 By TBD

Written by TBD When we left off last time, Alexander had just entered the castle using Beauty’s serving maid clothes and had gotten himself captured by attempting to enter the most obvious door. Now, I played on for a little while and became stuck due to a dead-end that required […]

Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm

On August 3, 2018September 4, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

Microsoft entered the last year of the 1980s looking toward a new decade that seemed equally rife with opportunity and danger. On the one hand, profits were up, and Bill Gates and any number of his colleagues could retire as very rich men indeed even if it all ended tomorrow […]

LGR – Forsaken: Six Degrees of Late ’90s FPS Freedom

On August 3, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Game 99: Alone in the Dark (1992) – Introduction

On August 3, 2018September 4, 2018 By TBD

Administrator’s note:Due to a lack of time to write about Spellcasting 301 at the moment, we’re pausing that game temporarily and getting on with the next game on our list. Over to Andy Panthro… Written by Andy Panthro How do we assign a genre, when something is breaking boundaries and […]

Commodore 128D Restoration

On August 2, 2018September 6, 2018 By The 8-Bit Guy

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Biplanes and Virtual Reality

On August 1, 2018September 4, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 1, 2018 I’ve been getting back into flight sims again… just dipping my toe in, I tell myself. VR support is a big deal for me, even though it is about as likely to make you motion sick as… well, as actual high-speed aerial […]