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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky – What a Way to Make a Living
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > After several rather “freeform” Atelier games in which the player is left mostly to their own devices — albeit with a strict...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: RealSports Volleyball
This is it at last — the final RealSports game in Atari Flashback Classics! After this, we can move on to something else. (There are still a few more sports games ahead of us, mind you!) In the grand...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Return to Haunted House
One of the cool things about the classic gaming scene is that there are always people out there keen to try and built on old favourites. Return to Haunted House, for example, not only acts as a...
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Atari A to Z: Beach-Head
Access Software’s Bruce Carver definitely had a “formula” — one that he successfully refined over the years. It’s interesting to go back to Beach-Head, one of his earlier games, and see one of the...
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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky – Battles at the End of the...
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > While, as we’ve already seen, much of Escha and Logy’s time in their own game is spent living the corporate life and doing...
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Atari ST A to Z: Venus the Flytrap
Gremlin Graphics were known for putting out great games, right from the 8-bit era up until their disappearance in 2003. Venus the Flytrap was a great title from the 16-bit era, featuring an inventive...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Saboteur
Howard Scott Warshaw is a legendary name in video games — not always for the reasons he might have hoped, thanks to his involvement in the notorious E.T. for Atari 2600. One of his games that never got...
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Around the Network
Hello everyone! You’ve probably noticed it’s been fairly quiet around here of late, so I wanted to make sure I got back on with doing these Around the Network posts to keep you all updated with what...
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Atari A to Z: Caverns of Khafka
We take them for granted today, but scrolling platformers were quite an unusual sight back in the early ’80s. One fun example is Cosmi’s Caverns of Khafka, a game developed by Aztec Challenge creator...
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Atari ST A to Z: Wheel of Fortune
The public domain and shareware sector of the 8- and 16-bit era was often a great place to find unofficial adaptations of popular board, card and TV game show formulae. Today’s Atari ST game is a great...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Save Mary
Back in the early ’90s, people were just getting to grips with falling block puzzlers such as Tetris and its numerous imitators. Which makes it quite a shame that Save Mary, an interesting and original...
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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky – Together We’re Stronger
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > As time has gone on, the focus of the narratives in the Atelier series has changed somewhat — and it’s gone back and forth...
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Atari A to Z: The Datestones of Ryn
While The Temple of Apshai is the most well-known of Epyx’s “Dunjonquest” games, there were actually quite a few games released under this banner. Not all of them were massive, sprawling affairs...
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Atari ST A to Z: XOR
The unusually named XOR from Atari promises a game with no random elements, and a focus on logical thinking rather than twitch reflexes. One could also describe it, as someone did to me the other day,...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Sea Battle
Our exploration of Atari Flashback Classics continues with Sea Battle, a game originally intended for release on the Atari 2600 in the early ’80s, but which never saw the light of day until 2000. Sea...
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Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky – Stop Me If You’ve Heard...
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > Any time a substantial game with multiple playable protagonists comes up, there are, inevitably, a few questions which...
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Atari A to Z: The Extirpator
Shoot ’em ups arguably didn’t really enjoy their golden age until the 16-bit home consoles, but that didn’t stop game developers for home computer platforms having a damn good crack at the genre. The...
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Atari ST A to Z: Yahtzee
Yep, yep, we’re definitely scraping the barrel a bit for “Y” games on Atari ST now. There are a lot of public domain adaptations of Yahtzee left to go… and not a lot else. So I hope you like dice. As...
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Atari A to Z Flashback: Secret Quest
The fact that the Atari 2600 was still alive and kicking at the end of the 1980s is nothing short of astonishing… and the ambition of some developers at the time was admirable. Secret Quest, a very...
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The Music of Atelier, Vol. 11: Atelier Escha & Logy – Alchemists of the Dusk Sky
This post is one chapter of a MegaFeature! < Prev. | Contents | Next > As the series has progressed, the distinctive sound of Atelier has evolved, too. This is partly due to the composers...
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