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NES Dragon’s Lair

Hans Róbert — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:08:11 +0000

I’m sure that anyone who has had at least and inkling of interest in consoles at one time or another through out the last twenty years must at least have heard of Dragon’s Lair at least ones. There have been literally dozens of versions of the Dragon’s Lair games but recently someone dug up the old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version and proclaimed it as one of the hardest video games in history, let’s see if you agree:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5HATT-n5Xk

And here is another one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_eLPIGGF18

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Monkey Island SE & Tales of Monkey Island

Hans Róbert — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:57:41 +0000

This post is specifically for all point and click adventure games who have somehow missed the news that the original Monkey Island is being re-released as a Special Edition with redrawn graphics and voiceovers this summer for PC and X-Box Live Arcade.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDrXP3qM2Q

But that’s not all, Lucas Arts have also tasked Telltale Games with continuing the Monkey Island series via Tales of Monkey Island, a episodic adventure series also coming this summer for PC and Wii!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHojfwdLucI

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ScummVM

Hans Róbert — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:15:04 +0000

ScummVM is an application that allows you to run classic graphical point-and-click adventure games and it is most likely the greatest achievement of open source reverse engineering I’ve come across. ScummVM started out as a project to run Lucas Art’s SCUMM ( SCUMM stands for “Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion”) based engine games, like Monkey Island and then moved on to implement various other adventure game engines. Those engines include Adventuresoft (Simon The Sorcerer series), Coktel Vision (Gobliiins), Sierra AGI (King’s Quest etc) and various other. Each of these engines have been reverse engineered to be able to play the games using the original data files. The ScummVM has done all this with little or no help from the original developers (except for Virtual Theatre engine from Revolution Software and a few other) making the task a hard and strenuous process.

The technical achievement that ScummVM is not just that the team have reverse engineered all these adventure game engines but also the fact that the application is written with cross platform use in mind. The applications is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Dreamcast, PocketPC, PalmOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, OS/2, PSP, PS2, SymbianOS/EPOC, iPhone, Nintendo DS and many more. So basically you can play these old great games on just about any computing device out there.

ScummVM is a must have for anyone that is a big fan of those old-school point-and-click adventure games from the late 80s and through the 90s. The genre pretty much died away after the 90s but ScummVM offers you a chance to revisit those old game using the original data files so you can pick up your old copies if you still have them and use them right away. Adventure games have been making a small comeback in the last two years but the new games don’t hold a candle to the great adventure games of old. I recommend grabbing a copy of ScummVM below and trying out some of the best adventure games of all times.

A list of compatible games in the stable builds.

- Download MacOS X Snapshot 20090408 (All engines enabled)
- Download MacOS X version 0.13.0
- Download Windows version 0.13.0
- Download builds for other OSes

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The future of gaming: OnLive

Hans Róbert — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:20:23 +0000

GDC is being held this week and what seems to have grabbed everyones attention after the first day on Monday is the introduction of OnLive a new online gaming service which promises to abolish the need for a powerful computer or a specific console to be able to play the latest and greatest games. They offer to create one unique gaming platform available for access on any TV or computer through the use of the latest developments in video compression to play everything while streaming the gameplay from their servers.

Most people have argued that this will not work as advertised because of latency but the idea is a novel one and it is likely that this is the future of gaming but the question is can they make it our present?

Below are a quick glance at the service and then the 60 minute press conference at GDC:

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Nintendo DS

Hans Róbert — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:38:14 +0000

When I decided to move to London I thought about what I would do on all those numerous train rides I’d have to take. At first I thought I’d just read books and listen to music but I felt maybe there was something else I could do with my time. So to have something utterly pointless and fun to do I bought a Nintendo DS. The Nintendo DS is the ultimate handheld for anyone of the NES generation. The Nintendo DS has a huge library of titles for everyone, my favourites being role playing games and puzzle games the DS really does a good job fulfilling my needs. If the DS game catalog is not enough for you then there is the option of getting one of the flash charts which allows you to run home-brew software. With the flash chart you can run old NES, Super NES, Genesis/Mega-Drive, Gameboy, NeoGeo and more platforms. This is truly the nostalgia machine. You can even run ScummVM on it so you can play those old Monkey Island and other LucasArts point and click adventure games.

When I first got the machine I started out my trip to the world of nostalgia by getting the remake of Final Fantasy IV. FF IV was originally released for the Super Nintendo back in 1991. I first played and finished it back in ’95 or ’96 but wanted to replay it since most of the plot had been lost to me in the past decade. The game is still fun and there have been some additions to the gameplay which are interesting and make it a better game overall. The biggest change is that the game has been remade in primitive super deformed 3D which makes it quite visually appealing for todays audience. You can see the changes below:

Another game that really grabbed my attention was Professor Layton and the Curious Village which is an amazingly good puzzle game, mixed with adventuring. The puzzles in the game are very varied and extremely fun. It’s really really hard to put this game down once you get started, which my sister can give evidence to since she almost finished in the short while she was here when she came to visit me before christmas.

The Nintendo DS is a great choice for those that want a little bit of gaming to fill those times you have nothing else to do while on the move (trains, plains etc). Grab yours today, the 100 million owners to date can’t all be wrong.

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Raving Rabbids

Hans Róbert — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:49:37 +0000

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Fallout 3 trailerar

Hans Róbert — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:08:49 +0000

Eins og allir alvöru tölvunördar vita er E3 sýningin í fullu fjöri núna vestanhafs og í gær var sýnt svæsið video af Fallout 3 sem kemur út í haust. Þessi leikur verður MUST PLAY fyrir áhuga menn um eldri leikina, starfsmenn Apple verslunarinnar hafa ekki fallið svona fyrir trailer síðan við sáum Diablo III trailerinn og það er nátla ár og öld síðan :P

KYNNINGAR TRAILER:

GAMEPLAY TRAILER:

Fyrir þá sem hafa ekki áhuga á ofbeldisfullum tölvuleikjum eða tölvuleikjum almennt þá fáið þið bara þessa krútt mynd:

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Sega Saturn

Hans Róbert — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:04:46 +0000

Hver man ekki eftir Sega Saturn sem kom út á sama tíma og upprunalega Playstation. Vélin var að flestu leiti öflugri en Playstation en vélbúnaðurinn var algjör súpa og alltof erfitt að forrita fyrir vélina og því mun færri góðir leikir til að keppa við. Vélin seldist illa í hinum vestræna heimi en seldist mun betur í Asíu. Persónulega vil ég meina að það hafi verið þessari sjúklega flottu auglýsingarherferð að þakka:

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Diablo III

Hans Róbert — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:54:42 +0000

Fyrir stuttu síðan kynnti Blizzard til sögunar Diabo III sem allir alvöru nördar hafa beðið eftir í langan tíma. Leikurinn gerist tuttugu árum eftir Diablo II, hefur verið í fjögur ár í vinnslu og kemur vonandi út á næsta ári !!!! Vá ég get ekki beðið eftir að spila þennan leik, kanski ég ætti að skella inn Diablo II svona uppá nostalgíu. Það eru ekki allir sammála að leikurinn sé spennandi en á internetinu er svosem alltaf eitthvað af fólki sem vælir yfir öllu.

Blizzard voru líka svo góðir að setja nóg af video efni á netið á einni svölustu vefsíðu sem ég hef séð.

Cinematic Trailer:

Gamplay, fyrri hluti:

Gameplay, seinni hluti:

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Max Payne bíómyndin

Hans Róbert — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:07:03 +0000

Uhhjeee, það er verið að gera Max Payne kvikmynd með Mark Wahlberg í aðalhlutverki, þessi verður örugglega mögnuð, hlakka til að sjá hvernig þeir útfæra söguna úr tölvuleiknum yfir.

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