Good news for you cheap gamers out there, Russian programmer Aleksander Guryanov has ported the RTS PC DOS classic Dune II right to your browser. He made it happen with HTML5 and Javascript so you can play it in basically any modern browser and even most mobile phone/tablet browsers. It’s based on the OpenDune project, which was originally created to port the original Dune II game to modern computers as … [ Read More... ]
Category Archives: Retro Games
Remember the Linking Book from Myst? This guy made one.
We all should remember Myst. Back in its day it was the highest selling game of all time, and for quite a while at that. Inside the game you come across various foreign and unusual technologies, one of which is the “Linking Book” (You can see it in this gameplay video). It allowed people to record video messages so that others could view them later. It … [ Read More... ]
Cover Art: The Elder Scrolls Arena (DOS)
Welcome to Cover Art! A section of the site where we look at a retro video game’s box cover art and briefly discuss it’s gameplay and legacy.
We’re all in the love with the world of Skyrim, but I think what some forget is that it comes from a long heritage of breakthrough RPG’s. The Elder Scrolls Area was the first in the series and way back upon its … [ Read More... ]
Remember NiGHTS for Sega Saturn? Well you can get it on Steam now in HD.
Back in the day, the Sega Saturn didn’t have many high profile games but one of its standout titles was NiGHTS into Dreams…. It’s one of the few non-Sonic related titles developed by Yuji Naka and Sonic Team although it never quite took off the same way. Now you can enjoy NiGHTS HD on your Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and just released, on PC via Steam… [ Read More... ]