Minecraft has taken the world by storm with it’s retro looking, 3D voxel graphics. New projects using voxels are turning up quite often, continuing the trend of retro-like graphics. Every now and then an awesome looking game comes around, such as King Voxel. King Voxel is a an action RPG heavily influenced by Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series and Atari 2600’s Adventure. It’s ambitions are simple… that is … [ Read More... ]
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.
Shadowrun is a cyberpunk themed RPG developed by BlueSky Software, based on the tabletop RPG by FASA. It was released for the Sega Genesis in 1994. It’s worth noting that although it is based in the Shadowrun world, it is a … [ Read More... ]
With the release of the new SimCity (2013) it asks the question: Does the original SimCity hold up?
I played 2 versions of classic SimCity to see if it was still up to snuff. First I tried the classic, aged graphics, DOS version. One thing is for sure, the game can be difficult. That’s not to say that it’s hard to play, but it does require a substantial amount of … [ Read More... ]
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.
Wing War was developed by Imagic, a somewhat popular developer in the 80’s. They released Wing War for several systems including Colecovision and Atari 2600 in 1983. As you can guess, you play a dragon in the game.
In Wing War, … [ Read More... ]