Tag Archives: Classic Gaming

Cover Art: Heretic (PC)

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. 

From the Publisher of DOOM” and a rating of “Violence“. Those were selling points in 1994. While those things were both true, the Raven Software developed Heretic certainly didn’t need to rely on those things.

Heretic Box Cover Art DOS

Heretic is a fantasy … [ Read More... ]

HTML5 Port of the Classic RTS Dune II Plays Right In Your Browser

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... ]

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... ]

Covert Art: Friday the 13th (NES)

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. 

Although Jason Voorhees has been in 12 films, he’s only officially been in about 2 games. Today we present you with Friday The 13th for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was developed by Pack-In-Video, that Japanese developer who brought us other … [ Read More... ]