This is just great, the ability to view Kuwait in retro 8-bit mode. It might not be very helpful but its damn awesome.

I only did one previous post in this category, and it was eons ago. This week I got another chance.

While browsing the net, reading some news and reviews on the new PS3 game Heavy Rain a lot of people were comparing it to Indigo Prophecy what some called the greatest video game ever. I realized that I never got to try out the game. and while I was clicking through Steam’s website. I found it the $10 section and thought why not, it was the perfect long weekend.

I downloaded the game and installed it and got around playing it Thursday night. The game doesn’t have much gameplay but rather a plethora of action sequences where you have to press certain buttons as they appear on the screen. But don’t get me wrong that is not bad at all, it blends well with the game.

It took me 2 days to complete the game with moderate playing time (4 hours a day) and really loved it.

Indigo Prophecy™ is an innovative adventure game that tells the story of Lucas Kane—an ordinary man who unconsciously commits a random act of murder. Through the use of branching storylines and multiple character perspectives, players embark on an immersive adventure on par with a Hollywood thriller.

5 years after its release, Indigo Prophecy is still an awesome game and is highly recommended.

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We have heard of all the retro gaming consoles from N. and how he is always talking about the nintendo’s, sega’s, atari’s etc.. But what he does not know is that people like me skipped a couple of generations of megadrives and nintendo’s because we owned the Amiga!  Personally I owned the compact Amiga 600, but the classic and most common one was the 500 pictured above.  The games at the time were incomparable to any other gaming platform, whether it was graphics or playability. Lets take a walk down memory lane…

The Kick-Off series was what revolutionised the amiga as a football fan’s dream come true.  Before their time, the game action, uniforms, team and player names and swerving of the ball were unheard of in football games. Kick-Off is what kicked started where we are today with Winning Eleven/PES and FIFA.

Sensible Soccer was the successor to Kick-Off, they took the same style of game play but slowed it down to a more realistic pace, added better graphics and used more detail. The emergence of Sensible Soccer coincided with the surprising and rapid dissappearance of Kick-Off.

Zool was Amiga’s answer to Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario.  Amazingly fun gameplay, but like all the other games were overshadowed by the Kick-Off and Sensible Soccer series.

Lemmings was a weird concept of weird animals that are supposedly real, one of those basic games that are very addictive and fun to play.  Lemmings was a favorite of many and was voted best game many times during its reign on the Amiga platform.

What do you get when you take Prince of Persia to the future? Thats right, Another World.  Anyone who enjoyed Prince of Persia will in no doubt have enjoyed and been in awe with the graphics and gameplay in Another World. For the time this game was released the graphics, and realstic elements of the game were unheard of. Another game to suffer from the all conquering football fanatics.

My first look at a retro game.

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This was one of the best Beat ‘em up games ever released, what killed me that it was never released on any console except for the PC and Commodore 64. So I ended up spending A LOT of money on the arcade. It would have been a much cheaper option for me to buy one of the systems back then.

After stealing a giant diamond from Springfield Jewelers for Mr. Burns, Smithers bumps into Homer, whose family is conveniently walking down the street. The encounter knocks the diamond out of Smithers’ hand, and Maggie snatches it in her mouth (in place of her pacifier), prompting Smithers to grab Maggie (rather than just the diamond) and run off. The Simpsons must give chase, but hundreds of goons in matching suits stand in their way.

The player chooses from one of the remaining four Simpsons: Homer, who punches and kicks; Marge, who swings her vacuum cleaner; Bart, who wields his skateboard; and Lisa, who uses a jump rope like a whip. They must fight through the employees and chase Smithers as he escapes through various Springfield landscapes. The game’s levels are based on the streets of Springfield, Krustyland, a graveyard, Moe’s Tavern, Springfield Gorge, a dream world, the Channel 6 studio, and the Power Plant. Each level ends with a boss whose speed and strength would increase after taking a set amount of damage.

In Stage 4 (Moe’s Tavern), there are several arcade machines, including one of the Simpsons arcade game, Which looked cool when playing the real thing.

It took me an hour or so to finnish the game, after beating 290 enemies. and using like 30+ lives.

This is one of my favorite arcade games of all time, first because its a very good game, and second, I’m a huge fan of The Simpsons.

Badliya of the week:

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Retro Gamer:

Will be taking a look at vintage games and consoles, and reviewing old games if I can manage to play them for at least an hour without getting board out of my mind.