Buried In Time – Running in Windows XP/Vista/7
This is the second game in the Journeyman Project trilogy. Â And, for me, the most memorable. Â The artwork seems a bit dated now, but at the time of release it looked beautiful to me. Â The acting didn’t bother me either…back then. Â Now, well, any time an actor (in this case the main character) stops to smack his lips between phrases, you know you’re in for a treat! Â The best part was the news editorial that was in no way editorial–the “news anchor” had no opinion of anything. Â He just reported what other people thought. Â Fortunately, the player may suffer through the video clips early on in the game and leave them far behind. All-in-all, though, the game excells in story–marginalizing even these...
Time Out! Free Wii Games?
First: The Nintendo Wii is without question the best gaming console I’ve ever owned. Of course, it is the only console I’ve ever owned…but that’s another matter. When my best friend, Alex Jernigan, received his new Atari 2600 for Christmas, I got a Big Trak programmable tank. And that’s about as close as it got for me to actually possessing a game machine. (Dude, that trak is dope!) Which was great…until my cousin, Paul Baron, dropped it after tripping over something in the dark. It developed a horrible “clicking” noise thereafter…the sound of some of the gears eating themselves. But, 25 years later, the counseling is going well, and I think I’m making pretty good progress… Oh, well. ...
Wing Commander I on DOSBox Video Guide
Specifications Title: Wing Commander Subtitle: The 3D Space Combat Simulator Released: 1990 Developer: Origin Systems Genre: Flight Sim Emulation: DOSBox I parked my car in what seemed like the forgotten recesses of a parking lot. The strip mall itself made a kind of an “L” shape, and I had driven through a small opening where the two wings met. There was a small parking lot that held maybe 20 cars, many of the spots already taken by employees of the nearby shops. I found that the foot of the “L” actually extended past where they would have joined, and back here on the heel, facing a little used side street was my destination. AmiTek. I didn’t even know the place existed. It was one on the last remaining Amiga stores...
Tex Murphy Radio Theater and DOSBox Guides – The Recap!
I guess we’ve come to the end of the road with Tex for now. Simply some of the best adventure games ever made–without question. And honestly, I’m sad to see them all done. But, hey, we got them all running very well on Windows XP. Here are the guides, click on the box art to jump directly to the post: These are all excellent games–I certainly wish that I could provide ISO files for the final three games. However, for one thing, Bryan probably wouldn’t want to pay for that kind of bandwidth for his server. But, while Access is gone, Microsoft now owns the rights to at least the final three games–and, frankly, I don’t know whether they can be considered abandonware. Look, I’m not a lawyer–I don’t...
Tex Murphy – Mean Streets on DOSBox Video Guide
Never played it. Really. But I would have loved it, if I had! As a matter of fact, in 1989 I was concentrating on writing the half dozen term-sized papers that Ms. Stinson was pleased to assign to every Senior English class as a matter of course. So, on one hand, during my Freshman year of college while the rest of the class was freaking out about a few piddly research papers, I was thinking, “Just another day of English.” But on the other hand, I missed out on a classic game. Mean Streets was yet another ground-breaking game in Access Software’s long line of the same. It included a state-of-the-art (for the time) flight simulator engine as well as a few side-scrolling action sequences into what would ordinarily be thought of as an...
Tex Murphy Martian Memorandum and DOSBox Guide (Video)
The second PC game I ever purchased. After Wing Commander II, straight off the shelves of Best Buy, my hands found their way to Martian Memorandum, by Access Software. Little did I know that I was about to meet Tex Murphy for the first time. I wanted an adventure game. WC2 was fun…once I went back and bought a CH FlightStick (not the Pro version, they cost too much at the time ). However, some of my fondest gaming memories were of adventure games on my Amiga. Now with my new PC, I once again wanted to pit my intellect against that of the game designers. I need some brain stimulation. Something that would make me think. So, after finally removing the ugliness of OS/2 2.1 from my brand new PC, and purchasing two sound cards–the Gravis...
Recent Comments