[Happy Birthday!] Lemmings


Buongiorno retroamici, Uno dei più grandi puzzle-platformer degli anni ’90 compie proprio oggi 30 anni: il 14 Febbraio, 1991 usciva per Amiga Lemmings, autentico capolavoro della DMA Design (che prima di diventare Rockstar North svilupperà anche un altro capolavoro, Grand Theft Auto) nel quale controlliamo una truppa di omonimi animaletti che devono farsi strada tra…

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[Game of the Week] Week #40 – The Flintstones


Hi folks! Here we are again with another entry, the fourtieth of the [Game of the Week] column and this time the game featured is The Flintstones for Sega Mega Drive! Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Platforms: Sega Mega Drive Genre: Platform Release Date: February 22nd, 1993 (NA) Mesi dopo l’ultimo post di questa rubrica (l’ultima…

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[IsoMetRic Games] Batman / Buggy Run / Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn


Hello guys, This is the first entry of the column that will be your companion for the whole year 2021, [IsoMetRic Games], a mini-compendium of the mandatory isometric games ever released. It’s something difficult to explain but the “perfect” isometric visuals, the 120°-120°-120° has always given a sense of perfection to me that I’ve never…

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[IsoMetRic Games] La Abadia del Crimen / Age of Empires / Alien Shooter


Hello guys, This is the first entry of the column that will be your companion for the whole year 2021, [IsoMetRic Games], a mini-compendium of the mandatory isometric games ever released. It’s something difficult to explain but the “perfect” isometric visuals, the 120°-120°-120° has always given a sense of perfection to me that I’ve never…

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[IsoMetRic Games] 720° / 7th Legion / 1849


Hello guys, This is the first entry of the column that will be your companion for the whole year 2021, [IsoMetRic Games], a mini-compendium of the mandatory isometric games ever released. It’s something difficult to explain but the “perfect” isometric visuals, the 120°-120°-120° has always given a sense of perfection to me that I’ve never…

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[Happy Birthday!] Final Fight 3


Hello old games lovers, Final Fight has been one of the most influential beat ’em ups and, as expected, it marked the beginning of a standalone series that count, at least among the classic title, three games. Final Fight 3, released today, December 22nd, 1995 for the SNES is the last of the trilogy; it…

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[RetroSoft] 30 years of the World Wide Web


Il 20 Dicembre del 1990 è una di quelle date che hanno cambiato la storia e forse nemmeno ce ne rendiamo conto. Era il 20 Dicembre 1990 quando Tim Berners-Lee con la collaborazione di Robert Cailliau creò il World Wide Web, il principale servizio che opera attraverso internet e che ha permesso a tutti noi…

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[Happy Birthday!] Zork


Hello old games lovers, When we talk about adventure games, some of us may think about graphic adventures, the point-and-cick games made by Sierra or LucasArts but even before we had text adventures of interactive fiction and among them none has been more important than Zork, the game that popularized the genre and that became…

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[Happy Birthday!] WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness


Hello old games lovers, We celebrate today the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest RTS of all time, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, released today, December 9th, 1995. There are the human lovers who love their precise buildings, their vikings-like warriors and their Footmen and who loves orcs, graceless but more dangerous and their…

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