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03/12/2025

Awww. Such a shame. It was never healthy. I'm pretty sure it was blind.

Claude the alligator, born in a Louisiana swamp, dies an SF icon

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03/12/2025

Llamasoft might actually be THE Christmas post. It's Jeff's fault for making such interesting games.

"Get exactly what you need and not a drop more." (two hours of playing a knock-off of Empire Strikes Back later) "F*cking Jeff Minter."

Meanwhile, Rita's Rewind has bombed badly at IGC. Plop.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Platforms: Everything. I think even refrigerators have it. Released December 10, 2024 Developed by Digital Eclipse $34.99 has a headache in the mak…

02/12/2025

Surprise! I do have a new review up this week! A review I've been putting off for over a year! I finally got around to doing a write-up on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Revenge. A game the kids in my house refused to play, not because Power Rangers are lame (they're not and you children are EVIL!) but because of some baffling choices. I only got to play the full game two players, with Sasha the Kid. Was it more fun than not? Well, Karate Chopshop was.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind Platforms: Everything. I think even refrigerators have it. Released December 10, 2024 Developed by Digital Eclipse $34.99 has a headache in the mak…

02/12/2025

Well, I know at least ONE thing that will be reviewed before Christmas.

And there could be another review coming. Like, any second now.

02/12/2025

XBLIG LIVES! Got a spare $0.69? Over twelve years since I reviewed it, The Wright Bros. Mysteries just debuted on Steam. It's one of the funniest horrible games I ever reviewed, but the fact that I remembered it a dozen years later probably speaks more than my review from March of 2013 does. It's under a buck. It's an XBLIG. You'll giggle.

Wright Brothers' Mysteries - A fun interactive multipath full motion visual novel

30/11/2025

I've posted an update to IGC. There won't be a ton of reviews between now and New Years as I work on my 2025 holiday features, which will start with Llamasoft. I'm still evaluating my options for what to do after it, which this post discusses.

I should have saved Konami SHMUPs :P

Hey gang! I wanted to provide a quick update since it’ll be a few more days, maybe a week, before the next IGC review is posted, but it’s going to be a big one. I’m currently work…

30/11/2025

When I was a little kid, my dad was friends with a guy who had won a living room set on The Price is Right long before I was born. For the rest of that guy's existence, everyone who came over to his house asked where the furniture he won was and he said "this is it!" And they were like "no, it's not." He was able to take entirely different stuff from the stuff he won. The prizes are just ads, people. If you win a car, you can take any car the dealership offers of equal or lesser value, or hell, pay more if you want a more expensive car. What people are actually winning is credit for a local car dealership or furniture distributor. Or, more exactly, you're getting it for an extreme discount since, yeah, you have to pay taxes up front before getting anything. I'm pretty sure there's a clock on it too and you can't take cash for it.

Winning a new car on The Price is Right isn't as straightforward as it seems on the long-running game show. Here's what it really means for the lucky winners.

30/11/2025

Oh baby. There's five versions of the original Gridrunner in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story.

-Commodore VIC-20
-Commodore 64
-Atari 8-Bit
-Atari ST (which is sub-emulated through Atari Jaguar)

And finally this version, Gridrunner Remastered by the always awesome Mike Mika. This is awesome. Just simply put, awesome. These five games alone, along with the documentary and Tempest 2000, comfortably push Llamasoft over the finish line. Everything that follows, from Mutant Camels to Headbangers Heaven is the victory lap. Bravo, Digital Eclipse.

29/11/2025

And now I'm reaching the stuff in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story that got people excited. This is Gridrunner for the Commodore 64. Yep. Love this. More please. Nom nom. Put it in my veins.

There's three versions of Gridrunner in the collection, for the VIC-20, C64, and a remake based on the C64 code that I'm guessing is in the same vain as the Yars Revenge remaster in Atari 50. If that's the case, yeah, this is running the table for YES! votes. And there's still over twenty games left too. And NOW I'm excited.

29/11/2025

This is the aspect of ROX 64 I *really* don't know what to make of. What the actual f*ck is happening? Is this a joke? This happened to me early in the play session and has happened multiple times since then and I'm not sure what's happening. I thought the first time it happened I was supposed to press a button to stop it, so I pressed the buttons every time after. Apparently it just happens some games where the game starts and you spontaneously die. It's Yak so maybe it's supposed to be a joke. This is where the lack of instructions hurts the whole collection. Am I supposed to do something on this screen to prevent it? (shrug) I dunno. Nothing included with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story tells me. Sigh.

29/11/2025

This is ROX 64 for the Commodore 64, one of forty-two games in Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It's a remake of an early game in the set, Rox III, but this one has no lag and plays like a dream. Sometimes. This is a no controller, 3 button game (really five button as you can do a bomb and you can abort at any time for 5,000 points) where you can fire missiles left, up, or right. The problem is, not every asteroid can be shot. As far as I can tell, there is no way to kill this one from any angle besides using one of your 3 "panics" which is the bomb or calling it quits for the 5K. I don't know what to make of that.

On the other hand, I told myself "I need to shrink the time I play each game or I'll never finish this" and I've still put over an hour into this game. It's addictive. So don't freak out, Jeff fans and/or Commodore 64 fans. ROX 64 is getting a YES! Right now, the score is 4 YES!, 7 NO!, and I haven't even gotten to any of the actual famous stuff like Mutant Camels or Gridrunner yet. Gridrunner is actually up next.