Posts Tagged "1996"

L-Man stream archive

Just relaxing on a Saturday night while playing a humorous Taiwanese turn based fighting game L-Man/蜥蜴超人 (Softstar Entertainment, 1996).

Social Distancing Sunday Stream (03/22/20)

Just staying home and playing some DOS games in these trying times. Games played:00:17:40 – A.D Cop: Overseas Mission (1997)01:01:00 – Skunny: In The Wild West (1994)01:33:00 – Tetriller (1990)01:52:00 – Plague (1996)

DOS Nostalgia’s 10th Anniversary Stream

Celebrating TEN years of DOS Nostalgia while drinking champagne, messing around with DOS games, and answering questions from the chat. First I try the new re-implementation of the classic DOS FPS Blood – NBlood Then I try and repeatedly fail to get the game D.O.G.: Fight For Your Life running with sound.The next game is […]

Shadow Warrior prototypes & alphas stream archive

Going through new historical materials released with Shadow Warrior Classic   Get Shadow Warrior Classic for free on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_1997/ Shadow Warrior development updates 1996 – 1998 in one place: http://swcentral.weebly.com/development.html

Let’s Play Doom 2D part 2

Part 2 of my Doom 2D let’s play. Things are getting a bit more tough. Official Doom 2D website: http://doom2d.org/index/news/index.html Direct Doom 2D v1.40 download: http://doom2d.org/files/d2d/D2Dv140.rar

Tempest 2000 full AdLib soundtrack

Tempest 2000 is known for its techno soundtrack by Imagitec Design, Inc. in redbook audio format across a variety of platforms. However, the MS-DOS version has optional AdLib/Sound Blaster music that can be enabled in the configuration program. I’ve decided to make it available here. (I also would like to note that the DOS version […]

Tomb Raider – Work in Progress Demo

A non-interactive DOS demo of Tomb Raider. No sound. Buy the game here: http://www.gog.com/game/tomb_raider_123

Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance installation program

Another cool installer for Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance (Capstone/IntraCorp, 1996) featuring full screen animation, voice, sound & graphical effects and MIDI music. Pretty damn neat! MobyGames page: http://www.mobygames.com/game/witchaven-ii-blood-vengeance  

Command & Conquer: Red Alert installation program

Another animated Westwood installer for a Command & Conquer game. This time it’s Red Alert (Westwood Studios/Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1996). Voice & full screen animations. Goes well with the theme of the game. MobyGames Page: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/command-conquer-red-alert  

“Duke Nukem 3D” review

Guts, guns, mutants, pixelated boobs and plenty of toilet humor in the third installment of Duke Nukem series. An instant classic of its day and a retro gaming legend that still lives on. But is it only tits and bathrooms that made Duke3D an enjoyable game? I beg to disagree. Duke Nukem 3D is in […]

“Quake” review

More polygons than gamers ever saw in their whole life up until that point, but still not quite enough of them, in this 1996 id Software’s creation, along with 3D BSPs, lightmaps and a whole bunch of low resolution brownish textures. Thousands of internet multiplayer servers and total conversions followed the release. Two official mission […]