Planet Bob Syndication Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:58:58 +0000 editor@atariage.com (AtariAge Forums) IP.Blog 60 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8492-mission-beat-all-european-released-capcom-games-01/
I started this mission in early in 2011 and now have a first milestone covered, I'm done with the first 10 games

What follows is the list of games I'm already done with, adding a few comments to each. What is true for all of them, is that I beat each on the default difficulty and without cheating. I did use stuff like...]]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:49:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8492-mission-beat-all-european-released-capcom-games-01/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8195-playing-scramble-spirits-c64/
So this is what do you get, when a lame programming team converts a lame arcade:



The main problem with this Sega conversion, which is immediately obvious, are the graphics. They're so bad, that even now after completing the game I couldn't tell whether this...]]> Sun, 22 May 2011 20:20:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8195-playing-scramble-spirits-c64/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8186-playing-snoopy-and-peanuts-amiga/
Yet another license game, albeit with graphics amazingly close to the TV Show:



The graphics of this game were really quite good, even in motion. The whole rest of it... is another story though...

So what we got here is some kind of an adventure game. The...]]> Wed, 18 May 2011 19:34:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8186-playing-snoopy-and-peanuts-amiga/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8177-playing-magic-johnsons-basketball-c64/
Magic Johnson, a name in Basketball so big, even I heard of him!



Okay, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan got video games too, so I knew them as well

In school I always preferred Basketball over Soccer, since I was rather big and slow than small...]]> Sun, 15 May 2011 18:53:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8177-playing-magic-johnsons-basketball-c64/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8174-playing-space-harrier-ii-c64/
This is definitely a first: A Genesis game that got ported to the C64:



At least unless there was a Space Harrier 2 Arcade machine. (But I don't think there was one, or?). It's not unique though, as another one of Segas Genesis games, World Championship...]]> Sat, 14 May 2011 19:42:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8174-playing-space-harrier-ii-c64/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8156-depeche-mode-vs-the-damned/
Now I've seen everything!



Greetings,
Manuel]]> Sat, 07 May 2011 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8156-depeche-mode-vs-the-damned/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8140-playing-die-hard-c64/
Hans Gruber, Holly Gennaro and John Mclane on the C64:



I had way too high expectations regarding this game, since I thought it was the follow up to one of my all-time favorites, Project Firestart. Further research surprisingly (for me at least ) revealed though,...]]> Mon, 02 May 2011 19:12:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8140-playing-die-hard-c64/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8131-playing-nuclear-war-amiga/
Nuking it out once again with Ronnie Raygun and Gorbachef:



Now that was one game that I totally loved back in the day. I really can't think of many other games operating on such an insane level of black humor

In its core Nuclear War is a dead simple,...]]> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:01:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8131-playing-nuclear-war-amiga/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-6284-playdex-41/
Here comes the second Playdex update for 2011, now indexing 180 "Playing..." articles!

[list]
[*]1942 (NES)
[*]Accolade Comics (C64)
[*]Action Fighter (C64)
[*]Aliens (C64)
[*][entry=5783]Alternate Reality - The Dungeon...]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:26:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-6284-playdex-41/ http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8104-i-knew-a-secret/
So the beans have been officially spilled:



If you want to read the full story, here is it:

http://72.29.71.67/~...index.php?id=33
(You may need to scroll the page back to the top!)

And yes, CybergothX is yours truly

Greetings,
Manuel]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.atariage.com/forums/blog/54/entry-8104-i-knew-a-secret/