A fine hello to you all and thank you for stopping by to read my musings about the topic of retro games and retro gaming in general.
I very much enjoy writing (not so sure if I am any good at it to be honest) but there is something therapeutic about getting your thoughts down on paper so to speak, so I have thought to myself a blog would be a great start.
There are many passions and interest in my life that I could choose to write about, family, travelling, fitness/work, sports, but I have chosen gaming as its something that has been there though out my life. I am fortunate enough to have witness the evolution of gaming from my days playing on the Atari 2600 as a eager youngster playing ghostbusters to current gen Playstation 4 and most consoles in between. At 36 I am and definitely feel like a veteran gamer, in another life I may have perhaps tried my hand as a You Tube content creator but also as a family man with a full time job its a commitment I could not commit too, for now I think ill stick to getting my thoughts down here.
I am yet undecided as to how my blogging structure will work in terms of topics, best lists etc, retro game reviews, but I know one thing one of my main goals is to make people remember the games that sparked their initial interest in gaming and where it has taken them, as well as introducing games to the generations who ma not have had the opportunity to sample some of the titles that the older gamer had.
I have tried my hand on twitch which was an experience, currently inactive due to just life but the channel did top out at around 1600 followers so I must have been doing something right. I always plan to make a return to twitch as gaming and socialising are two things that fit well together, I love nothing more than gaming and meeting new people.
The plan is to make a schedule on how to review games, make some top 5 lists, recommendations etc, for anyone who happens to stop by and give the blog I read I welcome comments and suggestions on what you may think other readers may appreciate in respect of titles.
Now that we have the formalities out of the way I will move on to my first ever review on this blog. A very specific niche title released on all main platforms at the time, playstation, xbox, pc, Nintendo ds and now even on android, created by one Charles Cecil and Revolution Software in 1996 we have.......Broken Sword, a point and click adventure game that has your protagonist George Stobbart, American tourist come sleuthing detective trawling through the Parisian underbelly trying to catch a killer and unravel the mysteries of the knights Templars. The quest sees George the unfortunately caught up in a bombing in a quaint café in paris whilst on vacation, as a result of this George takes it upon himself to track the bomber down and at the same time ends up meeting all kinds of interesting and wonderfully colourful characters (from Ms Collard to Benior to McGuire a cheeky scamp in Ireland outside MacDevits bar) "more beer over here" I do not want to give to much away with regards to characters, plots and storyline as I would hope anyone who has not played this to give it the once over, I can assure you like me you wont be disappointed.
I myself first stumbled across Broken Sword by complete accident, the game itself was gathering dust at a friends house until it was plucked from obscurity and loaded up, the game itself has some great music to accompany the game play itself, the dialogue if fairly strong also, granted the quality of the voice over appears to have been done in some sort of acoustically poor room it does not derail the enjoyment. Puzzles, interactions and many locations to be had. i am probably biased being a bit point and click fan since the days of Zack McKraken versus the alien mind benders on the Atari St in the early 90's or even Leisure Suit Larry, so its not hard for me to enjoy these types of titles.
Cecil must have done something right as the title went on to spawn several follow ups, some hit and some miss Broken sword 2 for me was equally as strong as the first, the third branched away from it's point and click origins and had a blend of point and click and manoeuvrability for the characters, story line wise still fairly strong. I am not going to give any reviews a numerical rating, more a play or not too play, Broken Sword is a strong play.
At this point i am going to give you a top 5, something i may well do with each blog. This top 5 will centre around point and click and hopefully stimulate debate and hopefully opinion.
1. The Secret of Monkey Island (Atari ST/Amiga)
2. Broken Sword 1 (PS1/PC/Android)
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Atari ST/Amiga)
4. Zack Mckraken V the Alien Mind Benders (Atari ST/Amiga)
5. Manic Mansion. (Atari ST/Amiga)
A lot of these Atari/Amiga titles are easily found of emulators so as well as sampling BS1 I would advise booting some of these emulators up.
Finally a bit of potential controvosy to stimulate conversation....... i have never played or cared for the tomb raider franchise.....i am here to be convinced to give it a go all the same.....sell it to
me.
In the next blog we look at 5 solid mega drive titles and why Fortnite is over rated.
I very much enjoy writing (not so sure if I am any good at it to be honest) but there is something therapeutic about getting your thoughts down on paper so to speak, so I have thought to myself a blog would be a great start.
There are many passions and interest in my life that I could choose to write about, family, travelling, fitness/work, sports, but I have chosen gaming as its something that has been there though out my life. I am fortunate enough to have witness the evolution of gaming from my days playing on the Atari 2600 as a eager youngster playing ghostbusters to current gen Playstation 4 and most consoles in between. At 36 I am and definitely feel like a veteran gamer, in another life I may have perhaps tried my hand as a You Tube content creator but also as a family man with a full time job its a commitment I could not commit too, for now I think ill stick to getting my thoughts down here.
I am yet undecided as to how my blogging structure will work in terms of topics, best lists etc, retro game reviews, but I know one thing one of my main goals is to make people remember the games that sparked their initial interest in gaming and where it has taken them, as well as introducing games to the generations who ma not have had the opportunity to sample some of the titles that the older gamer had.
I have tried my hand on twitch which was an experience, currently inactive due to just life but the channel did top out at around 1600 followers so I must have been doing something right. I always plan to make a return to twitch as gaming and socialising are two things that fit well together, I love nothing more than gaming and meeting new people.
The plan is to make a schedule on how to review games, make some top 5 lists, recommendations etc, for anyone who happens to stop by and give the blog I read I welcome comments and suggestions on what you may think other readers may appreciate in respect of titles.
Now that we have the formalities out of the way I will move on to my first ever review on this blog. A very specific niche title released on all main platforms at the time, playstation, xbox, pc, Nintendo ds and now even on android, created by one Charles Cecil and Revolution Software in 1996 we have.......Broken Sword, a point and click adventure game that has your protagonist George Stobbart, American tourist come sleuthing detective trawling through the Parisian underbelly trying to catch a killer and unravel the mysteries of the knights Templars. The quest sees George the unfortunately caught up in a bombing in a quaint café in paris whilst on vacation, as a result of this George takes it upon himself to track the bomber down and at the same time ends up meeting all kinds of interesting and wonderfully colourful characters (from Ms Collard to Benior to McGuire a cheeky scamp in Ireland outside MacDevits bar) "more beer over here" I do not want to give to much away with regards to characters, plots and storyline as I would hope anyone who has not played this to give it the once over, I can assure you like me you wont be disappointed.
I myself first stumbled across Broken Sword by complete accident, the game itself was gathering dust at a friends house until it was plucked from obscurity and loaded up, the game itself has some great music to accompany the game play itself, the dialogue if fairly strong also, granted the quality of the voice over appears to have been done in some sort of acoustically poor room it does not derail the enjoyment. Puzzles, interactions and many locations to be had. i am probably biased being a bit point and click fan since the days of Zack McKraken versus the alien mind benders on the Atari St in the early 90's or even Leisure Suit Larry, so its not hard for me to enjoy these types of titles.
Cecil must have done something right as the title went on to spawn several follow ups, some hit and some miss Broken sword 2 for me was equally as strong as the first, the third branched away from it's point and click origins and had a blend of point and click and manoeuvrability for the characters, story line wise still fairly strong. I am not going to give any reviews a numerical rating, more a play or not too play, Broken Sword is a strong play.
At this point i am going to give you a top 5, something i may well do with each blog. This top 5 will centre around point and click and hopefully stimulate debate and hopefully opinion.
1. The Secret of Monkey Island (Atari ST/Amiga)
2. Broken Sword 1 (PS1/PC/Android)
3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Atari ST/Amiga)
4. Zack Mckraken V the Alien Mind Benders (Atari ST/Amiga)
5. Manic Mansion. (Atari ST/Amiga)
A lot of these Atari/Amiga titles are easily found of emulators so as well as sampling BS1 I would advise booting some of these emulators up.
Finally a bit of potential controvosy to stimulate conversation....... i have never played or cared for the tomb raider franchise.....i am here to be convinced to give it a go all the same.....sell it to
me.
In the next blog we look at 5 solid mega drive titles and why Fortnite is over rated.
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