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3 months ago

New review is up, looking at the gratuitously violent """"racing game"""" Carmageddon on Mac: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/carmageddon/

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overclockworked 3 months ago

This might be the last update for a while. I've been spacing out bad lately and feeling excessively exhausted and I may have overworked myself a bit, so I think it's best I take a few to see if I recover. Sorry to leave on something so schlocky, but as always, I will be back when I feel the drive to write more! Car pun unintended.

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p7uen 3 months ago

I always wondered if Carmageddon holds up, doesn't sound like it does super well! Have a good break, come back when it's fun!

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cartridgeconfidential 3 months ago

I remember playing this, and redneck rampage when I was a 2edgy teenager!

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jaykup2 3 months ago

Another great review. I hope you have a fulfilling rest!

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3 months ago

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4 months ago

Long overdue, I finally played through and reviewed Marathon, the debut of Bungie's legendary FPS series and one of the Mac's greatest exclusives! https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/marathon/

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miela583 4 months ago

I am kind of intimidated by shooters, but might download the newer port of this- your review did a lot to make it sound interesting!

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@miela583 Hope you enjoy it if you do! If it makes things more approachable for you, there's multiple difficulty modes you can choose from in the options menu.

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p7uen 4 months ago

Sounds like a fantastic game, your review definitely gives me System Shock vibes. True determination to complete it without mouse, respect!

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen Thank you! Fortunately over the last few years I've gotten way more comfy with keyboard controls in general (upgrading to a mechanical keyboard made things feel way better), so a lot of stuff I used to play with controllers like Tomb Raider I now exclusively play with the keyboard, and I was able to adapt to Marathon keyboard only by going into it with a similar mindset. Still, nothing beats mouselook!

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

New review is up, looking at Cro-Mag Rally, the racing game depicting the adventures of a speed demon caveman traveling through time: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/cromag/

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

this review makes my unga go bunga!

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miela583 4 months ago

I know this isn't super positive, but I used to have BC Racer on 3DO, and the tracks in this look so much niftier than what I remember of that game!

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p7uen 4 months ago

Caveperson is such a weird genre for games and especially kart racers, and yet there are more than one. So weird. (p.s. your Bugdom images are broken unless it's just me!)

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen The Bugdom screenshots are still displaying on my end, I'm not sure what could be causing that, sorry!

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

Bugdom images work fine for me too

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p7uen 4 months ago

It was just me :(

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

New review is up, looking at Burning Monkey Solitaire on Mac OS 9 (and yes, it lives up to that bizarre title!) https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/bms/

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skep 4 months ago

I was going to ask why the monkeys were sexy, but it turned out you already covered that. Top-tier journalism over here

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@skep This entire time I was worried that calling the monkeys hot was going to alienate my readers, so I am relieved that everyone both on Neocities and outside of Neocities has so far immediately agreed that the monkeys are hot.

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p7uen 4 months ago

I usually enjoy your reviews but have to hard disagree with your thesis here. Pink hair monkey is the sexiest monkey.

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen I mean the pink-haired monkey is literally called Melon, it's like they WANT you to look at her chest with that kind of innuendo.

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cartridgeconfidential 4 months ago

they knew exactly what they were doing when they made this!

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

macos/gish

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4 months ago

New review is up, looking at Gish on Mac OS X: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/gish/

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p7uen 4 months ago

Man I don't remember much about Gish but I do remember the phenomenon you describe of being too sticky to get around corners and having to wiggle. Do you think people were more forgiving because we didn't know any better in terms of physics or it was a nice break from more rigid platformers of the time?

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overclockworked 4 months ago

@p7uen I think so. Again, it IS genuinely impressive for 2004 indie game physics, it's just unfortunately not fun to play imo.

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5 months ago

Minor housekeeping today. The game review index now lists what version of Mac OS I played any Mac game I reviewed on, and the reviews themselves now list what PowerPC Mac OS versions the game in question is compatible with.

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5 months ago

macos/marbleblast

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p7uen 5 months ago

Ok that looks fun, but I had no idea Super Monkey Ball was so crazy. I've only had the GameCube one and we only ever played the Super Monkey Flight minigame for literally thousands of hours, never touched single player.

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p7uen 5 months ago

But the real headline here is I never heard of Nanosaur or read your review and both are amazing. I feel like Nanosaur and El Fish plots have to be part of the same Games Cinematic Universe somehow. I am downloading it as I type!

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overclockworked 5 months ago

@p7uen Completely justified, Monkey Flight is really just that addicting

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5 months ago

Just caught up on your last two reviews. Creatures is another one that my GF and I have got on GOG and need to sink more time into. We're both into complex vpets that implement a-life, so it's up our alleys. Strong agree with the AI sentiments as well, and also absolutely agree that games in multiple windows you can rearrange are peak! Lord Monarch Online was one of the games that really sparked my love for that.

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overclockworked

5 months ago

New review is up, looking at Marble Blast Gold on Mac OS 9, er, I mean Mac OS X. https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/marbleblast/

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overclockworked 5 months ago

Only just released that the site update link on the front page still linked to Revenge of Shinobi instead of Marble Blast, oops. Fixed now.

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6 months ago

New review is up, looking at The Revenge of Shinobi on Mega Drive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/roshinobi/

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overclockworked 6 months ago

This might be the last update for a while as burn-out is kicking in again. The problem with reviewing Mega Drive games is that they often take just a couple of hours to play through and then I spent an entire day or two writing and coding the review page which gets exhausting fast ahaha. See you all when inspiration next hits!

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cartridgeconfidential 6 months ago

I love Shinobi! Shinobi X is the game I used to test my saturn with the OSSC

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overclockworked 6 months ago

@cartridgeconfidential I'm intending to play through the entire series for Overclockworked up to Shinobi X and I'm really excited to get to that one. The cutscenes are so fun, I don't even consider them "so bad they're good", they're just fun.

overclockworked 6 months ago

Also yes, playing the entire series up to Shinobi X also includes the weird Master System exclusive titles, Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, the Game Gear Shinobi games, and hell, probably also the Amiga conversions. Ninjas are cool, they're worth it.

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cartridgeconfidential 6 months ago

Alex Kidd in Shinobi world is so good!

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p7uen 6 months ago

I feel like I know so much about Joe Mushashi now. Also unsolicitied advice: I had a go with some of your gifs and if you're willing to sacrifice a little quality, the easiest reduction was to half the size on ezgif and then optimise (use the default setting but bump it up to 50) and they go from 6mb to 1mb. Then we can enjoy 6x more of your gifs!

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overclockworked 6 months ago

@p7uen If I can have the gifs be 50% size but then get scaled up by the html code on the website, that would likely work! I'll have to try it out later

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6 months ago

My site is currently 583MB and the very likely reality that I'm going to run out of storage space soon unless I stop using excessive gifs of gameplay footage in my reviews is killing me hfhdghfjhkj

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skep 6 months ago

Art is being stifled over here smh

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miela583 6 months ago

583MB is actually the best amount of MB to have.

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p7uen 6 months ago

Don't stop the signal! I use https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif as a really quick and dirty way to resize and reduce quality and file size.

jerryscoolpage 6 months ago

Host your images somewhere else. I've been sing imgbb. Back in the day anytime I ran out of space on geocities I would just register a new account. Alternatively I think you could get away with using archive.org to host images for free. I use archive.org to host a ton of mp3 files for my purposes.

pixelglade 6 months ago

If you want an offline option for GIF optimisation (might be hard to do since it's footage), I recommend gifsicle. For editing the video before turning it into a GIF (like reducing the frame rate or something else) ffmpeg can do that (also offline). Also as jerryscoolpage mentioned, you can host videos on another platform and link to them (YouTube, PeerTube, somewhere else)

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overclockworked 6 months ago

Thanks for suggestions everyone! I'm hesitant to host elsewhere since I don't want to run into issues if the image hosting platform goes down or changes hotlinking policies, but I'lll see what options are available if it comes to that. I actually use ezgif already @p7uen!

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overclockworked cartridgeconfidential

6 months ago

The magazine-inspired style you have going on here is super cool and unique!

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cartridgeconfidential 6 months ago

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

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