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8 months ago

New Amiga review is up, looking at the first game in the legendary Turrican series: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/turrican/

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overclockworked 8 months ago

Creative burn-out is kicking in, so I think it's time to take a hiatus for a bit and unwind. Thanks for reading all, will be back when inspiration hits again!

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p7uen 8 months ago

I look forward to catching up on your Amiga reviews, have a good rest!

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8 months ago

OverClockWorked now has a guestbook on its front page! Feel free to say hi if you want to say hi.

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8 months ago

Immediately smiled at the use of Realmz music on the main page. Loving the vibe here! DROD incidentally is on my to-play list, I'm big into those kinds of puzzle games (Lemmings addict)

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soundmindandvision 8 months ago

Hahaha thanks! Found the soundtrack from The Obscuritory and loved the hell out of it... Forgot where I heard about DROD though, but good lord I'm sad it seems so obscure, especially since it's a 30+ year old series that's still getting games.

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overclockworked

8 months ago

New blog update, sharing my thoughts on generative AI (I don't like it): https://overclockworked.neocities.org/blog/2026/18-1/

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overclockworked 8 months ago

As I mentioned in the post itself, this is a bit dryer and more cynical than my usual stuff. If you're not feeling yet another AI rant, you might want to skip this. A new review is in the works and nearly finished, so more fun content is on the way soon!

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underwhite 8 months ago

I agree with this review a lot, I hate how people are misusing AI to replace rather than its intended purpose, which I still would not use because I don't wanna. I do want a petition to call AI "artists" AI commissioners because their way of making their "art" is more similar to commissioning an artist (the only difference is that the "artist" is GenAI) than drawing.

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pixelglade 8 months ago

I agree with this. I also hate how genAI and AI are bundled together. A lot of old machine learning algorithms that don't pirate people's data are lumped in there. It doesn't help that genAI users claim things like "technology is always advancing art like photoshop, there's just an adjustment period" like they are in any way equivalent in terms of how they work.

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overclockworked 8 months ago

@pixelglade There's a Taiko no Tatsujin game on Steam that has an AI content disclaimer because it uses Vocaloid songs, and it was when I first saw that that I realised just what a mess this whole AI terminology has become, since Miku is harmless!

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p7uen 7 months ago

I used those robots.txt files from Neocities since htey were available but Google still has me (but says I provide guided meditations based on games which... actually now I really want to do). My question is why are those people writing/arting/whatever if the computer is doing the creative bit. Literally the whole point is that is your unique voice! Oh well.

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overclockworked 7 months ago

@p7uen Yeah, seems Google also still has AI summaries of me last time I checked after adding robots.txt. It's minor, but my main objection is the emphasis of the AI summary to emphasise nostalgia when summarising my site. I consciously try to avoid getting hung up on nostalgia when writing for my site, plus most of the games I review I'm playing for the first time! Ah well.

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8 months ago

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8 months ago

New Amiga review is up, looking at Treasure Island Dizzy's follow-up; Fantasy World Dizzy https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/dizzyiii/

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p7uen 7 months ago

May the God Egg bless you for playing these Dizzy games so that we don't have to.

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overclockworked 7 months ago

@p7uen I have become numb to Egg, I can handle it now. I give Fantasy World Dizzy a Not Treasure Island Dizzy out of 10.

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8 months ago

New Amiga review is up, looking at DMA Design's first video game, Menace: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/menace/

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p7uen 8 months ago

I'm too weak for shmups, but I did learn about euro shooters, I didn't know about that sub-genre!

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overclockworked 8 months ago

@p7uen They're an intimidating genre for sure! My love of arcade games has made me a fan however, if a somewhat casual one. Sometimes practicing a tough arcade game for better high scores is weirdly comforting to me, in spite of the difficulty.

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p7uen 7 months ago

"Sometimes practicing a tough arcade game for better high scores is weirdly comforting to me, in spite of the difficulty." No wonder you like pinball!

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8 months ago

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8 months ago

New Amiga review is up, looking at the arcade-style top down run & gun Alien Breed: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/alienbreed/

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overclockworked 8 months ago

Additionally, I have added a couple of links to two previous posts that a mutual linked me on Discord, both relevant to subjects covered on this site. First off is a beta source port of Realmz ( https://github.com/Realmz-Castle/realmz ) and secondly is an article about gaming history across the world in different regions ( https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae )

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p7uen 8 months ago

Great stuff, I remember playing this a bit back in the day. Were the soft locks just a way of making the game 'harder' and extending the play time

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8 months ago

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8 months ago

Final update for the year; a reflection on 2025, what's next in store for the site and awards for each and every game I reviewed on OverClockWorked this year: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/blog/2025/31-12/

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p7uen 8 months ago

Thank you for your writing and for the fun collab this year. I can see now that I missed so many of your posts at the beginning of the year so I have some great lunch break reading to look forward to in 2026. Happy new year!

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8 months ago

Updates may slow for a while. I ordered a RAM expansion for my Amiga for Christmas and I'm most likely going to want to wait until that arrives before I extensively play more Amiga stuff. My poor 600 is struggling with 2MB of RAM, which isn't really enough to run most HD installed games!

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p7uen 8 months ago

Top Tip: This Christmas, avoid the extortionately high RAM prices by buying RAM from 30 years ago!

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8 months ago

Yes, I actually went ahead and did it. Top 10 animals that mock you for sucking at video games: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/blog/2025/29-12/

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miela583 8 months ago

GOOD CONTENT

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skep 8 months ago

Love a good peer pressure post

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nathanntan 8 months ago

nice!

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overclockworked

8 months ago

New review is up, looking at the bizarre Amiga puzzle platformer Putty: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/putty/

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miela583 8 months ago

More games should have cats that mock you.

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overclockworked 8 months ago

@miela583 100% agreed. Thank you also for indirectly reminding me to add a link to the voice clip of the cat mocking you to the review.

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underwhite 8 months ago

@miela583 not only that but dogs too

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overclockworked 8 months ago

@underwhite The NES Duck Hunt fandom have been starved for another game where a dog mocks you ever since the 80s

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miela583 8 months ago

@underwhite Yes, really any animal! Like if a jellyfish personally attacked you when you took a hit, or an owl chucked an apple at your face. Dogs are classics, but we could be doing so much!

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miela583 8 months ago

@overclockworked It's a whole extra layer that the cat is maybe named after one of Frank Zappa's kids??

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overclockworked 8 months ago

At this rate I'm going to be making a list of top 10 animals that mock you for sucking at video games

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