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10 months ago

Shorter review this update, looking at the Atomino-esque Chiral by Ambrosia Software for Mac: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/chiral/

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10 months ago

can someone help me find the kelp shop??

overclockworked 10 months ago

It has been six hours since I first saw this message and I still have no idea how to answer it. I don't even know if living dolls can eat kelp. My girlfriend says to try searching the hadal zone. Good luck in your endeavours!

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the-middle 10 months ago

UPDATE: Found the Kelp Shop, but now I am a wizard and contain the banishing power of a thousand suns

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10 months ago

New Mac review is up, looking at one of my absolute favourites, Lemmings: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/lemmings/

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pixelglade 10 months ago

Lemmings is one of those games I would always quit really early because I was so bad at that style of game. But I really enjoyed your review anyway, makes me want to try give it another try.

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skep 10 months ago

This review has resurfaced the trauma of trying to use those fiddly builders that I've been suppressing for 25 years.

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shiningforcelibrary 10 months ago

i had Lemmings on the Master System as a kid, but it was too hard for me. Now that I love puzzle games I really should give it another try one day

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overclockworked 10 months ago

The Master System version is actually not bad given the hardware (as long as you have the pause button easily reachable to press at a second's notice), it's not one of my first choices but it's a neat version with some original content even

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p7uen 10 months ago

Great writeup, the sounds and amazing animations are burned in my brain. That hi-res bug you mentioned is crazy! I had DOS version and Tribes on the SNES but you've made me need to break out Christmas Lemmings!

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10 months ago

New review is up, looking at Ambrosia Software's bizarre action adventure chairscoot-em-up Harry the Handsome Executive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/harry/

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10 months ago

Been catching up on your gravity shooter reviews, and I assure you this wasn't intended, but I still find it funny that we both reviewed mouse controlled arcade style games around the same time and then went on to review Asteroid descendants at around the same time as well. I was actually unfamiliar with Gravitar until your review, and then it ended up coming up when I was looking up Asteroids history too!

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overclockworked 10 months ago

Also, the link to play Thrust gives me a 403 forbidden error. Is this a region lock or IP issue? The entire BBC Micro site seems inaccessible to me, so I might just be unlucky.

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overclockworked 10 months ago

Also was meaning to ask if you're familiar with Pixeljunk Shooter? I remember playing it back on PS3 and I recall it shared a lot of elements with the gravity shooter genre (physics, tractor beam, etc)

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p7uen 10 months ago

I have seen Pixeljunk Shooter but never played it, I had a PS3 but it was only used for wanting to play a game, updating the OS, updating the game, then realising I ran out of time to play and then doing it all again a few weeks later haha

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p7uen 10 months ago

There's another gravity game called Oids I've never heard of before that I fancy doing soon and there are some Mac versions. If you want to/are able to get hold of it we could do a dual-neocities-retro-review-collabaganza!

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overclockworked 10 months ago

I really like this idea! There's a shareware version of Oids that's compatible with OS 9 that I can easily get my hands on. If there's specifics on how you'd want to collab feel free to email me (msxradpage@gmail.com), otherwise we can just both review it around the same time ahaha

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10 months ago

So, right before my last hiatus, I actually played through and reviewed the colour remake of Dark Castle on Mac, but forgot to actually upload it until now. So, here's the "new" Dark Castle review, freshly uploaded! https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/darkcastle/

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10 months ago

New review is up, looking at Ambrosia Software's first game, the Asteroids-like Maelstrom https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/maelstrom/

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p7uen 10 months ago

I have just reviewed Gravitar and Thrust, both of which use the same shield mechanic which I think is great. I had no idea that came from Asteroids Deluxe! Sadly neither game has female orgasming sound effects so do they even count as games?

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10 months ago

New review is up for the Mac shareware fantasy CRPG Realmz: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/realmz/

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p7uen 10 months ago

This sounds well ahead of its time, lovely review thank you! Also, look at those lovely fonts. They don't make them like they used to.

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overclockworked 10 months ago

Fun fact: The main font used in Realmz actually comes from an earlier 1989 Mac CRPG by the name of Theldrow. I know this because unlike the Pinball Dreams music, they actually got permission to use this font and credited the original creator ahaha

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10 months ago

Okay, think I'm FINALLY happy with the site renovations. Blood shrine will also eventually be replaced with a shrine directory for both it and any other shrines I make in the future. I am going back to playing Mac games now.

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overclockworked 10 months ago

If the navbar looks broken in the Blood Shrine, that's because I had to update the css file for it and that takes time to refresh if the old css file is still in your cache.

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overclockworked 10 months ago

Experimental index for all my reviews idea, it looks awful right now but i'm also tired and spacing out so i'll try and make it less terrible tomorrow fgjhhgkj

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11 months ago

New review up of Tomb Raider II for Mac: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/trii/

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nathanntan 11 months ago

yes!!!

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nathanntan 11 months ago

What a nice review, as always! I never understood the springboard mechanic either: I just hoped for the best and jumped LOL

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p7uen 11 months ago

Finally fantastic and thoughtful review! The instakill bits got to me a bit you are much more patient than me. It's SUCH a 90 sequel. (Also in no way is my site more professional than yours!)

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p7uen 11 months ago

Also would love to read what you think about the expansion one day, I have never played that.

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11 months ago

Any time I see a review for a game on a computer I haven't used myself, I always end up wanting that computer a lot more (vintage computers are my favourite retro gaming platforms), and you absolutely did that for me with the Archimedes with the Lander/Zarch reviews. V2000 also sounds delightfully playful with its mechanics and I'm interested in checking it out down the line!

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p7uen 11 months ago

Thank you I'm glad to have had an effect! There is a great and easy emulator called Arculator but yes, no subsitute for having a go on the old clunky hardware again.

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11 months ago

New Mac review for Crystal Quest out today: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/crystal/

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overclockworked 11 months ago

I'm a little out of it tonight so apologies if the review needs some editing. Will give it another read over when I'm less tired ahaha. Small review of a small game to start out my return. Next review will be a big one I've been putting off far too long!

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p7uen 11 months ago

Great review, I have been on a weird-mouse-control-game bender recently so I looked up a video to see what you meant about the controls. Weird!

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p7uen 11 months ago

Also, you reminded me of shareware game Rats! in the 1990s which had an even more extreme female orgasm sound effect, which my parents were not amused by. What is it with these old devs?

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overclockworked 11 months ago

@p7uen I've actually seen Rats! before myself, and yeah, the sound effect there REALLY goes overboard even compared to Crystal Quest and Apeiron. Something I've noticed when looking into classic Mac games is just how developers could get away with whatever they wanted in self-published shareware.

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overclockworked 11 months ago

(addendum: I say it's "something I've noticed" as if I only found out recently, but in actuality I've known it for the past 23 years due to a time when I accidentally stumbled upon Barney Blaster as a kid and got horrified by the cute purple dinosaur being gorily torn to shreds on the title screen)

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