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Brutal Star Wars: X-Wing Mission Made One Player Cut Up His Discs And Mail Them To LucasArts

Time Extension about 2 months ago

"He chopped the floppies up into little pieces".1993's Star Wars: X-Wing is arguably one of the best adaptions of George Lucas' famous sci-fi series. Using what were then considered to be cutting-edge 3D visuals, it placed the player in the cockpit of the …
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Kickstarter Book 'Beyond The Click' Criticized For Plagiarism And AI Art

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The book has somehow managed to raise £2560, almost half its goal.Update : Slope's Game Room, which runs a regular "Kickscammer" line of videos, has done an in-depth look at this particular campaign:Original Story : A new Kickstarter book claiming to be a …
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Interview: "We Need To Take Our Franchise Back" - The Story Of Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine

Time Extension about 3 months ago

How the Tomb Raider series lit a fire under LucasArts.In the late '90s, Core Design's Tomb Raider Lara Croft had managed to supplant Indiana Jones as the player's adventurer of choice, leaving LucasArts somewhat in the cold.As a result, Hal Barwood, the di …
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Interview: "An Enormous Headache" - The Amazing Story Behind Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis

Time Extension about 3 months ago

From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood.Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg's first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (a …

Amiga (Minimig) • AmigaVision (MegaAGS) 2023.12.25 Released with Updated Game Configurations

MISTerFPGA about 5 months ago

We are happy to announce that the latest release of AmigaVision/MegaAGS is available!AmigaVision is the ultimate, open source Amiga setup for MiSTer and Analogue Pocket FPGAs, emulators, and real hardware.This is a straightforward, simple release to get A …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • New Release - Old School Gamer Magazine Issue #36 (September 2023) Free Edition

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://www.oldschoolgamer... Games and LucasSeptember is here and with it comes a great variety of wonderful things: Pro Football starts up, NASCAR and NHRA are firing up the playoffs, all the little monste… uh, kids, …
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Other 8-bit Commodore computers • New Release - Old School Gamer Magazine Issue #35 (July 2023) Free Edition

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

https://www.oldschoolgamer... ... osg35free/Nintendo and SegaThroughout all of recorded history, there have been many periods when someone said or did a stupid thingand the killing began; Greeks versus Trojans, Romans versus Germanic hordes, Con …
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The 17-Year-Old Star Wars Game 'Empire At War' Is Remarkably Still Getting Updates

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Star Wars: Empire at War launched in 2006.It's fairly common for licensed games to die an unceremonious death, thanks to whatever contract was agreed upon at the start of the venture ending after the allotted amount of time. So it's always remarkable when …
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Anniversary: Sam & Max: Hit The Road Turns 30 This Month

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"You're an ignorant dolt, Max".Sam & Max: Hit the Road, one of LucasArts' most beloved point-and-click adventures, is 30 years old this month (thanks, @Bhaal_Spawn).Based on Steve Purcell's anthropomorphic detective duo, the game launched on MS-DOS in …
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Anniversary: Classic LucasArts' Adventure Game Grim Fandango Turns 25 Today

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"Run you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!".LucasArts' classic 3D adventure game Grim Fandango was released 25 years ago today on Friday, October 30th, 1998 for Windows PCs.The game was the first LucasArts title to be developed using the GrimE engine (instead of …

Shopping for computer

VCFed about 7 months ago

I need something that I can install OS/2 warp version 3, followed by LucasArts AirCombat Classics Flt sim on to. I'm not sure what to look for, but a friend suggested at least a 486 DX-4. I've tried eBay with some sellers wanting way to much and don't off …
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ScummVM Opens Public Testing For iOS Port

Time Extension about 8 months ago

Play classic LucasArts games on the go!Yesterday (September 7th), ScummVM, the program that allows players to run many of their favourite adventure games from companies like LucasArts and Revolution, announced that it had opened public beta testing for the …
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A Vampyre Story Gets Unexpected Update Almost 15 Years Later

Time Extension about 9 months ago

New languages, bug fixes, and more!If you're a fan of LucasArts adventure games, there's a chance you may have heard of Bill Tiller. Tiller was the background artist on The Curse of Monkey Island and later went on to found the adventure game company Autumn …
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Star Wars fans unite! BSzili releases an unofficial Amiga port of Dark Forces (High end Amiga required?)

Old School Gamer Magazine about 10 months ago

It feels like it was only just yesterday that we announced through Indie Retro News that BSzili had unofficially released not just the full version of the classic ID Software game of ‘Wolfenstein 3D’ and ‘Spear of Destiny’, but als …

General Old Hardware • Yet Another Win95/DOS Build – Socket 7 – Suggestions Wanted

Vogons about 11 months ago

I’m looking at building yet another Windows 95 / DOS machine, but unlike my Mini-ITX version, this one will not have any size restrictions and be more “era appropriate”. All I want to do it keep it as affordable as possible, and maintain as much com …
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Inside Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction With Ronald Pieket

Old School Gamer Magazine about 11 months ago

Destroy It All, One Card at a Time Powered by the same type of sandbox gameplay made popular by Grand Theft Auto 3 and a story that creatively borrowed from national and world headlines, Lucas Arts and Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries: Playground of Des …
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Retro Arcadia Game of the Year 2023 Halfway Hotlist!

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

We’re a whole halfway through the year, so it’s time for our annual look at some of the movers and shakers we’ve covered in our regular Weekly Spotlights every Sunday to see where the game of the year top ten currently lies. Before that though, acco …
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Mark Your Calendars! A New 'Day Of The Tentacle' Doc Is Dropping Later This Month

Time Extension about 11 months ago

Featuring nine interviews with the original team!Day of the Tentacle turns 30 later this month and to celebrate the classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure the YouTuber onaretrotip has put together a 2-hr documentary featuring nine interviews with memb …

The Making Of: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

Time Extension about 11 months ago

"It was the most hectic nine months of my life".Star Wars is one of the few licensed properties that can boast a string of fantastic video games reaching all the way back to the eighties. From shooters like the Star Wars Atari arcade game to the RPG approa …
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The Rarest and Most Valuable Sega Saturn Games

Racketboy about 1 year ago

Presented by Racketboy and G to the Next Level The Sega Saturn is definitely one of the leading consoles among hardcore classic gamers. Its strong selection of unique and engaging 2D games keeps it relevant a decade after its premature demise. While many …

Arcade Attack Podcast – May (1 of 2) 2023 – Tony Van (SEGA, EA, LucasArts) – Interview

Arcade Attack about 1 year ago

? Tony Van is a true gaming legend. He has produced and designed games for LucasFilm Games, Activision, SEGA, EA and lots more iconic companies. In this really fun and in-depth interview, Tony reflects on his amazing career. He shares stories about working …
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Day of the Tentacle

Retro Garden about 2 years ago

I must admit I am not the biggest fan of point and click. I like the humour and the stories, in particular the fact that they’re probably the best form of story telling of games that are out there – particularly in the retro style, however …
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234 RGDS - Exclusive Detective Agency

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 6 years ago

Hello its another fab episode of RGDS, here the boys don their Fedoras and set on the case to find some of the best Retro detective games out there. So come and join in on the hunt of these classic games. Show Notes Batman : The Caped Crusader (Spectrum / …