Don’t let your sleeves dangle. Don’t stand up too fast.
The first computer game I ever played was Adventure (on a PDP 11/34, no less. My map was a 3′ by 3′ piece of grid vellum. I carried it everywhere).
MC Frontalot has a video up on youTube, just for nerds like me. Presenting, “It is Pitch Dark”. Enjoy!
Wanna experience Grues for yourself? Play Zork I-III on GameTap.
Before we get to this week’s new games lineup, I have to admit something. I was wrong about Blast Miner last week. Way wrong. At the time of my write-up, I’d only given the Arcade mode a shot.
In the week since, it’s the Puzzle mode of Blast Miner that has gripped the office like a vice. Holy moly. Talk about addictive fun. Get back in the game and give Puzzle mode a shot. It’s the most fun with video game explosives I’ve had since Blast Corps.
Half the fun has been solving levels and then running around the corner to see how everyone else did it — no two solutions are the same. And when someone finally gets that gold nugget to just barely sliiiiiiiiide into the chute, cheers and laughter erupt. Great stuff. (I successfully cleared the last Expert level today. Next up: the Bonus levels. Then I begin the process of getting my costs down on all those early levels where I blew the crap out of things just cause I could.)
This week: why blow up mine shafts and gold nuggets when you can blow up… uh… yeesh. That’s a little morbid. But WWII Blitzkrieg is the theme, and we’ve got a couple of great additions — including this year’s Battlestations: Midway! — to our collection of WWII-era games.
New games:
New on GameTap TV:
The best things in life are:
This guy drops clay figures in the dark, allows the crashing sound to trigger the lights, and then captures the shot. Beautiful stuff — and a nice coda to GameTap’s Summer Throwdown.
[via SvN.]
This week’s got some fun variety: Romero’s Daikatana masterwork (finally judge for yourself!), the solid (and beautiful) 3rd person action Infernal from earlier this year [see Update below], and the supposedly-very-funny Startopia. PLUS:
Today we launch our first titles under the GameTap Indies banner: Blast Miner and Morning’s Wrath. I’ve dipped into the fantastic Blast Miner a bit — it’s got a deceptively steeper learning curve than the “falling Tetris-shaped blocks” appearance would lead you to believe. The floaty, wacky physics are definitely a change of pace. And is the first time that a puzzler like this has allowed you to float dropped blocks back UP to reposition them? I’ve only tried the arcade mode so far, but the puzzle mode looks to be another level-by-level stumper a la the cult-fave Pyramid Magic series. (You knew I couldn’t go a month without mentioning the PyraMag, right? Cult-fave, indeed.)
And but so, if YOU have been silently building your own gaming masterwork and are ready to unleash it upon the GameTap masses, please let us know via our submission form! I’m pumped about GameTap Indies and ready to play that next great undiscovered gem.
New games:
New on GameTap TV:
Born:
– Nintendo… sort of. by Alhon –
Alhon spells it out in the name. Fun concept, useful playlist. Gotta love the way he links up Panzer Dragoon and Starfox. Anyone come up with any others that should be on the list?