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So what is this site? To put it in the most simple way imaginable: It's a site about digital games. Not about the latest gaming news, but about the games themselves, and - as you've already surmised from the site's name - specializing in what's usually considered 'classic' these days. Of course, definitions of 'classic' differ widely. However, if you browse around a little, you'll find us covering pretty much everything (with varying intensity) from the earliest home systems (late 1970s) to the end of the last millenium.
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2012-05-19
Global Effect fits into our 20-year-retrospective
perfectly: The majority of magazines back in the day reviewed it in their respective issues for May 1992. Usually, games were spread among very different months, due to 'exclusives' (the euphemism for 'review based only on screenshots or an incomplete demo version'), different publication schedules of the magazines and last, but not least, differences in international release schedules of the games themselves. All this seems to have been mostly coordinated for this particular game.
2012-05-12
We're deep in May 1992 now. Another game released that month is
Space Crusade. As usual, the overenthusiastic British press loved it (What game
didn't they love?) while it received mixed and somewhat lukewarm reviews in Germany. As usual, you will have to make up your own mind.
2012-05-05
Soul Crystal is a German graphic/text hybrid adventure originally reviewed in Powerplay magazine, issue 05/92. They recommended it with caution. How does it hold up today?
2012-04-27
Black Crypt, discussed between Wandrell and me, concludes the run of games from April 1992. Stay tuned for… surprise, surprise: May 1992!
2012-04-21
Another game originally reviewed
20 years ago is
Floor 13. Interestingly two popular German magazines both gave this one low ratings;
Power Play mainly had moral objections – not that far fetched considering you have to torture and assassinate people in this game – while
Amiga Joker pointed out the limitations in the gameplay. Various English-speaking magazines liked it very much, on the other hand.
2012-04-15
We (meaning Wandrell and me) decided to try something different again. We call it 20 Years Ago… Meaning it is a retrospect to games released exactly 20 years ago. Or, to be more exact: Reviewed in a contemporary magazine 20 years ago. Most computer games magazines appeared monthly back then, so this is the term we are using to match games and reviews to our own activities, too.
So how do these games hold up compared to the way they were reviewed when they were new? The first candidate for this comparison is Star Trek: 25th Anniversary which was the title story of the April '92 issue of the magazin Power Play. Expect further games soon.
Everyone is invited to join in on our coverage of 1992 – however, this does not mean that the rest of the site has to grind to a halt. If you've got something else, outside of the scope of 20 Years Ago, that's still fine, too, of course.
2012-04-13
faceman-bjk reviews
Pizza Connection, eliminating the game from the list of stub entries. Thanks!
2012-04-08
Now it's the time of another game. And again it's a NES one:
Flipull (NES).
2012-04-01
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