Reviews by Peter Butter

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves review

About as good as you might expect from the video game companion to a movie.

Peter Butter · June 27, 2018

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Castles review

Building a castle once is fun - eight times in a row, less so.

sashanan · May 21, 2018

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Ikari Warriors review

Swedish pop is one thing. Doing nothing but entering the same cheat code over and over is quite another...

Peter Butter · December 10, 2015

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Trojan review

There's a pretty fun brawler in there - if you survive long enough to see most of it.

Peter Butter · October 12, 2015

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Pokémon Shuffle review

Not something I'd have chosen for myself, but it evidently chose me. And it's free. It's SO free.

sashanan · August 17, 2015

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review

Amalur was to be the setting for further games, not the least of which an MMO, but nothing else materialized as the studio went bankrupt after releasing just this one game. It sold well enough, but its development went over budget so badly…

sashanan · August 4, 2015

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Zaxxon review

At the end of this base, the eponymous Zaxxon attacks, a giant killer robot that actually does very little killing. Rather, he lumbers towards you, fires a single missile, and bugs out, ending the stage even if you fail to destroy him in…

sashanan · July 14, 2015

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Etrian Mystery Dungeon review

The bottom floor of each dungeon has a boss, and at this point you suddenly do get full control over your party. It's far more of a relief than it should be. Now, at last, I can make everybody do what I want them to do, and it feels like…

sashanan · June 28, 2015

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Moraff's Dungeons of the Unforgiven review

Moraffware is responsible for quite a number of cute DOS era games, but foremost among them are a trio of dungeon hacks titled Moraff's Revenge, World and Dungeons of the Unforgiven respectively. Of these, Moraff's World was a major…

sashanan · June 22, 2009

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Moraff's World review

In the early nineties, Moraffware was as ambitious as small developers could get. A bundle of titles were released in a fairly short time frame, all with free shareware versions to try out and the option to register to get a bigger and…

sashanan · June 22, 2009

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Moraff's Revenge review

Out of the three dungeon hacks that Moraffware released in the late eighties and early nineties, Moraff's Revenge is the first, has the most basic graphics, the least depth to its gameplay and the smallest scope - yet also the by far the…

sashanan · June 22, 2009

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Theatre Europe review

Theatre Europe is a wargame simulating a not-so-peaceful end to the Cold War, namely a Soviet invasion of West Germany and beyond. Taking turns, the NATO and Warsaw Pact players move their armies across a map, attacking each other, with…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Serpentine review

There are people who consider the idea of worms crawling around a maze trying hard to eat or be eaten quite revolting. Serpentine is not for them. For this is game that brings us to the bare basics of ''survival of the fittest'': you take…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Seafox review

One of my greatest irritations in gaming, right after online cheaters, inexplicable crashes and self-corrupting saved games, is slowdown. Or lag, as we call it on the internet. Whether caused by a slow connection or locally by video…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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River Raid review

River Raid is a 1984 Activision game that is counted among the better shooters on the Commodore 64. After all these years it remains as a favorite of many stubborn Commodore gamers, and is among the first games mentioned when such veterans…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Ring of Power review

To the modern day gamer, the concept of the "text adventure" game genre may be difficult to understand. Without any graphics to go with, and with typed commands being the only way to communicate with the game, the genre will probably…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Jumpman Junior review

Released by Epyx in 1984, Jumpman Junior is the sequel to the original Jumpman game, though especially on the Commodore 64, it is probably more famous than the original. The Commodore version is only slightly different than the Atari…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Gribbly's Day Out review

Gamers are strange animals. A game may give us state-of-the-art graphics, an excellent soundtrack, lots of different options and whatever else we may be looking for, and we can still write it off as boring. Another game may look like…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Galaxian review

Namco's Galaxian was first released in the arcades in 1979 as a successor to Space Invaders. The Commodore 64 version, which is a remake rather than a direct port, came four years later. The premise is the same as in the original: you…

sashanan · June 19, 2009

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Choplifter review

This review takes us back almost twenty years in time, to the first of the two golden years of the Commodore 64: 1982. Many of the most famous Commodore titles are from this year (in which the system was released) and 1983. Some are merely…

sashanan · June 19, 2009