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In those days that all family is gathered, using MAME is a super-fast way to play old gems and everyone will surely be involved! If you don’t own a MAME arcade cabinet, do not worry! All these titles were out for every system out there!
Let’s start with Pang, from 1989. It was also known as Buster Bros and Pumping World. Personally I prefer just PANG! It’s an obvious two player cooperative game where we must destroy those bouncing balloons that are threatening a bunch of known cities and landmarks. There are 50 levels through 17 locations and this game was later ported by Ocean Software to all home systems: the ZX Spectrum, the Amiga, C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, TurboGrafx, The PlayStation and, more recently, iOS devices.
Tetris is another extraordinary title to play against friends! It’s simply the world’s best puzzle game ever made! It was developed in 1984 on a Elektronika 60 computer terminal by Alexey Pajitnov, a Russian artificial intelligence researche…

The year was 1992 when Core Design released another awesome title. This time around, the Atari ST was the chosen platform to develop another outstanding piece of software, but it’s on the Amiga that this title really shines. I even consider it to be an hidden gem, ‘cause every time I talk to my friends about it, no one really knows it.
For the ones that never played WolfChild, well, you should!
The game was created by Simon Phipps, the designer of Rick Dangerous and best known for providing that hilarious scream of death (SCREAM)! The audio department was in the good hands of Martin Iveson, renowned artist of the original Tomb Raider musical score.
As said before, WolfChild was originally released for the Atari ST and the Amiga, and, later, ported to every single Sega machine: the MasterSystem, Game Gear, Megadrive/Genesis, Sega CD and, also, for the Super Nintendo being, this last one, the only console version that you should play, mainly for its amazing parallax scrolling graphics and…

• GROOVERIDER SLOT CAR RACING   Released, back then, as a budget title for the PS2 by the small British development team PlayIT, GrooveRider does deliver in the fun factor! Its super-fast action and innovative gameplay makes us struggle with our own brain to make decisions on the fly to avoid other cars and obstacles!
You’ll probably notice that all the graphical power of the playstation 2 is somewhere else, but that doesn’t mean that this little game isn’t enjoyable. Lighting effects are awesome and there’s a pretty nice set of car types to choose! In my opinion, only the music could be a little better, but, once again, for a budget title we could not ask for much more! I’ve had a blast with this one! And it has some nice and fresh ideas that are missing in many of today’s full priced titles!






• STAR WARS STARFIGHTER  Released in 2001, this was LucasArts’ first PS2 game, so that kind of makes it special and valuable, right?
This game marks a substantial step up from almost every previous con…

Let's take a look at the 24 video games I have added to my collection over the last couple of months! And there's even a bonus item at the end!
There's games for the XBOX 360, PC and PlayStation 2!

Don't forget to check out the newest KickStarter Project about the 20 years' anniversary of the PlayStation:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1066226221/playstation-game-changer-documentary-and-book

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Playing Colin McRae DiRT2 over network with my brother just for laughs! Great game and great fun! The best DiRT of the franchise!

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Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Andy Garcia joined forces to hunt down Robert De Niro in this amazing movie from 1987 under the direction of Brian De Palma. Two years later, Ocean Software, the masters in movie and arcade conversions, puts us through six levels of hoodlum hassling.
The Untouchables are a special group of guys who have the power to do whatever is necessary to keep the civilians safe. So, we’ll be facing all sorts of bandits loyal to Al Capone’s own law to oppress and threaten the innocents of Chicago.
The game was available for Atari ST, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MSX, DOS, NES and the Super NES, but the version that really stand out from the crowd was, besides the one for the ZED X Spectrum, the Commodore 64, that obtained 96% in Zzap!64 magazine.
If you liked the movie, the game is even better!
The first level, a multidirectionally scrooling platform shoot’em up type of thing, takes us to this warehouse which Capone’s gang use as their base. We need to gather some evidence of t…

A glimpse at my mid/late 90s & early 2000s gaming rig: an IBM Netvista, from 2001. I will show you what's inside, install an OS and try out some games.
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