We were vaguely worried about Lucasarts overpricing their classic adventures on Steam. However, it turns out Last Crusade, Fate of Atlantis, LOOM and The Dig are going for £3 each! Which is just fantastic value for money – there’s hours of engaging adventure gaming there. If anyone wants me i’ll be off playing the Dig.

Lucas Arts is Coming to Steam This is great news, and something we’ve been waiting for since the coming of online-distribution. Here’s the selection so far Armed and Dangerous™ Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones® and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure LEGO® Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure LOOM™ Star Wars Battlefront® […]

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games from Apogee Pick of the (short so far) list beying Duke Nukem 3D. Which i’ll put on my “possible coverage” list. Despite being technically inferior I always thought it was a superior experience to Quake. More fun, more of a sense of character and “real-world” locations. The rest of the list is only of […]

Migman’s Flight Sim Museum Given our own near-total lack of flight sim coverage, I thought it might be worth linking this site, which has entries for sims going all the way back to the beginning. Not a great detail of information on each game, but there are still some interesting bits and pieces looking back […]

Despite being relatively enthusiastic about Good Old Games, it has to be said that I haven’t been exactly splashing the cash on the games they’ve got on offer. The ones I really want I’ve got already, and some of the others, despite being good games, fall into the “you can buy it, but you’ll never […]

Earlier this week Knyght performed a great service to the world of abandonware by adding the CD version of Dreamweb to Anarchy. It’s something I’ve been after for a while, having thoroughly enjoyed the disk version but also thinking (based on vague memories of a playable demo from around the time of the game’s initial […]

So I got my Good Old Games beta access code. Here’s a look at what’s currently (or soon to be) available. 1NSANE $9.99 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 2005 SOON CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD $5.99 DESCENT + DESCENT 2 $5.99 DESCENT 3 + EXPANSION $5.99 DIE BY THE SWORD + EXPANSION $5.99 EARTHWORM JIM 3D $5.99 […]

I’m happy to report that we now have nearly all of the Lucasarts adventures covered. Given that the favourites were so well loved, and even 2nd-tier stuff like The Dig is very enjoyable, I do think comprehensive coverage is a worthy goal for a site like ours. All that’s left now are Zak McCracken and […]

A friend of mine sent a link to this: GOG.com. It’s an online distribution service, focussing on older games – the front page has stuff like Fallout 2 and Sacrifice. Ever since Steam came along I’ve been hoping for more oldies on online services like this. There’s certainly some demand out there for the classics, […]