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Blood Bowl
Saturday, January 5, 2019
From the Warhammer universe comes Blood Bowl, a board game of fantasy football. Blood Bowl features teams of humans, orcs, elves and other Warhammer creatures. Blood Bowl is divided up into two halves with each team getting eight turns per half. In a turn, each team moves their players around, blocking, passing, picking up the […]
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Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
A steady stream of irrelevance. As promised. 7th Level went to great lengths to create a product as closely resembling the Monty Python show’s style as possible with Monty Python’s Complete Waste of Time. Running in Windows, the game takes advantage of extended multimedia capabilities of the operating system, inundating the player from the opening […]
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Galapagos: Mendel’s Escape
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Galapagos is an unusual game with an odd approach to AI. Rather than creating rules-based AI, the AI in Galapagos is one that learns along the way. Through trial and error in Galapagos, virtual creatures learn from mistakes. The main character in Galapagos is called Mendel, a four-legged spider-like creature created by an alien race […]
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Baku Baku Animal
Friday, November 30, 2018
Baku Baku Animal is a variation on the very often copied Tetris type of game. The game has three different play modes: practice, normal and hard. It also can be played by two players against each other (except for the Master System version). The objective is to pair animal heads with their respective food. If […]
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Chessmaster 6000
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
The Chessmaster series is aimed at the novice to intermediate chess player, casual players who value an intuitive interface and a friendly approach to the game. As such, Chessmaster 6000 is filled with the types of features that are focused on teaching the game and making it fun. As usual for this series, a wide […]
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Isle of Four Winds: Rune War
Saturday, November 17, 2018
The most common form of Mahjong on the home computer is the Solitiare version. A simplified game where you have to match tiles, usually as part of a large set that forms a shape of something like a pyramid, bridge or other such structures. The more complex version of Mahjong, which was popularized and had […]
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Knight Moves
Sunday, October 21, 2018
In Spectrum HoloByte’s board / puzzle game, Knight Moves, the age-old challenge of chess has been taken into new territory with the addition of a healthy dose of action. Knight Moves challenges you to control an animated knight who leaps around a chessboard stocked with enemies, hazards, and power-ups. Your knight can only move in […]
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Renju
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
It sounds simple enough. Just place five consecutive stones in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line. Sort of like Tic-Tac-Toe, right? Renju, a variant of the popular board game Pente, is one of those deceptively simple strategy games that turn out to be diabolically complex. First off, there are 225 spaces on the game board; […]
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Boggle
Monday, October 8, 2018
What is Boggle? Based on a real world board game, it presents you with a set of dice with letters on their faces instead of pips; you place the dice into a tray-container combination, shake it up, and then, when the dice have settled into slots on the 4×4 grid in the tray, whip off […]
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Hoyle Casino 2006
Friday, September 14, 2018
Developer: Sierra Genre: Casino Release: 2006
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