This is the vault for gaming design, titles released in the past that are still relevant today for design or plot choices.
Compact disc? HA! That will never catch on! In the early nineties, CD-Rom started to emerge as the medium of the future, thus the gaming industry had to adapt too. Albeit very slowly. The first time the general public cared enough to buy CDs was with the SEGA CD add-on for the Genesis/Megadrive console, even…
In 20 years of gaming journalism I’ve written four articles about Rings of Power, even though this is my first in English. On one hand it will be a load off my shoulders if this is the last time I’m publishing something about this game. Maybe, finally, this time I will say everything I want…
Released in 1985 and designed by Ian Gray (“don’t you forget it” he reminds us in a secret message in the code), Fiona Rides Out is the first horror game I remember being literally scared by. I was a kid always more afraid of sounds rather than images, so, when the two combined, my poor…
Hello, my name is Damien. Don’t ask me about Loom cause I have never played it. During that wonderful period that was the 90s, it was the one classic Lucasarts adventure games that no one talked about nor had a copy laying around to play. Monkey Island was everywhere and so were Day of the…
Tie-in games based on movies have always been a pet peeve of mine. Especially because they tend to be rather awful, even in those occasions when the movie they’re based on seems to be well suited to be transformed into a videogame. It is difficult not to love a category of games that gifted us…
I had barely recovered from the Winter steam sale that here they go again with a new one! Well, this time I’m sticking to my guns and I won’t buy anything, or at least try to. Let’s go with the usual mix of genres and indie classics and relative unknown titles. CITIZENS OF EARTH Have…
No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! Perhaps, people were busy sending heaps of sms to their friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…
A dead end can never be a one way street. You can always turn around and take another road. Unless you’re playing King’s Quest. Saving and reloading. Bet you wish you could do it in real life, huh? Forgot to pay the rent, died in a car accident while speeding or failed a job…
Forged in Gremlin Interactive studio and protected by a clunky interface, there lies an interesting adventure game. The center for all realms of existence, it is the balancing force between good and evil, Dosbox and Windows. A focal point for all energies, and the one element that has kept the consuming fury of Damien at…
Throw me tomorrow, now that I really have a large medkit… We’ve seen how in the nineties novelists got involved in the development of videogames but that’s not all: popular musicians got involved as well. Looking back now, we really missed the boat: back in the 2000 not only Queen had released their owen…