What do Zeus and Zombies have in common? Well, other than the letter Z obviously, not very much one would say, but Lucasarts would beg to differ, especially Mike Ebert and Dean Sharpe, The two designers were mainly responsible for Zombies Ate my Neighbors and Herc’s Adventures, two smaller arcade titles released by Lucasarts on…
How do you go around making a sequel to one of the most famous arcade maze games fourteen years later? Wait but… weren’t there already sequels to the original game? Actually, no. Ms. Pac-man was a spin-off, Pac-mania was a “reimagining”, Pac-land another spin-off, even though it did look and play like a sort of…
As a kid I hated Japanese RPGs with a passion, I remember saying over and over again having no intention of ever playing a Final Fantasy title or anything remotely close to it. This was because of my prejudice, you see I grew up with Western RPGs like Rings of Power and Buck Rogers. The…
When I briefly looked at a couple of tie-in games, there was one question I had no answer to: how did a publisher decide which movie to license to a game developer? For the sake of this article, though, my guess would be: box office success with teen and pre-teen audience, the gamers of the…
Compact discs? HA! That will never catch on In the early nineties, Compact disc 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…
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…
Back from the dead with a vengeance! Ready to get back to the mafioso family, dude! Far out! Believe it or not but there was a time when Electronic Arts was not the evil colossus we’ve all grown to loathe, but a publisher and developer of titles way ahead of their time thanks to solid…
