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Pac-man 2: The New Adventures – a Mid-life Crisis

Game Design Vault, History of VideogamesBy Damiano GerliMay 23, 20201 Comment

Pac-man 2: The New Adventures makes it pretty clear from the start that it is a sequel. But how does on go about making a sequel to one of the most famous arcade maze games ever? Also, weren’t there already several sequels to the original game? Well… apparently not as such. Ms. Pac-man was considered…

Raid on Bungeling Bay – Quirky & Weird C64

Game Design Vault, History of VideogamesBy Damiano GerliMay 16, 20203 Comments

Since I’ve recently written at length about Will Wright’s crazy helicopter sim that managed to save Maxis from bankruptcy (at least for a while), I’d say it makes sense to take a look at Raid on Bungeling Bay, not only his first game but another one of the designer’s helicopter titles. Why all these games…

SimCopter – how we learned hurting Sims is fun

Game Design VaultBy Damiano GerliMay 9, 2020Leave a comment

While the overall narrative on the importance of the release of SimCity 2000 might be a bit less impactful nowadays, it was a gamechanger, perhaps even more so than the original title, SimCopter? Well definitely less so. After the resounding success of its city builder, Maxis seemed to be struggling to find a market for…

1999 – the sequels year

Game Design Vault, History of VideogamesBy Damiano GerliDecember 30, 2019Leave a comment

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…

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