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Rare For A Reason – Deep Space By Psygnosis

I guess most of our readers out there know about the quality of some of the early Psygnosis Amiga games, in my opinion, some of them should never have seen the light of day as that is just how horrible they are. Deep Space from 1986 is one of them and I still struggle to […]

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The Games We Never Talk About: Wendetta 2175

Wendetta 2175 always comes up as a wildcard when I show my game collection to Amiga friends and it somewhat still baffles me that so few people actually managed to secure themselves a copy of the game. No, this ain’t one of those rare unknown games that are crap and never should have seen a […]

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Huenison + BOH & BOH Advance Collector’s Editions

Simone Bevilacqua (RETREAM) contacted me a while back regarding plans of running a second print of his Amiga OS4 games “Huenison, BOH and BOH Advance” and if I wanted to pre-order it as he knows that I collect Amiga games, and yes I am one of the guys which never got around to order them […]

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The Games We Never Talk About: Land Of Genesis

The Games We Never Talk About (But Should) (TGWNTABS) is back again and this time we will talk about a rather new title (by Amiga standards), it came out back in 2000/2001 and it sort of never got the attention it deserved thanks to a very dwindling Amiga community. Land Of Genesis was developed by […]

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Book Review: Hints And Tips For Videogame Pioneers

The best part of retrocomputing, if you are really into it with an “academic” attitude and not just out of nostalgia, is studying in depth what happened back in the ’80ies based on the stories of who made it happen. I sure was there, but I was just a kid and little I knew of […]

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A Look At Catacombs 3 For The Amiga CD32

Some of you might remember an article about Projekt:Lila that we did a while back here on the blog and the reason why I mention this now is that this was the second release for the IndieGO! system. If you wonder what that was, then I suggest you check out the Projekt:Lila article, anyways the […]

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A Look At PONG 4K – Pongtastic!

PONG 4K was released earlier this month and yes it is another new Amiga CD32 title (seriously we are getting spoiled here!), strangely enough this time around it ain’t a Shoot ‘Em Up but an arcade classic reinvented, PONG 4K is exactly what it sounds like – A Pong remake with loads of new features. […]

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