James Schumacher – Writing & Art
Writing, Art, Photography, Media & Commentary
Dark Seed is classic-styled adeventure game featuring the art works of acclaimed Alien designer H.R. Giger. This is the CD-ROM version run through DOSbox at 1440 in 4:3 aspect. Dark Seed Info via Wikipedia Dark Seed is a psychological horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Cyberdreams in
Continue readingDark Seed (Cyberdreams – 1992 CD-ROM) – Intro (4:3 1440 DOSBox)
Bureau 13 is based on a pen & paper of the same title. This CD-Rom version features 5 musical tracks performed by a band. Some of this music you can hear in the game’s intro featured here. The game is quite interesting. Each character has a unique skillset. Every scenario
Continue readingBureau 13 (Gametek – 1995 CD-ROM) – Intro & Characters (4:3 1440 DOSBox)
Dark SunL Wake of the Ravager is also known as Dark Sun 2 and continues the campaign set in SSI’s DnD world. The CD-Rom version here is presented in 4:3 1440 via DOSBox ECE and features Redbook audio. More via Wikipedia: Dark Sun: Wake of the Ravager takes place
Continue readingDark Sun: Wake of the Ravager (SSI – 1994 CD-Rom) – Intro (4:3 1440 – DOSbox)
Another Action/Adventure Fantasy RPG in the long-line of SSI related late 80s to mid 90s PC games. Running on the ECE SVN build of DOSBox and using the FluidR3 soundfont through virtual midi mapper. Info on Dark Sun: Shattered Lands from Wikipedia: Dark Sun: Shattered Lands is a turn-based
Continue readingDark Sun: Shattered Lands (SSi – 1993) Intro (4:3 1440 – DosBox Enhanced GM)
Anvil of Dawn is a mid-90s RPG under the SSI banner from DreamForge Intertainment. Featuring voice acting and a OPL3 General Midi score composed by the Legendary Fatman. Here that music gets the HQ Soundfont treatment using FluidR3. Rendered at 2k with a 4:3 aspect ration. More info via
Continue readingAnvil of Dawn (1995 – DreamForge) – Intro (Dosbox Enhanced – GM)
Edward Carnby returns once again for the 3rd installment in the Alone in the Dark series, this time with a Wild west theme. again the daum build of DosBox was used here with the same settings for 1 & 2. Plot info via Wikipedia: “It’s 1925 and after Edward
Continue readingAlone in the Dark 3 (Infogrames – 1994 CD-Rom) – Intro (4:3 1440)
AitD2 had a few different names based on region and what system you played it for : (Wiki) “Alone in the Dark 2 is the 1993 sequel to 1992’s survival horror video game Alone in the Dark developed and published by Infogrames as the second installment in the series.
Continue readingAlone in the Dark 2 (Infogrames – 1993 CD-Rom) – Intro (4:3 1440)
The intro for both characters from the CD-Rom version of Alone in the Dark, featuring voice-over and Redbook audio. Presented in 4:3 aspect ration at 1440 (1920×1440). Lately I generally use the ECE build of Dosbox with a normal5/6x scaler. Early polygon-based games are a bit rougher than standard
Continue readingAlone in the Dark (Infogrames – 1992 CD-Rom) – Intro (4:3 1440)
The second game in the Wing Commander series features a long intro with voice acting and sounds best when using a Roland MT-32, in this case through fairly good emulation. For this game I am using some features of the ECE SVN DOSbox build. Scaling is set to normal5x,
Continue readingWing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi – Intro (MT-32 Emulated)
Have a few retro intros and such coming for the channel in the short term. Still have some hardware issues that will prevent higher quality edits and long-term gameplay videos, so these will have to do for now. Here is the Wizardry VII intro, running through DOSBox ECE SVN.
Continue readingWizardy VII – Crusaders of the Dark Savant – Intro (Sir-Tech 1992)