Video Conquests of Camelot Intro – MT32 James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Conquests of Camelot is the precursor to one of my favorite games of all time, Robin Hood : Conquests of the Longbow. Camelot is an early SCI game that employs keyboard commands with simple mouse, much like early LSL and Codename ICEMAN. I never made it very far in this… Continue Reading
Video Betrayal at Krondor – Titles – CD Enhanced James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Betrayal at Krondor is an RPG adventure from Dynamix (sub-company of Sierra On-Line) set in the world of Midkemia of author Raymond E. Feist. This is one of my favorite games of all time. I have owned two different copies of the game, the original on disk and this CD-Rom… Continue Reading
Video Freddy Pharkas – Frontier Pharmacist – Intro – HQ Enhanced James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 The Intro sequence from the classic Sierra On-Line adventure game, Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist. Sierra Fanfare uses soundfont from below. Graphics are scaled through DosBox. Probably going up a bunch of Sierra intros and gameplay like I did for Lucasarts Madness – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfzZUidwkH4MJFDgGGY28SUR7FFd0HOM Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist CD version DosBox… Continue Reading
Video Sleeping Dogs Nightmare in Northpoint – Part 1 – Chinese Magic James Schumacher, April 9, 2013October 6, 2016 I definitely have more videos from LucasArts games coming up soon (and then I plan on doing some classic Sierra work), but here is a little break with some more Nightmare in North Point DLC from Sleeping Dogs. Wei meets an old friend, Vincent. Only trouble is, Vincent died awhile… Continue Reading
Video Sam and Max Hit the Road – Intro (LucasArts) James Schumacher, April 4, 2013October 6, 2016 Sam and Max Hit the Road takes the two titular characters created by Steve Purcell and puts them in a big LucasArts adventure game. The original Sam and Max might be the most underrated of the LucasArts / Sierra adventure gaming golden era. It features great voice acting work from… Continue Reading
Duck Tales Remastered – My Childhood Thanks You James Schumacher, March 22, 2013March 23, 2013 Update : Via Game Informer, all the original voice cast including 94 year-old Alan Young providing the brogue of Scrooge McDuck. Excellent! Blah blah blah… forget it queue the trailer and theme music… Playing Ducks Tales is by far one of my top NES gaming memories. I was the right… Continue Reading
Monkey Island Insult Swordfighting in HTML5 James Schumacher, January 15, 2013January 20, 2013 http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/play-monkey-islands-insult-sword-fighting-for-free/ The classic insult sword-fighting mini-game from The Secret of Monkey Island is now available to play for free through your Internet browser. This little project also combines the insults from Monkey Island I and III on the hardest difficulty setting to make the game more challenging, while keeping the… Continue Reading
The Music of Secret of Mana James Schumacher, August 3, 2012August 3, 2012 The Music of Secret of Mana Appreciating The Music Of Secret Of Mana Secret of Mana Music I am not an authority on the Secret of Mana aka Seiken Densetsu RPG series. When the game came out I was splitting time with other famous SNES RPGs as well as enjoying… Continue Reading
Old School Gaming Maps James Schumacher, July 17, 2012July 17, 2012 Nostalgia Alert. Good Stuff A Tribute to Old Video Game Maps Ah the Video Game Map. It used to be that almost every good game came with an in-depth color manual and usually a map of some sort. The Nostlagia is strong now. Check out this article from Kotaku with… Continue Reading
Video Games Video – Police Quest III Intro Sequence James Schumacher, July 14, 2012October 6, 2016 Police Quest III was the first in the series to be fully mouse-driven, preceding the Police Quest 1 VGA remake. This game was strictly PC and Amiga only and came in 3.5″ and 5.25″ floppy versions. Following the events of the first two games, Sonny has married Marie after the… Continue Reading
Awesome Retro-style Prints James Schumacher, July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 Awesome retro-style prints. #crosspost RetroGeekology offers a small collection of art prints inspired by classic gaming, such as Metroid, Super Mario, Zelda and the always classic Castlevania. A great way to add some classically-inspired art to your gaming or media room. FINAL FANTASY IX – Nintendo Switch $39.99 (as of October… Continue Reading
Action The Last Starfighter Blu-ray Review James Schumacher, September 16, 2010January 23, 2019 I have heard a lot of people talk about The Last Starfighter as a “guilty pleasure”. I definitely won’t call it that. I have very few guilty pleasures in life as I feel no guilt for the things I have liked in my lifetime (well in film and music anyway…)…. Continue Reading