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For next Retro PC Friday, we'll be heading back to some Cold War Anxieties... Crisis In The Kremlin -> www.mobygames.com/game/2782/cr...
Crisis in the Kremlin (1991) - MobyGames
One of the few political sims available, take over the Kremlin as one of the three Russian leaders (Ligachov, Yeltsin, or Gorbachov), determine your foreign and domestic policies, and react to the cri...
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Next Wednesday on Modern PC Day some chaotic grand strategy fun! From the last Steam Sale! Chaos Galaxy! -> www.mobygames.com/game/206159/...
Chaos Galaxy (2020) - MobyGames
Welcome to join Chaos Galaxy on Discord : https://discord.gg/KDMtCtj Chaos Galaxy is a retro-style turn-based grand strategy game that pays homage to many strategic games on the game console...
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Next Friday on Retro PC Day, we'll be walking without rhythm so we don't attract a worm in 1992's: Dune for MSDOS www.mobygames.com/game/380/dune/
Dune (1992) - MobyGames
Based on the legendary Frank Herbert novel of the same name and visually inspired by the 1984 David Lynch movie, Dune is a strategy-adventure hybrid where the player takes the role of young Paul Atrei...
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Our next Wednesday Modern PC Game Day will be yet another game I got during the Steam Summer Sale! Our Adventurer Guild! www.mobygames.com/game/208149/...
Our Adventurer Guild (2023) - MobyGames
Your friend, the former Guild Master of the declining Adventurer Guild, has died and named you his successor. Will you lead the Guild to fame and glory? Or will it finally disband under your...
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Friday on Twitch for Retro PC Day, we'll be revisiting one of my childhood favorites: Warlords for MSDOS! www.mobygames.com/game/6845/wa...
Warlords (1989) - MobyGames
The first in the Warlords series. Basically, your mission is world domination. This may be played between up to 8 people all on the same machine. It is a medieval type strategy game that requires the ...
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Tomorrow on Modern PC Day Wednesday, we'll continue to explore my Steam Sale purchases with The Case of the Golden Idol! www.mobygames.com/game/193361/...
The Case of the Golden Idol (2022) - MobyGames
Step into the shoes of an 18th century detective and uncover the mystery behind twelve strange deaths spanning 40 years, all somehow connected. Unmask the true killers in this sprawling narrative...
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I pulled 9 games. Spent half the price of a tripA game. #SteamSale Dokapon Kingdom: Connect The Case of the Golden Idol Chaos Galaxy Punch Club 2: Fast Forward Divinity: Dragon Commander Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia Chillquarium The Legacy: Realm of Terror Endless RPG Total Spent: $38.27+tax
Duckman was fun, but it didn't even take up my 4 hour stream. So next Friday we'll be playing the 1994 game Wolf! www.mobygames.com/game/754/wolf/
Wolf (1994) - MobyGames
Wolf is an educational simulation game, in which the player takes control of a wolf. The game offers both a free-form simulation mode, and various scenarios where the player must complete a specific o...
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I don't think I've ever played Chrono Trigger past the begginning of the game... I think it's time to remedy that... This next Retro Console Thursday: www.mobygames.com/game/4501/ch...
Chrono Trigger (1995) - MobyGames
A young man named Crono is about to enjoy a carefree day: he plans to go to the Millennial Fair, where his friend Lucca intends to demonstrate her newest scientific invention: a teleporter. Upon his a...
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Gonna mix it up next Thursday. Copyright bots are probably going to kick me in the nads, but we'll be playing: Jet Grind Radio for the Sega Dreamcast! www.mobygames.com/game/4126/je...
Jet Grind Radio (2000) - MobyGames
Tokyo-to, a city not unlike Tokyo, somewhere in Asia, in the near future. This is the story about the Grace & Glory (GG's), one of three rival teenage gangs who ride motorised inline skates and ar...
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All three game days changing in one week! To replace Castle of the Winds, next Friday we'll be playing: Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick on SCUMMVM. www.mobygames.com/game/3506/du...
Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (1997) - MobyGames
Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick is based on the popular USA Network animated series Duckman. In this game, Duckman has been replaced by the new Duckman (who looks more like a super-h...
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CrossCode came close to beating out Fallout NV A Tale of Two Wastelands in playtime. Over 90 hours! We'll be replacing it next Wednesday with Ghost 1.0 by developer UnEpic Fran! www.mobygames.com/game/89071/g...
Ghost 1.0 (2016) - MobyGames
"Ghost" is a metroidvania where two super hackers hire a mysterious agent in order to infiltrate the Nakamura Space Station and steal the greatest electronic secret ever. Of course, the space...
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Gonna be streaming some Castle of the Winds for Windows 3.1 today on stream. www.mobygames.com/group/10317/...
Castle of the Winds series - MobyGames
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Next Friday's Retro PC Game: DarkSpyre (1990) by Dreamforge Intertainment Inc! www.mobygames.com/game/7215/da...
DarkSpyre (1990) - MobyGames
The Gods of War, Intelligence, and Magic have created DarkSpyre, an intimidating tower full of riddles and monsters. The player takes control of an aspiring champion, whose goal is to explore the maze...
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Welp, we had fun with the OG King's Bounty. But time to move on. Next Friday for Retro PC day we'll be revisiting a Dungeon Crawling Classic: Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol www.mobygames.com/game/31910/m...
Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol (1995) - MobyGames
Over fifteen hundred years ago, the dwarves built the mines and the city above them, Dejenol. After centuries of digging, a floor gave way deep in the mines, and monsters began to pour out, killing th...
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The next game this coming Thursday replacing our previous Retro Console game is: Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest for the GameCube from 2002 www.mobygames.com/game/11346/c...
Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest (2002) - MobyGames
Cubivore is a "Call of the Wild" brought to an interactive media. Gento Matsumotos serene and surreal portrait of wilderness lost then civilization reverting (or progressing) to wilderness. Of course,...
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Starting next Friday our next Retro PC game will be: King's Bounty from 1990. www.mobygames.com/game/1473/ki...
King's Bounty (1990) - MobyGames
As a knight, paladin, barbarian or sorceress, amass an army of creatures to take on the local baddies and search for the Sceptre of Order. A turn-based game with a time limit that decreases depending ...
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Changing my Fridays to Rogue-like days. Currently working on Cataclysm: DDA and variants. I'll be playing Cataclysm: Last Generation this Friday. www.mobygames.com/game/201212/...
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (2023) - MobyGames
The cataclysm has happened. Or more precisely... all of them. Within the last few years, riots and wars have come about, and finally the grid has collapsed. And there are zombies?! And giant...
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We had a fun time with Mega lo Mania. Next week we'll be moving on to an early 4x/world builder by Celestial Software... The first in the Utopa series... Utopia: The Creation of a Nation www.mobygames.com/game/5985/ut...
Utopia: The Creation of a Nation (1991) - MobyGames
Utopia takes the Sim City gameplay concept and adds a military element to it. The game is set in the distant future, where your job is nothing less than Colony Administrator for a new settlement on so...
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Anyone who's never felt bad about their government or political party has never really thought deeper than slogan and tribalism. - Feral Historian
Okay. Discworld was fun! But that fun is over now and time for the next RetroPC game on that list. And that is Sensible Software's: Mega Lo Mania or Tyrants: Fight Through Time from 1991 www.mobygames.com/game/2464/me...
Mega lo Mania (1991) - MobyGames
First you choose one out of four different characters to represent you, Scarlet (red army), Oberon (yellow army), Caesar (green army), or Madcap (blue army). The game is split into 10 levels - the fir...
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My top six bands in six different genres. The order is random. 1. Hum - Shoegaze / Mathrock 2. Alice In Chains - Grunge 3. Teenage Fanclub - Brit Pop / Power Pop 4. Sevendust - Nu-metal 5. Counting Crows - Alternative / Pop 6. Fates Warning - Progressive Metal
Okay, took me most of the weekend to figure out something to replace Spirit Of Excalibur with and here we are! Starting this next Friday, our Retro PC game will be: Terry Pratchett's Discworld! www.mobygames.com/game/184/dis...
Discworld (1995) - MobyGames
This adventure game puts the player in the shoes of Rincewind, a wizard whose sole purpose in life is to stay alive. He appears to be very good at it as well, because apparently the universe has decid...
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We're retiring Chocobo's Dungeon 2 early. I love the game but it was getting a little grindy and that doesn't make for good streaming. So on Retro Console Thursday, we'll be moving on to ... Phantasy Star for the Sega Master System! www.mobygames.com/game/8194/ph...
Phantasy Star (1987) - MobyGames
Algol is a star system that consists of three planets: the green Palma, the arid Motavia, and the icy Dezolis. Recently, the formerly benevolent king Lassic converted to a new religion and begins to r...
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A little late in announcing this one. Next Friday's Retro PC game is another World Builder/Synergistic game. The first one I ever played back in 1990. Spirit of Excalibur: www.mobygames.com/game/2539/sp...
Spirit of Excalibur (1990) - MobyGames
A spiritual descendant of War in Middle Earth, Spirit of Excalibur uses the same engine to tell the tale of what befell Camelot after the death of King Arthur. You play the role of the regent who hold...
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I added this to today's play list at the last minute when I didn't think Grave Yardage was going to take up enough time. If you're interested, It'll go up on my YouTube next week: Battle Through Time for the Commodore 64 www.mobygames.com/game/27084/b...
Battle Through Time (1984) - MobyGames
There are those chosen to take advantage of 26th century time travel. A team of scientists will take an All-Terrain Vehicle into the time void and travel through levels contributing to humanity's vari...
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I can't say I enjoyed Conan the Cimmerian. It's probably one of the worst World Builder games I've played. Next Friday we'll be moving on to some Grave Yardage. We'll probably play both the C64 and MSDOS versions. www.mobygames.com/game/1485/gr...
Grave Yardage (1989) - MobyGames
Fantasy Football where monsters pummel each other and dodge landmines to make touchdowns!
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