Games From The Black Hole
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Old post! Core Design’s Universe may not be the best point n click adventure but its stunning hard sci-fi backdrops make it well worth a play. gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2021/06/06/u...
Universe – 1994: A SPAC Odyssey
Of all the point and click adventures in the Nineties, Core Design’s Universe doesn’t seem as fondly remembered as the more famous games from Lucasarts, Sierra or Revolution. Maybe that’s because i…
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Out now! Download for free at worm.net Thanks to @stinkyox.bsky.social for letting us do a Llamasoft level. It’s been an honour, and my favourite level in the game!
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
the Console Archives title you've all been waiting on is finally here: Love-de-lic's 1999 PlayStation adventure game UFO -A day in the life- (and no, it's not translated) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dUAzBEHjM
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Issue 44 of Amiga Addict is out! We're looking at the exciting new Head Over Heels sequel, Return to Blacktooth from @thalamusdigital.bsky.social. With interviews with original dev Colin Porch and port supremo h0ffman, plus our review, you'll know all you need! addict.media #Amiga #AmigaAddict
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Old post! Donut Dodo isn’t just inspired by arcade games of old, it feels every bit the classic as one… gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2024/04/21/d...
Donut Dodo – Classic arcade games aren’t extinct!
The year of release might say 2022 but Donut Dodo is a modern indie game that presents itself as a lost arcade game from 1983. It’s not unusual for indie games to throw back to the visual styles an…
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One new arrival this week… This is the first issue of Compile’s “Disc Station” for MSX, released in 1988. Across two disks there’s a bunch of demos, including a special version of Aleste with unique level arrangements and bonus full game, 1983’s Megalopolis SOS.
The Making Of: Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - "Costner Was Uncomfortable With Having His Face In A Violent Game".
The Making Of: Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves - "Costner Was Uncomfortable With Having His Face In A Violent Game"
"As with all games from that era, time was our enemy"
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Credits and Capers – The 25ish games of Lupin The Third
First published in 1967, Lupin The Third is one of Japan’s most prolific pop culture icons and international exports. Conceived as a spiritual descendant of French literary thief, Arsène Lupin, and…
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Timeproof Games@timeproof.games · last wk.Lupin Sansei: Pyramid no Kenja (Saturn, Vantan International, 1998)
Oh boy. The description makes it sound like this will be even closer to Maniac Mansion. Which is a good thing!
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w agoThimbleweed Park 2 announced, coming 2028 store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/...
I’ve been totally addicted to the brand new Culdcept Begins this month. First time with the series and totally gripped by its card/board game blend. Very much looking forward to this translated port of the original when it hits Switch…
SEGA SATURN, SHIRO!@segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 2w agoWe have a newly English-translated Saturn game — and it's an official one, no less! Culdcept the First launched on Steam today, and SHIRO! has all the details: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/07/29/c... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #retrogames #videogames #セガ #セガサターン #steam #pcgaming
Wow wow wow… The latest episode of X-Men 97. I don’t think anything onscreen has ever captured the magic, the drama or the relevance of the comics as much as this one episode. Simply brilliant.
Beautiful stage from an underrated fighting game… gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/k...
The King Of Fighters 2000 – Millennium Bugs
The year 2000: a brand new decade, a new century, and a new millennium. Fear of world-ending computer bugs aside, it was a time for optimism, of new beginnings. Except in the case of SNK whose fant…
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Videogame Beaches🏳️⚧️@videogamebeach.bsky.social · 2w agoAquarium (The King of Fighters 2000, Arcade-PC-DC-NeoGeo AES-PS2-PS4-XOne-Switch, SNK, 2000)
Today is the 40th anniversary of the MSX version of Gradius/Nemesis, so let’s read a timely but also somehow unseasonal old post about it… gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/n...
Nemesis – The Games Of Christmas Past #4
While the previous three posts in this series have focused on games I was given for Christmas during my childhood years, the gift of Nemesis on MSX was much more recent. I unwrapped Konami’s 1986 s…
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What’s the consensus on Marvel Tokon then? I’ve only played the tutorial so far. Very fun and colourful but there’s a ton of combinations to remember and feels like most players might end up just mashing buttons. It’s totally different to a Capcom game, which is a good thing, but perhaps not better
Book Launch Day! Ys and Other Falcom Classics, and Metal Gear, Silent Hill, and Other Konami Classics now available! www.hardcoregaming101.net/book-launch-...
"So that's what things would be like if I'd invented the Fing-longer." I find myself saying this surprisingly often!
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 3w agoWhat's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."
Today is the tenth anniversary of Ys VIII, a game I loved so much it inspired me to start my blog back in 2020… Happy birthday Ys VIII, you literally changed my life! gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/y...
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa Of DANA – Falling for Falcom
Have you ever gotten into a game series several decades and multiple sequels after it began? It doesn’t happen all that much to me these days – mostly due to the “I know what I like” syndrome that …
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New blog post time! This week's game is Nyorols, a mysterious MSX maze game from 1983 that approaches the genre in an unusual way. Instead of pure evasion, you rely on a combination of summoning clones and kicking your enemies, both of which have positive and negative consequences: #blog #gaming
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It’s so rare that I have to think about how to play a game “correctly” (execution is usually the barrier over understanding with most games of this vintage) that I found Nyorols to be a fascinating…
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Make a Wish - 1st Place Winner in the Revision 2025 Old Skool Graphics Compo. An Amiga ECS/OCS 16 colour palette put to fantastic use. 💜
Reminder that Curious Video Game Machines is just £14 at the moment, the cheapest it's ever been! Plus there are loads of other great gaming books for not much money in the Pen & Sword summer sale :) www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Curious-Vide...
Old post! How to make any sequel better… Add a dog! gamesfromtheblackhole.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/s...
Shadow Dancer: The Secret Of Shinobi – Top dog
Shadow Dancer: The Secret Of Shinobi is something of a strange outlier in the wider Shinobi lineage. It was the second game in the series to launch on Mega Drive but is not a sequel to Revenge Of S…
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Odysseus spent 20 years at sea before returning to his wife and son, but if I take 3 hours of Sunday to see his film I am, apparently, “a bit selfish”
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Boktai – The sun is sometimes in your hand
When I first heard about Boktai as an obsessive gamer in my early twenties, I knew I just had to play it. This was Hideo Kojima’s first release for a Nintendo system… A new vampire killing adventur…
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Hideo Kojima@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 3w ago
