The Infinity Engine by BioWare is synonymous with great RPGs. You think Infinity Engine, you think Planescape: Torment, or Baldur’s Gate. Or Icewind Dale. All great level-grinding adventures and all published by Interplay in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
Continue reading To Infinity And Beyond: The Infinity Engine Games
Jordan Mechner‘s classic platform game, Prince of Persia, was initially released on the Apple II in 1989. It was very special in a number of ways.
The Intellivision video game console was launched by Mattel Electronics in 1979. It was a direct competitor to the Atari VCS (aka the 2600) and doesn’t tend to get much love, because – like the Atari 2600 – the games are pretty basic. The disc-like controllers were unorthodox too, although each controller does have a numeric keypad, which allows for some complex gaming.
The Famicom Disk System (FDS) was a peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) that allowed games to be loaded from disk rather than cartridge. Not only that but it also had extra RAM on board and an extra sound chip.
The BBC Micro was a British invention – a range of 8-bit home computers, backed and branded by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and mostly pushed into schools.
This week I’m going to be featuring grabs from the classic games of legendary American developer Cinemaware.
The Atari 8-bit home computer range played host to a large variety of ground-breaking games in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, and this week we’re going to be celebrating that fact.
Derek Brewster is a British game developer who made a name for himself in the 1980s.
He created a large variety of games for a number of different systems, but is probably best known for his work on the ZX Spectrum.
It’s time for another random celebration of video gaming goodness! This time: of games beginning with the letter ‘B’… 🙂
Enjoy,
The King of Grabs
Here’s a full run-down of what was published:
Ballblazer, Atari 7800
Booty, ZX Spectrum
Bomb Jack, Arcade
Bonanza Bros., Megadrive
Booga-Boo, MSX
Brainstorm, Commodore 64
Bomberman ’94, PC Engine
Bubsy, Atari Jaguar
Bobby Bearing, ZX Spectrum
Battle Valley, Commodore 64
Breath of Fire, Super Nintendo
Breath of Fire II, Super Nintendo
BMX Kidz, Commodore 64
Battlecruiser 3000AD, PC
Bubble Ghost, Atari ST
Bubble Ghost, Amstrad CPC
Bubble Ghost, Game Boy
Braxx Bluff, ZX Spectrum
Bounder, Commodore 64
As 2018 draws to a close we wish you a happy new year, 2019.
Keep on grabbing!
Best Wishes,
The King of Grabs
The King of Grabs 