By 9572AD on October 5, 2009
Anyone who started gaming with the SNES or later can just turn away and go about your business right now. This is not the game for you, and you are unlikely to understand how it could hold any appeal. For those who spent years gaming on 8-bit home computers, though, this nouveau retro game could [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, Bailout!, ChefTeslaCoil, code gifted, Genre: Classics, Recommended
By 9572AD on September 15, 2009
Well, I’ll be dipped if I can recall what the name of the original game was, but I know I’ve played more than one variation of it over the years. That “push balls into balls of the same color with physics” game. You know the one? Gogs is that game, too.
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, Genre: Classics, Gogs, Gogs is also the developer, self purchased
By oddbob on September 3, 2009
Ah, the end of the school holidays, the return of life as we know it. Time, if ever, to take a look at some more games. First off the block, Jungle Blocks.
We all know the drill by now with Breakout don’t we? There’s a bat, there’s some blocks, hit the blocks with a ball using [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, Arkanoid / Break Out, Danny Tuppeny, Genre: Classics, Jungle Blocks
By 9572AD on August 20, 2009
NINJA TRAIN is a three-level score-attack game where you use your ninja skills to run, jump, shadow-clone and cape-glide your way to as many gold coins as possible. It’s replete with lovely chunky pixels and luscious music, but the control seems a bit non-responsive at times and the view from a train traveling parallel obscures [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, dot zo games, freebie?, Genre: Classics, NINJA TRAIN
By 9572AD on August 2, 2009
It’s baaaaaaaack! After being pulled from the service seven or eight months ago for an overhaul, Block Fight! has popped up again.
However, aside from some graphical improvement (and possibly some AI tweaks, unless I’m imagining the computer playing a bit better), nothing much has changed. The menu screen with the “XBox Live” selection that does [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 80 Points, 9572AD, Block Fight!, Genre: Classics, Pong, xXTomK2007xx
By AnonymousTipster on June 25, 2009
And so, the fourth title to be reviewed that begins with ‘Battle’ is Battle Ball. Although it’s less of a battle with the ball, but more of a battle with yourself at how long you can continue playing this dull pong clone without your brain liquifying and slowly dribbling out your nose.
Battle Ball is the [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 200 Points, AnonymousTipster, Battle Ball, Genre: Classics, Jhample, Pong
By 9572AD on April 27, 2009
You held me up. Held me down. Made me crazy then you brought me around. Were my darkness and my light. You were my blindness and my sight. Were my shelter and my storm. Made me cold then you made me warm. You were my fever and my cure. Made me doubt and you made [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 200 Points, 9572AD, Arkanoid / Break Out, ArkX, Genre: Classics, ralph78fr, Teapot Studio
By 9572AD on April 14, 2009
The walls between dimensions are breaking down, and classic arcade gameplay has gone mental. Figure out how to Break In the level so you can proceed to your next challenge and hopefully sort out this mess.
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 200 Points, 9572AD, Arkanoid / Break Out, Break In, duality72, Genre: Classics, self purchased
By HeelTaker on April 10, 2009
The oddly punctuated Tanks.V.S from developer benNewbury is a classic arcade game eerily similar to another game where you control a square tank and try and shoot down other square tanks through a variety of seemingly randomly generatedly basicly levelsly (okay I’ll stop now), and that’s about all there is to it.
I could go on [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 200 Points, benNewbury, Genre: Classics, HeelTaker, Tanks.V.S
By HeelTaker on March 21, 2009
Okay the guy or guys at Stoner Studio (unbelievably original name BTW) obviously took heavy inspiration from the utter gem of a mini-game Gnat Attack from Mario Paint on the Super Nintendo.
The only problem is that it’s nowhere near as good in many ways. The controls are wonky at best, the graphics are actually less [...]
Posted in Xbox 360 Indie | Tagged 200 Points, crazzy stoner, Genre: Classics, HeelTaker, The Exterminator
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