Archive for the ‘Old Skool’ Category

Jumpman is retro, fun, and free

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Jumpman, (no, not Jumpman), is a game for Mac/PC/Linux/iPhone with the look and feel of an Atari-era puzzle-platformer but with a few interesting twists thrown in. It’s fun! You can download it for *free* and give it a whirl. If you like it, consider shelling out a mere $2.99 for the iPhone version to support the creator.

Speaking of the creator, who seems to go by Mechanically Separated Meat, he (she?) sounds like a very smart and interesting fellow whose blog posts include lengthy discussions on Quantum Physics. His hacked SNES9X code for rendering multiple attempts on Super Mario World is particularly interesting.

PS, I found this guy via TouchArcade. (Bit Pilot is good too!)

Two Indie Retro Shooters and Bootleg Demakes

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Nobody Shooter for Windows XP is a Gameboy-esque demake of another indie game, Everyday Shooter. Scramble to collect gems in an asteroids like environment. More bootleg de-makes here!!!

nobodyshooter

ポケコンでシューティング (Pocket-Computer Shooting) feels like 1942 but with a Space Invaders motif played on a Gameboy and much harder! It was found on wonderfl, a site for online communal Flash development, and uses the AS3 implementation of CannonML, a script language for creating games with large numbers of bullets on the screen.

pokecon-de-shooting

Note: neither game is very groundbreaking, just thought the links were interesting.

Whatever you do…

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Don’t Shit Your Pants!

Old school controls

Old school controls

Don't forget to "look"

Don't forget to "look"