Seeing how I'm going to be spending most of the month moving house, I figured I'd put up an update in a somewhat timely matter. The big article this time is the Guide to Japanese Computers, which catalogues the several unique PCs that were popular in Japan in the 80s and 90s, including some of the more notable games. Other review include Dark Seed, Cyberdreams' horror game features H. R. Giger artwork and is arguably the spiritual predecessor to Silent Hill; Jim Power, the European action hero; and Recettear, EasyGameStation's economic/dungeon crawling sim which was recently translated into English and released in digital distribution channels.
You'll also notice that the main page has been redone quite a bit. It's been a long time coming, but the old index page was getting way too bloated. The original catalog can be found in the Alphabetical listing.
DARK SEED!!! I was trying to think of the name of that game for some time to mention it to you. Nice to see it appear on the main site.
ReplyDeleteNice, I always wanted to know more about Japanese PCs. To be honest, my Dad always had an IBM-PC(I don't know if they even had clones yet; this was the late eighties early nineties) and to me that was always what a PC was, so I don't know about things like the amiga or tandy either. By the time I got a PC of my own, I think windows 2k was already out.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the house move! Doing so with a massive games collection is at best a horrendous nightmare. Hope it goes smoothly.
ReplyDeleteI always liked the look of the main page, but I have to say, the new layout looks really sharp, not to mention clean. Good stuff.
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