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Warcraft Retro Gaming Sets the Stage for Popular Games Today

Millions of people around the world know the word Warcraft but associate it only with the MMO sensation World of Warcraft. Many of these gamers don’t realize that before there was a full world of Warcraft there were just a few Orcs and Humans. The original game was actually titled Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. The [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: The Human Race for Commodore 64

      What can we say about “The Human Race”, developed by John D. Ferrari and released by Mastertronic, in 1985, for the Commodore 64? Well, the inlay card says it all, “Play the game that took 35 million years to create!!!” – if three exclamation marks isn’t enough then I just don’t know what is [...]

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Retro Game Lookback: Horace Goes Skiing For ZX Spectrum

    Horace Goes Skiing, from William Tang for Beam Software, was released in 1982 on the Sinclair label (at least the Sinclair ZX Spectrum version was), which also conveyed the “Software by Psion with Melbourne House” collaboration for distribution. Horace was one of the earliest popular character brands on home computer games – appearing from [...]

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Is It Possible To Play Games And Be Secure?

Is It Possible To Play Games And Be Secure?

Let’s face it, when playing processor intensive games it is tricky enough getting good performance, even on the top end machines, but when you have your machine loaded with the required internet security and protection software it can often drag gaming performance right down – and who needs that? The last thing you need when [...]

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Trade Wars: A Legend in Gaming

Trade Wars: A Legend in Gaming

One of the first and long time favorite multiplayer games was Trade Wars. This was one of the earliest computer games and has been known by different names over the years and also had different variations of it since. The game dates back to the earliest days of computer gaming and has major influences from [...]

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Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Retro Multiplayer Gaming

Street Fighter 2 Turbo, Retro Multiplayer Gaming

Gamers used to argue over the best genre of game. Most all of your gaming friends had a preference of one game genre over another and we all knew that kid that just wouldn’t play anything but one type of game. Street Fighter 2 Turbo was the exception to the rule. Almost every kid knew [...]