Monday, September 19, 2011

Tiger Claw Radio #86 Featuring Darabka

Super Smash Land! Woot. Darabka joins me for an episode of TCR. Jam packed with fun stuff.



Download Episode 86


-Super Smash Brothers Demake "Super Smash Land"
http://geek.pikimal.com/2011/09/14/super-smash-land-releases-today/

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

TCR 85 - Featuring Shintai

This is a special stripped down episode with no intro, outro our chiptunes. I felt like I was cheaping out when I first sat down with Shintai to record this one, but what actually came out was better than the last few episodes I have put out. It's a nice change of pace with some cool surprises. Check it out.

Download Episode 85 here.



Sengoku!
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-SENGOKU/sengoku

GamersGate Sales this week
http://www.gamersgate.com/offers

 Minitroid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGgApXz0X68

Joy2Key
http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey%20English%20Version.htm

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Ultima, Gog, and the demise of Abandonware

     So apparently Gog is now charging 5.99 for Ultima 1, 2, and 3 in a collective pack. Ultima is a great game. I will most definitely give it that. I started playing through the first Ultima game again a couple months ago and you know what? I had a really good time with it for a couple of hours. We are talking about games that helped shape the future of game design. So now here they are in the Gog catalog for everyone to purchase.

     Let’s take a step back here. Imagine it is 1998. Remember those days on the internet? That was back when it was still cool to have AOL, and everyone was still using dial up. At that time, what was the best way to get ahold of a copy of a game like Police Quest 1 or Wing Commander or Ultima? There was no Gog that’s for sure. At that time some of those games were still being sold as part of collections. Ultima for example came in a collection which had all the classic Ultima games for 20 bucks. The price actually hasn’t changed that much considering if you buy all the Ultima games today off of gog, you’re going to pay 17.97. But the greater reality at that time was that classic PC games as a whole were not commercially available. The only ways to get them if they weren’t lucky enough to be part of a collection was to take a risk and eBay the old diskettes.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

TCR 84

I had my wisdom teeth out recently and instead of take the week off, I did a really short show on medication enjoy!


Download Episode 84 here.
Green Grappler (Freeware)

http://indiegames.com/2011/09/freeware_game_pick_green_grapp.html
-Duke Nukem Forever 2 will be better
http://kotaku.com/5835392/it-sounds-like-the-next-duke-nukem-game-will-be-better-and-will-be-revealed-soon