Two great xbox 360 pickups with first impressions of one of those games which is a Cave Shmup.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ElectricAdventures
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteveBenway

Sountrack:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ZombieAndy1979

Dr Retro/Sjoerd organized a retro-fair/convention in the South of the Netherlands. It was the first time he did this and for a lot of folks it proved to be a great success.

I went there together with the Wife, Halfblindgamer and MrCustard.

I myself was hoping to find a TurboDuo to replace my fried unit but to no avail. Mr Custard got away with almost all the shmups for the TG16/PCEngine in one go, for about 10 Euros each. HalfBlindGamer got a bunch of 3DO games for 20 Euros and I got a cool deal as well. Go check out the video.

The Soundtrack was created by SynthMonkey / ZombieAndy1979

In this video I am trying to play Thunderfox on the Atari 8-bit home computer range (800XL/130XE) and I talk a bit about the game, life, the universe and everything on the side.

Thunderfox appears to be a Uridium clone - or as close to Uridium as you are going to get on the Atari I reckon. It plays a tad different though - so different in fact that I have no idea how to play this.

Challenge time, this time for OutRun 2! It is a game that came out on the original Xbox but as this game was added to the Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility List it is possible to play this original Xbox game on an Xbox 360, you don't need an original xbox to participate just either Xbox and a copy of the OutRun 2 game and start the drifting Challenge:
- select OutRun challenge
- select OutRun missions
- select Drift (Drift 0.1)

If you like post a video custom response with your game footage, be creative. If you manage to get a triple AAA score in the Drifting challenge and post a video response you participate in a random draw for a trophy/prize (random.org) that I will give away (participants world wide accepted). This challenge will be open for entries until the end of February 2012. When it is closed (CLOSED) will have appeared behind the title of this video.

With a couple of small video-clips I want to share my Minecraft experience as this single/multiplayer first person survival game which is still in beta and constantly under development has captured my heart. The game is well known for its unique graphical style consisting of simplistic 8bit like graphics mapped onto 3D polygons.

The main premise of the game is to survive in a randomly generated world that is unique. Trying to harvest resources and survive within this 3D realm. The gameplay is constantly evolving and the creators have added specific modes like a multiplayer mode and a creative mode. The videos below will show a combination of the last two modes. In creative mode the survival game mechanics are abandoned and the player is presented with a world in which resources can be used solely for creative purposes in single or multiplayer modes.

The latest, and to me most exciting mode, will be 'Adventure mode'. Some players already have been experimenting with this mode in which a group of players ventures out in a specifically created world that contains specific secrets and tasks to perform - much like a dungeons and dragons game. Random elements of gameplay can be introduced like friends and foes and the player has weapons, spells and potions aid in the quest.

Mind you I captured below footage with CamStudio screen capture software resulting in choppy framerates. The actual gameplay is very smooth and it runs great on my old Pentium IV 2.0GHz, 3Gb, NVidia 6200 AGP WindowsXP machine, my Core2Duo PC and Nvidia PCIe card, my MacBook 2.4Ghz Intel Nvidia 9400M running OSX 10.5.x and 10.6.x and 10.7.x. I have tested it on my OSX 10.4.11 PPC machine, my Netbook running Ubuntu 11.04. System requirements and downloads of the game can be found on http://www.minecraft.net

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