Gaming Nostalgia – Attactix Games
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So who ever owned any of these?
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01/5/17
01/3/17
The Tuesday Interview – Bob Smith of Oriental Empires
Bob Smith pays GrogHeads a visit~
Lloyd Sabin (and Boggit!), 3 January 2017
You clearly have a long, proud history in historical PC gaming, which younger readers may not know about. Games like ‘Arnhem,’ ‘Desert Rats,’ and ‘Operation Vulcan’ are remembered very fondly. What is your favorite game of yours from that era and why?
Of the wargames, probably Desert Rats, because I like big sweeping games. Of all the games I did in my first stint as an independent developer, my favorite is probably Armada 2525, because I had so much fun playing it with my friends (who usually used to beat me).
What were some of the difficulties you faced in the 1980s when producing those early games?
The machines were very limited, you had to think about every byte of RAM. I remember being up at 3am trying to find 3 bytes of memory to finish Desert Rats, with a bike coming at 7 to take the master tape to the duplicators. The development environments were very limited too. I used to write everything out on paper, because the editors were so bad, and once your program got too big to fit into RAM with the assembler, it could take as much as an hour to make a new version.
12/31/16
IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad – Tante Ju!
With the recent release of the Ju 52/3m g4e for IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad, 1C Game Studios and 777 Studios have given digital pilots the chance to fly an iconic, yet rarely simulated German workhorse from the Second World War. Now, pilots can fly Falschirmjagers over drop zones, carry critical cargo to and from the front lines, and participate in a handful of other mission types that are a pleasant break from the usual intercept, patrol and close air support missions that all of the other aircraft presently in game were designed to tackle. Recently, our beloved forum denizen, Jarhead0331, joined the Luftwaffe and somehow managed to live to tell us about his first flight in a Ju 52 over the Eastern Front.
Take a look at the following series of screenshots and find out if Jarhead was able to keep his plane in one piece.
Craig H. Handler, 30 December 2016
12/29/16
No, Really, The Last Call For Reader’s Choice Award Nominations
GrogHeads Newsdesk, 29 December 2016
Every year we collect your suggestions for the very best in gaming from the year, and after we sift and sort, let you choose the winners.
Every year we get someone complain about “why wasn’t (your favorite game here) on the list?!” And every year, it’s the same answer – none of y’all nominated it! So here’s your chance for a pre-emptive strike against that complaining.
Once we get all your suggestions in, and we actually get to the end of the year, we’ll open the voting for the month of January and see what you pick.
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12/25/16
Merry Christmas, GrogHeads!
If you need us, we’ll be here, quaffing a pint, for the next few days.
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