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Retro: My list of Atari ST 'canon' - games you simply must try before you can call yourself a nerd.
Thu, 16 Feb 2006

This is a non-exhaustive list of games I played or found otherwise interesting or significant on the almighty Atari ST. Of course I physically played hundreds more, but these I found interesting or amusing enough to comment about and thought they might help give focus to folks who never had an ST or the resources (*cough* BBS piracy *cough*) to see them all personally. This is of course just my list, and so won't include a lot of great titles other people enjoyed.. but what can you do? :)

This took *way* too much time to put together :)

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Gaming: Remembering Omega
Thu, 11 Aug 2005

Omega was released around 1988 or 1989 for numerous platforms, from 8-bitters like the Apple II through to 16/32-bit platforms like the Atari ST (and Amiga?) where I experienced it. Let me quickly summarize and say.. its a game whereby you assemble and arm robotic tanks and 'script' or 'code' their behaviour for combat in an area filled with other 'coded' tanks.

Historically, I know of a few (not many!) 'coder' games, such as the classic C-Robots (and variants), though at the time this was I think a first for me (aside from screwing with bad Logo samples in the Atari ST Logo book :) In the last few years a couple of games have come out like this, but its essentially a lost genre. While 'construction set' games (Adventure Construction Set, Pinball Construction Set, Wargame Construction Set...) flourished and eventually evolved into the enormously popular modding community we have now, there seems to be no active replacement for this interesting game style.

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Gaming: Reviewing Katamari Damacy for Playstation 2
Sun, 05 Jun 2005

I'm so proud -- not only did I find time to get into a game store and purchase a game but we find out its so good my wife got instantly addicted and played all day! (and I got 20 mins in too...) Yes folks, Katamari Damacy is as good as people have said, and in my opinion is a return to the old school days of creative entertainment - challenging without being stressful - an action puzzle game that entertains while making you giggle like a little kid again.

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