‘Games’ Archives
Giant Metal Robot
I used to wake up at night in a cold sweat, having dreamed that I was a small girl trapped atop the roof of a building, with a small dog, while being inexplicably chased by skeletons. While I lay there awake, too terrified to go back to sleep, I’d often hope that in just one of those dreams there would be something that could protect me, should I go back to that place. There never was. As I grew older, the dreams became less frequent, but they’d still come. It would become [...]
Space Invaders: Infinity Gene
I remember the first time I played Space Invaders; it wasn’t Space Invaders, for one thing, but a knock-off variant on my uncle’s CPC464, and I found it a bit bland and went back to playing Firelord. A few years later, I’d played the proper version of it, and grown to enjoy the version that YS covermounted in its dying days. Many of the modern variants have left me cold, but Infinity Gene makes me glow warmly. It is a good game. The graphics are teeny-tiny, but this doesn’t [...]
Orbital
This game has stolen many, many hours of my time since RevStu recommended it some months ago. A colourful, physics-based shooty strategy puzzler thing, in which there is no plot. Your laser cannon sits at the bottom of the screen rocking gently from left to right, in a kind of repetitive motion that reminds me of a senile old lady stroking a puppy which just wants to run and play outside in the mud. You press your finger on the screen, and an orb (you see) fires out. That orb will [...]
