#Ad Activision - Pitfall! With Jack Black (Commercial, 1983)

Since people are talking about Jack Black's youtube gaming channel, here's a young JB in a 1983 Pitfall commercial!

#Design - CustomCoverArt PC Various STEAM releases

Please! Do not ask for these! This was a personal job, not outsourcing the work to other people. If you want me to work out something for you, I will do so for money only.

I got several games on steam over the last two years, so I decided to make some fake game cases for my collection. Mostly my game series and some of my recent favorites.

I'm not allowing the comments below to avoid the spam I usually get on these.

Design © Eyz 2017.
Game and work based on a propriety © various
Not for commercial use!

#Ad - Spider-Man (Atari 2600) Commercial 1982

Here's a fantastic vintage ad for the Atari Spider-Man game with perhaps the best Green Goblin I've ever seen!



The game itself wasn't that bad either.

1PanelReview RoboCop 2 (NES)

Your move, creep.

Can Alien/Predator/Terminator/RoboCop form a super-franchise? Check out the following reviews!!

Alien 1 - Aliens - Alien³ - Alien 4 / Prometheus
Aliens OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3 - Vol. 4 - Vol. 5
Inhuman Condition
Alien 3 (game) - Alien 3 (NES) / Alien Trilogy / Colonial Marines
Aliens vs. Predator OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2
Alien vs Predator (SNES) / Aliens versus Predator (PC) - AVP 2 - AVP (2010)
AVP 1 - AVP:R
Predator 1 - Predator 2 - Predators
Predator: Concrete Jungle (comics) / OMNIBUS Vol.1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3 - Vol. 4
Predator (NES) / Predator: Concrete Jungle (game)
Tarzan versus Predator / Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator

The Terminator - Judgment Day - Rise of the Machines - Salvation

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

The Terminator (Master System) - (Mega Drive)

The Terminator (PC) / 2029 - Rampage - Future Shock - SkyNET

Terminator: The Burning Earth / Terminator OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2

Terminator series (Dynamite) / Terminator Salvation Prequel

RoboCop Versus The Terminator (comics) - (game) / Terminator/RoboCop: Kill Human

 RoboCop - RoboCop 2 - RoboCop 3

RoboCop: The Series / Prime Directives

RoboCop (Nes)

RoboCop (Dark Horse Comics) / Frank Miller's RoboCop - RoboCop (Avatar Press)

RoboCop series (Dynamite)

1PanelReview Predator (NES)

If it bleeds 8-bit pixels, we can kill it!

Can Alien/Predator/Terminator/RoboCop form a super-franchise? Check out the following reviews!!

Alien 1 - Aliens - Alien 3 - Alien 4 / Prometheus
Aliens OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3 - Vol. 4 - Vol. 5
Inhuman Condition
Alien³ (game) / Alien Trilogy / Colonial Marines
Aliens vs. Predator OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2
Alien vs Predator (SNES) / Aliens versus Predator (PC) - AVP 2 - AVP (2010)
AVP 1 - AVP:R
Predator 1 - Predator 2 - Predators
Predator: Concrete Jungle (comics) / OMNIBUS Vol.1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3 - Vol. 4
Predator: Concrete Jungle (game)
Tarzan versus Predator / Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator

The Terminator - Judgment Day - Rise of the Machines - Salvation
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Terminator (Master System) - (Mega Drive)
The Terminator (PC) / 2029 - Rampage - Future Shock - SkyNET
Terminator: The Burning Earth / Terminator OMNIBUS Vol. 1 - Vol. 2
Terminator series (Dynamite) / Terminator Salvation Prequel
RoboCop Versus The Terminator (comics) - (game) / Terminator/RoboCop: Kill Human

 RoboCop - RoboCop 2 - RoboCop 3
RoboCop: The Series / Prime Directives
RoboCop (Nes)
RoboCop (Dark Horse Comics) / Frank Miller's RoboCop - RoboCop (Avatar Press)
RoboCop series (Dynamite)

VGR Darkman (NES)

And we're back,

This time we go back to the past, to play a not-so shitty game that doesn't really suck ass.

The monsters lurk Withing The Woods, read these reviews or you'll be Dead by Dawn!

The Evil Dead - Dead by Dawn - Army of Darkness
Hail to the King - A Fistful of Boomstick - Regeneration
The Evil Dead (comics) / Army of Darkness (comics) - Series 1 - Series 2 - Series 3
Army of Darkness vs Hack/Slash
Evil Dead The Musical
Evil Dead (remake)/Drag Me To Hell

Friday the 13th series - Friday the 13th (2009)
Book One (Wildstorm) - Book Two / Friday the 13th (Avatar Press)
Jason vs Leatherface / Freddy vs Jason
Elm Street series - A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (WildStorm) / A Nightmare on Elm Street (Avatar Press)
Halloween series - Halloween (2007) - HII (2009)
Halloween (Chaos! Comics)
One Good Scare - NightDance - 30 Years of Terror - The First Death of Laurie Strode
Final Exam
Silent Night, Deadly Night series - Part 1 &2 - Silent Night (2012)
Pumpkinhead 1
Chucky series - Curse of Chucky / Chucky (Devil's Due Publishing)
Candyman series
 Re-Animator series
Hatchet 1 - Hatchet 2 - Hatchet 3
Hack/Slash: My First Maniac - Me Without You - Omnibus Vol. 1 - Friday the 31st
Series 1 (DDP) - Hack/Slash Meets Zombies Vs Cheerleaders - Hack/Slash/Nailbiter - Series 2 (Image)
Revival Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3
Tucker & Dale / Cabin in the Woods
Darkman series
It's Alive series
Gremlins - Gremlins 2: The New Batch / Critters series / Tremors series
The Faculty / James Gunn's Slither
"Nada" and other scifi horror tales / John Carpenter's They Live
 Troll 2
The Thing from Another World / "Who Goes There?" and other scifi classics
John Carpenter's The Thing
The Thing from Another World (Dark Horse Comics) - Climate of Fear - Eternal Vows
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness / John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
 John Carpenter's Village of the Damned
Jacob's Ladder / Session 9 / John Carpenter's The Ward / Event Horizon
DeepStar Six / Leviathan / Lords of the Deep / The Evil Below / The Abyss
Deep Blue Sea

#Ad - Star Wars The Arcade Game TV Commercial (1983)

Here's an old crazy commercial for the Star Wars Atari game. It's a cult classic.

Check out this guy's over-the-top acting!

VGR Duck Amuck

Inside a DS cartridge, no one can hear a duck scream for help...

 We're all a little looney, and here's my other Looney Tunes-related reviews!

Looney Tunes Golden Collection / The Looney Tunes Show
Looney Tunes (Gameboy) / Space Race
Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time - Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters
Duck Dodgers
Daffy Duck (Master System) / Daffy Duck (Megadrive) / Daffy Duck (SNES)
Sheep, Dog 'n' Wolf
Taz-Mania / (MS) - (MD) - (SNES) - Taz in Escape from Mars / Taz Wanted
Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Tiny Toon Adventures - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Tiny Toons (Nes) / Trouble in Wackyland / Buster's Hidden Treasure / Buster Busts Loose!
Animaniacs / Pinky and the Brain
Space Jam / Back in Action
Bah, Humduck!

#Gaming NEWS! New Rollercoaster Tycoon trailer is out... looks like sh!t

As a long time old school fan of the original Rollercoaster Tycoon - spent so many hours on that game.. - I wasn't exactly expecting but curiout about the new game from Atari. I skipped all the previous sequels, but the idea of a new episode nowadays sounded fun. Why not?

And then they released the trailer for this upcoming RollerCoaster Tycoon World... and... just look:



"Hey, it starts out fine. It looks decent, I don't g..."

*cg-rendered cutscenes ends, gameplay begins*

"OH. MY. GOOOOOOOOD!!"

Am I the only that thinks the classic RcT games looked much better than this? Looks like some fanmade crappy mod...?!

VGR Ghostbusters The Video Game (Realistic Versions)

In anticipation to that recently-confirmed new Ghostbusters movie - whatever it is Sony Picture's doing with it - here's a review of "Ghostbusters The Video Game"!

This is the closest we're ever going to an actual Ghostbusters III!

Spook-tacular related reviews at the following links:

Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters (8-bit) / Ghostbusters II (Nes) / New Ghostbusters II / Sega's Ghostbusters
Real Ghostbusters / Real Ghostbusters (GB)
Extreme Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters and Evolution handheld games
Ghostbusters (manga) / Ghostbusters Legion
Evolution - Alienators: Evolution Continues

#MusicBOX brentalfloss - The Game Over Tinies

Big Brentalfloss fan here.

I think I never posted any of his videos/songs here, right?

Here's one of my favorite recent songs of his, from his last CD:

#EyzTalks - Survival Horror land

Today let's talk about a genre I love. Survival Horror!

I'm a fan of the genre... but even so I have to admit... Most of the genre's iconic series have gone completely off rails nowadays... like all the creators left, the teams changed every game and barely anyone who created those first games are still working on the new installments (which is exactly what has happened). Yes. People seem to have forgotten what most of these classic games have been about.

And now producers are forcing studios to churn in random generic games to conform to whatever is popular and selling now.. instead of, say, simply make new games.

A Silent Hill game shouldn't look or feel like a Resident Evil game and both should neither play to be Alone in the Dark. They all have their own strengths and their own spin of the genre.

How far from their respective original movie template have they gone these last few years?

#Gaming NEWS! More info on this new AitD6

Okay.

I'm not really feeling this new Alone in the Dark game... at all.

Atari has just launched this new official "hi-tech" website for the game. We're you'll find the same teaser trailer, a couple of screens and enough information to make an idea on the game.

I fear this time the series has really jumped the shark...

Sure the last reboot was really off, kinda rushed and left such mixed impressions... but at least the concept was somewhat decent and it had a great unique atmosphere. (Really, having Central Park has a setting was pretty original in itself)

Apparently this Alone in the Dark: Illumination will bring back the H.P. Lovecraft aesthetics. So there's that at least.

But they describe it as a reinvention of the series. A "survival action horror". That means it's really a FPS action game this time.

There four playable characters - not "characters" and not "scenarios" as in the original and 4th game. Called "the Hunter, the Witch, the Priest and the Engineer". That means 4 classes and not actual protagonists. "Each offering a unique gameplay experience".

Man. They went all Left 4 Dead on us? Why not simply make a new IP then, Atari?!? Why???

The game will feature co-op multiplayer. Yeah, really nailing for the Left 4 Dead/Borderlands-type, are ya? The goal is to battle zombies the darkness. Sigh. And you can "create safe zones" with the "power of illumination". Again, yeah. Totally feels like an arcade-ysh/deathmatch experience instead of an actual adventure game like the original... why didn't they release the remake of the original classic instead again? The game will this time take place in an abandoned town in Virginia. Stuff happening down the local mines. Monsters. A facility. Etc.

The "hunter" guy picture above is supposedly a direct descendant of Edward Carnby - looks like they decided to go back to AitD4, kinda. He even has kind of the same face/design. The "witch" is also apparently the great-granddaughter of Emily Hartwood, the sadly forgotten second character of the original game. The rest of the cast is pretty forgettable to be honest... For all I care, the game could have feature three different playable incarnations of Carnby, it wouldn't change how generic and random this whole thing feels like...

The whole "Inspired by HP Lovecraft" really nails it in the ground, since I suppose they just mean cashing in on the name and adding a few tentacles to monsters here and there...

The best thing to come out of this entire game is probably this above concept art. If only they could surprise us and manage to recapture the feel of the original game... sigh..

#PAX News! Atari has some new games I might be interested in

Atari will be resurrecting some of the ol' franchises they obtained over the years.

First of all, one of my childhood favorites is making a comeback! Early next year exclusively on PC there's gonna be a "RollerCoaster Tycoon: World"!



I miss this series. I kinda only played THOUSANDS of hours of the first one and its original expansion (as well as a little of the second one). Glad to see it still exists.

Hopefully they'll avoid silly DLCs/micro-transaction traps that the last Sim City proved to be a bad idea.

Finally, there's some news regarding the new Alone in the Dark!

It's called a Alone in the Dark: Illumination, its PC exclusive as well. And here's the teaser trailer:



Hopefully more will be revealed soon.

But from the looks of it, this might be played in First Person (that wasn't just for the trailer I guess)... Mmmh.. Not sure I like the sound of that.

At best it will be an innovative experience in the style of the Amnesia series. At worst, it's just a cheap cash in on the "Playable Trailer" of the upcoming Silent Hills game.

And finally, another old Infogrames IP they decided to resurect, here's the trailer for Haunted House: Cryptic Graves:



This one shows a lot more of the design, the environments and the atmosphere.

Haunted House will be an adventure/puzzle/mystery.

For those who don't know, Haunted House was an old classic Atari game, which partially went on inspiring survival horrors a decade later:

The game was remade in a cartoony semi-sequel for the Wii, later re-released on Xbox Live:

Not to be confused with the unrelated PS2/Gamecub/Xbox game developed by High Voltage Software:

From the looks of the appropriate scenery, it sounds like Haunted House turned into Alone in the Dark, and Alone in the Dark turned a Condemned-sort of horror FPS.

Wait and see~

#Gaming NEWS! Alone in the Dark: Illumination officialized

We have a title for the rumored new episode of Alone in the Dark.

Apparently it will be titled  Alone in the Dark: Illumination.

The game is being developed by a random new studio called "Pure FPS". And this surprise announcement is actually already planned for a release LATER THIS YEAR!?!?!?

I'm not feeling this "Pure FPS" studio. I mean, they have friggin' FPS in their name!!!

So will it be another reboot? A direct sequel to either the last game or the original trilogy? Or simply a reimagining/remake of the original game (a remake was rumored not that long ago, actually). Who knows. Some news are expected to come from PAX soon, since the game is supposedly coming LATER THIS YEAR!!!!

VGR Leisure Suit Larry 1

Since I just recently finished playing through the Kickstarter-financed Reload remake recently, here's a review of the original!

A "graphic" adventure game that took its title a bit too literally.

Don't worry, it's all played for laughs, it's just a parody!

Don't miss out my previous Adventure games-related reviews!

Secret of Monkey Island / LeChuck's Revenge / Curse of MI / Escape from MI

VGR Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Nes)

Finally! I finally was able to reach the end of the original NES Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! It's 2am here as I decide to write this review nonetheless.

Did you know Turtles can drown in water? Like instantaneously? That's a thing I learned from this game...

Find more TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA REVIEWS on this very same blog!

Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / The Secret of the Ooze / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Next Mutation / TMNT (2007) / Turtles Forever

VGR Assault on Dark Athena

The new Riddick film is going to be released by the end of this week, in most places 'round the world.

Let's celebrate that with a review of the last Riddick videogame to date!

Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark of these reviews:

Pitch Black / Dark Fury / The Chronicles of Riddick
Escape from Butcher Bay

VGR Shinobi

I am proud to present you a review of the original Shinobi here on my blog!

Aka Sega's least marketable mascot for children! (he might have been more of a badass than Alex Kidd, but he didn't had Sonic's all-ages appeal..)

VGR Ghostbusters (8-bit)

It's time to enter the realm of Ghostbusters-inspired merchandising!

First, credit where credit's due, where it all began...

Spook-tacular related reviews at the following links:

Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters 2