The dungeon

Now you see me, now you don’t

Amiga games:

Gadget: Lost in Time
Galactic Warrior Rats
Galaxy 89
Gamma Zone
Genesia
Georg Glaxo
Germ Crazy
Ghost Battle
Ghostbusters 2
Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins
Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts
Globdule
G.Nius
Gnome
Godfather, The
Golden Path
Gold of the Aztecs, The
Gold Rush!
Grand Monster Slam
Grand Prix Circuit
Gunboat: River Combat Simulation

Got it?

PC and consoles:

The Horde (Saturn, 1996)
Panzer General (PC and PlayStation, 1994)
Virtual Hydlide (Saturn, 1995)

Amiga games:

Safari Guns
Sarakon
Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo
Scrabble De Luxe
Seven Cities of Gold
Seymour goes to Hollywood
Shadowlands
Shaq Fu
Space Hulk
Starglider
Starglider 2
Super Seymour Saves the World

We’re going to talk about chance, role-playing games and hype, and we’re not going to agree!

PC and consoles:

Darkest Dungeon (PC, 2016)
Divinity: Original Sin 2 (PC, 2017)
Baldur’s Gate 3 (PC, 2023)

It’s not what was planned, but neither is love at first sight.…

PC and consoles:

Warzone 2100 (PlayStation, 1999)
Warzone 2100 Project (PC, 2005)

PC and consoles:

Rain World (PC, 2017)
The perfect title to kick off the school year!

I’m going to try to continue posting something every two months. After 23 years of tinkering with the site, I’ve only just found my update rhythm. We’ll see how long this bold resolution lasts… Second resolution: learn how to use a spell checker. I was motivated enough to fix the typography on hundreds of pages, powered by ŗ̴̰̎e̴̱͐͊g̶̛͍̃̀u̴̮͑l̷̢̐̀̾̑a̴̻̋̍͊r̵̘̣̘̉͛̀̚͜ ̴͕̬̘̋͊̊̓ȅ̸̲̋ͅẍ̵͕̘̳̈́p̸̦̪̞̭̎̚͠r̸̳̫̈́̈́͛͝ë̶̝̮s̴̖͎͔̓͗s̵̝̯̎̿̈́̌ï̸̧̡̮̣ő̸̤͇͖̉̇̚ṋ̷̓.̵̧͂̊͘͝ This may have caused a few layout glitches, which I encourage you to let me know about. And any typo spotting is also appreciated!

From one thing to the next:

Donkey Kong (Game Boy, 1994)
Mega Man Battle Network 3 (GBA, 2003)
A paragraph on chess,
and a and a dedicated links page.

Coming next…

PC and consoles:

Mystic Quest (Game Boy, 1991-1993)
Heretic (PC, 1994-1996)
Hexen (PC, 1995)
Outer Wilds (PC, 2019)

Admire my skill:

Hands-free and while doing the dishes!

PC and consoles:

Grounded (PC, 2022)
Monster Train (PC, 2020)

A terrible doubt grips me: could I have already covered most of the best Amiga games? I still have a thousand left on my list… Good thing I know how to pitch them. Hey, don’t leave!

Amiga:

Pacific Islands
Panza Kick Boxing
Paragliding Simulation
Paramax
Passagers du vent, Les
Pawn, The
Pegasus
Pengo
Perfect General, The
Phantom Fighter
Pharaoh
Photon Storm
Phuk the World
Pinball Prelude
Pink Panther
Pinkie
Pioneer Plague, The
Pit-Fighter
Plague, The
Platoon
Plotting
Plutos
POD
Pot Panic
Power Drift
Prime Mover
Prison
Prospector in the Mazes of Xor
Psyborg
Puggsy
Pyramax

Exhumed (Sega Saturn, 1996)
It’s Animated GIF Day…

Why am I putting myself through this? Because I’m on vacation and the Internet’s down, of course! My next “exhumation” will be a killer, to make up for it…

Dark Savior (Sega Saturn, 1996)
Mega Man X Command Mission (PlayStation 2/Game Cube, 2004)

During my painful overhaul to bring the site up to standards (HTML 5), I took the opportunity to tweak the layout by adding a fourth slot for displaying screenshots. Just a quick copy-paste job on some 900 pages (the only function I’ve truly mastered).

What I had slightly underestimated was the time required to gather all those images: launching 900 games (in an Amiga emulator, averaging three or four tries each), then getting far enough because this was for the fourth screenshot, and we already had shots from levels 1 and 2.

So, I slogged through every single one in alphabetical order! It took me two years, with a months-long hiatus around the “F” section. An indescribable sense of despair set in as I waded through endless flight simulators…

All this to let you know that there are now four images instead of three. And the first person to grumble about the update frequency (or “helpfully” suggest adding a fifth)—I’ll put them in a frame and hang them up myself!

It’s time to update the Mega Man section! I’ve heard a new one came out … fifteen years ago. Wait, how old does that make me?

Mega Man Maverick Hunter X (PSP, 2006)
Mega Man Powered Up (PSP, 2006)
Mega Man 9 (PC, 2008)
Mega Man 10 (PC, 2010)
Mega Man 11 (PC, 2018)

Following Mr. Adobe Flash©’s default block by Mr. Google Chrome, I’m announcing the site’s conversion to HTML 5.0!

To be honest, I didn’t even know HTML 2 existed. You can’t imagine how much I struggled to catch up on twenty years of “progress”. I spent half a day relearning how to adjust text size, for example.

<font size=12>

That was before. It was simple, it was accessible, so of course, it had to be reformed!
Anyway, like Beatrix Kiddo, staring with determination at her big toe, I slowly regained my esteemed faculties…
Who am I kidding?

Amiga:

Hägar
Halley Project, The
Hammer Boy
Hard Drivin’
Hard ‘n’ Heavy
Harley Davidson
H.A.T.E.
Hawkeye
Head over Heels
Heimdall 2
Helter Skelter
Hero Quest 2
Hero’s Quest
Historyline 1914-1918
Hoi
Hook
Horror Zombies from the Crypt
Hotshot
Human Killing Machine
Hydra
Hydrocis

And since we’re not afraid of heated controversies, I’ve revised my grading scale to spread the scores out more. There were too many 7s and 8s for my liking. So, you might notice that your favorite game ended up with a 5 or a 6, and you might complain about it, but I’ll remind you that I passed my high school exams with less than that!

Du Q, du Q, du Q! Avec le moins de “turel” possible!
[Please explain to me how to translate that! – Ed.]
[Q, Q, Q! With as little “quibble” as possible! – ChatGPT]
[Well, I haven’t got better. – Ed.]

Amiga:

Q-bic
Quadralien
Quantox
Quartz
Questron 2
Quik the Thunder Rabbit
Quintette

In these times perfect for a little depression, how about an anxiety-inducing and solitary game where you’ll spend time in confined spaces, under the threat of an unknown contagious disease… Oh. Oops.

Never mind, it’s done: Subnautica (PC, 2018).

Clearing out old dead links. A-wimoweh, a-wimoeh! (Look out, the links are asleep!)

Always on the cutting edge of current events—and progress—I just realised there’s a new Amiga emulator! New since 2011, it seems… Hey, look at me jumping nine years into the future! Or, well, into the present, really.

In any case, I’m absolutely amazed. Not because this emulator works better than the old one. I could handle WinUAE just fine. What I couldn’t do, however, was explain how. That made it incredibly difficult to evangelize to my friends, as I was utterly incapable of getting an Amiga game running under their smug eyes in less than two hours, fifteen attempts, and just as many clever configurations.

FS-UAE is the user-friendly tool we’ve all been waiting for, designed for the average Joe (yours truly!) who’s a bit nostalgic and tempted to play some Pang, but definitely not ready to spend the evening pulling their hair out over settings pages. And this ease of use is exactly what I was missing to motivate me to update my tutorial on Amiga emulation, hastily scribbled over fifteen years ago. Done!

On a more dramatic note, you may have noticed some ugly gray (or white) squares on certain pages of the site (actually, all of them). This is the latest sign of the slow death of Macromedia/Adobe Flash, whose plugin is now blocked by default in most major browsers. Annoying. It was the one “web technology” I actually touched, and now it’s set to disappear by the end of 2020. Oh well! I’ll probably wait until the last moment to do something about it, and it’ll probably be a site makeover … with scissors. Rest assured, I won’t let anyone touch Javascript or Comic Sans!

Yeah, an update, mind you!

Amiga:

Team Yankee
Techno Cop
Terry’s Big Adventure
Testament
Their Finest Hour
Tiny Skweeks
Tiny Troops
Tony and Friends
Torvak the Warrior
Toyottes, The
Traders
Trailblazer
Transartica
Treasure Trap
Trex Warrior
Triple X
Tritus
Troddlers
Tron 5000
Tubular Worlds
Tumbler Street
Turboraketti
TV Sports: Baseball
TV Sports: Basketball
TV Sports: Boxing
TV Sports: Football
Typhoon Thompson in Search for the Sea Child

Mega Man:

Pictures and words.

For those who might have missed the major sporting event of this July, the Paris Championship took place from the 14th to the 21st, at the Pierre de Coubertin stadium.
I got my butt kicked in the little tournament for yokels, as I do every year. It was great!

And then I worked pretty hard:

Amiga:

Cabal
California Games
Capone
Carcharodon: White Sharks
Castle of Dr. Brain
Centurion: Defender of Rome
Champions of Krynn
Chess Player 2150
City Defence
Cloud Kingdoms
Clue!, The
Colonel’s Bequest, The
Colorado
Cool Spot
Covert Action
Crack Down
Creatures
Cybercon III
Cyberpunks

Alright, a real update.

Amiga:

Oberon 69
Obitus
Obsession
O.B.Y.1
OnEscapee
Onslaught
Operation Jupiter
Ork Attack
Overkill

I’ve had another go at Dragon Age Inquisition (PC, 2014), after a second attempt that started off under the best of conditions. Ah, I was so motivated…

The little “games of the moment” box on the homepage will be updated more regularly in the future. So, rest assured, Mr. Javascript will take care of that with every page load!

New tracks have been added to the jukebox (Turrican 2, among others). Dusting off the links section. A few corrections here and there.

A belated thank you to Steffest for the polish added to Dazeldash, and an even more belated thank you to Gaël for this translation of Castle Quest on NES.

And a happy new year to everyone while I’m at it!

On the occasion of this … first update of the year? Oh, really? Well, I’m featuring a PC game that’s a bit too niche: Infinifactory.

While waiting for the next update, and since I’m sure I’ll miss Christmas, I’ve continued to scatter (clickable!) around the Amiga section. Go ahead and find them! If you understand English, I suggest starting with the Thundercats page (awesome video).

By the way, I would be very grateful if visitors could point out any broken links.

The weather’s nice, it’s summer, I treated myself to an afternoon of “syntax”. Commas and dashes, you’ll love it.

I picked an A.

Amiga:

Aaargh!
Airball
Aladdin
Alien Fish Finger
All New World of Lemmings
Alpha Waves
Altered Beast
Amnios
Anarchy
Apprentice
Aquanaut (Addictive)
Aquanaut (F1)
Arcade Pool
Archer MacLean’s Pool
A-Train

Elves, scantily clad femme fatales, Nazis, and futuristic tanks. Sorry, we were fresh out of ninjas.

Amiga:

Elf (Micro Value)
Elf (Ocean)
Eliminator
Elvira: The Arcade Game
Empire: Wargame of the Century
Encounter
Enemy: Tempest of Violence
Entity
Escape from Colditz
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
Explora: Time Run
Exterminator

A solid update to kick off the year. Unforgivable omissions and timeless classics finally find their place on the site (with a few atrocities thrown in for good measure).

Amiga:

Damocles
Dangerous Streets
Datastorm
Deep Core
Defender
Dogs of War
Dr. Fruit
Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold
M1 Tank Platoon
Mad TV
Maniax
Master Ninja: Shadow Warrior of Death (qui tue)
Mega Twins
Mercenary
MicroProse Golf
Midnight Resistance
Mikro Mortal Tennis
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
Morph
Murder
Myth: Hystory in the Making
Resolution 101
Rogue: The Adventure Game
Roll-Out
Rugby: The World Cup

And Cheery Mustmas!

Amiga:

Warlords
War Zone (Core)
War Zone (Paradox)
Wasted Dreams
Watchtower
Weird Dreams
Welltris
Wendetta 2175
Western Games
West Phaser
Willys Weirdy Nightmare
Wind Surf Willy
World Championship Boxing Manager
World Class Rugby
World Cup 90
Wreckers

Lemming season is open! Don’t forget to shout before you click:
“It’s coming right at us!”

Amiga:

Oh No! More Lemmings
Omega
On the Ball
Operation Lemming
Out to Lunch

Holy crap, I feel like churning today!

Amiga:

1000 Miglia
A-10 Tank Killer
Addams Family, The
Amy Putt Classics
Aquaventura
Backlash
Badlands
Balance of Power
BattleTech
Borrowed Time
Capital Punishment
Chaos Strikes Back
Chuck Rock 2
Conqueror
Crystals of Arborea
Dark Seed
DreamWeb
Empire Strikes Back, The
Epic
Eye of the Beholder 2
Final Assault
Gobliins 2
Goblins 3
Harlequin
HydroZone
Infestation
Manic Miner
Mega Typhoon
Microcosm
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 2
MUDS
Never Mind
One Step Beyond
Perihelion
Police Quest
Portal
Putty Squad
Reunion
Simpsons, The:Bart vs the Space mutants
Simulcra
Sleepwalker
Space Crusade
Speedball
Star Wars
Teenage Queen
Twinworld
Venus the Flytrap
Warhead

I’ve also got a raving review of Dragon Age Inquisition (scroll to the bottom) and a small page dedicated to a truly excellent book: Gagner la guerre.

Updated the links pages and changed my email address after failing to fix my spam filter (I struggle deeply with technology).
Anyone waiting for a response to an email sent in the last four months is welcome to try again at my pristine new address…

Numerous little presentation adjustments across all pages of the site. My HTML tables have finally fallen in line. Hallelujah!

I noticed that in a recent update, Firefox changed how it interprets line spacing. For a ’90s-style site full of HTML tables, this wreaks havoc on the layout … which will take me a while to fix. So if you spot any oddities, blame it on progress. Tell it to knock it off. If you’re using another browser, and the site was optimized for Firefox, chin up: it’s already been a mess for ages!

And since we’re clearly not here for fun, here are 58 Amiga games:

4D Sports Boxing
4D Sports Driving
Abandoned Places
Advantage Tennis
Adventures of Quik and Silva, The
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
After Burner
Alien Syndrome
Aquatic Games, The
Archipelagos
Armour Geddon
Batman
Battlehawks 1942
Boulderdash Mega Collection
Castle Master
Citadel
Crystal Dragon
Curse of Enchantia
Cyberzerk
Cytron
Death Mask
Death Trap
Deliverance
ECO
Fireforce
First Class Boulderdash
Games: Summer Edition, The
Great Courts 2
Guardian
Hare Raising Havoc
Heimdall
Misadventures of Flink, The
Night Shift
Populous 2
Pro Tennis Simulator
Saint Dragon
Spy vs Spy
Summer Camp
Tanx
Tennis Cup
Tennis Cup 2
Test Drive 2
Tie-Break
Timekeepers
Titus the Fox
Tower of Babel
Traps ‘n’ Treasures
Trolls
Universal Warrior
Universe
Walker
Waxworks
Weapon Masters
Winter Camp
World Class Leader Board
X-It
Zeewolf
Zoom

Yet another reorganisation of the main menu, a background layer added, and I ditched the forum in favor of a little button to send me an email.
Fixed a display bug on Google Chrome that made the float in mid-air.
Updated the Dragon Age page after finishing its sequel…

Amiga:

CJ’s Elephant Antics
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy
Dizzy Panic
Goal!
K240
Karting Grand Prix
KGB
Kick Off 2
Kickstart 2
King of Chicago, The
Kingpin
King’s Bounty
King’s Quest
King’s Table: The Legend of Ragnarok
Knights
Krusty’s Fun House
Kwik Snax
Magicland Dizzy
Player Manager
Prince of the Yolkfolk
Rat Trap
Spellbound Dizzy
Steg the Slug

More tiny layout changes. Barely anything. Oh, look, the Music section is back, I had some regrets about that.

I’ve been meaning to add the music from Cannon Fodder to the jukebox for some time, and now it’s done, along with Kult, Obliterator, and Unreal. A few layout changes, the “Music” section and partner sites have been removed, the “Links” section has been severely pruned, and the pages on Mega Man should no longer make some people’s eyes bleed. Promise, I’ll stop with the animated backgrounds.
However, this week I reinstalled Flash! The 2004 version, since I couldn’t make heads or tails of the newer one … so if you see critters running around, don’t be alarmed…

A special update for the “must-haves that have been gathering dust on my list for years.” They’ll now be gathering dust on the site (Amiga games):

All Terrain Racing
Assassin
B-17 Flying Fortress
Beach Volley
Championship Manager
Colonization
Combat Air Patrol
Conflict: Europe
Conflict: The Middle East Political Simulator
Deuteros: The Next Millennium
Dogfight (Ling)
Dogfight (MicroProse)
Elfmania
F-117A Stealth Fighter
F-15 Strike Eagle 2
F-16 Combat Pilot
F-19 Stealth Fighter
F29 Retaliator
Fighter Bomber
Gravity Force
Hole-in-One
Humans, The
Knights of the Sky
Manager, The
Mayhem
Micro Machines
Might and Magic 2
Millennium 2.2
Overdrive
Sentinel, The
Sim Blind
Supremacy: Your Will Be Done
Theme Park
Three Stooges, The
Thunderhawk
Tornado
Twintris
UFO: Enemy Unknow
Ultima 3
Utopia
Uridium 2
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Wonder Dog
X-Out
Zak Mac Kracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Z-Out

Amiga:

Oath, The
Odyssey
Oil Imperium
Operation Stealth
Operation Thunderbolt
Operation Wolf
Ork
Oscar
Out Run
Oxyd

On the agenda tonight: strategy, platformers, adventure, and puzzle-solving (Amiga games).

Laser Squad
Leander
Legend (CRL)
Legend (Mindscape)
Legend of Kyrandia, The
Legends
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Xcess
Lionheart
Litil Divil
Locomotion
Lords of Chaos
Lords of the Realm
Lords of the Rising Sun
Lost in Mine
Lost Patrol, The
Lure of the Temptress

500th Amiga game: Vroom!

Amiga:

Impossamole
Impossible Mission 2
Incredible Shrinking Sphere
Insanity Fight
Ishar

Amiga:

Rally Cross Challenge
Rampage
Rampart
Ranx
Realms
Real Popeye, The
Red Baron
Red Storm Rising
Risky Woods
Road Rash
Roadkill
Robocop
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Rocket Ranger
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Rock Star Ate My Hamster
Roll or Die
Rubicon
Ruff ‘n’ Tumble
Run the Gauntlet

Amiga:

Nemac 4
Nibbly
Nicky Boum
Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix
Nigel Mansell’s World Championship
Night Hunter
Nitro
No Second Prize

Amiga:

Découvre les pays du monde
Deja Vu
Desert Strike
Dragon’s Lair

Layout changes in the Amiga section (thumbnails linking to similar games, surprises scattered everywhere, diamonds, rocks, spiders…); syntactical and typographical corrections across all pages (I’ve heavily relied on the “find/replace” function, so this may have caused some bugs); numerous broken links eradicated; abandoned the English version (for the second time!) and removed the Facebook buttons.

Amiga:

Banshee
Bargon Attack
B.A.T.
Battle Command
Battle Isle
Battletoads
Bio Challenge
Birds of Prey
Black Sect
Blade Warrior
Blob
Blob Kombat
Blobz
Body Blows
Bograts: The Puzzling Misadventure
Bomb Jack
Bonanza Bros
Brain Blasters
Brat
Breathless
Brian the Lion
Brutal Homicide
Bubble Dizzy
Budokan
Bugbomber

Amiga:

F/A-18 Interceptor
Falcon
Fantastic Dizzy
Fantasy World Dizzy
Fast Food
Fears
Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun
Fightin Spirit
Final Countdown
Final Mission, The
Final Odyssey
First Person Pinball
Fish
Flaschbier
Flood
Fly Fighter
Fly Harder
Formula One Grand Prix
Frantic Freddie
Fury of the Furries
Fusion
Future Shock
Future Tank
Future Wars
Fuzzball
Shadow Fighter

Amiga:

Paradroid 90
Parasol Stars
Patrician, The
Peter Pan
PGA European Tour
PGA Tour Golf
Pool of Radiance
P.O.W.
Power, The
Powerdrome
Powermonger
P.P. Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon
Premiere
Premier Manager
Project 1
Prophecy I
Purple Saturn Day
Putty

Amiga:

Mah Jongg
Scorched Tanks
Seek and Destroy
Sensible Soccer
Sensible World of Soccer
Settlers, The
Shanghai
SimAnt
SimEarth
SimLife
Skidmarks
Skweek
Space Harrier
Spindizzy Worlds
Spring Time
Street Fighter
Street Fighter II
Street Rod
Strider
Subtrade
Super Cars
Super Skidmarks
Swap
Switchblade
Switchblade II
Sword of Honour

It’s been years since I last checked the links pages. Several sites seem to have shut down, they’ve been marked, but I just couldn’t bring myself to delete them. Alright, I’ll be back in six months with my eraser…
And otherwise, would you like some J?

Jaguar XJ220
James Pond: Underwater Agent
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish
Jim Power in Mutant Planet

Batch of the month:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wibble World Giddy
Window Wizard
Wing Commander
Wings
Wings of Fury
Winter Supersports 92
Wizardry: Bane of the Cosmic Forge
Wizard’s World
Wizball
Wizkid
Wiz ‘n’ Liz
Wolfchild
Woodys World
Worms
Wrath of the Demon
WWF Wrestle Mania
Portal

You too, find the odd one out.

General revision of the “Amiga games” section: added a third screenshot to each page and modified some ratings to make the whole thing more consistent.

“PC and consoles” section:

Champions Online
Dragon Age
World of Warcraft

Added a random quote dispenser on the homepage and 31 new Amiga games:

Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues
Alien Breed: Tower Assault
Alien Breed 3D
Alien Breed 3D 2: The Killing Grounds
Ambermoon
Amberstar
Arabian Nights
Archon
Arkanoid: Revenge of DoH
Atomino
Captive
Chicago 90
Clockwiser
Contraption Zack
Creepy
Crystal Hammer
Cyber Man
Cybernoid
Cyber Sphere
Damage
Darkmere
D/Generation
Distant Armies
Doom
Double Dragon
Dragonstone
DragonStrike
Genetic Species
Giganoid
Gloom Deluxe
Goldrunner

A bit of Q on Dazeland!
[Somehow, it doesn’t sound as saucy… Blowjob! – Ed.]

Kid Chaos
Kult
Qix
Quadrel
Quête de l’oiseau du temps
Qwak

Ice Runner
IK+
India Jones and the Lost Crusade
It Came from the Desert
Ivan Ironman Super Off Road
Leisure Suit Larry
Lemmings 2
LodeRunner
Lost Vikings
Lotus III
Mega lo Mania
MegaTraveller
Mind Walker
MineRunner

Carrier Command
Chambers of Saolin
Chip’s Challenge
Crazy Cars II
Crazy Cars III
Croak!
Deflektor
Dimo’s Quest
Dragonflight

Magic Pockets
Maniac Mansion
Marvin’s Marvellous Adventure
Maupiti Island
Mean Arenas
Mega Motion
Midwinter

Two Amiga games:

Cadaver
Eye of the Beholder

One novel:

Le voyageur imprudent

Alright, updating the “Miscellaneous” section today.

Books:

Le Nom du Vent
L’Empire Ultime
Légende
Rien que l’Acier
Ayesha
Lamentation

Some “recent” games:

Doom
Minecraft

We’ll try to update more regularly in the future, hehe…

Gunship
Gunship 2000
Ugh!
Yo! Joe!

I woke up feeling like adding more to the “B” section. Oh yeah.

Atomix
B.C. Kid
Bermuda Project
Better Dead than Alien
Billiards Simulator
Bill’s Tomato Game
Bobo
Bob’s Bad Day
Bone Cruncher
Bubba ‘n’ Stix
Bubble and Squeak
Buggy Boy

Chuck Rock
Hugo
Top Banana

Elite
Extase
Frontier: Elite II

Civilization
Drakkhen
Pirates!
Railroad Tycoon

APB (Amiga)

Updated the WinUAE tutorial and added a mini-guide for installing games on a (virtual) hard drive. See the Amiga section, first page.

Cruise for a Corpse

Three games shamefully left aside even though they’ve been on my list since the creation of the site:

Barbarian (Palace)
Barbarian 2 (Palace)
Unreal

So on the page for Thundercats, we’ve had Tetris instead of the title … for at least five years…
By the way, the bearded ones have gathered and decided that “graphismes” should be plural, that “platesforme” would remain a single word, and that “jeu de shoot” would now be written as “jeu de tir”. This is France, people, good ol’ France! Everyone okay with this? I’m okay. Adopted!
Mass copy-pasting is so much fun.

Revised the page for Turrican and added:

Turrican 2
Turrican 3
4-Get-It

7 Colors

Diamond Fever
Do! Run Run
Drip
Gem’X
Gotcha!

Ports of Call

Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Illusions
Pinball Mania
Pipe Mania
Puzznic
Slam Tilt

Cosmic Bouncer
Garfield: Winter’s Tail
The Magician

I have a headache now…

Added Shadow of the Beast 2 and a little more detail on the other two.

Section “PC and consoles”:

Unirally
Colony Wars
Total Annihilation

PC and consoles:

Gargoyle’s Quest

Amiga:

Gobliiins
Great Giana Sisters
Great Courts
Grid Start
New Zealand Story
Rodland

Garfield: Big, Fat, Hairy Deal
Rockford
Second Samurai
Super Nibbly
Yolanda

Added Supaplex and Super Stardust.

Revised the English version of the entire “Mega Man” section. I’m just a little less embarrassed now.

I have a serious addiction to JavaScript…
From now on, the site’s background will change colour depending on the season and time of day! Sorry about that.
Loads of new links. So many that I had to add a 7th section.
I’ve finally given in to the trend of link exchanges on the front page. Just in case it brings some visitors here, you know!

A few more links scattered around and three mini-reviews in the “PC and consoles” section:

Blood Omen
Bushido Blade
Panzer Dragoon Saga

I thought I could “spread some pages” on Boulder Dash, but there were only six lines about a poor version that wasn’t even faithful. Injustice corrected with a revision of the page on Boulderdash C64 and the addition of Boulder Dash Collection 2 (Amiga).
A little something on Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (PC and consoles).

Two Amiga games added:

Bloodwych
Treasure Island Dizzy

Oh yes, Dazeland celebrated its tenth anniversary two months ago.

I just discovered there are other screen resolutions beyond 1024x768. Beautiful, right? Oh wait, it’s all ugly…
Layout changes for ultra-high resolutions (I’ve only tested up to 1280x1024, we’re old school, or we’re not, okay?).
Various corrections… Have fun searching for them. That’s it.

Megaman Skin: small adjustments. Mario nerf!
Replaced the MIDI music that was causing quite a few problems with mp3 files.
Lemmings Skin: same, music in mp3 format.

Added two remixes of Doom in the jukebox and replaced the music from Star Fox with a longer version.

Three Amiga games:

H2G2
Mr. Nutz
Zork

Links, links, and more links.
And the jukebox doesn’t work anymore, I don’t know why.

A good sweep through the links and a few spelling corrections.
Événement!

And here’s The Bard’s Tale.

Jukebox is up.
Links to remakes or fan sites have been added to the bottom of some Amiga game pages (Marble Madness, Boulder Dash, Xenon, and many more).

Big site overhaul coming soon. Still old school, still Boulder Dash, still brown, but brown in a better way!
Changing hosts right away.
Added a little jukebox, which doesn’t work for now…

Changed the background and added a new section in “Miscellaneous”: Geek Books!

Complete English version. It’s just Google Translate, more or less corrected, but you can more or less understand it!
Recolored the Game Boy screenshots in green.
Mini-icons that change with each section. Wow!

Added Mega Man Zero 2 (Mega Man) and Garrison II (Amiga).

Added two Amiga games:

Baal
Exile

There you go, and it’s been ten years since I’ve been babbling about Megaman, and not one person has come to tell me it’s written in two words. I’ve just added about 200 spaces and as many capital M’s. A big day, I tell you!

A small page about the game Castle Quest that you’ll find in the “PC and consoles” section.
Updated the links page and the “Music” section with links, more links.

Switched to winter colours.
Made small adjustments so that the site looks the same on both Explorer and Firefox. The background is now fixed on both, but I couldn’t colour the scrollbar in Firefox. I think that’s the last difference between the two.

Firefox users can now hear music in the Flash interfaces for Lemmings and Megaman!
Some animated gifs were spinning too fast on Firefox, that’s been fixed.
Added crosshairs to the small intro on the homepage. Absolutely necessary!

Layout, spelling, a clarification in the Megaman interface scores (the Flash thing), and three new links.

Three more crappy games, I apologize, but it’s faster that way.

Castlevania
Kastle Kumquat
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op!

And a mini-guide on how to use an arcade emulator (in the “Amiga” section, at the very bottom).

Three new illustrious Amiga games, or should I say, indispensable ones. I present:

Advanced Lawnmower Simulator
Equality
Zool 2

Two music section links for you to discover (something Doom related).

Three Amiga games:

Beneath a Steal Sky
Benefactor
Zool

The game entries will be a bit more detailed. I will differentiate the publisher from the developer, indicate the number of players (simultaneous or alternate), and replace the term “playability” with several parameters: difficulty, longevity, and a small, totally unbiased rating out of 10.

Digging up old fossils:

Act Out
Amegas
Mortville Manor
Mousetrap
Rody et Mastico

… And a few dead links eradicated.

Added Megaman Legends 2 and Battle and Chase.

Dazeland switches to winter colours.
Page layout change: goodbye to the “frame”.

Added Megaman Legends!
Plus a dozen new links.

Ten Amiga games added:

Clever & Smart
Crazy Cars
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Flight Simulator II
Gear Works
Hired Guns
Indianapolis 500
Klax
Llamatron
Syndicate

The three little TI calculator games were accidentally erased. It took me 2-3 years to notice, so … here they are again, in the “Misc.” section.

Have you ever been fleeced by a clever salesman? That’s kind of the impression I got after leaving the “Amiga Fantasy” site with two boxes of old Amiga games, all with dubious names but all rated better than the others… You could say he’s good at selling them.
I saw some terrifying things … a red and yellow chicken limping, a brick breaker with four paddles, a blue coyote playing the piano, another brick breaker with thirty balls, a hockey game with tanks, a clown who thinks he’s Pac Man…
And all these oldies, I’m going to share them with you… Hey! Stay right there!

Alfred Chicken
Clown-o-Mania
Fire and Ice
Gotcha
Krypton Egg
Projectyle
Soccer Kid
Spherical
Super Obliteration
Sword of Sodan
Tecno Ball

There are moments when I feel the need to barricade myself at home for a week, stop seeing anyone, and completely overhaul the site. A sort of masochistic urge…
The last time this hit me, I was quietly putting the finishing touches on my new Flash interface: a mini-game with Megaman and other NES mascots, complete with lots of beeps, moving buttons, and flashing lights. A real disco, I was happy.
Then at the end, when I tried to load the site, with about 200 pages of text and images, for some unknown reason, it went slower. Much slower. An abominable lag! I watched Megaman struggle in slow-motion like The Matrix, with a chunk of text in the foreground that wasn’t doing so well either.
Anyway, the point is, some things had to change. Forget about the “all in Flash” thing and redo pages to be light and navigable in good old HTML. While I was at it, I redesigned everything.

Updated the archive containing all the Amiga modules, with a manual for beginners (at the bottom of the “Music” section).
Added a few instructions at the beginning of the Amiga section about emulation.
A fifth category for sorting links: “General ROM Sites”.
Some spelling mistakes fixed, plus a bug in the Lemmings Skin.
I’ll be settling in Dublin for a while. So, normally, no updates until May.

16 Amiga games:

Arkanoid
Black Crypt
Cannon Fodder
Crack
Cruncher Factory
Diamonds
Dugger
Dune 2
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Mike the Magic Dragon
Mission Elevator
Pinball Magic
Spidertronic
Spy Who Loved Me
Vampire’s Empire
Xenon 2

On the agenda today, about fifteen Amiga games:

ADS
Bucktooth Bob
Castles
Diablo
Faery Tale
Fire Power
Flip-Flop
Kick Off
Powerplay
Road Wars
Silent Service
Simon The Sorcerer
Stardust
Test Drive

Until the next account shutdown, Amiga games are once again available for download. Enjoy it while it lasts, I’m not up for re-uploading everything every month.

Added Wily Wars on Sega Genesis and some corrections to the “Megaman” section.

New additions in the Amiga section:

Flashback
Overlander
Over the Net
Persian Gulf Inferno
Project X
Rainbow Island

A small update, Dazeland has just turned two. This month, a new Unreal Tournament map from Smash TV and a new forum.

New quiz (still very late), removal of the “Animated Gifs” section in favor of an “FAQ”, updated texts and emulators.

New quiz (late), added three Amiga games (Shadow of the Beast, Pushover, The Real Ghostbusters) and fixed links.

Added four Amiga games (it had been a while), some mp3s, and a few corrections here and there.

“Megaman” section updated with Megaman Xtrem, Megaman Xtrem 2, and a few new sprites.

Dazeldash finished! Download it from the “Games” or “Boulderdash” sections. Another old project is now completed: the walkthrough for Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain! Now just to fix the typos…

As usual, a new quiz this month, a few fixed links, and I’ve reduced the 50 backgrounds to just one for all pages. Coming soon: more additions to the “Megaman” section, new animated gifs, mp3s, and Dazeldash will be finished for those I promised it to six months ago.

Babeloueb is dead, I’ve moved all the ROMs to a different host. Hopefully, they’ll stay up longer than three days this time…

Still issues with hosting and account closures. There will probably be some broken links while I re-upload parts of the site…
On the bright side, the latest version of WinUAE perfectly emulates Menace! I’ll upload it in a few days.

New month, new quiz!

I got an email from Babeloueb: “Sorry, I’ve shut down the sites that were flagged as illegal. I’m reopening your account until further notice. Do some housekeeping on the Nintendo section, and I’ll talk to Seb about the Amiga section.” Housekeeping done, no more Nintendo ROMs on my Babeloueb account. I hope they’ll still tolerate Amiga emulation, otherwise I’ll have to change hosts and Dazeland will be down for a few more days…

Babeloueb just closed all its emulation sites, including Dazeland!
The links will be fixed once I find a new host for my ROMs. The “Consoles” section is now abandoned…

Here are some more lesser-known Amiga games: Detonator, Leaderboard Golf, Little Computer People, Phalanx, Power Styx. Two new links and a little quiz has appeared at the top of the page!

A few more Amiga games added.

Big update to the “Music” section: added Battle Squadron and Hybris, two of the most beautiful Amiga modules! New version of Shining (the RPG by Synbios) and Dazeland celebrates its first anniversary!

Fixed a link to Megaman 6 and added a “memory” in Javascript themed around Megaman 7! I also added the ROM while I was at it…

A new puzzle in the “Lousy Games” section from Moonstone, a small update in the “Music” section, and soon a fifth digit will appear on the counter!

Good news: a new, faster forum!
Bad news: my host “kindly” asked me to put their ads on every page, and I’ve reluctantly complied.

Five Amiga games, one NES, and one Super Nintendo added; the “Megaman” section updated, and the “Polls” page has disappeared.

Huge update to the Amiga section: 23 ROMs added!

The beginning of the solution for Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is online here! Not much yet, but I’ll add a bit every week… And two new NES ROMs: Galaga and Gauntlet!

Two NES ROMs, the “Humour” and “Links” pages slightly modified.

A few more ROMs, this time for NES and Super Nintendo.

One more Amiga game: Geebee Air Rally and a few additions to the “Music” section.

(I couldn’t find any older news. Lost to posterity!)
[Translating all this has been a harrowing experience. – Ed.]