(Released in 1996 in the US) I never actually played Diablo back in the day, I sank well over a thousand hours into Diablo 2, and maybe a hundred hours into Diablo 3, but the original game not a jot.…
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Diablo. Blizzard North (1997) PC
Tagged with: 1997, Blizzard, Blizzard North, Catacombs, Cathedral, Caves, Deckard Cain, Diablo, Diablo Lord of Terror, Dungeon Crawler, Hack and Slash, Hell, Hellfire Expansion, Isometric, PC, RagingChicken, Retro Gaming, Review, RNGesus, Roguelike, Role Playing Game, The Butcher, Wirt
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Theme Hospital. Bullfrog Productions (1997) PC
Doctor, attend Psychiatry please. Two surgeons needed in Operating Theatre. Nurse required in Pharmacy… And so on.
Tagged with: 1997, Bullfrog Productions, Doctor attend Psychiatry please, Management, PlayStation, Resource Management, Retro Gaming, Review, Simulation, Theme Hospital
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Konami (1997) PlayStation
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a game everyone and their dog have told me I would love, but for dozens of reasons I never played it and it reached a stage where I was actively avoiding SotN because there was…
Tagged with: 1997, Action RPG, Alucard, Castlevania, CastleVania: Symphony of the Night, Count Dracula, Gaibon, Galamoth, Konami, Magical McGuffin, MetroVania, Retro Gaming, Review, Richter Belmont, Slogra, Symphony of the Night, The Belmont Family
Posted in Playstation
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Final Fantasy VII. Squaresoft (1997) PlayStation
Yo, everyone i’m doing it. I am actually doing it!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! I honest to god love this game,and Final Fantasy VII was my favourite game until I played Final Fantasy VI and Silent Hill 2. However,…
Tagged with: 1997, Aeris Gainsborough, Aerith Gainsborough, Ancient, Barret Wallace, Cait Sith, Cetra, Cid Highwind, Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy VII, Gaia, Jenova, Mako Energy, Materia, Nanaki, PlayStation, Red XIII, Retro Gaming, Review, RPG, Sephiroth, Shin-Ra, Shinra, SOLIDER, Square, Squaresoft, The Turks, Tifa Lockhart, Vincent Valentine, Yuffie Kisaragi
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GoldenEye 007. Rare (1997) Nintendo 64
If you like retro gaming then you’ll probably be aware that neckbeards will frequently scoff about “GoldenEye being better than those them there Call of Battlefield shooty games” in a bizarrely thick unnatural West Country accent (American’s read yokel). And…
Tagged with: 007, 1997, First Person Shooter, GoldenEye, GoldenEye 007, James Bond, James Bond 007, N64, Nintendo 64, RARE, Retro Gaming, Review
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Twisted Metal: World Tour. Sony Interactive (1997) PlayStation
Known as Twisted Metal 2 in the US and fondly remembered by all…
Tagged with: 1997, PlayStation, Retro Gaming, Review, Twisted Metal, Twisted Metal 2, Twisted Metal World Tour, Vehicular Combat
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Killer Instinct Gold. Rare (1997) Nintendo 64
Killer Instinct was a pretty solid Tournament Fighter with a combo system added a depth that newbs and pros could all have some fun. It did look like arse, and had a stupid difficulty at the end but what about…
Tagged with: 1997, Combo Breaker, Killer Instinct, Killer Instinct Gold, N64, Nintendo 64, RARE, Rareware, Retro Gaming, Review, Tournament Fighter, Ultratech
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Sonic 3D: Flickies’ Island. Traveller’s Tales. (1997) Sega Saturn
Hi, my name is Jamie and I like to shitpost about Sonic games because it offends the sensibilities of the people out there that can’t see how terrible Sonic’s legacy truly is. And after the many successes of fantastic games…
Tagged with: 1997, Dr Robotonik, Flickies, Isometric, Isometric Platformer, Knuckles, Miles "Tails" Prower, platformer, Retro Gaming, Review, Sega Saturn, Sonic, Sonic 3D, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, Sonic Team, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Traveller's Tales
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Blade Runner. Westwood Studios (1997) PC
Cards on the table, I love this game. It has taken me about 10 years to get it working again and in that time my enthusiasm never dipped. I can take or leave the film, but the game. Yes please.
Tagged with: 1997, Adventure game, Blade Runner, Clovis, Crystal Steel, Lucy Devlin, PC, Point and Click, Ray McCoy, Replicant, Retro Gaming, Review, Voight-Kampff, Westwood Studios
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Grand Theft Auto. DMA Design (1997) PlayStation
I have promised myself I won’t buy any more games until I make a significant dent in my backlog, and with the recentish news of Grand Theft Auto: Horse Edition 2 I thought I’d go back and see what started…
Tagged with: 1997, Action, DMA Design, Grand Theft Auto, Liberty City, Open World, PlayStation, Retro Gaming, Review, San Andreas, Sandbox, Vice City
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