What with all the showcases going on during the Summer Games Fest, I noticed one section of gaming that was sorely lacking a showcase of it's own...retrogaming! And with just as many new games coming out for old systems, and remasters / rereleases of old games, there is good reason for such a showcase to exist!
And so, why not just do it myself I thought! So here it is...the first, slightly crappy, 100% Unofficial Retro/Homebrew Showcase! Here you'll find as many recent retro or remade retro game announcements I could find in the hour or two I set myself for working on collecting them!
Last year I did one of these to highlight some old posts that I thought some people might not have seen, so lets do another one this year! Just click the links to go the posts.....
Way back in December 2010, Cinema of Stuff Presented....Gappa - The Triphibian Monster, a tale that shows why you should leave strange eggs where you find them!
A trip to the Digital Comic Museum in June 2011 introduced us to the classic comic strip The Fiend in Fur, which gave me one of my favourite monster noises ever (See above).....
Weirdly, I never included this game in any of the Gruesome Games lists, but the threat of nuclear war seems pretty terrifying to me! The odd, dark-humour filled ZX Spectrum game 4 Minute Warning, had me arguing that 'survival horror' has been with us since at least 1984.....
29th October 2012 had me posting some Spooky Cartoons, including the one you see above, head to link to see some more...
And lastly for this throwback, in 2016 I looked at some horror-themed interviews done by Sir Terry Wogan, the legendary British chat-show host, who we lost that year to cancer. Above is an interview with a couple of mediums, James Herbert and Clive Barker....at the link you can find more interviews with Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Sir Christopher Lee!
Well, tomorrow is the big day itself...in fact, as I write this it's literally only 15 minutes away for us in Scotland! I'll maybe squeeze a couple of posts in tomorrow to make up for days missed, but whether or not that is the case, I'll be posting something here tomorrow, so I'll see you back here then! In the meantime, you'd better head off and catch up with all the other Cryptkeepers over at the Countdown Hub by clicking the badge below!
So the lack of time to put the blog together this year has meant that the Gruesome Games section has been somewhat lacking....to make up for this, have a post that brings together links to all 253...yes 253....games that I've covered so far!
I had big plans for another list this year, but it looks like you'll need to watch this space next year...there's still plenty more where these came from! ;)
The first 202 games are listed down from 100 in their order from the first two lists, and then all the other games I've covered since then are numbered after 202..if that makes any sense? (It probably doesn't, but it does in my head...so...)
Click the name of the game you want to read about to be whixked away to the appropriate link!
Halloween again! We made it another year! I might still have time to do one last story from the Digital Comic Museum later, but just in case I don't let me just wish everybody a Happy Halloween! It's been great fun taking part in the Countdown once again....please go visit the other bloggers taking part by clicking the badge below! Have a good one everybody!
