Sunday, September 29, 2013

RetroKork - The Bard's Tale 2: The Destiny Knight

After I have spoken about the first Bard's Tale (see here), it now is time for me to speak about the second installment: The Destiny Knight, written and produced by Michael Cranford.
I only remember this from when I played it on an MS-DOS PC in EGA.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

RetroKork Deutsch - Hotel

Heute geht's mal wieder auf deutsch zu... und ums Hotel, wie der Titel ja schon verrät. Hält das Spiel von Ariolasoft, was es verspricht?

Sunday, September 15, 2013

RetroKork - The Bard's Tale

Today I take a look at one of the defining games in the genre of role-playing games... and as far as I know, not only for computers (or the NES): The Bard's Tale by Interplay, published by Electronic Arts (back when their logo had the C and their business practices seemed more sensible)... But this video is not on the Commodore 64... well, not primarily - it's on the MS-DOS version.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

RetroKork Deutsch - Movie Business

Wenn Spiele sich mit Filmen beschäftigen, ist das ja schon nicht unbedingt schlecht. Wenn's um Filmproduktionen geht... ist das auch kein schlechtes Thema für eine Wirtschaftssimulation. Aber die Umsetzung kann schwer daneben gehen. Wie macht sich aber "Movie Business"?

Sunday, September 1, 2013

RetroKork - World Games

What happens when you've exhausted all Winter and Summer Games? If you're Epyx, today's game is the solution: Sports done all around the globe, all held together by a very, very weak unifying thread... Or as I like to call it: "World Games".