Category Archives: Retro

SG’s High-Score Challenge Redux: Featuring Ms. Pac-man

Posted on January 12, 2012 by SUPERGHOST

The first lady of gaming! Perfect – Eat all ghosts four times within a stage! Gamerscore = 30     Unlocked on 1/11/2007 Nearly five years to the day I launched Round 4 of my series of XBLA High-Score Challenges via this … Continue reading →

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Commodore 64 Turns 30

Posted on January 2, 2012 by SUPERGHOST

30 years old…Number 1 in your heart! Twitter tells me today that the Commodore 64 is celebrating its 30th anniversary of its 1982 release at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  Today the Commodore 64 still has a … Continue reading →

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Big Game Hunter: The Elder Scrolls III – Morrowind

Posted on December 25, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

Bethesda’s open worlds come to the consoles… Hot on the heals of Skyrim I started to get a case of completionist fever.  I had a case of that earlier this year when I went out of my way to complete … Continue reading →

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Game Room Retro Challenge: Warlords

Posted on December 16, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

Warlords…come out and play-e-ay! I had not paid this game any attention in a long, long time.  In fact until a few weeks back I could not remember anything about the game except back to perhaps seeing an original arcade … Continue reading →

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S-Rank: Dig Dug

Posted on November 26, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

Digging up some achievements! Dig – Dig through the entire area on any Round! Gamerscore = 15     Unlocked on 26/11/2011 Earlier today I was looking at my list of games in which I have earned every achievement.  Then I went … Continue reading →

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SUPERGHOST’s Fright Week: Pinball FX 2 gets Paranormal

Posted on October 26, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

I want to believe…in pinball! The truth is out there… Supernatural Phenomena – Starting a Multiball Phenomenon has been obtained on the Paranormal table     Gamerscore = 30     Unlocked on 26/10/2011 It is a pleasure to take a break from the … Continue reading →

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Big Game Hunter: Castlevania – Curse of Darkness

Posted on October 10, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

Last generation’s foray into a 3D Castlevania. Two things that I have redeveloped an interest for as of late.  I have started to once again acquire the occasional retro game, and as per my recent Lord of Shadows post, I … Continue reading →

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Ultima: The Age of Darkness – Ultima I

Posted on September 24, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

The Ultimate RPGs…from the beginning! If you know me, or am a reader of my blog, you would know that I hold the Ultima RPG series in the highest regard.  That is why I am very excited that Good Old … Continue reading →

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Big Game Hunter: Destroy All Humans!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

Give me some of that old-time aliens! As I may have mentioned before I enjoy games which are featured in or around the middle of the 20th century.  You may not think so bit there is a whole lot of … Continue reading →

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Mission Accomplished: X-Men Arcade

Posted on September 19, 2011 by SUPERGHOST

You can do anything…with unlimited continues! Welcome to Die! – You were welcomed to die by the White Queen                  Gamerscore = 25   Unlocked on 16/09/2011 This weekend I finally got around to tackling X-Men Arcade which I purchased on sale … Continue reading →

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