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The Old Shoebox: Cylindrix
Oct. 20, 2008 Leave a Comment
Cylindrix was coded to run in Dos DJGPP Protected Mode so that it could address more than 640 KB of memory, something that the Dos programmers felt was impossible at one point in history.
The Old Shoebox: Download Overkill
Sept. 1, 2008 1 Comment
In 1992, Epic MegaGames released this almost forgettable little EGA game called Overkill. You, the pilot, are tasked with destroying all the evil alien forces that captured six otherwise peaceful planets, enslaving the populations along the way. Destroy them.
The Old Shoebox: Download Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Aug. 1, 2008 2 Comments
Ahh, 1993. The first person shooter was bursting forth in popularity, but how did Blake Stone fare?
Download Doomsday and the addons
May 24, 2008 4 Comments
Doomsday and projects like jDoom have kept the game going well into the 21st century, with support for high resolution graphics and textures, OpenGL, new character models, particle effects, high-quality audio and a whole host of hacks, tweaks, mods and fixes for Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Hexen and Heretic. It also brings 16-player multiplayer [...]
The Old Shoebox: The Halo E3 2000 trailer
April 14, 2008 1 Comment
There’s no question that Halo was one of the best action/shooter games ever made. It was a remarkable achievement in gaming and carried the Xbox at launch time. Its multiplayer had that James Bond Goldeneye/N64 feel where you could play it, the same levels, over and over again and love every minute. I still like [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download Bio Menace
March 22, 2008 3 Comments
In December 2005, Apogee/3D Realms released the classic side-scrolling action game Bio Menace as a freeware “Christmas present” for its customers and loyal fans. At that time, the game had floundered around incompatibility issues and relative obscurity — DOSBox wasn’t a big deal yet. The game is built on the Commander Keen 2D engine and [...]
The Old Shoebox: Links: The Challenge of Golf
March 11, 2008 Leave a Comment
One of the best computer golf games is still Links LS 98
The Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware
March 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along with everything else in those days, by GT Interactive in 1994. Heretic introduced ambient noise — evil laughter and such — that was random, [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download the Hardball 5 demo
Feb. 28, 2008 Leave a Comment
One of my all time favorite PC sports games was High Heat Baseball 1999. It was behind its time and had sub par graphics, but it was a smooth playing game that was insanely customizable. It had replaceable graphics, importable stadiums (real Citgo sign for Fenway) and custom sound effects and player musical anthems you [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download the original Tomb Raider demo
Jan. 3, 2008 1 Comment
There once was a magazine called Launch. Oh what a magazine it was. Launch was mainly a music publication, which offered a Macromedia-powered CD-ROM magazine in the 90s. It was an early form of convergence journalism, and we pay homage to them and their efforts. Like just about every other good thing in the tech [...]
The Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
Dec. 11, 2007 Leave a Comment
Long before Takara developed their 2002 mixed-reviews tank sim, Epic Megagames was distributing Seek and Destroy, a PC action game that combined tank and chopper elements. I first encountered Seek and Destroy in the July, 1996 issue of Interactive Entertainment (IE), the CD portion of Computer Games Strategy Plus magazine (previously called Strategy Plus, then [...]
The Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
Dec. 6, 2007 Leave a Comment
Here’s another out of that old Aztech’s Super Games cd: At the twilight of the Eastern-Han Dynasty of ancient China, under the reign of the frail and incompetent emperor Han-Ling, the country was in disarray when the government was run by a group of corrupted eunuchs-theso-called “Ten Attendants.” Hardship and famine finally threw the country [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
Dec. 2, 2007 3 Comments
Today’s Old Shoebox feature is a game that brought me a ton of joy in the mid-90s. The game is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the CD I originally found it on is called “Aztech’s Super Games,” a red CD-ROM that came bundled with my first 4x CD-ROM drive many years ago. The CD [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here
Nov. 7, 2007 3 Comments
A lot of people just haven’t gotten used to the new AOL Instant Messenger style. It’s completely different after all, and functionality or not, many people just want to chat — not video conference, not voice chat, just and lol and brb their nearest and dearest Internet friends. So I dug deep into 15 years [...]
Letter from the Editor – November
Nov. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
I want to tell you a little more about our editors. The newest addition to the Blast crew, Bessie King is with us in Boston as the Entertainment Editor. That’s the reason why you’re seeing a ton more content and some quality news reporting, like our instant coverage of Marie Osmond’s fall during Dancing With [...]
