OverClockWorked - Retro Game Coverage
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Okay, think I'm FINALLY happy with the site renovations. Blood shrine will also eventually be replaced with a shrine directory for both it and any other shrines I make in the future. I am going back to playing Mac games now.
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I MADE A BROKEN DROP DOWN MENU IN THE NAVBAR, pls hold while I leave it looking ugly for a bit and come back to it later when I'm not distracted by my gf playing Deltarune
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overclockworked
2 days ago
Got it looking as good as I seem to be able to manage. Not sure if I'll keep it this way or not. (It's only in the desktop version of the site)
overclockworked
1 day ago
Yeah, not loving how the dropdown menu looks after all that, moving its contents to the sidebar instead. My intention is to make room in the top navbar on desktop to have my about page and blog there
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overclockworked
3 days ago
Experimental index for all my reviews idea, it looks awful right now but i'm also tired and spacing out so i'll try and make it less terrible tomorrow fgjhhgkj
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New review up of Tomb Raider II for Mac: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/trii/
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nathanntan
1 week ago
What a nice review, as always! I never understood the springboard mechanic either: I just hoped for the best and jumped LOL
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p7uen
1 week ago
Finally fantastic and thoughtful review! The instakill bits got to me a bit you are much more patient than me. It's SUCH a 90 sequel. (Also in no way is my site more professional than yours!)
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p7uen
1 week ago
Also would love to read what you think about the expansion one day, I have never played that.
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Any time I see a review for a game on a computer I haven't used myself, I always end up wanting that computer a lot more (vintage computers are my favourite retro gaming platforms), and you absolutely did that for me with the Archimedes with the Lander/Zarch reviews. V2000 also sounds delightfully playful with its mechanics and I'm interested in checking it out down the line!
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p7uen
1 week ago
Thank you I'm glad to have had an effect! There is a great and easy emulator called Arculator but yes, no subsitute for having a go on the old clunky hardware again.
New Mac review for Crystal Quest out today: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/crystal/
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overclockworked
1 week ago
I'm a little out of it tonight so apologies if the review needs some editing. Will give it another read over when I'm less tired ahaha. Small review of a small game to start out my return. Next review will be a big one I've been putting off far too long!
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p7uen
1 week ago
Great review, I have been on a weird-mouse-control-game bender recently so I looked up a video to see what you meant about the controls. Weird!
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p7uen
1 week ago
Also, you reminded me of shareware game Rats! in the 1990s which had an even more extreme female orgasm sound effect, which my parents were not amused by. What is it with these old devs?
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overclockworked
1 week ago
@p7uen I've actually seen Rats! before myself, and yeah, the sound effect there REALLY goes overboard even compared to Crystal Quest and Apeiron. Something I've noticed when looking into classic Mac games is just how developers could get away with whatever they wanted in self-published shareware.
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overclockworked
1 week ago
(addendum: I say it's "something I've noticed" as if I only found out recently, but in actuality I've known it for the past 23 years due to a time when I accidentally stumbled upon Barney Blaster as a kid and got horrified by the cute purple dinosaur being gorily torn to shreds on the title screen)
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We just got over 100k views, thank you so much! Even if that's small compared to heavy hitting Youtube channels and the like, I'm honestly so happy I can share my nerdy passions with this many people. This is honestly more attention than I expected such a niche site would get! New Mac review is also in the works now, expect more updates in the coming days!
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Small update today. Removed the listed computer specs from the Mac reviews page, and in its place put a link to a new page with the specs of ALL of my PowerMacs, with photos and more information than before! https://overclockworked.neocities.org/macos/powermacs/
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overclockworked
2 weeks ago
I'm thinking I might like to do some other pages along this line for non-game related aspects of retro Macs. E.g. maybe a page discussing the differences between all the different versions of Mac OS from System 1 to OS 9.2.2, or the different processors Apple has used in Macs over the year (Motorola, PowerPC, Intel, Apple Silicon)
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If the navbar looks broken in the Blood Shrine, that's because I had to update the css file for it and that takes time to refresh if the old css file is still in your cache.