Mega retrospective of fantastic open world space trading game Hardwar: https://p7uen.neocities.org/posts/2025-11-11-Hardwar
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overclockworked
5 months ago
Yet another gem I hadn't heard of until now that I feel like I'd be really into. Escape Velocity was in my mind the entire time, and then you mentioned it as well! Smaller, more detailed maps have always been my preference over larger, more empty maps, so Hardwar's approach sounds great.
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p7uen
5 months ago
I recommend it, it has a bit of old jank but held up exactly as I remembered, which is shocking!
Hello fellow human! My two cents: I thought I was not a creative person until one day I stumbled on the specific outlet that clicked with me. So my unsolicited advice to everyone is keep trying everything and one day you may surprise yourself and find your 'thing'. Anyway I think your writing is great so I'm not sure you can claim not to be a creative! Look forward to the cat shrine!
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p7uen
5 months ago
Duel-review Neocities COLLABAGANZA! MSX Pocky (https://neocities.org/site/overclockworked) and I review the Mac and Atari versions of Oids!
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I think this community would dig Holiday Lights, if you don't already. I had a paid version back in the day but now it's freeware! https://support.tigertech.net/old-software
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Been catching up on your gravity shooter reviews, and I assure you this wasn't intended, but I still find it funny that we both reviewed mouse controlled arcade style games around the same time and then went on to review Asteroid descendants at around the same time as well. I was actually unfamiliar with Gravitar until your review, and then it ended up coming up when I was looking up Asteroids history too!
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overclockworked
6 months ago
Also, the link to play Thrust gives me a 403 forbidden error. Is this a region lock or IP issue? The entire BBC Micro site seems inaccessible to me, so I might just be unlucky.
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overclockworked
6 months ago
Also was meaning to ask if you're familiar with Pixeljunk Shooter? I remember playing it back on PS3 and I recall it shared a lot of elements with the gravity shooter genre (physics, tractor beam, etc)
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p7uen
6 months ago
I have seen Pixeljunk Shooter but never played it, I had a PS3 but it was only used for wanting to play a game, updating the OS, updating the game, then realising I ran out of time to play and then doing it all again a few weeks later haha
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p7uen
6 months ago
There's another gravity game called Oids I've never heard of before that I fancy doing soon and there are some Mac versions. If you want to/are able to get hold of it we could do a dual-neocities-retro-review-collabaganza!
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overclockworked
6 months ago
I really like this idea! There's a shareware version of Oids that's compatible with OS 9 that I can easily get my hands on. If there's specifics on how you'd want to collab feel free to email me (msxradpage@gmail.com), otherwise we can just both review it around the same time ahaha
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p7uen
6 months ago
My Thrust II review, alternate title: 'How Margaret Thatcher, the national British Telecom company and "a complete nobhead" joined forces to create one of the worst sequels in gaming history.'
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Life has been getting in the way so the gifs aren't ready yet. If you've been waiting 28 years for Hardwar gifs then apologies you may have to wait a couple more days.
its a nice read though