Well, I guess I lied. I still haven't been able to find time to write a new game feature. :( One really kewl thing that came up in that time that kind of distracted me was that I just acquired a new Commodore 64, Commodore 128, several 1541 and 1571 5-1/4-inch disk drives, a 1581 3-1/2-inch floppy drive, several CMD hard drives, several aftermarket power supplies, several modems, a couple… Continue reading

Sorry for the delay in posting but life has been really difficult around here but I'm back. :) As you may have noticed, I got rid of the advertisements (yah!) and added a spurt of several featured game posts (that's why you come here isn't it?). I haven't received any feedback on the look of the new theme for the… Continue reading

One of my more favored games for the Commodore 64 was the 1984 First Star Software title, Spy vs. Spy. This was a great two-player, split-screen game based on MAD Magazine's Spy vs. Spy comic strip that's been running for years and years.  It was originally released for the Atari 8-bit computer family, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers but… Continue reading

We all love old computer games (why else would you be at Retro Computer Gamer?) and we all fondly remember playing them. Generally most of us fans of vintage computer games are also BIG fans of ASCII art too - ASCII art is pictures drawn only with printable ASCII characters instead of pixels/dots. ASCII art actually predates computer games but… Continue reading

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday, published in 1990 is, arguably, the crowning achievement in SSI's (Strategic Simulations Inc.) long running Gold Box Series. Many are familiar with the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Gold Box titles and may not realize that Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday and it's sequel the 1992 title Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed are in fact BOTH members… Continue reading

This Means War! is a very maligned real-time strategy game - at least it WOULD be much maligned if anybody knew it existed - it came and went in the blink of an eye and would have been a failure on par with Sierra's Outpost had it got any publicity. I guess Microprose kind of dodged a bullet there… Continue reading

One of my all-time favorite RPG games is the 1992 Event Horizon DOS title The Summoning. It was published by Strategic Simulations Incorporated (SSI) - my all-time favorite game publisher :) - and really peaked my interest at the time since it was an isometric  fantasy roleplaying game but was… Continue reading

I realize I need to post a game related article here - it's coming really soon, I promise. Just a quick comment on a few of the more noticeable changes - first up is the theme of RCG. I went from a theme that while sharp and good looking, just didn't seem to fit with a retro computer games related… Continue reading

All right I have decided to feature games whenever I feel like it rather than monthly - well....it will happen AT LEAST monthly but in all likelihood more frequently.So here I am featuring Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon since it is one of my favorite games of all time and I really, really want to show it off since it is… Continue reading

Duke Nukem 3D is a kick butt shooter from 1996 developed by 3D Realms (put out by Apogee Software). It is the direct successor to a line of 2D platform jumper games - Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II. The main character in the game is Duke Nukem and he's one bad mutha! The voice work by Jon St. John… Continue reading