Notices by Damiano Gerli (damianogerli@mastodon.social), page 2

@dosnostalgic the ending made me so mad back then that to this day I never finished MDK again and completely forgot about this song, wow.

@dosnostalgic the only one worth playing?!?!
(ok no, not really)

Finally, a box with instructions in Italian.

A 3D rendering of a F1 car from the intro to Warm Up on Amiga, released in 1991 by Genias Software. This impressive intro for the time was created by graphic artist Alfredo Siragusa painstakingly hand-drawing each frame of the animation in Deluxe Paint. It took him 3 months.

@dosnostalgic how to ruin what would be a totally decent adventure game (and much better than the first, agreed). *sigh*

@dosnostalgic I wasn't a fan at all of the color potions puzzle which was two minutes before this either, I would include that as the lowpoint too.
Also, the "remember the colors at the beginning? No? then you're stuck" was a terrible design idea for 1994, almost Sierra-evil.

Yesterday I finally finished Kyrandia II The Hand of Fate and by the end, as you can see from this clip, I was slightly going out of my mind with the inverted Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
Cause that's the best way to end your point and click game with.

I don't know who decided to end Hand of Fate with that puzzle, but bless them. They must have the same contempt for humanity as me.

@dosnostalgic sexy

Bro do you even PC gun?

Today KeeperFX 1.0 was released, marking the completion of the entire original Dungeon Keeper code being rewritten plus a bunch of fixes, improvements and new units. https://keeperfx.net/

Never try to play through your game in one day: words to live by. But, more specifically, how romantic is writing a postcard to Sierra to ask for a hint?

@dosnostalgic can't argue with that after many nights spent playing French games on Twitch. Then again, that same description could apply to most Italian games from the time as well...

In Extremis is an obscure 1993 FPS from France, developed by Blue Sphere (and not by Delphine as many reported). Along with stealing (they weren't licensed apparently) sounds from Alien, interestingly it featured automatic opening doors years before Quake did.

Today I'm remembering Angst: A Game of Urban Survival. An incredibly unique 1992 DOS exercise in social commentary about Los Angeles in the early 90s, the riots and recession. The attitude chosen by the player for each scenario, from Conservative to Liberal and Green, can lead to different consequences.
It is indeed a sort of rough precursor to Disco Elysium.

@dosnostalgic yeah mostly same as you, by then I was keeping it in the background.

@dosnostalgic there's also - among many omissions - the lack of any news about Duke Nukem Forever, a deliberate choice which makes the random "Bombshell" reference even stranger. I'd imagine anyone not knowledgeable about 3D Realms to be like "wait who?!".

As for me, I can say I did learn about the development Halo but mostly because I don't really cared enough to research it. Not much else.

@dosnostalgic @Bogusmeatfactory they both are noverygouds

@Bogusmeatfactory @dosnostalgic did you play Iznogoud too? heh

@dosnostalgic if I had to take a shot every time I did not understand how to control or play a French game, I would have died of alcohol poisoning already ten/fifteen times