Category Archives: Gametap

Vanguard

March 2, 2008 – 12:11 pm

No, this is not Brad McQuaid’s failure of epic proportions Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, GameTap doesn’t have that.  Instead, they have the 1981 side scroller Vanguard.  Perhaps Mr. McQuaid’s game would have done better had he not lifted his title from a previous game.
Vanguard is… fairly awful.  Its typical, side scrolling and shooting while avoiding [...]

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Pyramid Magic

February 24, 2008 – 1:02 pm

This week for my GameTap review, I decided to take a chance and hit the random button.  With 996 titles to choose from, of course, it landed on Sam & Max first.  After that it landed on a couple of educational type titles that I just didn’t feel like playing, until finally it landed on [...]

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Sam & Max: Season One

February 17, 2008 – 11:28 am

For my inaugural GameTap review, I decided to hit one of the original games designed for the service - Sam & Max: Season One. If you don’t know who Sam & Max are, take a moment and quickly skim through the Wikipedia entry. As a kid, I read a few of the comics, [...]

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GameTap

February 14, 2008 – 5:15 am

I’m introducing a new subcategory under gaming here and it is specifically for GameTap.  I have had a GameTap account for over a year, and in that time I’ve mainly used it to play a few dozen old Atari and arcade games, and the occasional DOS/Windows game, like The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions.  To [...]

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