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Playing videogames My preferred game genres are adventure and RTS. I like RPG and FPS, too. In this page I list the games that I liked most. There is some work in progress in writing why I consider these games masterpieces. The Golden Age. The 8bit era, mainly I played with my ZX Spectrum. The Hobbit Play Online (Java required) This was actually the first ZX Spectrum game I ever loaded. The computer understood what you type?! Unbelievable! The gaming experience of these kind of games was somewhat broken by the limitation in the dictionary (and my limitation in knowledge of the English language) that often caused me to try different terms before finding the one understood. At time I didn't know what an hobbit was and the mistery atmosphere of exploring an unknown world tied me to long hours of playing. Manic Miner Play online The first platform I ever played. Unfortunately I discovered, around the 3rd map, that my fingers weren't so good at playing platform games. The music in the menu screen was astounding. Jet Pac Jet Pac was the first game from "Ultimate Play the Game" (today is best known as Rare) I played. Although simple it contained all the feature that distinguished UPtG production: great graphics, addictive gameplay, humorous characters. Ant Attack Play Online This is another milestone in my gaming experience. Games were not deemed to be confined in 2D, after all. Also you could chose wether your character was male or female. The Game Revolution. Then 32-bit home computer generation came - Amiga was! A sudden bump in the number of colors, in the audio quality and in the amount of stuff that could be moved on screen was there. Turrican This is my favourite platform game. I completed both Turrican I and II. Apart from the challenge in the game, the secret areas discovery was a key driver to exploration. moria Moria is one of the text-terminal RPG. On the Amiga the display had been reworked to show some graphics. This RPG appealed me for the high replayability and the smooth difficulty curve. Everytime you enter a moria dungeon you'll find yourself in a different level, while progressing to deeper and deeper levels new objects, new weapons and new mosters appeared. R-Type Xenon II The soundtrack! Zak McKraken The first point and click adventure. Although the graphic and animation were somewhat inferior to the then state of the art Amiga games, this title was full of humor and very playable. (The link to the left is for the C64 version, unfortunately I haven't found anything specific for Amiga). Ports of Call I've played some managerial game before, but Ports of Call standed out of the crowd for his graphic and for the "ease of use". In the long run it turned out somewhat annoying especially for the mini-action-games that were sometimes required to dock ships. PC-Win. Age of Empires Usually I'm quite picky about software. That led me in time to be quite critical toward some operating systems produced by Microsoft. Anyway they made also some good software, I appreciated their MS-Word. To many of my friend and coworkers sounded rather strange that I considered Age of Empire GREAT. Well that is. Great. Riven Neverhood Unreal Red Alert II Dungeon Keeper II Warcraft III Console N64 Mario 64 Banjoy Kazooje GBA Mario & Luigi Superstar saga. XBox Cell Damage Panzer Dragoon Orta   This page has been visited times This site and its content is (C) by Massimiliano Pagani Last modified 2008/05/12 13:52:27