January 9, 2012 by varg
The image and the title may not have much in common, except for the genre and that both were among the first adventure games I played and they might be one of the reasons why I got hooked. The title is actually one of the many ways you can die in the old MacVenture-game Shadowgate. (more…)
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January 8, 2012 by varg
It might be the 8th day of the new year, but I haven’t posted yet this year so why not do it now. So what have I been up to lately? First of all I’m taking a little break from my Zelda 100% completion project. Phantom Hourglass decided to die on me pretty randomly and it was a while since I saved when that happened. And at the moment I just can’t get myself to play it, I’m not too fond of some parts of the game, like the Temple of the Ocean King, and all the randomness involved in getting all ship parts. (more…)
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December 14, 2011 by varg
The first game to be played in my 100% Completion project was A Link to the Past. It’s usually ALttP or Ocarina of Time that people think are the best game of the series, and I would agree with the first one. It might be of the childhood memories, but I’m not entirely sure. So what’s so great about it? (more…)
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October 25, 2011 by varg
It might be a bit delayed, but here it i,. the last entry for the transportation theme. We’ve mentioned Transformers, a toy-line and animated series from the 80s. But of course there were others. The one i remember the most from my childhood is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, even if they changed ninja to hero over here because ninjas were too violent or something similar. I haven’t played too many of the games based on TMNT, but even if I hate the water stage in TMNT to the NES, I really liked TMNT2 and.. (more…)
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October 16, 2011 by varg
Quite some time have passed since the last post. Some stuff happened and I haven’t had enough time to update. But now I’m finally back, and hopefully I can resurrect the ‘Best of Video Game Music’-series once again. I will continue where we left off, the last day of the fighting-theme. I’ll also try to write some other posts again soon, not sure when though.
There might be a new layout for rawr.se quite soon, although I’m not sure when it’ll be ready. I’ve also decided to add Disqus so it’ll be easier to login when you want to add a comment.
The theme for next week will be: Transportation
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July 24, 2011 by varg
When I went to the Gothenburg Retro Gaming Expo, RMS2011, a while ago one of my friends, who were going to write an article about it for the Swedish gaming site CtrlAltElite.se. I complained a bit about me not having any good stuff to write about and was hoping RMS would help me get some new ideas. That was when he said “Hey, why don’t you start writing for ctrlaltelite?” I thought about it for a little while and decided that it might be worth a shot. So up until a couple of weeks ago I’ve been waiting to hear from them and decided to let Rawr.se rest until then.
And now it’s official, I’m one of them and I’ve been writing a couple of shorter news stories, my first review is due next week and I’m planning a longer article or two, the first might be in several parts… Haven’t done all the planning yet, but if you know Swedish, please check out my work over there.
Rawr.se will be back, I just have to get used to writing as much stuff as I do right now, and I’ve managed to damage a foot pretty bad a while ago. So, what will happen to Rawr.se? Do you remember that I’ve mentioned that I’m also a musician and that I really love video game music? Well I was talking to one of my close friends earlier and we decided to challenge ourselves. We’ll make a big playlist with great songs from video games, both classics and modern games.
How will we do it? Each day of the week, except Sundays, we’ll choose a song that fits a theme we already decided on. A game may only be on the list once a week. We’re still working on the details, but we’ll begin next week. And the theme is…. Boss Battles! So be sure to visit Rawr.se for my first entry this Monday! Uv will post one on Tuesday and there might a third person joining us, if not I’ll be back with my second entry on Wednesday.
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May 30, 2011 by varg
[An English version will be posted later.]
Lördagen den 28 Maj 2011, Retrospelsmässa i Gamlestan, Göteborg.
Det första som slog mig när jag kom in i lokalen var att det spelades TV-spelsmusik live. Kanske inte allt för ovanligt, men det jag reagerade på var instrumenten som användes. Trumpet, dragspel och kontrabas. Detta är dock ingen nackdel då det ger musiken ett intressant ljud, i vanliga fall är det ju nästan bara piano eller en bunt hårdrockare som framför sådant.
Den nästan för låga summan för entrén betalades och nästa rum som skådas är fullt av tv-apparater och massor med härliga gamla konsoller, vissa som jag hittills, bara har hört talats om. Det är dock inte det här rummet jag fastnade i, förutom när jag fick bekräftat att jag saknar all form av skicklighet i Sonic 2 till Sega Mega Drive senare under dagen.
Försäljning, där har vi det jag föll för, av vad jag kunde se så var det väl inte allt för mycket extremt fina objekt för storsamlarna, även om det fanns en hel del vettiga saker. Fanns ändå några klassiker som var kompletta med låda och allt, samt lite udda saker jag inte hade väntat mig att se där. Men jag stirrade mig nästan blind på alla oförglömliga NES-klassiker som tyvärr inte står i min hylla än. Jag har ganska nyligen bestämt mig för att börja samla på just NES och MegaDrive-spel och till att börja med så lär det bli några att ha för att spela på. Detta resulterade The Adventure of Link som jag har velat ha sen någon gång på nittiotalet, men det har aldrig blivit av att jag köpt det.
Utöver försäljning så fanns det lite utställningar som både jag och vänner blev lite smått avundsjuka på. Amiga-klassiker som Zool och Super Frog. En komplett samling av NES-spel utgivna i Skandinavien och en hel del annat.
När det gäller tävlingarna som hölls så missade jag tyvärr en hel del av dem då jag var tvungen att åka från mässan tidigare, och det fanns hela tiden annat som fångade mitt intresse. Däremot så var Pixelninjas Samus-cosplay oerhört sevärd. Jag har ändå varit på en hel del animekonvent men hennes dräkt var antagligen en av de mest välgjorda jag sett i Sverige.
Det var fem väl spenderade timmar och höjdpunkten för min del var nog ändå när den tidigare nämnda trion musiker spelade låten från Gun.Smoke Stage 1.
Ser fram emot något liknande och förhoppningsvis ännu bättre Retrospelsmässa nästa år!
Kan även rekommendera sidorna www.nesdb.se och www.segalovers.se som jag hittade i samband med den väldigt trevliga mässan.
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May 11, 2011 by varg
Do you know where that quote is from? If you do, then you’ve probably played one of the greatest point-and-click adventure games of all times, The Curse of Monkey Island. If you haven’t played it, just do it, it’s worth it!
The Monkey Island-series wasn’t the first adventure games that I played, but they sure are the ones that I liked the most.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to give the fifth game in the series, Tales of Monkey Island a new chance. At first i wasn’t too fond of it because I thought the controls were even more horrible than they were in the fourth game, Escape from Monkey Island. But later I found out that you can play it with the same, but improved, controls from EMI. This actually makes the game playable, and it was worth it because the story is just wonderful. Especially in the last two episodes. Yes, that’s right. Episodes.
As most of Telltale Games’ erm… games.. It’s divided into five episodes, and of course, you have to pay for each of them. I’m not too sure what i think about that and I’ve only played two seasons of the new Sam n’ Max-series before TMI. The episodes feels a bit short, but the puzzles are pretty hard so I guess that makes up for it. And the full game is just as good as the rest of them, even though it might be impossible to make a game that’s as good as Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge or CMI.
If you’ve played any of the games you might think there’s some similarities between them and the well known movie series Pirates of the Caribbean. And according to wikipedia, yes I do read a lot of stuff on that page, the guy who wrote the story for those, was supposed to write the story for a Monkey Island movie, but after it was cancelled he wrote the PotC-story instead. And by the way, I also love those movies.
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May 8, 2011 by varg
And once again I decide to start everything from scratch. A long time ago in a galaxy… Well, a while ago at least. Rawr Gaming was supposed to be a collaborative weblog about retro games. But people lost interest before the launch, so I gave up and used the domain for my personal blog instead. A blog that was never updated.
And even though I know that I’m the most interesting human being, ever. Some other people may not understand that, yet. So who wants to read about me?
The next step was to relaunch it a couple of times, in Swedish. And the last time I actually managed to write a few articles, about video games and board games. Two of the things I love the most. And those articles will probably appear here pretty soon.
The plan at the moment is that most of the articles will be about retro games, there are other sites that do the modern stuff and probably even more who writes about retro games, but that won’t stop me! And if I feel a modern game is worth mentioning, I will do it.
There won’t be, at least not now, any standard reviews with a long article and then some kind of score in the end. And a post may contain more than one game, because I like to compare the games in a series. And there might even be more than one article about a single game!
So what games are supposed to be retro or old-school, and which are modern? I think I’ll draw the line between the fifth and the sixth generations of video games. Except for Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo GameBoy Advance, as those systems feels a bit more old-school than the rest in that generation.
Hopefully the games I write about might give you some suggestions of some great games from the past that you might have missed. If you got any questions, feel free to ask, I might even do a FAQ-page if it looks like it’ll be needed.
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