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I’ve been embrac­ing the world of hand­helds, and am now in pos­ses­sion of a 3DS. Rather than play the lat­est and great­est 3D titles though, I’ve gone back through the 1001 and dug out a few weird sound­ing ones for the orig­i­nal DS (thank you back­wards com­pat­i­bil­ity). And this one cer­tainly is a bit weird. It’s called: 1001 No.61: ‘Hotel Dusk:… Read More »

Hmm. A game, based in Japan, about earth­quakes and tsunamis… You cer­tainly couldn’t make some­thing like this nowa­days, and indeed they can’t — there was a planned sequel to this for PS3 that was can­celled in light of the 2011 earth­quakes in Japan. 1001 No.60: ‘SOS: Final Escape / Disaster Report’ (PS2, 2003) Now this is not a main­stream game in the slight­est.… Read More »

Here’s a few games to try on the awe­some lit­tle hand­held that is the Gameboy Advance… 1001 No.57: ‘Advance Wars’ (Gameboy Advance, 2002) In the past, turn-based-strategy games have turned me right off. These are type of the games where, unlike some­thing like Command & Conquer, each player takes turns to decide their next move — and deci­sions are… Read More »

While LucasArts are known as the kings of Point ‘n’ Click, another stu­dio in the 90’s was pro­duc­ing some of the best and most grip­ping adven­ture games of all time — and they were British. Revolution Software, based in York, were behind one of the biggest fran­chises in adven­ture game his­tory — Broken Sword. The 1001 book… Read More »

It’s a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to describe the WarioWare series — every game is very sim­ple at heart, and yet so bril­liantly put together. You could call them a bunch of ‘minigames’, and have done with it — but that doesn’t come close to show­ing how much fun and often down­right hilar­i­ous these games can be. The UCHG had fun a few… Read More »