OSCAR, Ltd.: Old SChool And Retro
The latest news from 30 years ago. The retro, rad, and totally awesome
Wasteland and Elite – two classic games that received modern updates last year thanks to Kickstarter donations. This week at the Game Developers Conference, inXile (Wasteland 2) and Frontier Developments (Elite: Dangerous) announced console ports of their respective games. Continue reading “Wasteland 2, Elite: Dangerous to receive Xbox/Playstation ports”
At E3 last month, Sony announced their Instant Game Collection promotion for Playstation Plus subscribers. Basically, it entails a rotating collection of 12 downloadable games, ranging from “excellent” to “meh” which are yours to keep for as long as your subscription remains current.
For July, they added Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, which falls on the “excellent” side of the scale. A follow-up to 2007’s Pac-Man Championship Edition, both games successfully bring the classic Pac-Man gameplay into the 21st century. Highly recommended.
Leaning more to the “meh” side of things is Choplifter HD with a thoroughly mediocre Metacritic score of 71%. The arcade version of Choplifter was one of my favorites back in the day, so I’m willing to give it a bit more latitude. It’s a decent update to the classic Choplifter gameplay, and worth a look if you’re a fan of the 80s incarnations, but ultimately it’s nothing special. Here’s hoping developer inXile will be bringing their A-game for the upcoming sequel to Wasteland.