B-side Gaming

Creating a unique blend of genre has made for some interesting games in the past. In fact, many indie games have the ability to take some risks, experimenting with concepts that try and push the mold a little and we have seen many such titles over the years see quite a lot of success. This is especially true when a developer tries to blend horror into a different package than expected and Stately Snail has tried just that with Is This Game Trying to Kill Me?. With Sometimes You bringing the indie game that blends horror and unique reality bending puzzles all centered around an ancient computer game, does it make for a spooky brain scratcher that is just as ready to punish players with death as it is with advancing further into its unknown depths?

Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen is a combo ROM Hack of the Sega Mega Drive version of Super Street Fighter II, where some of the characters are replaced with characters from various fanchises. It draws some inspiration from several bootleg versions of Champion Edition, as well as other Street Fighter II ROM Hacks such as Street Fighter II: Mix and Super Street Fighter II Turbo: New Legacy.

Stef’s PCM Driver Fix and Pyron’s Color Hack were used as a base.

The following characters are replaced:

Blanka is replaced with Roll, from Mega Man.
Dhalsim is replaced with Mai Shiranui, from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters.
E. Honda is replaced with Choi Jadoo, from Hello Jadoo.
Fei Long is replaced with Emily, from Unholy Night: The Darkness Hunter.
Dee Jay is replaced with Madonna de Swan, from Makeruna! Makendou 2.
Boxer is replaced with Avra Yumeno, an original creation, and Belva Lina, another original creation.

Features

The Game Speed defaults to 3 stars, like in console versions of Street Fighter II’ Turbo: Hyper Fighting, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

Some character sprites that were missing are inserted, such as stance sprites for Shotos, Sagat and Cammy.

Air Specials
Charge Times are disabled (except for Turn Around Punches, which charge way faster).
Characters can be juggled. Once a juggle quota is reached, they fall down faster.
Characters can back dash. Emily and Madonna can also forward dash. Emily can air dash.
Wakeup can be delayed like in Ultra Street Fighter IV, by holding at least 2 Kick buttons.
A few moves’ commands are changed to be easier to use, such as Sagat’s Tiger Knee and Cammy’s Spinning Back Fist.
Character Endings can be accessed on any difficulty.
A lot of PCM samples, such as Guile’s Sonic Boom voice clip are changed.
Most of the music have different pitches, tempos and use different YM2612 instruments.
All Arcade Ladder Arrangements are changed.
A few aspects were made more Arcade accurate, such as Dictator’s suplex reaction.
Health persists between Elimination matches in Group Battle Mode.
In Arcade Mode, stages can be chosen by the players in 2-player matches with the Mode button.
The computer can control a player in Group Battle Mode by holding the Mode button.
The Debug Menu can be accessed by holding A or Mode, and selecting Options.

In Versus Mode, directions can be locked by holding the Mode button, any direction then releasing the Mode button. Lifebars can be refilled with both Players’ Mode buttons.

Challenge Modes can be played in faster speeds.

New moves, such as Zangief’s Coconut Thunder and Sagat’s Tiger Dive.
Extra colors can be chosen by holding the Mode button in Arcade, Versus and Challenge Modes. If the Mode button is held when starting Group or Tournament Modes, the extra pack of colors are used.

In Arcade Mode, the player can switch to either the previous character defeated (Down+A+B+C), or to the character that they’re up against (Up+A+B+C), a la Vampire Savior 1 and 2. This allows for “relay” playthroughs, or playthroughs that use multiple characters where a player can switch to a character that they recently defeated.

If you're thinking about delving into Rusty Rabbit, take a look at our review of the sci-fi, block-breaking Metroidvania.

As the name suggests, it's inspired by the movie TRON. Or more exactly, by all the games that where inspired by the movie TRON.

You steer a futuristic bike, called lightcycle. Combat takes place in a rectangular arena. Your bike leaves a trail behind, which is like a wall. The goal is to force the other players to drive into a wall. The winner is the last player alive.

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Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

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Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.

Stardust Demon is a retro adventure metroidvania about exploring alien planets, which a heavy emphasis on story and charming, strange, and cute characters. It features a mixture of challenges, from platforming to fighting to solving puzzles. Power up with an array of abilities and many hidden upgrades and secrets.

Experience the story featuring quirky demons and aliens. And many hidden rooms await in the depths of the planets to test your skill and knowledge of Algol's powers.

The game features 3D CGI FMV cutscenes, and lovingly-crafted pixel art graphics of hazardous environments and cozy towns. The soundtrack features an eclectic mixture of styles together from retro-FM-synthesis to metal to electronica, featuring over 50 tracks!

From the creators of Paradise Killer comes Promise Mascot Agency, one of the weirdest games I've ever played, but also one of the best.

Wealth. Women. Wildly offbeat jokes. Lie, cheat, steal, and embrace your inner rogue. Being bad has never felt so good.

Quest For Infamy is a classic point and click adventure game, in which you assume the identity of 'Mister Roehm' a man trying to start over after running away from a shady past. Welcome to the little town of Volksville only to discover there is so much more going on in the valley than meets the eye! Come along and take a walk on the wild side with Roehm and discover just how infamous you might be.

Featuring three different character classes, why not take on the sly and cunning path of the Rogue, or behold the wonder and limitless power of the Sorcerer.
Or maybe you'd prefer the brute strength and brawn of the Brigand. Each class takes you on a different course throughout your quest making it ever so unique.

Features:

Classic fantasy RPG packed with adventure, puzzles, combat, and spellcasting
Play as one of three anti-heroes with unique quests: Brigand, Rogue, or Sorcerer
Lie, cheat, and steal your way through tales of charming villainy with multiple endings
Use swords, spells, or wits to blaze a path to victory: Styles vary with every play
Hand-drawn world seamlessly blends role-playing and adventure
Over 50 NPCs and 200 rooms to explore and interact with
Customize your own spells, skills, and adventures

Search for the lost Incan city known as La Ciudad de las Nubes in the mountains of Colombia. Your fledgling archaeologist will battle venomous pit vipers, tropical diseases, and the FARC guerrilla army to secure fame, fortune, and tenure at a prestigious university.

0 A.D. is a free, open-source, historical Real Time Strategy (RTS) game currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers.

Chinese indie game Sultan's Game reached 250,000 sales on Steam in its first week, developer Double Cross Studio announced on Tuesday.

Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans in this platforming follow up to Super Bernie World.

complicated relationships between kitsune and humans in this follow up to Super Bernie World.

Play as a young female kitsune, one of Inari's fox-eared and bushy-tailed messengers, and embark on a hero's journey that begins while delivering your first message. Experience a romantic encounter with a kindly sorceress who comes to your aid in a time of need. Explore the complicated relationship with your former mentor turned antagonist and uncover her reasons for sealing your love interest inside an elemental prison. Unlock powers that manifest as cute outfits to help you run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology in Kitsune Tails, the follow up to Super Bernie World.

- Classic platforming action set in a land inspired by Japanese mythology

• Explore five elemental worlds and various haunted houses
• Use cute outfits to power up or stomp around by stealing a giant boot from enemies
• Uncover the reasons behind your childhood friend's jealous betrayal
• Stomp on pangos to make them curl into a ball, pick them up, and kick them around
• Carry lights through haunted houses to reveal secret doors and ward off ghosts
• Unlock and play over a half dozen minigames for coins and power ups
• Struggling? Buy more power ups at the shop or change playstyles for an instant-revive
• Play through the bonus world after rolling credits and prove you've got what it takes to beat the kaizo levels
• Optional true-to-life CRT filter for maximum nostalgia
• Make custom levels using mature open source tools
• Create and play custom minigames using the same Lua scripting the developers used

TOEM: A Photo Adventure is a calm, hand-drawn exploration game from Swedish developer Something We Made, released in 2021. The focus is on the eponymous yet fictional phenomenon TOEM – a mystical natural event that few have ever witnessed firsthand. What TOEM actually is remains unclear at first, with characters in the game describing it as a spiritual moment or a rare natural marvel, only revealed at the end of a long journey. Players step into the shoes of a young traveler who, camera in hand, sets off to uncover the truth behind this elusive wonder.

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History of Colossal Cave Adventure

In 1975 and 1976, programmer at Bolt Beranek and Newman in Boston, William Crowther wrote the first computer text adventure game, Adventure. The original name for the game was just ADVENT later renamed Colossal Cave adventure. It was based on Crowther's maps and experiences caving in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest cave system in the world; further, it was intended, in part, to be accessible to non-technical players, such as his two daughters.

The game is composed of dozens of locations, and the player moves between these locations and interacts with objects in them by typing one- or two-word commands that are interpreted by the game's natural language input system.

The program acts as a narrator, describing the player's location and the results of the player's attempted actions. The first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake.

The game was about 700 lines of code, plus another 700 lines of data such as descriptions for 66 rooms, navigational messages, 193 vocabulary words, and miscellaneous messages.

In 1977, Don Woods working at Stanford University's Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab expanded the game in size and increased the number of fantasy elements present in it, such as a dragon and magic spells. He changed the puzzles, adding new elements and complexities, and added new puzzles and features such as a pirate that roams the map and steals treasure from the player or objects that could exist in multiple states. He also introduced a scoring system within the game and added ten more treasures to collect in addition to the five in Crowther's original version.

Woods's game had approximately 3,000 lines of code and 1,800 lines of data, growing to 140 map locations, 293 vocabulary words, and 53 objects.

Crowther did not distribute the source code to his version to anyone else, and it was later believed to be lost until it was rediscovered on an archive of Woods's student account at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 2005. Woods, however, distributed the code to his version alongside the compiled executable. Woods's 1977 version became the more recognizable and widespread version of Colossal Cave Adventure, in part due to its wider code availability, as it led to several other variants of the game being produced.

It directly inspired the creation of numerous games, including Zork (1977), Adventureland (1978), Mystery House (1980), Rogue (1980), and Adventure (1980), which went on to be the foundations of the interactive fiction, adventure, roguelike, and action-adventure genres. It also influenced the creation of the MUD and computer role-playing game genres. It has been noted as one of the most influential video games, and in 2019 was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame by The Strong and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games.

In 2017, Eric S. Raymond created a port for modern computers of Woods's 1995 version of the game as Open Adventure and released the source code under an open-source license with permission from Crowther and Woods.

A 3D remake of thegame, under the title Colossal Cave, was released by Cygnus Entertainment as its first title in on January 19, 2023, for Windows, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Meta Quest 2. Designed by Ken and Roberta Williams, co-founders of Sierra Entertainment, the game was started as a hobby project by the pair during the COVID-19 pandemic, before being expanded into a full commercial product by a team of thirty.

Version of the game to download or play online

The original PDP-10 Fortran [sourcecode](http://www.ifarchive.org/if archive/games/source/advent-original.tar.gz).

Every other version can be tracked down to this one. Not to be recommended for actual porting to modern machines though, as it has many dependencies on the nature of the PDP-10.

Kevin Black's DOS version of his and Bob Supnik's DECUS version, available as a DOS executable.

Adventure 2.5

This is a 430 point version, extended by Don Woods and dated 1995. It is available as generic C source code, a DOS executable and an Amiga executable.

Online: Adventure

Open Adventure Adventure 2.5 (430 points), forward-ported to clean modern C from the original mechanically translated FORTRAN, and then tested against a binary made from stock 2.5. Eric Raymond's GitHub for this project is here.

More Versions can be found here: Adventure - IFWiki

Modern 3D version

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An open-source reimplementation of the most famous civilization-building game ever - fast, small, no ads, free forever!

Build your civilization, research technologies, expand your cities and defeat your foes!

Both Unciv and Freeciv are games inspired by the civilization series. Freeciv is basing it gameplay on older game of civilization series like civilization II and Unciv on the newer games like civilization VI.

Claim the heart of the Living Castle in this Low-Poly 3D Diorama Action Game

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The 80's classic returns for the NES! This package includes the full Windows reboot!