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The Incredible Coneman, Lars Barstad and Per Ivar Pedersen This is one of my favourites of the collection.
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If you get stuck (I did), enter the password 41875763 to access all levels. Addictive and polished, but rather unforgiving. Rocks N Gems, Gerhard RittenhoferĪ port of the 80s classic Boulder Dash. Their website includes a version of Gravitation you can play in your browser. Trivia: Like many Yaroze developers, Shaughnessy has gone on to work as an indie games programmer under the name DemonStudios. This is one of those ‘guide a rocket through a cave against gravity’ games, which I’ve never been into, but are a classic of the arcade scene. Did you ever play the PSOne Micro Machines game? There were a few such clones on Yaroze. 7.Hover Car Racing, Richard SmithiesĪ fairly simple top-down racer.
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Trivia: if you’re technically minded, and curious what a Yaroze game’s code looked like, Ben James released Psychon’s source on pastebin. This – is – awesome! It’s a 2D shooter with great sound effects, memorable music and a straightforward, pick-up-and-play sort of gameplay. Surprisingly enough, it’s still around, if you’ve a morbid curiosity to revisit 1990s web design. Trivia: The loading screen points to Williams’ ancient personal website. Be warned: the sound effects are quite shrill I could only play this title on mute. Pushy is a variant of the classic Japanese puzzler Sokoban: push all the boxes onto all the crosses, without accidentally trapping any. His credits include Lead Developer for The Conduit (Wii) and work on 50 Cent: Bulletproof for the PSP.
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Trivia: Ed Federmeyer also wrote Edtris 2600 – a self-published Tetris clone for the Atari – and since gone on to work as a professional game developer. This is one worth playing! You run around picking up symbols (that look suspiciously like lucky charms), all the while being chased by mummy-like creatures against the backdrop of tinny MIDIs of booming, dramatic classical music. Honestly, it’s a competent effort, but who plays Mah Jongg by themselves? 4. Go take a look at what the fuss was about.

Personally I find all the copious sound and graphic effects on the excessive side, but it’s very playable – in fact, it apparently won its developer approximately $10,000 in an SCEE competition. It’s considered one of the more polished of the Yaroze games. Shoot ghosts, rescue kids, pick up powerups and mind the aliens. Trivia: Chris Chapman, the game’s author, actually now runs an indie football game studio named First Touch Games. The game supports two-player competition, too, if you’ve a second controller. Background chants, energetic camera transitions and a depth of options shows real care and attention to detail.Ĭontrols are pretty simple: kick with X pass with SQUARE replay with CIRCLE see current team with TRIANGLE. Team names are charmingly mangled to avoid royalty fees (‘Manchester United’ becomes ‘Minchastar United’ ‘Arsenal’ becomes ‘Irsonol’), and it’s cute to see the simple sprites celebrate each goal, crowding into a huddle and roiling with excitement. Total Soccer YarozeĪ port of Sensible Soccer for the Amiga, with a decidedly retro feel. You can quit any game with Select + Start. Scroll over them with the up and down buttons, and start a game pressing X. You’ll see a menu of fourteen Net Yaroze games. Most of these are just promos for ‘real’ PSOne games, but if you use the left and right keys to navigate between them, you’ll eventually see the “Net Yaroze Hall of Fame”. Once you start the disc, you’ll face a list of demo games: You can set up a gamepad, if you have one, or play using the keyboard. If you have trouble installing the emulators, there’s plenty of help online. You’ll need to unzip the demo file using 7zip (free).
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Install an emulator like ePSXe and grab the demo disc file below: You can play the demo on your PC, Mac or Linux machine by using a PlayStation emulator – a program that simulates a PSOne and lets you play discs as though it were the real thing. I recently came across such a disc – featuring 14 of the magazines’ favourite picks – and wanted to share it here. Net Yaroze games couldn’t be played on ordinary PSOnes directly, but the Official UK PlayStation Magazine released demo discs that let you finally play the best at home.
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It allowed ordinary people to create homebrew PlayStation games, with the help of a home computer, exclusive Sony development software, chunky programming manual and plenty of patience and care. Back in the days of the original PSOne, Sony released a special black PlayStation.
