Hi everyone! Allow me shortly introduce myself: Cybercow is the name 🙂 Our Retropal friend Vulturius was kind enough to extend me an invitate to join the Retropals community. Something I have, of course, graciously accepted. Vulturius and myself actually go way back, some 25+ years, back to the day when Retro games were well just … games…
We had the opportunity to let the Belgian retro community have a go on our RetroLANGaming booth. Although 99% of the visitors are console minded freaks, they are not ashamed to admit they once played games on the PC as well 😉 Without further ado, here is a short recap of what happened. Enjoy the…
In the early nineties, a new way of playing games was introduced: network play. It was something I have never heard of before, because at that time I was just a teenager with only my game computer in my room without any connection to the outside world. It was unthinkable to me that computers could…
PixelCake.nl just released an interview with Anne Bras, a regular gamer from the Netherlands with a passion for PC Games, who happens to have the biggest PC BigBox collection in the world ! I wanted to share this with you, so you can all look at it with open mouths, and realize that this is…
Hi retro addicts! Remember one of the first posts I made for this blog? It was about a little – well, pretty big – gem I got from AuronnBE, the infamous Admiral PC which came back to life again after a difficult rebirth. I didn’t want the story to end there and decided to upgrade…
After all your kind reactions on the first part, 1983, it is now the time to present our second installment of The Dos Back in Time Series. I, Vulturius, would like to take you all with me down memory lane to PC gaming era on MSDos year by year. The games that make it into…
Saturday is a big day for the RetroPals and Vulturius as he will present a brand new concept: RetroLanGaming. There is a small convention close by named ‘Spellewaarde’ where we will beta-test a new gaming experience which we can possibly present on bigger conventions in the future. Spellewaarde, previously known as Spellebeurs, focuses on all…
A masterpiece on its own, brilliant, kicks ass, makes me want to curse ’cause it’s so good 😉 Enjoying it while doing my work. Reliving bits and pieces of level fragments, monsters, secrets, … Everything is burned in my mind caused by excessive playing, … not to mention all the hours, days, weeks spending killing…
Hi retro addicts, A little over a week ago we visited the biggest Retro Convention in Europe as they gladly promote their event. Discover, together with us, all the retro goodies we stumbled upon and the deals we made. This was our first trip to the Netherlands together, to go on our never ending quest…
Hi everyone, I am proud to introduce a new series i’ve had as an idea for a while. Finally I can present the first episode. As you can see from the title I would like to play, discuss, cover PC games year by year. Which one eventually will make it in the episode is purely…