XP comes with age
December’s Question of the Month is brought to you by Daniel from Home Button: action-adventure fan, Nintendo aficionado and photo-mode lover. To find out more about him and his site, … Continue Reading Who needs Santa (a <em>QotM</em> answer)
Towards the end of the evening while volunteering for SpecialEffect at the Twitch LDN meetup recently, I got into a conversation with a couple of others about GAME. This shop … Continue Reading When the GAME’s no longer fun
October’s Question of the Month is brought to you by Ian from A Geeky Gal: long-time blogger, video game player, anime watcher and all round lovely lady. To find out … Continue Reading <em>Shivers</em> down your spine (a <em>QotM</em> answer)
I became a backer for the Myst 25th Anniversary Collection in May after hearing that Cyan had decided to complete a ‘never-been-done’ before historical anthology of the series. Although you’d … Continue Reading <em>Myst</em>: one of the best video game beginnings
As I’m sure many regular Later Levels visitors are aware, The Secret of Monkey Island had a huge impact on me as a child. This was the game which taught … Continue Reading Personally-defining games: on their way out?
In my post last month, I mentioned how I’d managed to find a copy of the first Simon the Sorcerer PC game at the London Gaming Market recently. A photograph … Continue Reading 2D to 3D: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
In a post in early April, Brandon from That Green Dude asked the WordPress community whether they considered the seventh generation of consoles to be retro now. This was a … Continue Reading Retro consoles: an age experiment conclusion
Ever since playing The Secret of Monkey Island as a kid and realising that stories can come alive through pixels, I’ve loved adventure games in all their forms. There’s nothing … Continue Reading Classic adventures (which aren’t <em>Monkey Island</em>)
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. I’m guessing a lot of people reading this will know exactly what that sequence is. It’s the essence of … Continue Reading Cheat codes: the old currency of cool
