1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0121 Defender of the Crown

Saturday, January 21, 2017

#0121 Defender of the Crown

Today was Defender of the Crown. Finally. This was easily one of the hardest games I've ever tried to get running. For whatever reason I just could NOT get an Amiga Emulator up and running for the longest time.

But once I finally did get Defender of the Crown running, it wasn't bad. It was okay really. Controls are confisuing. Even the manual does a poor job of explaining how exactly to play the game. It's one of the few games I've played so far that I felt could use a tutorial.

But from what I could understand from the game it was alright! I mean, not the best, but It's a lot like Risk only with more to it. I honestly feel if I were to take time, sit down and really hammer out how this game works I'd be much better off. But considering what I went through to get it up and running, I'd save the mastery of the game for a rainy day. Does that make me a poor game critic? Maybe, but nobody reads these anyway, so it's okay. So long as I gave it a chance, it's good to go.

Next up: Rolling Thunder

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.