I've been absent for quite some time (at least 4 years) simply because I'd neglected many other things in my life. I was spending over several hours a day writing reviews for the games being given away here (including the game time). I found it really hard not to give a positive slant on all the games I was reviewing, even if they didn't deserve it.
Too be honest, many (but not all) of the games being given away were either rip off assets from genuine game developers that were more or less just extended demo's or basically trash, so I decided to take a break, mainly to take stock, but also because I really needed a break after posting almost daily since late 2006.
I was initially intending to take a few months off, which was extended to several months; then, I got involved in other things, including cooperative gaming with friends, all of which took up most of my spare time, so I abandoned the idea of returning at least for the near future.
At this point in time I doubt I'll return to the main site as I don't have the energy to spend so much time reviewing a game, which is necessary to give a fair assessment. However, I do intend posting details of free games occasionally, mainly abandonware, that are in my opinion well worth checking out. For example, I was just testing out a couple of Winter sports games the other day i.e. RTL Ski Jumping 2007 (there's an older 2005 version as well) and Alpine Ski Racing 2007, both with decent graphics. The Ski Jumping game defaults to German, but via the options you can change it to English.
I'll post details of those in the coming weeks when I have some spare time. There's also a couple of excellent arcade flyers called Attack on Pearl Harbor and Secret Weapons over Normandy. All four games work on Win 11, though you require No CD patches for them and you need to create a disk for each of the games using the ISO's provided.(Though I think there may be ripped versions as well that don't require the disks) Once the games are installed via the disk, then the original executables exchanged for the NoCd version, they work perfectly. The DVD's created from the ISO won't work as the original disk, which is why you need the NoCD patches.
I was also intending to post details of the latest version of Orbiter, a freeware game that has been under development for over 25 years. When I last looked four years ago it was still being worked on and it was to be the next game I was going to post in the thread I created specifically for free games. Then I took this long break. I need to find my notes as I'd started to pen details of the game, sadly, all the images I uploaded were to a site that no longer exists, so I'll have to redo those.
If you can't wait for my Orbiter post (it be months away as I'm really busy at the moment), you can find the site HERE
