Quickies
Old Computer Challenge 2024 — Party Like It's 2004 Wrap up
An entire week has gone and the Old Computer Challenge of 2024 has concluded. You can read my conclusion and wrap up at the end of the main article, or if yo haven’t got the chance to read it, read it from the start. I hope it’s as fun for you to read it as it was for me to write it! <3
Party time!
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OCC Game Of The Day - Strategy and Adventure
This was another day of heavy hitters. Real-time strategy, careful lemonade tycoon scheming and empire building, killing hordes of demons from the underworld and raising hordes of demons from the undead. At the end, to top it off, a bit more magic, because why not. Read the half-assed review with more photos in today’s update.
Can’t believe this week is almost over. Whoa!
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OCC Game Of The Day - Pew Pew!
Lol. If yesterday it was all about the “vroom vroom”, then today it will surely be about the pew pew! After racing a lot, today was shooting time! So without further ado, I jumped right into the best shooters of the history, real classics, games that endured the challenge of time and that are still played today in their upgraded iterations. Check them out, because you’re going to have quite a few surprises in the half-assed review with more photos.
Oh, and I might have missed one or two good ones. Oh well.
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OCC Game Of The Day - Vroom Vroom
“Vroom vroom” in this context is about two things.
Firstly, this means mostly racing games. After playing Midtown Madness a few days ago, I decided it’s time to go for a race track day. So of course, I went the Need For Speed route, which proven a bit … challenging. And then I raced some more in other games too. Read the Half-assed reviews and more photos in the section of the main article.
On the other hand, with the help of the guys and gals at #oldcomputerchallenge I was able to upgrade my Windows installation to Service Pack 3 and get all the released updates (except WGA of course, fuck that) using the tools provided by Legacy Update. The make everything work super fine, sped up my computer a bit and made it more friendly to the internet and connectivity of today, so if you still need to manage old Windows XP systems (especially for retro gaming), send them a tip. Your beer might be someone’s bread. I also added some screenshots to the main article
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OCC Game Of The Day - Puzzle Games
GameHouse / Popcap / Reflexive Games Pack
Big Kahuna Reef • Zuma • Feeding Frenzy
Super Bounce Out • GameHouse Logo • Chuzzle
Shape Shifter • Super Collapse II • Ricochet Lost Worlds
While this is not a game per se, it features a ton of great puzzle games, similar to the one above (actually it’s a part of this pack) and I’m going to quickly feature through some of them.
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New Theme - Windows XP
Inspired by the Old Computer Challenge, I created a new theme for the website and it’s now default for the month of July, based on the default Luna Windows XP theme. Yes, the taskbar should have been interactive, but it’s too hot outside and I got lazy. However, this theme has an easter egg. Let me know if you find it ;)
