Nightlife

Let's go back to 1989. Let's go there now

Do you remember times of 8 bit computers or PC AT? Or rather - do you remember Prince of Persia game for DOS (or any other platform it was realeased for)? I do

20 years has passed by now (I can hardly believe it ) - today's PCs are thousand times faster (according to Moore's Law) and we can really see it. Especially if we try to play latest Prince of Persia title with steady 60 fps in full HD resolution...

Actually I tried 1920x1200 - so slightly higher than poor 1080p ... But how does it compare then to old mode 13h? Well... Some say you cannot divide by zero

It didn't of course take 20 years to come with another version of the game. During those years the Prince of Persia series became video game franchise with 7 main titles and 6 spinoffs (usually for portable consoles). And still - they think they can make some more money out of it as besides launching new game titles they are planning a movie

Anyway - it got me - I spent good part of night playing latest title The game is really good even though it falls under casual games - as it is easy and you cannot die (in hard times you will be saved by irritating lady - and will be able to repeat last scene - and then - to keep repeating it forever ) And I will say - that's actually good - as I want to have some fun while playing - not frustration... Especially that the latter can be found easily elsewhere

On the visual side I have to say - game looks really good even if at very beginning I had some doubts about graphics - as game creators didn't go for photorealism but instead they applied cell shading to amazing Prince's world. On the sound part - enough to say music is a masterpiece...

One thing more - if you would like to try it - it really does matter how you play it... I do recommend trying
Xbox 360 Controller for Windows - I never thought it will - but it does make a difference... Really... I cannot imagine now playing without it...

Here are some more screens:

GOG.com is open for several months already and since it has started first as closed beta, they have added lots of Good Old Games.

After buying there Fallout 2 (yes it's my 4th copy of it by now ) and getting for free a very cool adventure game - Beneath a Steel Sky I found they have released a game I was playing when I was a teenager on my mighty Pentium 100



Yes, It's Megarace 2! (Actually it's both Megarace 1 and 2 but I really don't care about the first version as it was a poor game if you compared it to the sequel).

The game is simple - It's all about the racing:

- You don't have the car?
- We'll give you the car!

And some money so you could buy some stuff like bombs, oil and rockets as no one said that rules are fair

Graphics for the time game was released (early 1994) was astonishing and it took other racing games a few years to beat it. The trick here was you were driving "in the movie" not in the real 3D world. That way scenery looked much more interesting and had plenty of detail in VGA mode!

To make it even more interesting whole story was organized as a TV show with crazy Lance Boyle and his ...uhm.. assistant

Just have a look: