Every day in The Freezer is like Christmas as we get to play the best RetroGames and New Games out there!
Also it's pretty chilly in here whether it's Winter Or Summer!
Now it's Christmas Eve, we are well truly in the Christmas Spirit and we started to reminisce about years gone by when a Christmas Themed game would always spring up around this time of year.
Now we've had a chat about it over some mulled wine and some of The Freezer's home made Christmas Cake and we have drunkenly decided on these 5 Christmas treats for all you Freezer Followers........MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A FREEZER NEW YEAR!
5. Christmas Nights Into Dreams - Saturn
Christmas Nights was a two-level game of Nights into Dreams that was released in December 1996.
Nights into Dreams was a cool series and we love playing this game at Christmas!
4.Home Alone - SNES
The Home Alone film is a modern day Christmas classic!
The same can't be said for the Video Game but you have to include it in this Top 5 because at the time we were just so hyped about playing a Home Alone Game!
We like the battle vs the spider in the basement best (although it had nothing to do with the film plot!!)
3. Angry Birds - Christmas Seasons - Android
Angry Birds has saved our sanity over the years on long journeys and boring commutes, so what better way to travel to your folks for the holiday season than to whip out your phone and have an Angry Birds Seasons Greedings Session to get you into the Christams mood!
2. James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod - Megadrive
We were big fans of this on the Megadrive and loved every minute of James Pond's second adventure!
Here's what it's all about!
Dr. Maybe has taken over Santa's workshop and is holding Santa's workers hostage.
Many of Santa's helpers have been turned into Dr Maybe's horrible assistants.
It's down to James Pond to infiltrate Santa's grotto, free the Santa's captive helpers, retrieve the stolen toys for the children of the world, and defeat Dr. Maybe once and for all !!
HURRRAH!!
1. Christmas Lemmings - Amiga
Our number 1 Christmas themed game has to be Christmas Lemmings.
Lemmings ahs so much charm and wonderful gameplay, add into that mix a Christmas setting and you have a game that is just perfect Christmas play for everyone!
If you search out one Christmas themed retrogaming gem this Christmas, let it be Christmas Lemmings!
What's your favourite Christmas themed Video Game of all time?
Think about it over the holiday season and let us know!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR VIDEO GAMING FRIENDS OF THE FREEZER!
The HOL Project's
Mission is to catalogue all the official games that were released
commercially for the Commodore Amiga
When you first visit the site the first
thing that springs to mind is that it is minimalist in design as you are
presented with a set of search parameters with little fuss made about
the presentation of the site itself.
But you soon learn that less IS
more as the database stands at a HUGE 5590 games!
Once you undertake a search you are
presented with a really smart and simple screen that shows a screen-shot
from the game and then has various tabs to highlight key information
about the game such as:
- General Information Tab - Giving Year Of Release, Number Of Disks, Publisher, Number Of Players, Genre etc
- Reviews - Listing the reviews and scores from those reviews with a link to those reviews
- Manual - Where possible, a link to an online manual is given
- Cheat Code - Where possible a Cheatcode is listed
- Web Link - A list of other sites such as Lemon Amiga etc that feature the game
- Screen-shot - Showcases additional screenshots for the game
- Box Scan - A scan of the original Box Art
- Disk Scan - A scan of the original disk
- Misc Shot - A scan of other materials that may be of interest from the original game
- Conversion - Screenshots from other system conversions of the same game
- Game Map - Where one exists a scan of the game map will be included
The website highlights the following re it's marvellous database:
"Most games in the database are of the boxed, commercial variety but there are exceptions:
- Licenceware games are considered commercial enough to be included.
- Shareware, freeware and general Public
Domain games are generally not present but they may be added if they
form a fuller picture of a commercial person or entity.
- A number of unreleased Amiga games are
referenced. The status of these games varies; some exist in a
near-complete or demo form while others never progressed beyond the
announcement stage.
- Some Open Source conversions (e.g.
Doom) and games playable through interpreters (e.g. ScummVM or Exult)
are listed. These are considered 'native' Amiga games."
We were lost in RetroGaming Heaven for
hours searching out our favourite Amiga games over the years and
drooling over the BIG BOX art and the screenshots.
For Any Amiga fan this should be your
number one port of all call for all things Amiga, so get on over there now to
unearth such gems as "The Bards Tale III"
Tell us what you think of HOL assuming you can tear yourself away from the site!
Houses, Mansions and Castles have played a large part in a lot of video games over the
years.
Most of this prime Video Game
Real Estate provides a focal point or setting for each of the games they are
featured in.
It is also notable that a house,
mansion or castle is usually a good setting for a spooky or darn right
terrifying game.......
We decided to do a bit of digging
around in the gaming history books again to uncover an 13 of the most Iconic
examples of video game real estate over the years.
So without further ado "let's go through the
keyhole!"
The Imperial Prison inside the Imperial Palace is the
starting point for your hero in Elder Scrolls and the Palace cuts a striking
image as the White Gold Tower can be seen for miles around.
It is listed in the Elder Scrolls Wiki as an ancient
Ayleid structure, located in the Green Emperor Way District in the Imperial City on the province of Cyrodiil.
2. Curien Mansion - House Of The Dead
House Of The Dead begins with Agent Thomas Rogan receiving a phone-call from his fiancée, Sophie Richards at the Curien Mansion, the
home and laboratory of Dr. Roy Curien.
A series of ominous occurrences and
disappearances at the Curien mansion leads Rogan and his partner,
Agent G, to discover the estate overrun with hellish beings from the dead!!
3. TenPenny Tower - Fallout 3
A towering
and imposing building, Tenpenny Tower is a luxury hotel used as a
private residential building.
It is owned by Allistair Tenpenny,
who only permits a certain class of people to reside there. He is prejudiced against ghouls and will not
let them reside there.
4. Bowser's Castle - Super Mario Series
Bowser's Castle is scattered throughout the Mario series in one guise or another and is generally the final area that Mario visits to fight it out with Bowser and rescue Princess
Peach
5. Luigis Mansion - Luigi's Mansion
The game
takes place in a haunted mansion that Luigi wins in a contest that he never
entered!
Luigi tells Mario to meet him there to celebrate his victory but Luigi is then sent searching the Mansion for Mario, who is nowhere to be seen!
6. Raccoon City Zombie Mansion - Resident Evil
The first installment in the Resident Evil series
introduces Chris Redfield and Jill
Valentine as members of the elite S.T.A.R.S.
At the start
of the game they become
trapped in an old mansion infested with zombies.
As they
explore the mysterious and scary mansion, they uncover clues and solve puzzles, battling
the various monsters along the way (complete with scary dogs jumping through windows!!)
7. The Lakeview Hotel - Silent Hill 2
The Lakeview Hotel was constructed and opened during Silent Hill's
tourist boom, in order to attract guests to visit the town. James Sunderland
and his wife, Mary
Shepherd-Sunderland are said to have stayed here on vacation prior to the events of Silent Hill 2.
8. The Mansion - Maniac Mansion
The developers of Maniac Mansion based
the design of The Mansion on Skywalker Ranch
The SkyWalker ranch is owned by George Lucas
acting as a workplace for Lucas and also as a Ranch Film Set!
9. A White House - Zork
When playing Zork the game
begins near "A White House"
The White House provides the first
obvious point of interest.
When you enter the house,you discover a trap door that leads down into a
dark cellar.
That's where the fun starts as the cellar is actually one of many entrances to the Great Underground Empire!
10. The Haunted Mansion Of Derceto - Alone In The Dark
This SurvivalHorror game from 1992 starts your character off inside the mansion
and you are then tasked with finding a way out whilst taking on the nasties that
currently reside inside The Mansion
11. 55 Central Park West - Ghostbusters (Master System)
Over the years there have been
various video games based on the brilliant Ghostbusters film.
The Master
System version's aim is to get to Dana's apartment and defeat good old Stay
Puft Marshmallow Man.
In the games and the film the building where the finale happens is referred to as Dana's Apartment but in real life the building does
actually exist at 55 Central Park West and is also known as "The Ghostbuster's
Building"
We've rounded up but a few of the most iconic properties from Video Games that we have played over the years.
Can You Think Of Any We Have Missed?
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