CD-ROM Fossil

Image: Day of the TentacleWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Halloween is here! The month of October is 31 days of spooky goodness. It’s time to watch the fun movies like Hocus Pocus with the whole family. Of course, you’ve got the super horrific movies like Evil Dead, but not everyone likes to be terrified. Horror video games have been around

Screenshot: Age of Empires IIBy: Elijah Moon Blackwell It was unbelievable to watch. An Age of Empires II professional player by the name of TaToH was in the groove. He had lost to his professional opponent, Yo, earlier in the tournament. But in the grand finals, the roles changed. There were two islands with each player starting on one. TaToH

Image: Concept art for Rainbow 6: PatriotsWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Thousands of video games populate the shelves of my game room. I’ve played maybe a few hundred of said games. So naturally I’m going to complain about games that I can’t even access and pretend I’d actually play them if they were indeed obtainable. These products are the rejects.

Image: Half-Life Lambda LogoWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell There are a lot of video games that have high replay value. However, sometimes I keep myself from hitting “start new game” because I don’t want to endure the painful introduction. These are good games (or at least I think so) with slow, often times boring, opening sequences. They are in no

Image: Official BoxartWritten By: Elijah Moon Blackwell It’s the mid-2000s. You are a racing video game based company. In 2001 you published a military simulation by the name of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and it released to critical acclaim. Unfortunately, your company and the developers of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis couldn’t come to an agreement a few years

Image: Two Games that are fairly difficult to give an accurate valueWritten by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Are retro video game prices too high? Is the market crashing? If you do a quick Google search for “retro video game prices,” you’ll find a wide array of answers. There is no reason to point to specifics; it’s just the nature of the

Screenshot: Your first quest is given by dude with skinny robot legs Written by: Elijah Moon Blackwell Retro isn’t always a good thing. It’s like buying a washboard as opposed to a modern day washing machine to do laundry. Space Trader: Merchant Marine is a first person shooter where the player controls an unnamed character in space. As Mr/Ms no-name

Screenshot: The game Garry’s Mod. This is basically CD-ROM Fossil headquarters after finding out that it has been a full year. Time flies and we wish we could slow it down. Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell CD-ROM Fossil started out as a college assignment. Elijah Blackwell sat in his evening Editing and Design course. It was the last semester and

Logo: ValuSoft Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. We’ve heard this cliche our entire lives and I do try to live by it. Well, what about logos? Do they fall under the same philosophy? If so, I have been violating it severely. When I’m at thrift stores or flea markets sifting through piles of

Screenshot: F.E.A.R still holds up as an intense first person shooter. Written By: Elijah Moon Blackwell They are going to kill me. I keep running, trying to get a chance to reload my weapon. Behind me, villagers are shouting in a foreign language as they chase me. What are they saying? Why are they attacking me? What is happening? Resident