Letter from the Editor – November
I want to tell you a little more about our editors. The newest addition to the Blast crew, Bessie King is with us in Boston as the Entertainment Editor. That’s the reason why you’re seeing a ton more...
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The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here
A lot of people just haven’t gotten used to the new AOL Instant Messenger style. It’s completely different after all, and functionality or not, many people just want to chat — not video conference,...
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The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
Today’s Old Shoebox feature is a game that brought me a ton of joy in the mid-90s. The game is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the CD I originally found it on is called “Aztech’s Super Games,” a red...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
Here’s another out of that old Aztech’s Super Games cd: At the twilight of the Eastern-Han Dynasty of ancient China, under the reign of the frail and incompetent emperor Han-Ling, the country was in...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
Long before Takara developed their 2002 mixed-reviews tank sim, Epic Megagames was distributing Seek and Destroy, a PC action game that combined tank and chopper elements. I first encountered Seek and...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Download the original Tomb Raider demo
There once was a magazine called Launch. Oh what a magazine it was. Launch was mainly a music publication, which offered a Macromedia-powered CD-ROM magazine in the 90s. It was an early form of...
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The Old Shoebox: Download the Hardball 5 demo
One of my all time favorite PC sports games was High Heat Baseball 1999. It was behind its time and had sub par graphics, but it was a smooth playing game that was insanely customizable. It had...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Heretic shareware
Released quickly after Doom, using a modified version of the same game engine, Heretic is a fantasy first person shooter designed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed, along...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Links: The Challenge of Golf
Download it free from Blast One of the best computer golf games is still Links LS 98 and subsequent versions for Windows, released 11 years ago by Access Software. Access made some very good games in...
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The Old Shoebox: Download Bio Menace
In December 2005, Apogee/3D Realms released the classic side-scrolling action game Bio Menace as a freeware “Christmas present” for its customers and loyal fans. At that time, the game had floundered...
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The Old Shoebox: The Halo E3 2000 trailer
There’s no question that Halo was one of the best action/shooter games ever made. It was a remarkable achievement in gaming and carried the Xbox at launch time. Its multiplayer had that James Bond...
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Download Doomsday and the addons
Doomsday and projects like jDoom have kept the game going well into the 21st century, with support for high resolution graphics and textures, OpenGL, new character models, particle effects,...
View ArticleThe Old Shoebox: Download Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Don’t miss: More Shoebox Official website Download now Ahh, 1993. The first person shooter was bursting forth in popularity with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. We sped through command prompts and wrote our...
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The Old Shoebox: Download Overkill
Don’t miss: Download registered version More Shoebox The vertical scrolling shooter is a great, classic arcade genre. In 1992, Epic MegaGames released this almost forgettable little EGA game called...
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The Old Shoebox: Cylindrix
Download John’s Demo Way back in the mid 1990s, the computer game magazines were full of whole page advertisements in the back of the book for a 3D Dos game called Cylindrix. It wasn’t necessarily a...
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The Old Shoebox: Night Raid
[download id="2"] In 1982 Greg Kuperberg and Orion Software put out Paratrooper, an EGA action shooter game on the brand new IBM-PC that put you in a gunner’s turret as helicopters and parachuting...
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