Recent reviews by danielr

Only writing this review for the Steam award but still very good game.

Game is broken. There are points in the game where you cannot progress any further as neither you nor the aliens will have any change in health, meaning that you cannot kill them to progress further.

Zaccaria was a company from Italy that made pinball and arcade machines from 1974 until 1988, when it suffered bankruptcy.

For a free game, this is really good. The graphics are superb, I actually feel like I am playing the game in a real room, not pushing keys on my keyboard to control a 2D machine.

You get a free table at the start, and then the other tables are free to play once. But I haven't played the other tables because I'm still addicted to Time Machine (the free table). The game saves your scores and places you in the world rankings. In the game, it says (without getting in the way) how many points the next person has, and if you are to have a bad round, the game only saves your best score, so it's not possible to go down in a ranking.

I just have to warn you, this game is addictive. I'd swear my computer opens it and I just start playing it. I've also managed to friends and family to enjoy this, so why don't you grab that $0 that you were putting towards anything with a $0 price tag and give Zaccaria Pinball a go.


And let me end this off by saying, holy sh♥t this has 720 990 1461 1635 1959 4439 achievements!!!

In AdVenture Capitalist, you are aiming to buy a lot of items and taking over the world, then the moon, and then mars.

Sounds interesting? What if I told you that all you could do was click button repeatedly. Still sounds interesting?

I mean, I'm glad that they added the moon and mars because if was only just Earth, then I probably would have gotten rid of this game by now. It's just that it's a game where you sit there and do nothing.

I love the fact that you can still earn money without being in the game, but the love is ruined by the amount of transactions needed to continue. Gold is the resource you need to buy angels (which are obtained by spending gold and restarting the whole game), but the only way to get gold is to buy the most expensive thing in the game, or surprise surprise, paying.

The micro-transactions aren't really all up in your face, but they're still annoying as they can be the only thing to help you progress quickly. But there's no point spending money on a game you're probably going to delete afterwards, because it is soooo boring.

In my opinion, I think you'd be better off using your disc space for something else and giving AdVenture Capitalist a miss. Unless you enjoy clicking buttons endlessly and running out of resources hindering your progress unless you open your wallet, then this game is perfect for you.

But if I could, I would give this a dark orange ~

Emily Is Away is a re-enactment of AIM back in the day, including the nostalgic Windows XP noises.
This game made me pull out my old Windows XP to play The Sims on it.

You start off with a nostalgic Windows XP start-up sound, and you are greeted by a menu that looks like the screen on Windows XP where you sign in. On the right is where you get to select your chapter. It obviously starts off at Chapter 1 (2002), and as you progress, you will unlock more chapters, up to Chapter 5 (2006).

During these chapters, you have a conversation with a friend named Emily. In this conversation, you will be required to select a sentence to say to Emily, press the keys on your keyboard, and expect a reply. Depending on the sentence you choose, will cause an action in the future, like who you will get together with, who your friends are, what your job is, etc.

This is a game I couldn't exit (with the nostalgic Windows XP shutdown sound) without having the desire to come back to. And it's free! So why isn't it in your library yet?