Dimy City

Dime City, not to be confused with the motorcycle shop of the same name, is a largely obscure video game published in 1995 by German publisher Starbyte. It is basically a strategy game where opposing gangsters try to take control of the city, pretty much what today's Mafia Wars does.

The game is nothing to get too excited about, but it is so silly that it makes you want to continue playing just to see what silly thing is going to happen next. Silliest of all is how much the game tries to attract you by pretending to be sexy. It actually succeeded in making me want to throw it away out of the window after a couple of minutes. Sadly, nothing interesting seems to ever happen. So I would say that Dime City deserves a short look, but don't go thinking about trying to go all the way as it won't deliver.

My Abandonware has just put this rare game up for download, so go and give it a look. One word of warning: there are some moments where cartoon breasts are flashed around without care.

Excess!?

I recently came upon this new download on My Abandonware called XS. It is a game from 1996, and to be totally honest, I have never heard about it before today. The screenshots look good enough, so I said why not?

A download and a DOSBox config later, and I am looking at a game which has the weirdest aiming control that I ever saw. Move the mouse up and you shoot at the floor, move the mouse down and you hit the ceiling. I keep telling my mind to think in reverse, but I just cannot do it! That's one really freaking crazy bug in my processing circuitry!

Oh I know. The XS letters in the game's title must stand for something right?

Yes, excess pile of garbage. It was probably a rushed game trying to ride the network play bandwagon (read Unreal Tournament).