The very first mass-produced home gaming console came in the form of the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972. Up until this time, gamers could only experience gaming by taking a trip down to their local arcade armed with a pocket full of spare coins.

Granted, the retro gaming graphics look almost laughable compared to Xbox or PS games available today, with small squares bouncing around the screen which required a lot of imagination to turn into a game theme. Overlays were used for creating gaming environments on the Magnavox Odyssey that fitted onto your TV screen.

Other gaming consoles began to be produced including the Ping-o-Tronic, Coleco Telstar, Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, and many other classics.

The era of ‘Pong’ soon followed with a game called Pong brought out by Atari which was based on the tennis game originally on the Magnavox Odyssey on their Atari 2600. Magnavox tried to sue Atari in the courts over this game as they saw it as a blatant copy of their idea.

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Octodad: Deadliest Catch has been around for a few years now, but it is still among my favorite indie games. The wonderful thing about indie games is that they can be about anything. They don’t need to have the requisite grizzled, macho hero or awkward love interest that triple-A games seem so attached to.

Indie games can be about little boys lost in dark, scary woods, or about sexually ambiguous robed figures running across a desert, or indeed about an octopus who has infiltrated society and spends his days hiding his true identity from his family.

After being successfully kickstarted, Octodad: Dadliest Catch was released on PS4 in April 2014 but the game is still very popular today. The protagonist is an octopus who has somehow found himself in a family with two children. It is essential that his loved ones do not find out that he is an octopus, so he has to function like a normal, human male.

However, every day is a huge challenge for poor old Octodad. With limbs designed for swimming rather than making coffee, even menial tasks are a massive struggle, and if he makes too much of a mess, his family will start to wonder why their father can’t open a window without getting stuck in the ceiling fan.

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Der Eisendrache – Wrath of the Ancients is a very powerful Wonder Weapon and it is a bow that begins with sixty arrows. Let’s see what steps are involved in obtaining Wrath of the Ancients. You may also upgrade The Wrath of the Ancients to four different variations.

Der Eisendrache – The Locations of Ancient Bows

The Wrath of the Ancient consists of bones and this “Wonder Weapon” has the capacity to fire away arrows with flamed tips. The bow comes with a capacity of sixty arrows that you can also charge before firing when you hold the trigger button.

Against Panzer Soldat, the bow is highly useful thanks to the splash damage when you have charged the arrow. A charged arrow causes just as much damage as when you hit directly with a shot that’s uncharged, but only with a reduced damage radius. Charged shots explode upon impact and cause damage to nearby zombies as well.

A charged arrow’s explosion doesn’t affect the user which makes the bow highly efficient. Additionally, when the bow is used, stabbing has replaced the melee attack rather than using knives.

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