Widge (the real one)

Hi, I’m Widge. I’m the author of the Captain Power VHS Game simulator for Hypseus Singe, and I’ve also released other projects for Hypseus including the Video Driver VHS Game Simulator, Minesweeper, Space Rocks, and most recently, I co-authored the Hypseus version of Marbella Vice. I’ve also had a hand in contributing to improving some of the earlier lightgun game conversions for Hypseus. Everything I’ve been involved with and released so far has been completely free — no strings, no paywalls, no donation drives. Right now, I’m working on a few different projects. But specifically, something that I’m really excited about is a simulation of the Video Challenger VHS game system. For those unfamiliar, Video Challenger was a VHS-based lightgun game system similar to Captain Power. It used video playback with special flashing patterns embedded into the footage that a sensor on the toy gun could detect — almost a home version of laserdisc-style gameplay, but much more obscure and limited. Th...

This article exists to catalogue and present my findings on the differences between various console and computer editions of the 1995+ game, Chaos Control, by Infogrames. I have extensively played and explored the filesystems of most versions of this game for another project. In my research, I have found inaccuracies regarding the game being reported, largely by people who have never played it and are repeating what they have heard elsewhere. I hope that this article will serve as a reliable reference to clear up the disinformation being spread regarding this game. Chaos Control was originally released for the Philips CD-i in 1995, and ported to Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, MS-DOS and Apple Macintosh soon after, and more recently to Steam in 2018. No console versions were released for the North American market, with releases only in Europe and Japan. The MS-DOS version was however published in North America by I-Motion, Infogrames' North American publishing division at the time...