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Altered Beast (Genesis)
(Review archived from March 17, 2023) WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM! Er … welcome to this brief review of Altered Beast, a game that is inextricably linked to the history of the Sega Genesis thanks largely due to being included as a pack-in game with the system at launch. Sega’s unforgettable (at times notorious) marketing strategy…
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Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! (NES)
(Review archived from March 11, 2023) The first order of business has to do with Will Smith (née The Fresh Prince). Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! will forever be inextricably linked in my mind to the DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince single, I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson ft. Mike Tyson & Don King. Despite…
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Ratchet & Clank (PS2)
(Review archived from March 4, 2023) Ratchet and Clank was the second AAA platformer series to emerge on the PS2; the first having been the Jak and Daxter series which got its start slightly less than one year earlier in 2001 with The Precursor Legacy. But while The Precursor Legacy was a great game mechanically to me…
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Transylvania (Apple II)
(Review archived from February 25, 2023) Transylvania is yet another game I can trace back to some of my earliest experiences with video games in general and adventure games specifically (it’s a bit of a tie between this, Space Quest, and Zork but through the fog of intervening years I’m not sure which one I…
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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (PC/GOG)
(Review archived from February 20, 2023) One of the fun aspects of the Space Quest series thus far is that, is that the ongoing story transitions seamlessly from one game to the next. So rather than an episodic format, each game picks up from (more or less) where the previous one ended. It’s a nice…
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Cool Spot (SNES)
(Review archived from February 12, 2023) Every so often I feel like firing up a game. Shocking I know. But faced with lists and spreadsheets of backlogs for various systems, series in progress, and so forth it can be a bit daunting deciding just what exactly I’d like to play. I suspect I’m not alone in this conundrum.…
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She and The Light Bearer (PC/Steam)
(Review archived from February 12, 2023) She and the Light Bearer is a game with personality and heart, that much is clear. What we have here is a point and click adventure game with a gorgeous dreamy art style that serves well as backdrop for the creation myth fable it conveys. It’s a game that…
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Little Samson (NES)
(Review archived from February 13, 2023) As it turns out I had some serious misconceptions about Little Samson. And I was wrong on every count! To be honest … I’m still not sure exactly what the story is about in any great detail, but it’s definitely not based on a biblical story (unless I just…
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Red Dead Revolver (PS2)
(Review archived from February 8, 2023) I tend to get a little bit compulsive where it comes to playing game series in the order of release. I enjoy seeing the iterative changes to series over time, as it affords the opportunity to discern the philosophy and thought processes that went into the production of a…