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Coming Soon - Data East Arcade Classics

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Our next book, due out in late July 2016, is Data East Arcade Classics! Data East was a pretty weird company, as much of their output falls into the "fun but arguably not actual...

Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori

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Released in 1999 exclusively through the Nintendo Power download service for the Super Famicom, this adventure game seems like a simple summer love story, but it also makes very...

Your Weekly Kusoge: H.U.R.L.

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FIrst person shooters were extremely popular around the time of Doom, but of course most were extremely violent. Millennium Media Group tried to make a goofy, kid-friendly FPS, which is admir...

bit Generations (Pt. 1)

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A series of seven GBA titles released over the course of two weeks, the bit Generations games are aesthetically-driven and simple-but-pleasant little games. The first pa...

Inventory: Mortal Kombat Klones

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Beyond giving us ten games and several spin-offs, Mortal Kombat also inspired a legion of clones, rip-offs, and homages. This article covers over thirty of these titles - any 2D fi...

Mortal Kombat X (update)

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A little late coming, but we've updated our Mortal Kombat article with coverage of Mortal Kombat X, as well as adding the new character bios to the 

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Croc

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Argonaut, developer of the SNES Starfox games, pitched Nintendo an idea for a 3D platformer starring Yoshi. They struck it down. Frustrated, the team broke ties, continued to develop the game anyway, and creat...

Omikron: The Nomad Soul

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The first game from well known developer David Cage, Omikron features David Bowie in the role of a central plot-moving character who interacts directly with the player, looking like and voiced by B...

F-Zero (Part 2 of 2)

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The second (and final) part of our F-Zero article covers the beautiful F-Zero GX/AX, plus the remaining two Game Boy Advance games, which tied into an anime from around the same time.

Post Mortem / Still Life

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A trilogy of mystery adventure games from Microïds, the stories mix together mystical elements, psychic flashes, and utterly tone deaf comedy in a way that somehow works.

Red Comrades Save the Galaxy

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A classic Russian comedy adventure game, the first in a series of five, that has recently been translated into English for the first time. It's about Communists from 1918 thwarting ...

Dolphin Blue

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It's Metal Slug meets anime Waterworld in this 2.5D run-and-gun released for the Atomiswave arcade board in 2003.

The Count Lucanor

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Baroque Decay's The Count Lucanor, a loose take on the Spanish stories of Count Lucanor, done entirely in the style of a Studio Ghibli film (their comparison) and sprite based a...

F-Zero (Part 1 of 2)

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Even though F-Zero is part of Nintendo's long list of franchises that are only dug out from their vault for new Smash Bros. characters and trophies, it used to be one of the big names identified with Ninten...

Actual Sunlight

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Indie gaming has been involving for a good while, and one of its most popular subgenres in the western world has become the narrative game. Many of these developers are ...

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King and Balloon

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An early variation on Namco's Galaga, where you fittingly protect a king from attacking balloons.

Cosmic Smash

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Sega's high minded, artistic title with an abstract technological aesthetic, even though it's really just "squash meets Breakout".

Interview with Bobby Vandiver (Red Comet)

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Bobby Vandiver, better known as Red Comet, is an accomplished ROM hacking and the man behind 2016-04-27 01:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Technocop

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This driving/shooting game by Gremlin Graphics had the questionable honor of introducing explicit gore to home consoles, years before it became a big issue with 

Mortal Kombat...