50 Years of Video Games: Galaga (Arcade)
In 1981 Namco was riding high on the success of Pac-Man from the previous year, but Pac-Man was only the
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Special Series
50 Years of Video Games: Pac-Man (Arcade)
Video games had been slowly finding their footing during the 1970s, but it was 1980 that would give the burgeoning
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50 Years of Video Games: Lunar Lander (Arcade)
In 1969, mankind took its first steps on the moon, and with video games rising in popularity fairly shortly after,
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50 Years of Video Games: Atari Football (Arcade)
In the world of video games, 1978 is defined by one major historical release: Space Invaders. However, I have previously
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50 Years of Video Games: Combat (Atari 2600)
While home consoles have been a part of the video game medium since nearly the start, the Magnavox Odyssey even
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50 Years of Video Games: Breakout (Arcade)
I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the simple joys of a block breaker game. It visualizes
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50 Years of Video Games: Gun Fight (Arcade)
Even in its earliest days video games were at least a little violent. Computer Space was about blasting UFOs while
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50 Years of Video Games: TV Basketball (Arcade)
Prior to 1974, you didn’t actually see human beings in video games. Sure, sometimes they were cheated in like how
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50 Years of Video Games: Gotcha (Arcade)
In 1973 the video game world was still mostly wrapped up in Pong fever. Rather than trying to bring something
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50 Years of Video Games: Pong (Arcade)
While the first publicly available video game released in 1971, people would not really take notice of interactive digital entertainment
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The Shrekoning: Shrek Forever After (Wii)
At the time of writing, Shrek Forever After is the last feature film from Dreamworks about that surly green ogre
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The Shrekoning: Shrek Forever After (DS)
After Shrek the Third dealt a debilitating wound to the Shrek brand, Dreamworks got to work trying to redeem franchise
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The Shrekoning: Shrek’s Carnival Craze Party Games (Wii)
The Wii played host to many motion-controlled minigame collections, and after the breakout success of Carnival Games in particular, it’s
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The Shrekoning: Shrek: Ogres & Dronkeys (DS)
In a mid-credits scene after Shrek 2 the world was introduced to the hybrid offspring of the wisecracking Donkey and
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The Shrekoning: Shrek the Third (PS2)
After the first two Shrek films released to high praise and high sales, the Shrek film franchise appeared to be
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The Shrekoning: Shrek Smash n’ Crash Racing (PS2)
Similar to how Shrek SuperSlam showed that the idea of a Shrek fighting game isn’t a completely flawed idea when
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The Shrekoning: Shrek SuperSlam (Xbox)
The Shrek franchise’s presence in video games began with a shallow and poorly designed fighting game, and it wouldn’t be
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The Shrekoning: Shrek 2: Beg for Mercy! (GBA)
It appears I wasn’t the only one who thought Shrek 2 on the Game Boy Advance significantly improved after the
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The Shrekoning: Shrek 2 (GBA)
Over on the home consoles, the video game adaptation of the film Shrek 2 focused heavily on playing as a
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The Shrekoning: Shrek 2 (Xbox)
After languishing under the roof of TDK since the release of the first film, the video games rights to the
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The Shrekoning: Shrek: Swamp Fun with Phonics (PC)
While it’s not unusual at all to find a Disney character slapped onto an educational game, Shrek’s deliberate rejection of
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