Pinball Palooza: Spinball (Vectrex)
If you play a game on the Vectrex, you have to be prepared for something a bit primitive. However, even
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Pinball Palooza: Demon’s Tilt (Xbox One)
At first, hearing a pinball video game only has one table can be a bit disheartening. On the surface, such
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Pinball Palooza: Momonga Pinball Adventures (PS4)
I’ve always found video games that take pinball and try to apply more traditional video game elements like level progression
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12 Games of Christmas: Xmas Shooting – Scramble!! (PC)
The shoot ’em up subgenre known as bullet hell is certainly a niche one, the screen getting crowded with deadly
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12 Games of Christmas: Christmas Adventure of Rocket Penguin (Wii U)
It seems at some point penguins managed to work their way into Christmas iconography despite having no true connection to
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12 Games of Christmas: Santa’s Workshop (PC)
The box-pushing puzzle is quite common in video games, from a side activity in a more action focused game to
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12 Games of Christmas: Disney’s A Christmas Carol (DS)
A Christmas Carol has been adapted to film so many times before that you pretty much need some twist or
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12 Games of Christmas: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (GBA)
While perhaps not a modern Christmas classic like the film Elf, The Santa Clause is well known and follows a
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12 Games of Christmas: Elf Bowling (PC)
Elf Bowling is perhaps the most famous Christmas-themed video game of all time, and that all comes down to it
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12 Games of Christmas: Who’s Your Santa!? (PC)
Christmas is a holiday about peace on Earth and good will toward men, but comedy will latch onto whatever it
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12 Games of Christmas: Elf: The Movie (GBA)
Many Christmas classics, both in music and in film, seem to have come from before the 80s, so it’s always
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12 Games of Christmas: The Grinch (Game Boy Color)
Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas lends itself quite easily to a video game adaptation. The player can delight
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12 Games of Christmas: Stop Santa – Tower Defense (PC)
The tower defense genre is one of the easier game formats to design a decent game for. All you need
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12 Games of Christmas: Adolescent Santa Claus (PC)
Adolescent Santa Claus is definitely a game trying to grab your attention with the absurdity of its title, but it
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12 Games of Christmas: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (Wii)
By adapting Christmas songs into animated films, Rankin/Bass Productions managed to have plenty of success in crafting Christmas classics. However,
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The Haunted Hoard: Halloween (Atari 2600)
Wizard Video Games tried to bring horror cinema to the Atari 2600 with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but despite the
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The Haunted Hoard: Costume Quest 2 (Xbox One)
Sequel escalation is always interesting to see, the desire to raise the stakes in a follow-up title sometimes taking something
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The Haunted Hoard: Kid Dracula (Game Boy)
The Castlevania series has explored many genres and styles, but no other game feels as starkly different from the rest
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The Haunted Hoard: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Xbox 360)
Out of all the video game genres currently on the market, Metroidvanias might be the one hardest to decipher for
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The Haunted Hoard: Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES)
There was a bit of an odd trend with sequels in the NES era where a hugely successful title would
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The Haunted Hoard: Run Ghost Run (PSP)
Plenty of early arcade hits have seen numerous imitators, the likes of Pong, Space Invaders, and Pac-Man having many copycats
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