Mega Man (NES)
The Mega Man series of run and gun platformers has a pretty familiar structure it follows which makes playing the
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The Game Hoard
Playing Every Video Game Ever Released And Reviewing Them Along The Way
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The Haunted Hoard: Friday the 13th (NES)
Horror movies certainly had bad luck getting adapted into video games during the early years of the medium, and while
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Casino Kid (NES)
A little context can go a long way in making a virtual gambling game where no real money is involved
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (NES)
While the Splatterhouse series is known for its grisly violence and detailed viscera, shortly after the first game’s release, the
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Super Mario Bros. (NES)
Ever since I started The Game Hoard I knew I wanted Super Mario Bros. to be my 1000th review. It
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
One of the most often repeated pieces of video game trivia is that the game America received under the name
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50 Years of Video Games: The Legend of Zelda (NES)
The Nintendo Entertainment System certainly isn’t lacking when it comes to groundbreaking titles, Nintendo kicking off many of their iconic
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50 Years of Video Games: Excitebike (NES)
The North American video game market was in a rough spot between 1983 and 1985. A boom in the amount
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Soccer (NES)
It’s important to keep your expectations in check when playing a sports title for an old system. When I picked
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Yo! Noid (NES)
In the era of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Japanese developers often felt overseas audiences wouldn’t buy anything with too much
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Air Fortress (NES)
Usually, an 8-bit NES game will try to do one type of gameplay and do it well. If it’s a
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Bomberman (NES)
While I had a pretty low opinion of the Bomberman series before starting The Game Hoard, again and again I’ve
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Mendel Palace (NES)
It’s always interesting to see where a major developer got their start, and considering Game Freak would go on to
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The Haunted Hoard: Monster in My Pocket (NES)
Monster in My Pocket is one of the bigger names from the fad in the 1980s and 1990s where a
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Pinball Palooza: Pinball (NES)
To help ease the general public into the concept of video games in general, many early game consoles would use
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Dragon Warrior (NES)
Often regarded as the grandfather of the Japanese role-playing game genre, Dragon Quest certainly caught on well in it’s home
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Family Feud (NES)
Video game versions of game shows already have a lot of the hard work done for them. People already enjoy
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Lunar Pool (NES)
Billiards mixed with mini-golf and played on the moon. There are some game concepts I just have to play as
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Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (NES)
While it’s not looked back on too favorably these days, Capcom’s original Street Fighter fighting game was a big hit.
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Stinger (NES)
Some genres just never found traction in the United States, as seems to be the case with the cute ’em
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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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