The Odyssey² Today: UFO! (Odyssey²)
The endless loop is a common feature of early video games where play will continue until the player loses or
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Consoles
The Odyssey² Today: Catch the Ball / Noughts and Crosses (Odyssey²)
Quite a few Odyssey² game carts would include two or even three games on them in an effort to better
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The Odyssey² Today: Killer Bees! (Odyssey²)
For some developers, the limited graphics of an early game system are a restriction that they push against, trying to
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Jetpac (ZX Spectrum)
For many people, their first brush with the ZX Spectrum game Jetpac will be through its unusual inclusion in Donkey
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Super Bee (Odyssey²)
Super Bee is a fairly simple game that never received a U.S. release, the game releasing instead only in Brazil
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Gumshoe (NES)
A peripheral like the NES Zapper has plenty of obvious uses. Many games just take the gun peripheral at face
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Freedom Force (NES)
There seems to be a fairly common template for light gun games, one that is used across many arcade titles
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Mass Effect 3 (PS3)
It’s not always easy for a trilogy to stick the landing with its final entry. All the build-up of the
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Neighbours from Hell (PC)
While I’ve certainly heard tales of nasty neighbors, I don’t really have any personal experience with any, so the revenge
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Inspector Gadget: Operation Madkactus (Game Boy Color)
The cartoon Inspector Gadget is about a cyborg police inspector whose body contains tons of gadgets he can call upon
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Whomp ‘Em (NES)
Japan seems to think that the Chinese novel “Journey to the West” is a good fit for video game adaptation,
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Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)
In some ways, quite a lot of video games can feel like theme parks. To include more variety, many game
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Puzzle Agent 2 (PC)
The original Puzzle Agent is a strong puzzle game tied to a story that managed to build up a lot
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CityLights – San Francisco (iOS)
NOTE: As is the nature of mobile games, it is possible this game may undergo changes to its gameplay design,
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Mass Effect 2 (PS3)
The original Mass Effect is a stupendous combination of detailed world-building, likeable characters, and dynamically branching story beats, hampered only
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Alleyway (Game Boy)
Since the Game Boy was the first majorly successful portable gaming console, many early games for the system could get
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Nano Assault EX (3DS)
The microscopic world of microbes is a fascinating place, with creatures that defy the standards we hold for animals. Even
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Puzzle Agent (PC)
Back before Telltale Games slipped into their comfortable niche of choice-focused adventure games, they approached the adventure genre with a
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The Unfinished Swan (PS Vita)
Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out what exactly a video game is going for, and The Unfinished Swan
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Mass Effect (PS3)
It’s near impossible to predict how humanity will react when we first encounter intelligent life on other worlds, but sci-fi
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Spider Fighter (Atari 2600)
Activision is sort of the king of quality Atari 2600 titles, although that’s partly because they were the first third
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