Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (SNES)
The first level of a game is usually where the game will set its tone and introduce the player to
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
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Pilotwings (SNES)
While Pilotwings may seem like a pretty straightforward flight simulator on the surface, the reasons for its existence become much
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Kirby Blitz: Kirby’s Dream Land 3 (SNES)
The excellence of one title can sometimes unfortunately overshadow another excellent game. Kirby Super Star’s 1996 release was incredibly close
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Kirby Blitz: Kirby’s Avalanche (SNES)
The Puyo Puyo puzzle game series has seen very few releases outside of Japan, with developer Compile seeming to think
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Kirby Blitz: Kirby’s Dream Course (SNES)
Mini golf is a wonderful fit for the video game world, the already oddball layouts and designs able to be
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The Haunted Hoard: Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday (SNES)
When selecting a Looney Tunes character to be the star of a video game, Porky Pig doesn’t feel like he’d
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Wario’s Woods (SNES)
Many color-matching puzzle games position the player as something somewhat detached from the game world, often taking the form of
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Super Putty (SNES)
Super Putty is the type of game where you play as a blue goo ball that punches gun-wielding carrots to
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X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES)
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse is usually billed as something between a platformer and a beat-em-up, and while both genre names come
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Phalanx (SNES)
Before you get too excited by the prospect of a game with hillbillies dueling with starships in space, it should
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Tin Star (SNES)
The wild west is a pretty good setting for a shooting game. Shootouts, duels at high noon, blasting bottles with
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is, appropriately, a legendary game in the Zelda series. Already impressing
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Mega Man X (SNES)
The Mega Man series was absolutely massive back on the NES. I can’t think of any other series that managed
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F-Zero (SNES)
The year is 2560. Earth has joined the intergalactic community, with aliens interacting with humans and technology rocketing off towards
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Super Mario Kart (SNES)
Mario Kart seems to be one of those series where the ever-improving nature of the sequels makes it hard to
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Tetris Attack (SNES)
Tetris Attack, despite the name, has very little to do with Tetris. The game does involve clearing blocks, but the
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Super Mario World (SNES)
The goal of The Game Hoard is to play every video game ever released and review them along the way,
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Super Castlevania IV (SNES)
Dracula has been brought back from the dead again, and it’s up to Simon Belmont to take him down in
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Secret of Mana (SNES)
We all have a game or series that we just seemed to miss entirely for one reason or another,
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Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)
Contra III was both a sobering reminder of the importance of selecting your difficulty level in a game and an
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Star Fox 2 (SNES Classic)
Star Fox 2 is a game with an interesting history. Originally developed as the immediate sequel to Star Fox on
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