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
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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Paper Mario: The Origami King (Switch)
There are many game series that undergo drastic style shifts as the developers pursue new ideas or technology allows for
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Guerrilla War (Arcade)
SNK has quite the reputation for unfair arcade game design, many of its games featuring characters who die in one
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Quality Time: Wandersong (Xbox One)
My experience when I learned about the game Wandersong is not only one common to many gamers, but to the
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Warriors of Fate (Arcade)
While it would be a major simplification to say that Warriors of Fate is just Final Fight set in China’s
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Super Mario Party (Switch)
Near the end of the Wii U’s life and the start of the Switch’s, Nintendo’s release model of adding frequent
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Final Fight (Arcade)
After Capcom achieved some success with their fighting game Street Fighter, they were quick to get to work on a
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Double Dragon (Arcade)
It’s very hard to get people to agree on the first game to introduce a new genre, especially since many
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Carnival Games (Wii)
The Wii’s secret to success was translating real life activities into easily understood games with motion sensing controllers, and since
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (PC)
Defusing an active bomb is one of the most stressful situations a human being can face. The pressure of a
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Gun Gun Pixies (Switch)
The premise of pixies no bigger than your finger going up against comparatively massive but mundane humans is certainly one
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MotorStorm (PS3)
The MotorStorm Festival. A fictitious event taking place in Monument Valley, this absolutely massive celebration in the desert features intense
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QuickSpot (DS)
After playing the spot the difference mode in Disney’s A Christmas Carol, I began to wonder if I might have
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htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (PS Vita)
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary is a beautiful little game with a cute hand-drawn art style and an atmospheric post-apocalyptic world,
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The First Tree (PS4)
Game creation tools have now reached the point that David Wehle, the creator of The First Tree, managed to build
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Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (PS3)
Back before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduced most of the world to the idea of multiple Spider-Men from alternate dimensions,
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Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath (Xbox)
Usually, when I mention a game on The Game Hoard that I’m only now getting around to playing after playing
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (Xbox 360)
Japanese game developers frequently draw on the Chinese novel Journey to the West in their games, the most common element
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