Spanky’s Quest (SNES)
Spanky’s Quest is a bit of an odd eye-catching title, the name perhaps meant to make young players look twice
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
1992
Kid Chameleon (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Prior to the 1990s, many video games were short and simple enough that it wasn’t unusual to expect a player
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Out of Gas (Game Boy)
Even if you have a well-designed game, if you don’t know how to sell it, it won’t find an audience.
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Streets of Rage 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
The original Streets of Rage is an enjoyable beat ’em up, but it’s a bit basic in a few crucial
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The Haunted Hoard: Dracula: The Undead (Lynx)
Dracula: The Undead is a rather unique Atari Lynx title for how it chooses to execute its adaptation of Bram
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The Haunted Hoard: Gargoyle’s Quest II (NES)
If you look at Gargoyle’s Quest on the Game Boy and then it’s sequel for the NES, it would be
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Zero Wing (Genesis/Mega Drive)
“All your base are belong to us.” It’s a phrase that has echoed around online since the internet started making
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Genesis/Mega Drive)
While Nintendo systems would receive fairly faithful ports of the two arcade brawlers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant
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Super Soccer (SNES)
The most interesting thing about Super Soccer is something that happened to it over 30 years after release. Included as
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Month of Mario: Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
The first Super Mario Land game was strange for taking video gaming’s most recognizable hero and having him go on
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Month of Mario: Mario Teaches Typing (PC)
When computers were becoming accessible enough that they started appearing in homes, a wave of games appeared to help prepare
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The Haunted Hoard: Dr. Franken (Game Boy)
While it’s fairly common for a video game protagonist to find themselves rescuing their love interest, Dr. Franken on Game
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Sewer Shark (Sega CD)
With the release of the Sega CD peripheral for the Genesis and Mega Drive came the bold promise of games
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The Haunted Hoard: Alone in the Dark (PC)
It’s hard to go back to the original Alone in the Dark without feeling the weight of its legacy. It
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King Salmon: The Big Catch (Genesis/Mega Drive)
King salmon is not only the largest type of salmon found in North America, but many also consider it the
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Boggle Plus (Game Boy)
Despite an interest in word games, I had no idea that Parker Brothers’s Boggle exists until I saw it in
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50 Years of Video Games: Mortal Kombat (Arcade)
Violence has been part of video games from the very beginning, but back when you were blowing up black and
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
When I played the original Splatterhouse arcade game I was disappointed to find that a game with a heavy horror
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Wordtris (SNES)
When Tetris took the world by storm with its simple but addictive puzzle game design, designers were quick to try
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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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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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