Fire ‘n Ice (NES)
Fire ‘n Ice, also known as Solomon’s Key 2 since this game serves as a prequel to it, stars Dana
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
1993
Yoshi’s Cookie (SNES)
Yoshi’s Cookie is a cute color-matching puzzle game where the pieces take on the form of baked treats, and despite
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Cacoma Knight in Bizyland (SNES)
Cacoma Knight in Bizyland’s title and cover aren’t really doing it many favors when it comes to telling you what
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The Punisher (Arcade)
While the Punisher is best known for waging his one-man war on crime by way of firearms and explosive ordnance,
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Jurassic Park (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Many Jurassic Park adaptations put players in human roles, it a fairly natural way to adapt the films as the
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Battletoads/Double Dragon (SNES)
The crossover Battletoads/Double Dragon is one where you hope one of the participating franchises is on its best behavior. Double
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Plok (SNES)
When I think back on my time playing Plok, the word that somehow seems to best describe it is “cheeky”.
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The Haunted Hoard: Haunting Starring Polterguy (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Haunting Starring Polterguy is a scaring game. It’s certainly not a scary game, it has you playing as a teenage
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The Haunted Hoard: Splatterhouse 3 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Playing through the Splatterhouse series has been a bit of a bumpy road. While you can almost always count on
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Panel Action Bingo (Game Boy)
Bingo is a game of chance where the appeal comes less from the game’s actual design and more the opportunity
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50 Years of Video Games: Doom (PC)
With some games, their impact on history is simple enough to summarize, but 1993’s Doom is something else. PC games
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Mutant League Football (Genesis/Mega Drive)
After a nuclear apocalypse, zombie uprising, alien invasion, time-space ruptures, and multiple supernovas, you’d have to imagine that American Football
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In the Hunt (Arcade)
As I began to play In the Hunt, known in Japan by a more descriptive name that translates to Undersea
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Goofy’s Hysterical History Tour (Genesis/Mega Drive)
While Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse have appeared as the stars of many platforming games, the absence of the third
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Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (SNES)
While it might not be as prevalent now thanks to digital distribution and steep sales, there was a time where
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Pinball Palooza: Sonic Spinball (Genesis/Mega Drive)
The Sonic the Hedgehog series is a perfect fit for a pinball game spinoff, and not just because its protagonist
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: Roar of the Beast (Genesis/Mega Drive)
Sunsoft’s admirable but misguided effort to adapt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast into two games for two different audiences didn’t
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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Quest (Genesis/Mega Drive)
While the Super Nintendo adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was content to go with the typical action platformer
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High Seas Havoc (Genesis/Mega Drive)
High Seas Havoc is a game that goes by many names. The one we’ll be using here is its United
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OutRun 2019 (Genesis/Mega Drive)
It’s always interesting when the current year catches up with a work of futuristic fiction. Comparing how far we have
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The Haunted Hoard: Kid Dracula (Game Boy)
The Castlevania series has explored many genres and styles, but no other game feels as starkly different from the rest
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