Disaster Report: Vroom in the Night Sky (Switch)
Back when I took a look at Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, I noted how that simple game’s release in
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Nintendo
80’s Overdrive (Switch)
The 1980s is a decade defined by technology’s impact on pop culture. At the cinema people were seeing huge blockbusters
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Quality Time: Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Space. Here on our little blue and green sphere, the very word captivates mankind with the thought of endless
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Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube)
While Mario is often the platform game trendsetter, establishing how a platforming character should control in both 2D and 3D
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
While it’s easy to identify similarities between games in the Crystal Chronicles subseries of Final Fantasy games, the wide breadth
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Bomberman (NES)
While I had a pretty low opinion of the Bomberman series before starting The Game Hoard, again and again I’ve
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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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Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King (Switch)
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King is an example of a game being saved by being at the right place at
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Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring The Legend of Zelda (Switch)
Crypt of the NecroDancer took rogue-like mechanics, dungeon-crawling, and rhythm based gameplay and rolled them all into one experience where
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Mendel Palace (NES)
It’s always interesting to see where a major developer got their start, and considering Game Freak would go on to
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Minecraft: Story Mode – The Complete Adventure (Wii U)
Despite being the best selling video game of all time, Minecraft doesn’t have much of a plot. For a world
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MUSYNX (Switch)
When it comes to rhythm games, there’s a pretty common template where the player needs to accurately perform the right
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Cooking Mama: Cookstar (Switch)
On the surface, Cooking Mama: Cookstar seems like it’s just the latest installment in the colorful and accessible cooking sim
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Giraffe and Annika (Switch)
Giraffe and Annika is a very cute game, and considering that seems to be the main goal it’s shooting for,
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Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Switch)
Not since Pokémon’s introduction back at the tail end of the 1990s did the series see such widespread popularity as
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Pac ‘n Roll (DS)
After Pac-Pix made use of Pac-Man’s iconic 2D shape for a DS game all about drawing him, Namco decided to
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ZooCube (GameCube)
ZooCube is a puzzle game I’ve been interested in trying for a long time, but there was one of the
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Another Sight (Switch)
Synesthesia refers to a form of sensory overlap where an individual will experience one form of sensory input by way
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The Last Story (Wii)
Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the wildly popular Final Fantasy series, set out to make a new type of Japanese
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Frogger 3D (3DS)
In 1981, Konami released an arcade game about a little frog dodging traffic as it crossed the road. Frogger would
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Timespinner (Switch)
When you first start to play Timespinner, it might seem deceptively unoriginal. The plot gets off to a seemingly generic
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