50 Years of Video Games: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! (GBA)
The Game Boy Advance is a bit of an unusual system. It sold remarkably well and the console itself is
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Nintendo
50 Years of Video Games: Quality Time: Metroid Prime (GameCube)
With the 1994 release of Super Metroid, the Metroid series finally not only refined the exploration-focused platformer into a cleaner
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario 64 (N64)
With the Nintendo 64 being pushed back to 1996, it ended up being a little late to the party of
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Metroid (SNES)
While the exploration-focused platformers known as Metroidvanias derive their genre name from two different series, there’s one game they’re all
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50 Years of Video Games: Tetris (Game Boy)
Tetris wasn’t first released in 1989, but its release on the Game Boy that year might have ended up being
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50 Years of Video Games: Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
One of the most often repeated pieces of video game trivia is that the game America received under the name
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50 Years of Video Games: The Legend of Zelda (NES)
The Nintendo Entertainment System certainly isn’t lacking when it comes to groundbreaking titles, Nintendo kicking off many of their iconic
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50 Years of Video Games: Excitebike (NES)
The North American video game market was in a rough spot between 1983 and 1985. A boom in the amount
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Ketzal’s Corridors (3DS)
Conceiving of a practical use for the 3DS’s glasses-free 3D in a game proved to be a difficult task few
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Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (DS)
With Dragon Quest being one of the longest running and most popular role-playing game series, you would think one of
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Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball (3DS)
Nintendo’s often been a little slow to adopt the latest trends in gaming, and while that can sometimes lead to
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Kaze and the Wild Masks (Switch)
While finding the DNA of the Super Mario Bros. series in other side-scrolling platformers is fairly common and even Sonic
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Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Space (Switch)
While it is inevitable that any human settlement on planets beyond Earth would eventually diverge in their cultural identity from
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Ever Oasis (3DS)
Oases are a small respite from the harshness of a desert, a spot of comfort in an arid and hostile
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Penguin Patrol (DSi)
There’s a certain type of puzzle found in quite a few video games that could almost be described as a
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Soccer (NES)
It’s important to keep your expectations in check when playing a sports title for an old system. When I picked
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Animal Genius (DS)
Before the world of video games captivated me with its boundless possibilities and its open embrace of imagination, my first
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Mail Mole (Switch)
In Mail Mole, the adorable mole mailman Molty becomes a platform game hero as he needs to help the people
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game – Complete Edition (Switch)
For many years, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game was the poster child for one of the biggest problems
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The Shrekoning: Shrek Forever After (Wii)
At the time of writing, Shrek Forever After is the last feature film from Dreamworks about that surly green ogre
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The Shrekoning: Shrek Forever After (DS)
After Shrek the Third dealt a debilitating wound to the Shrek brand, Dreamworks got to work trying to redeem franchise
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