Yo! Noid (NES)
In the era of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Japanese developers often felt overseas audiences wouldn’t buy anything with too much
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Nintendo
Pokémon Ultra Moon (3DS)
Pokémon Sun and Moon took an unexpected direction with the seventh generation of mainline Pokémon titles, choosing to heavily emphasize
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Attack of the Movies 3D (Wii)
3D movies rise and fall in popularity in cycles, with the mid-2000s being perhaps the point they were taken the
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The Ignition Factor (SNES)
The Ignition Factor is a top-down firefighting video game for the Super Nintendo, and with those words you likely already
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Shonen Jump’s One Piece (GBA)
After having huge successes with their localizations of the Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! anime dubs, 4Kids Entertainment turned their sight to
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Shakes on a Plane (Switch)
After the chaotic cooperative cooking of Overcooked achieved incredible success, a wave of indie games with similar ideas cropped up.
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Air Fortress (NES)
Usually, an 8-bit NES game will try to do one type of gameplay and do it well. If it’s a
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New Pokémon Snap (Switch)
Back in 1999, the original Pokémon Snap released for Nintendo 64, and its unique game structure felt like lightning in
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (Game Boy Color)
The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series thrives on its ability to provide open 3D environments the player can skateboard across
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Aahh! Spot the Difference (DSi)
In my continuing quest to see how much I like spot the difference games, I moved onto something far less
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Brunch Club (Switch)
Pop culture references are always a risky gamble. Not only might they become dated if you bet on the wrong
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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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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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