Attack of the Karens (Switch)
Karen. Once just an unassuming girls’ name, social media helped morph it into an identifier. Women who were viewed as
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Nintendo
Rayman Origins (Wii)
With a name like Rayman Origins, you’d expect this video game to be a prequel exploring how Rayman became the
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GoldenEye 007 (N64)
When GoldenEye 007 released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, it was a surprise smash hit. It certainly had some
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Mario Kart 64 (N64)
Super Mario Kart was such a break-out success that it carved out a new racing genre where players could interfere
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Heroes of Mana (DS)
The Mana series of games is best known for its fantasy role-playing adventures, but as part of a company-wide initiative
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Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS)
For the Dragon Quest series, entry nine is divine as the character you play as is essentially a guardian angel.
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RPG Jamboree: Quality Time: Skies of Arcadia Legends (GameCube)
Lands as far as the eye can see. Oceans with depths you can’t begin to fathom. The infinite reaches of
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RPG Jamboree: Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (3DS)
With the Fire Emblem series not leaving Japan until its seventh entry, there was a good chunk of the history
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RPG Jamboree: Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl (3DS)
In a first-person dungeon crawler, a good map can be the difference between frustrated repetitive wandering and informed and manageable
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RPG Jamboree: Pokémon Violet (Switch)
With the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, there are now over 1000 unique species of creatures to collect
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RPG Jamboree: Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (DS)
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is the adventure of a lifetime in quite a literal sense. Beginning
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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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Ragnarok DS (DS)
Ragnarok Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that spun out of a Korean comic and found a good
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Pokémon Ranger (DS)
The main method for capturing new creatures across the Pokémon series, weakening them through combat until they cannot break out
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No More Heroes III (Switch)
In Spielberg’s film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, an alien ends up lost on Earth, but by befriending a young boy the
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Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (3DS)
Nendoroid figures are a rather successful line of quality plastic figures that typically depict recognizable characters from different types of
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Suika Game (Switch)
Suika Game is a simple enough puzzle game, but its origins and rise in popularity after being discovered by online
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Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir (Switch)
Nintendo developed games are often renowned for their excellent gameplay, narratives sometimes sidelined in favor of superb action elements that
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Shifting World (3DS)
The black and white visuals of Shifting World do serve a vital gameplay function, but they also box in how
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Live A Live (Switch)
Live A Live is a tale told across time, heroes from prehistory all the way to the distant future all
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LEGO The Incredibles (Switch)
While there are many LEGO action games based on film franchises, usually they are drawing from series with quite a
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