1943: The Battle of Midway (Arcade)
With the World War II shoot-’em-up 1942, Capcom had themselves a hit, and it’s little surprise they wanted to get
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Other Systems
SonSon (Arcade)
The now legendary Capcom didn’t exactly hit the ground running with their first ever video game. Vulgus was an unimpressive
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Hyper Meteor (Playdate)
Hyper Meteor looks a great deal like the 1979 arcade classic Asteroids, but a few small changes to the formula
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Omaze (Playdate)
Omaze is a game of circles. Playing a tiny little orb yourself, you navigate through small mazes where each section
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Demon Quest ’85 (Playdate)
Demon Quest ’85 is not an RPG, despite is deceptive efforts to position it as one. The game banner depicts
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Echoic Memory (Playdate)
Echoic memory refers to the specific way our brains store incoming auditory information, keeping it in our memory for a
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The Haunted Hoard: Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Arcade)
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, also known simply as Darkstalkers or Vampire: The Night Warriors in Japan, is a fighting game
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The Haunted Hoard: Ghostly Grange (ZX Spectrum)
Ghostly Grange has an excellent cover for an old school horror game. A hooded figure looming over a haunted house,
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The Haunted Hoard: Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is a mess of a name that doesn’t do it any favors. The Beast Buster
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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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Metal Slug: 2nd Mission (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
Metal Slug: 1st Mission was an effective adaptation of the run and gun action of Metal Slug to the handheld
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SNK Gals’ Fighters (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
When I played SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, I had no idea it was actually a follow-up of sorts to
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Metal Slug: 1st Mission (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
The Metal Slug run and gun games are best known for their gorgeous animated pixel art and the fact you’ll
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Fatal Fury: First Contact (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
Fighting games on portable game systems frequently struggle with how much needs to be downgraded compared to arcade and console
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Super Bikes 3 (Arcade)
Super Bikes 3 is such an unassuming name that you would think it would be found on a generic fake
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NFS Heat Takedown (Arcade)
The street racing, cop-dodging action of the Need for Speed series feels like the exact kind of fast-paced action that
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Root Bear (Playdate)
When I first played Root Bear, it did seem like a bit of fun, but I wasn’t sure I was
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Month of Mario: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – Arcade Edition (Arcade)
While I have previously covered its home console equivalent on the Switch, to say Mario & Sonic at the Olympic
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The Haunted Hoard: Reflections: Nightingale (Playdate)
Fiction offers us a chance to see the world from someone else’s perspective, Reflections: Nightingale using that to help share
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The Haunted Hoard: Scary Monsters (Commodore 64)
Dracula. Frankenstein’s Monster. The Wolfman. The Mummy. A witch. And a zombie. Besides perhaps a ghost and a skeleton, the
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The Haunted Hoard: House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn (Arcade)
There’s a graveyard of quarters built off the back of being a single shot short of survival in light gun
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