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 Game Hoard
Playing Every Video Game Ever Released And Reviewing Them Along The Way
Other Systems
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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Horace Goes Skiing (ZX Spectrum)
In Horace’s debut game Hungry Horace, there wasn’t much to glean about the newly introduced blue creature with eyes on
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Hungry Horace (ZX Spectrum)
With the famous rivalry between Nintendo’s mascot Mario and Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog coloring much of people’s perception of early
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)
While I had such a strong love for Konami’s beat ’em up X-Men that I would arrange for my birthdays
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Wild Western (Arcade)
With a sheriff riding on horseback to foil a train robbery, Taito’s 1982 arcade game Wild Western feels like it
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Cloak & Dagger (Arcade)
The arcade game Cloak & Dagger is in some ways a movie tie-in game, but at the same time, the
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Quantum (Arcade)
The limitations of early arcade games sometimes lead to creative concepts being born, the need to work with simple graphics
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Asteroids Deluxe (Arcade)
In a simple and straightforward space shooter like Asteroids, an issue can arise where a single strategy can completely invalidate
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Power Drift (Arcade)
Power Drift is sometimes identified as the first kart racing video game, something it can claim on a technicality because
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Flipper Lifter (Playdate)
When I first saw Flipper Lifter among the first season of gratis Playdate titles, I felt fairly confident in assuming
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Alien Breed (Amiga)
Once again The Game Hoard takes its first step into a new U.K. computer console scene, but the Amiga has
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Monster Munch (Commodore 64)
It’s a bit surprising a game like K.C. Munchkin! can get in legal hot water over similarities to the pellet-munching
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Centipede Chaos (Arcade)
With the limited floor space available at an arcade, a question arises: do you keep classic games people expect to
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Men In Black (Arcade)
The odd thing about the 2021 Men in Black arcade game isn’t that it avoids tying in directly to the
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The Official Father Christmas (Commodore 64)
When Christmas time rolls around, people return to their comfort media. Holiday classics don’t necessarily need to be good to
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Jukebox (ColecoVision)
Video games are full of spectacular music people would happily pay for the pleasure of listening to, but in the
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Pick Pack Pup (Playdate)
Pick Pack Pup is a match-3 puzzler, but many of the standard rules of that genre aren’t in place. You
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Lost Your Marbles (Playdate)
In most visual novels, when it comes time to make a decision that could change the course of the story,
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The Haunted Hoard: Down the Oubliette (Playdate)
While the Playdate comes with a nice selection of included titles, on March 7th of 2023, the Catalog was added.
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