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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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Other Systems
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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The Haunted Hoard: Friday the 13th: The Computer Game (Commodore 64)
Friday the 13th: The Computer Game, sometimes called simply Friday the 13th, is the first attempt to adapt the slasher
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The Haunted Hoard: The Astonishing Adventures of Mr. Weems and the She Vampires (ZX Spectrum)
There is a certain design approach that seems fairly popular on the ZX Spectrum where the player is destined to
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The Haunted Hoard: Castle of Terror (Commodore 64)
One of the first things a person looking up the text adventure game Castle of Terror will likely learn is
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The Haunted Hoard: Bogey Manor (Arcade)
If someone was able to infiltrate and demolish a haunted house filled with ghosts, witches, and hovering gorgons, they’d easily
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Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure (Playdate)
While the quirky little console that is the Playdate was on my radar for a while, what made me sit
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Casual Birder (Playdate)
Panic’s Playdate system comes with a full “season” of 24 included games for anyone who purchases it, but it doesn’t
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Whitewater Wipeout (Playdate)
The Playdate is certainly a game console meant for enthusiasts, the small rectangular handheld having black and white “1-bit” visuals,
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Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (Arcade)
While the Mario Kart series has continued reliably on Nintendo consoles ever since it kicked off with Super Mario Kart,
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Dragon Saber (Arcade)
The original Dragon Spirit game is a vertically scrolling shooter where you control a dragon in an appropriately medieval fantasy
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Domino Man (Arcade)
There is a nervous energy surrounding the act of setting up a line of dominoes. The entire point of the
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Campaign ’84 (ColecoVision)
While many modern election years in the U.S. will be accompanied by a political simulator allowing you to try your
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No Man’s Land (Arcade)
Early arcade games can sometimes have development stories almost as interesting as their gameplay, but if you look at the
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Blasto (Arcade)
The 1978 arcade game Blasto is an interesting example of how simply adding a second player can greatly change even
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Molar Maul (ZX Spectrum)
Thus far my efforts to get better acquainted with the British microcomputer gaming scene have gone rather poorly. Repeatedly I
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Outcasters (Stadia)
It might seem a little odd to publish a review for Outcasters after the Stadia service has already shut down.
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Revenge of the C5 (ZX Spectrum)
While the ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular affordable microcomputers embraced by the early U.K. video game industry,
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