Dig Dug (Arcade)
Pac-Man, Galaga, and Dig Dug. These three are practically the holy trinity of Namco’s early arcade offerings, often cropping up
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The Game Hoard
Chronicling Video Game History By Playing Every Video Game Ever Released
Other Systems
The Simpsons (Arcade)
When you ask people what the best old school beat ’em ups of all time are, you wouldn’t be too
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King and Balloon (Arcade)
If you had a winning formula for a video game, how often would you recycle it? And in those reuses
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Hat Trick (Arcade)
The rules and structure we apply to sports are what give these tests of physical skill their appeal, for without
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Qix (Arcade)
Visualizing progress well goes a long way towards making a game feel satisfying, and for many of the early arcade
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Sushi Cat (iOS)
Mobile platforms have always felt like a good fit for flash games ever since touch screens got involved. Browser games
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Get Bigger! Mola (iOS)
When Flappy Bird hit it big with its simple but addictive score-focused play, many other developers were quick to try
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Spectron (ColecoVision)
Spectron is a Space Invaders clone, and there’s no real reason to beat around the bush when it comes to
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Solbot: Energy Rush (iOS)
NOTE: As is the nature of mobile games, it is possible this game may undergo changes to its gameplay design,
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Wing War (ColecoVision)
Wing War is not really a game about any sort of war. From what can be gleaned about the game,
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China Warrior (TurboGrafx-16)
China Warrior, known in Japan by the much odder name of The Kung Fu, immediately impresses the moment you start
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Hidden Folks (iOS)
NOTE: As is the nature of mobile games, it is possible this game may undergo changes to its gameplay design,
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Happy Jump (iOS)
Doodle Jump helped to popularize the Endless Jumper genre on mobile platforms, its gameplay style simple, addictive, and easy to
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Hopscotch: Are You Ready for Hardcore? (iOS)
How I found Hopscotch: Are You Ready for Hardcore?, also known simply as Hopscotch, is a very simple tale. As
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The Odyssey² Today: K.C.’s Krazy Chase! (Odyssey²)
Despite the legal situation around K.C. Munchkin! and its eventual removal from store shelves, copying the Pac-Man formula did give
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The Odyssey² Today: K.C. Munchkin! (Odyssey²)
K.C. Munchkin! is perhaps the best known exclusive for the Odyssey², but it’s not really for the quality of its
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The Odyssey² Today: Thunderball! (Odyssey²)
The name Thunderball! sounds like it belongs on an exciting game, the title helped along by the propensity of Odyssey²
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The Odyssey² Today: AMOK! (Odyssey²)
The Odyssey² console’s official lifespan ended somewhere around 1984, and while a few games inevitably trickle out after the “death”
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The Odyssey² Today: UFO! (Odyssey²)
The endless loop is a common feature of early video games where play will continue until the player loses or
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The Odyssey² Today: Catch the Ball / Noughts and Crosses (Odyssey²)
Quite a few Odyssey² game carts would include two or even three games on them in an effort to better
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The Odyssey² Today: Killer Bees! (Odyssey²)
For some developers, the limited graphics of an early game system are a restriction that they push against, trying to
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