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NINTENDO'S WEB GAMES
A couple of years ago I wrote about a bunch of the little games you could play on the official Pokemon website. You know, short Flash games with a Pokemon theme, like a Puyo Puyo clone hosted by...
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BLACK TOUCH 96 (ARCADE)
Today I’ll be looking at a title that combines two of my favourite things: side-scrolling beat-em-ups and weirdo videogames that make me go “hmm” a lot while I’m playing them. Prepare yourself for a...
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FANCY WORLD: EARTH OF CRISIS (ARCADE)
I’m tired of this dismal planet, this grubby orb of shame and regret. We need a better world, a brighter world - dare I say it, a fancy world. I’d love to tell you that Korean developer Unico can offer...
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST SHOW (AMIGA)
I’m sure a lot of you are looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2. Ah, the lure of the untamed West, rifle-fire echoing down a lonesome canyon, hours spent parking your horse on top of dead animals so...
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SAS COMBAT ASSAULT (ZX SPECTRUM)
Okay, back me up here: if you were playing a game called SAS Combat Assault, you’d expect it to be an action-packed warfare simulator where you take on the role of the elite Special Air Service and...
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FRIGHTMARE (COMMODORE 64)
Deep below VGJunk Towers, in a mouldering crypt littered with time-softened bones, scurrying vermin and empty biscuit packets, the heavy stone lid of a foetid tomb slowly slides open. From within, the...
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SPOOKY COMPUTER GAME COVERS, PART II!
Two of my absolute favourite things to look at with my human eyes are old computer game covers and horror-themed artwork, so obviously I had to write another article about spooky home computer game...
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SEIKIMA II: AKUMA NO GYAKUSHUU (FAMICOM)
They say that heavy metal is the Devil’s music, which I’ve never really understood: Satan is supposed to be the great deceiver, so favouring very loud songs about how great sin is seems like it’d go...
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CASTLEVANIA: ORDER OF SHADOWS (MOBILE)
It’s hard to know what the future holds for the venerable Castlevania franchise. Konami themselves seem content to do nothing but re-release Symphony of the Night over and over again, former franchise...
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CRUEL GAMES: RED RIDING HOOD (PC)
I was going to say that playing spooky hidden object games has become a Halloween tradition of mine, but that’d be a lie. I play spooky hidden object games all year round. They are my videogame...
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GHOUL PATROL (SNES)
And now, the videogame equivalent of returning to a place where you spent many happy childhood holidays only to find it a little run-down, with some of the fondly-remembered attractions shuttered and...
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ALL HALLOWS: RISE OF THE PUMPKIN (ZX SPECTRUM)
What do you get if you cross a jack o’lantern with a spring? In my experience, a warning from the police for having something dangerous and distracting attached to the roof of your car. Another answer...
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VAMPIRE KILLER (ZX SPECTRUM)
Last time out I covered All Hallows, a spooky 2018 ZX Spectrum game with lovely graphics and a fun movement mechanic that made controlling your pumpkin character a real pleasure. Today’s game is...
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NEW GHOSTBUSTERS II (NES)
In the past, I have made reference to my youthful obsession with Ghostbusters, an obsession I think you could accurately describe as “all-encompassing” and which left an immutable psychic scar because...
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SPLATTERHOUSE 3 (MEGADRIVE / GENESIS)
The day is upon us at last. The pumpkins are carved, the horror movie marathon is queued up, the sweets that the trick-or-treaters didn’t claim are rapidly disappearing into my fat face. I'll be more...
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ALLEY CAT (ATARI 800)
Well, the Halloween season is over and as always it’s a bit of struggle to muster up the enthusiasm to return to writing about games that don’t include spooks or spectres or logo artwork that looks as...
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TENNIS COMPUTER GAME COVERS
I think it’s about time for more home computer sports game covers, don’t you? Whaddya mean, “no”? It’s too late now, I’ve already gathered together a bunch of cover art from tennis games and I’m not...
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GREAT GUNS (ARCADE)
Today I’m looking at something I don’t consider a game so much as a training manual for the inevitable clownocalypse. Calm your nerves, steady your aim and prepare to become the real reason dinosaurs...
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JALECO RALLY: BIG RUN (ARCADE)
A couple of months ago I wrote about Tuff E Nuff, a SNES fighting game that (awful title aside) helped creators Jaleco strengthen their claim as the most consistent developer of average videogames....
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KNUCKLE HEADS (ARCADE)
As we all know, when Street Fighter II landed in arcades and revolutionised the fighting game genre, every developer under the sun rushed to put out their own take on the one-on-one brawler. What’s...
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THE LOST EGGS OF GERTIE GOOSE (COMMODORE 64)
People eat goose at Christmas, right? Ebenezer Scrooge did, I know that much. Therefore the goose is a symbol of Christmas and by extension today’s game is appropriate for the festive season, he...
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CHRISTMAS WONDERLAND 9 (PC)
Good grief, is it really Christmas again already? The passage of time turly is a cruel and bitter wind that leaves your unfulfilled ambitions and fruitless dreams tangled and snarled like tattered...
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THE VGJUNK 2018 REVIEW!
It seems as though it’s become traditional for me to start these year-end reviews by saying “man, what a horrible, wearisome year 2015 / 2016/ 2017 / 2018 (delete as appropriate) was on both a personal...
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KNIGHT GAME COVERS
Hello there. It’s been a while, huh? That’s real life for you, always getting in the way and being an endless slog filled with responsibilities and hardship whose heavy burden is only lifted by the...
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So, I Stopped Updating VGJunk
There hasn’t been a new VGJunk article in nine months – wow, nine months, really? Even I didn’t think it had been that long – so as you can probably tell, VGJunk is closed for business. I really should...
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