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MAGIC LAND OF LANDLORDS (ZX SPECTRUM)
oday’s article is one of those where I started writing it and then thought “is anybody going to be interested in this? Am I even interested in this?” In the end I decided that I am interested in it,...
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ACTION REPLAY COVER ART
Back in the days before they generally became easy enough for the idea to become pointless, videogames used to have these things called cheats. Sometimes there were secret passwords or sequences of...
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CHUCK ROCK (MEGADRIVE / GENESIS)
It’s a shame that most videogame-to-movie adaptations are terrible, because I think a big-screen version of today’s game would be worth making. Of course, that’s only because then you’d be able to use...
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THROUGH THE TRAP DOOR (ZX SPECTRUM)
So what happened is, I mentioned The Trap Door in the last article, which made me remember “oh yeah, there’s another Trap Door game I haven’t written about! Forget about what I was going to cover this...
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MICKEY'S SAFARI IN LETTERLAND (NES)
If you’ve read any other VGJunk articles, you’ll know that I need some help with this whole “writing words” business. I’m not too proud to admit it, and I’m willing to seek out the help I need so long...
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CROSSBOW (ARCADE)
“What if God was one of us,” Joan Osborne famously sang, “just a stranger on the bus?” That’s fine as far a middle-of-the-road Christian rock ballads go, but it doesn’t ask the really important...
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RECALHORN (ARCADE)
At VGJunk today: a game with a title that sound like someone being ordered to remember a brass instrument. It’s also an unreleased Taito arcade game, so that’s got to be worth a look, right? It’s the...
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EPHEMERA: BLOODBORNE EDITION
It’s time for a brief break from retro games today, because I’ve been playing From Software’s Playstation 4 masterpiece Bloodborne again recently and now I want to talk about it. That’s one of the...
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MENACE BEACH (NES)
Having recently experienced something dangerously close to fun while writing about Recalhorn and Bloodborne, I realise that a thorough bout of purifying self-flagellation is in order. Something...
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BOZO'S NIGHT OUT (COMMODORE 64)
In my almost thirty years of playing videogames, they’ve taken me on some pretty wild adventures. I’ve rescued kidnapped princesses, I’ve battled evil space armadas, I’ve battled evil space armadas in...
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HOKUTO NO KEN 7 (SUPER FAMICOM)
Just in case you thought an over-reliance on sequels was a recent trend in media, here’s a game called Hokuto no Ken 7. To give it its full title, it’s Shouei’s 1993 Super Famicom game Hokuto no Ken 7:...
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LEGIONNAIRE (ARCADE)
Like a comfortable pair of slippers or an Easter egg that you told the cashier you were buying for your nephew, I’m about to treat myself to something that’ll make me feel all warm inside. That’s...
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SEARCH EYE (ARCADE)
“I’m gonna play this game,” I thought to myself. “It’s just about looking at things, how hard can it be?” Well, I did play it and now I’m waiting for my optician to call me back with what I can only...
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SHREK: FAIRYTALE FREAKDOWN (GAME BOY COLOR)
Somebody once told me “maybe, for the sake of your general mood, you should stop playing licensed Game Boy Color games,” to which I replied “Hey now, not every game can be an all-star, but don’t these...
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG (MEGADRIVE / GENESIS)
Spring is in the air, the cherry trees outside my house are in full bloom and my hayfever’s staring to kick in. It can mean only one thing: it’s just about time for VGJunk’s birthday! That’s right,...
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (ARCADE)
First Sonic the Hedgehog and now this. That’s two games in a row that you have not only probably heard of but might well have even played yourself. I’m getting dangerously close to the mainstream. The...
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CHESS GAME COVERS
Chess: the timeless game of intellect, logic and psychological sparring that for some reason people still play despite the availability of, you know, videogames. I kid, I kid, chess is fine. I have no...
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STREET GANG (COMMODORE 64)
Y’know, if the schoolteachers and morally well-meaning Saturday morning cartoons of my youth had spent less time warning us about the dangerous of street gangs and more time explaining how council tax...
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MEGA MAN SPRITES
It’s been a long time since I did one of these sprite history articles, huh? Well, who better to mark the return of this (extremely) occasional series than Capcom’s much-loved and perhaps recently...
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GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (GAME BOY)
Today’s game is the story of a reluctant father who sets out to destroy his children: it’s Sunsoft’s 1990 Game Boy adventure Gremlins 2: The New Batch!We all remember the Gremlins movies, right? Maybe...
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