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COMBAT SCHOOL / BOOT CAMP (ARCADE)
Everyone loves war games, right? Not the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie WarGames, I mean videogames about war. I should hope people like war games, because there are plenty of them out there, which lead...
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THE TERMINATOR (MEGADRIVE / GENESIS)
Today’s article is a story of killer robots, the mysteries of my childhood and shouting “no, I bloody well didn’t mean “Terminator Genisys” at Google. It’s Probe and Virgin’s 1992 Genesis / Megadrive...
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TELLY WISE (ZX SPECTRUM)
I’m sure that when you were a kid, you were just like me – you watched your favourite TV shows and you thought to yourself “wow, one day maybe I can create such wonderful things, just like Greg Dyke,...
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TOILET TRUBLE (ZX SPECTRUM)
Because VGJunk is a bastion of refinement and good taste, here’s a ZX Spectrum game called Toilet Truble.Published in 1985 by Automata UK, Toilet Truble is not the story of the morning after you eat a...
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LETHAL CRASH RACE (ARCADE)
Today I’m going to put my pedal to the metal, feel a little bit annoyed that “pedal” and “metal” don’t rhyme and then crash a sports car into the side of some poor bugger’s house – it’s time for Video...
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3RD PARTY SNES CONTROLLERS
Today I’m going to talk about control pads. Specifically, third-party controllers for the SNES, because when I was a kid I had a SNES that only came with one official controller and I also had two...
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FOOTBALL GAME COVERS
The world might seem like a dark and dismal place at times, but here’s a golden ray of sunshine to lighten my mood: it’s the start of the new football season! Ah, what a wonderful time of year – the...
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THE GREAT GIANA SISTERS (COMMODORE 64)
Today’s article is all about the thin line between plagiarism, inspiration and homage, plus walking penis monsters. It’s Time Warp Production and Rainbow Arts’ 1987 Commodore 64 awfully-familiar-em-up...
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PREDATOR (NES)
Just like a remorseless space monster dropping into your vicinity and methodically killing off your high-trained military squad mates, here’s another VGJunk article to ruin your week! This time it’s...
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ALIEN STORM (ARCADE)
So, part of the reason that I chose to write about today’s game is because Sonic Mania is out. I haven’t played it, but I’ve watched a bit of other people playing it and even as someone who’s not...
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HENRY'S HOUSE (COMMODORE 64)
After playing through Alien Storm and its smorgasbord of different gameplay styles last time out, I thought I’d go for something a bit simpler, a little more sedate, with today’s article – and what...
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LONDON TAXI: RUSHOUR (PLAYSTATION 2)
Climb into your most extravagant Pearly King outfit and start practising your apples-and pears, cor-blimey-guvnor, Knees-Up Mother Brown Cockney accent, because today’s game is taking us down to the...
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NINJA GRANNIES (ZX SPECTRUM)
They’re not turtles or mutants and they’re definitely not teenagers, but they are ninjas. Well, that’s what the game would have me believe, but I’m not sure I buy it. Ninjas don’t tend to carry...
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VIOLENT SHOOTING / CYCLE SHOOTING / BRONX (ARCADE)
oday’s article is all about a 1986 arcade game from Taito. No, not Bubble Bobble. Not Arkanoid, either. This game is called… well, it gets a bit complicated. In Japan it was released as Violent...
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DEMON BLUE (AMIGA)
Today’s game is an Amiga platformer called Demon Blue, released in 1992 and developed by a company called Hirographics, and I’m going to guess the design process was “I’ve drawn a bunch of weird...
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STREET SK8ER (PLAYSTATION)
This article’s all about a Playstation skateboarding game. Not that Playstation skateboarding game, though. However, please don’t take the fact that I’m writing about a much less well-known PS1...
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MARY-KATE AND ASHLEY: CRUSH COURSE (GAME BOY COLOR)
For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a chest infection, so as you can imagine I’ve felt pretty miserable. On top of that, I’m in the middle of quitting smoking, so every minor frustration and...
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NINJA CRUSADERS (NES)
Before I even got past the title screen, today’s game has taught me something: namely, that I can’t see the word “crusaders” without mentally recreating the theme tune from the nineties Toxic Crusaders...
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DARK LORD (COMMODORE 64)
Today, I crave adventure. Will I get it from Datasoft’s 1987 Commodore 64 game Dark Lord? Well, it features rat endangerment and if that doesn’t scream adventure to you then I dunno what to tell...
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UNDEAD LINE (MEGADRIVE)
I’d love to begin this article by telling you that the scent of Autumn is in the air and a faint chill lingers on the breeze at night, but I can’t because it’s still warm and humid and the fallen...
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