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MONSTER BASH (ARCADE)
They had a bash. It was a monster bash! Was it a graveyard smash? You might find out if you continue reading about today's game: Sega's 1982 arcade super-zap-em-up Monster Bash!Hang on, Frankenstein...
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CASTLEWEEN / SPIRITS & SPELLS (GAME BOY ADVANCE)
All these Halloween games I've written about over the years, but never one that features the most basic of all Halloween activities - trick or treating. That's going to change with today's game, Magic...
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BLOODY (ZX SPECTRUM)
Today's game is a madcap medical merry-go-round that is not only a computer game that can be played for "fun" - although the amount of fun you'll get out of it is limited at best - but which can also...
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CASPER: FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD (PLAYSTATION)
Ghastly ectoplasmic phantoms! Blood-curdling spirits of death! The unquiet souls of those who refuse to leave this realm! Those would all be great things to have in a Halloweeen videogame, but today...
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CASTLEVANIA: DRACULA X / VAMPIRE'S KISS (SNES)
Like a black cat whose tail drifted too close to the fire beneath a witch's cauldron, this October has flown past with uncanny speed, and Halloween is already upon us! Remember to eat sweets...
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POWER BALLS (ARCADE)
Invigorating, healthful exercise: like waging a one-man war against a space armada or crawling through a sewer pipe to reach a colourful magic kingdom, it's something that's better experienced as a...
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CASTLE OF DECEIT (NES)
If I was forced to guess I'd have said Castle of Deceit was a He-Man playset that I never owned as a child - Skeletor's summer house, perhaps - but apparently it's an unlicensed NES game, released in...
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RUSSELL GRANT'S ASTROLOGY (DS)
The vast and powerful universal forces that govern our lives are endlessly fascinating, but I have neither the time nor the intellect to write about cosmology or subatomic particle physics so here's a...
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THE LAWNMOWER MAN (GENESIS / MEGADRIVE)
Clear out your neural ports, jack into the virtual cyberzone and pick yourself a radical online hacker handle - I'm thinking W3BW1ZARD666 - because it's time to leave meatspace behind and save the...
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SPRITES 1987-94
Forget about the Muscles from Brussels, Chuck "The Human Meme" Norris and The Ponytail of Power (that's Steven Seagal, of course): today I'm rifling through the videogame career of the one and only...
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F-ZERO (SNES)
With today's article, I'm going to be doing the same thing I was doing for most of 1992: telling anyone who'll listen how great F-Zero is. Created by Nintendo and originally released in 1990, it's the...
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KNUCKLE BASH (ARCADE)
What is today's game about? Well, it's about brawn. It's about strength. It's about the flexing of oiled muscles. Most importantly, though, it's about the burning spirit of justice that exists in the...
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FIGHTERS OF THE WORLD: GERMANY
Oozing up from the depths of the VGJunk archives, it's the return of the Fighters of the World series, where I take a look at some of the fighting game characters that hail from a particular country to...
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POSTMAN PAT AND THE GREENDALE ROCKET (GAME BOY ADVANCE)
Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman Pat ran over his cat. Blood and guts went flying, everyone was crying, Postman Pat's a very happy man. Those were the alternate lyrics to the Postman Pat theme song...
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BANG! (ARCADE)
I'm surprised it took until 1998 for someone to give a videogame about shooting things the straightforward and to-the-point title of Bang!, but apparently the name was unused until Spanish developer...
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KNIGHT GAMES (COMMODORE 64)
Is it just me, or does Knight Games sound like the title of a Camelot-themed erotic thriller? I caught the intro to Red Shoe Diaries the other day (leading to a brief moment spent wondering if I'd...
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TOKI (ARCADE)
Christmas is once again descending upon us like a vast and gaudy eagle, engaged in its annual Promethian punishment of pecking away at our wallets and our reserves of good cheer, so what better way to...
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THE 2014 VGJUNK REVIEW!
They say time flies when you're having fun, so 2014 must have been nothing but playing Doom while eating cake and getting back-rubs for me because I'm sure it was only a few weeks ago that I was...
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SPELUNKER (ATARI 800)
2015 is here and somehow I am alive to greet it after almost succumbing to acute marzipan poisoning over the festive period. To start the new year I'm looking at a game on a system never before covered...
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ALIENS (ARCADE)
I was thinking about starting today's article with "in space, no-one can hear you repeatedly dump quarters into an arcade machine," but then I thought about it and realised that, like, we're always in...
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