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MAD MOTOR (ARCADE)
Mad Motor - that's the name of today's game, and it's a name that my inner voice refuses to read in anything but a Cockney accent. I take one look at the title screen and there's an East End car...
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DANGER FREAK (COMMODORE 64)
Danger: Freak was a hurtful note that was once pinned to my high school locker, and it's only a colon away from being the title of today's game: Rainbow Arts' 1998 Commodore 64 stuntman-em-up Danger...
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KART FIGHTER (NES)
Here it is, the grude match you've all been waiting for. All your favourite Super Mario characters, plus Toad (who is surely no-one's favourite) gather together to beat seven bells out of each other in...
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CISCO HEAT (ARCADE)
To paraphrase from the Book of Proverbs, as a dog returns to his vomit, so VGJunk returns to the videogames of Jaleco. Longtime readers of the site may be aware of my fascination with and strange...
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MAD SHOW (AMIGA)
Why were there so many multi-event "sports" titles on the home computers of the eighties? Were the developers keen to show off the potential of their chosen system by shoehorning in multiple different...
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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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SUPER MARIO BROS. HACKS
What can I say about Super Mario Bros. that hasn't been said before by minds more intelligent and insightful than mine? Nothing, that's what, so instead I'll be taking a slightly different approach....
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SHADOWGATE (NES)
Some videogames require skill and sharp reflexes to conquer, and I am generally not good at those games. Other videogames force you to use your mind, to plan and to strategize, and I'm not good at...
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A DAY IN THE LIFE (ZX SPECTRUM)
At their best, computer and video games allow you to become someone other than your everyday, humdrum self. Today, that someone is a middle-aged British man named Clive. If you're already a middle-aged...
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STREET FIGHTER II CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
I love Street Fighter, you love Street Fighter, we all love Street Fighter, because it's great. We've fought many a virtual battle between characters as familiar to us as our own dear family, but as...
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SURPRISE ATTACK (ARCADE)
Videogames set in space: harmless diversions or part of a worldwide government conspiracy to subconciously alter humanity's ideas about a life amongst the stars, a constant feed of stories about deadly...
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IMAGINE: DOCTOR (NINTENDO DS)
I'd like to begin this article by apologising to my mother, because this is probably the closest I'm ever going to get to having a decent, respectable career. Sorry, ma. Perhaps today's game will offer...
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BASKETBALL NIGHTMARE (MASTER SYSTEM)
The closest I've ever been to a basketball nightmare was trying to dribble one between my legs when I was a kid, only for it to bounce up and whack me in the plums. Let's hope that Sega's 1989 Master...
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THE MASK OF ZORRO (GAME BOY COLOR)
Today's article is all about the 2000 Game Boy Color game The Mask of Zorro, developed by a company called Saffire. It's got Sunsoft's name on it too, but I think they just published it. Sunsoft tended...
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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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EPHEMERA, VOLUME 9
In an effort to prevent this past week from being a total bust in terms of creative output - all I've produced so far since the last article is enfeebled whinging and a worrying amount of phlegm -...
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RIDING FIGHT (ARCADE)
Today's game brings together the great arcade tastes of fighting and riding into one easily-digestible serving of action-packed fun: it's Taito's 1992 coin-op Riding Fight! It isn't called Fighting...
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BLOODY AFTERNOON (AMIGA)
As an English person - and particularly as a Yorkshireman - I find I'm unable to hear the word "bloody" as anything other than a mild swearword used mostly to express frustration or contempt. If...
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JACK THE RIPPER
The year is 1888, and on the dark and foggy streets of London Jack the Ripper goes about his murderous business without a clue that in a century hence his macabre deeds will end up as background fluff...
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DIET GO GO (ARCADE)
Diet Go Go might sound like a Chinese energy drink banned by EU law because of its wildly carcinogenic ingredients, but it's actually a 1992 arcade blow-em-up-em-up by Data East. See, it's got a title...
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