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BATTLECRY (ARCADE)
Today's game is Home Data's 1991 arcade beat-em-up Battlecry. I tried to come up with my own personal battlecry that would be suitable for the game, something to strike, if not outright terror, then at...
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SILENT ASSAULT (NES)
Today at VGJunk: an unlicensed NES game. Maybe I really do hate myself. What other reason could there possibly be for playing an unlicensed NES game? I could be playing a Mega Man or a Castlevania but...
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MOUSE SHOOTER GOGO (ARCADE)
Today, a game of cat and mouse. More accurately: a game of cat, mouse, a bunch of other animals, many familiar videogame mechanics rolled together like so many differently-coloured lumps of Play-Doh,...
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AMIGA TITLE SCREENS FEATURING LARGE SHIRTLESS MEN
The title of this article says it all, really. The Amiga is home to some of the finest pixel artwork ever seen in gaming. A lot of Amiga title screens feature large, shirtless men, often grimacing...
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FRIGHT NIGHT (AMIGA)
As a full moon rises in the autumn sky, a chill wind blows about you. A jack o' lantern flickers dimly on a darkened porch. Skeletons appear and start making bad jokes about how they've got no body to...
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SILENT HILL MAGAZINE COVERS
For today's spookily-themed article, I thought I'd look at something related to the Silent Hill series, the videogame franchise that has given me more chills than any other. They used to be chills of...
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CASTLEVANIA LEGENDS (GAME BOY)
I don't know about you, but I've got my own set of Halloween traditions. I buy some of the year's spooky tat from Poundland, I play through Night Slashers again, I watch horror movies until I start...
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MANSION OF HIDDEN SOULS (SEGA CD)
Did you know that lepidopterophobia is the name for the irrational fear of butterflies? If you did, it's probably because you're terrified of butterflies and you have sought out others who share your...
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HALLOWEEN TRICK OR TREAT (PC)
I've looked at some pretty spooky games so far this Halloween season - plus Mansion of Hidden Souls, which was only spooky if you're terrified of bad voice acting and / or butterflies - but now we're...
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SPOOKY COMPUTER GAME ADS!
Now, an article that is little more than an excuse for me to look at Halloween-themed pictures. Okay, that's not strictly true, I'm also doing it because I enjoy sharing things with you, dear reader....
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE QUEST FOR OZ (MOBILE)
In every generation, there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She also appears in a few videogames, which range in quality from...
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VAMPIRE SAVIOR (ARCADE)
Night falls. A jack-o-lantern flickers in the darkness. A bitter wind shakes the branches of trees. I close the front door and go back inside because today is the day of days, the most wonderful time...
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BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD (GAME BOY)
Today at VGJunk: the adventures of two idiots even more immature than I am, and I regularly name my RPG characters things like Dongus or Buttwizard. It's Torus Games's 1998 Game Boy version of Beavis...
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LETHAL ENFORCERS (SNES)
Today at VGJunk: a game of cops and robbers, assuming you're willing to stretch the definition of "robbers" to include hijackers, gunrunners and people causing havoc in a chemical plant with no clear...
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PRINCE CLUMSY (COMMODORE 64)
I suppose it's time for a game about rescuing a princess, because it's been a while since I covered one of the fifty percent of retro games with that plot (the other half being "rescuing your...
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MUSASHI NO KEN: TADAIMA SHUGYOU CHUU (FAMICOM)
Today I'm going to learn an ancient and honourable martial art by hitting pigs with a piece of bamboo and dodging surface-to-air missiles, because today's game is Taito's 1986 Famicom...
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PENALTY SOCCER (COMMODORE 64)
It's time for a very brief article about a very brief piece of Commodore 64 tat, because that's the kind of game I've been craving recently. I'm not sure why. I suspect it's because I've been playing...
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MIRACLE GIRLS (SUPER FAMICOM)
Today's game is Miracle Girls, where the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc team up to fight the forces of hell using an exhilarating mixture of Catholic doctrine and really big guns. Except it isn't, it's a...
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SUPER MARIO WORLD (GENESIS / MEGADRIVE)
We all know that Genesis does what Nintendon't, but sometimes it also does what Ninten-do. Nintendoes? Whatever, feast your eyes on Gamtec's unholy retooling of Super Mario World, now appearing in...
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SUPERMAN (ARCADE)
Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, no, it's got four limbs and it's wearing a cape. I don't know what kind of weird-ass planes you've been flying in, but this is clearly DC Comics...
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