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WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? / HUMPTY DUMPTY MYSTERY (C64)
Have you ever wanted to be a detective, using nothing but your keen powers of observation and highly-developed sense of logic to sift through the clues and identify the guilty? Okay, good. First things...
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FAMICOM GOLF GAME COVERS
Today: some golf. "But VGJunk," I hear you wail, "isn't golf one of the most tedious events mankind has ever allowed to be broadcast in the name of entertainment?" You may have your own, differing...
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THE 2015 VGJUNK REVIEW!
The final days of 2015 lumber into view, and thank god for that - it's been a pretty miserable year for me on a personal level, and I will be glad to see the back of it. Fortunately, the act of writing...
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KAMEN RIDER (SUPER FAMICOM)
It's 2016, and I'm back from my festive break (I'd like to say "relaxed and refreshed", but "fat and stressed" is closer to the truth) with more words about old videogames, and where better to start,...
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JURASSIC PARK (ARCADE)
Thanks to Sega's (mostly enjoyable, honestly) attempt to mangle Alien 3 into an arcade rail-shooter experience, the title of this game is forever etched into my mind as Jurassic Park: The Gun. It's not...
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SPARTACUS THE SWORDSLAYER (COMMODORE 64)
Okay, let's get the obvious reference out of the way early: I am Spartacus. No, really, in today's game I get the chance to play as Spartacus and fight my way out of slavery, escaping into what I'm...
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STREET SMART (GENESIS / MEGADRIVE)
Street Smart: a name that conjures images of educational leaflets from the nineties that attempt to warn "the youth" about the dangers of drugs and gangs through the medium of poorly-drawn imitations...
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: BACK FROM THE SEWERS (GAME BOY)
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: as the cartoon's theme song informs us, they're heroes in a half-shell, and they're green. Are they, though? Obviously, yes, they're green heroes, but it's the...
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MEGA MAN 3 (NES)
According to the counter on my stats page, this is the 500th article to appear on VGJunk. That... that is a lot of articles, considering I'm doing all this on my lonesome. I'm not sure whether to...
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ALL ABOUT AMERICA (AMIGA)
Last time out I wrote about Mega Man 3, which was great and all but because I've played it so much I didn't learn anything new. I'm always looking to expand my horizons and fill my head with pointless...
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SHOOTING RANGE (NES)
I used to have an NES Zapper, but my younger brother decided it would make a good bath toy. It's okay, it was years ago, I'm over it now. There are two consequences to this: one is that my Duck Hunt...
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THE DEMONS OF DOOM
You know, I've wanted to write about Doom for a long time but I never knew how to come at it. It's one of the most discussed and dissected games of all time, (and rightly so,) and there's little I...
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JAMES POND: UNDERWATER AGENT (MEGADRIVE)
Okay, let's get this out of the way. His name's Pond, James Pond. Bubble-oh-seven, sea-cret agent, license to gill. Consider that your inoculation against the ceaseless barrage of aquatic Bond puns...
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THE WEB GAMES OF POKEMON.COM
Last week saw the announcement of Pokemon Sun and Moon, which I'm sure is very exciting for a lot of people. Personally, I ran out of patience with the main Pokemon games a couple of releases ago -...
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EVIL STONE (ARCADE)
At VGJunk today: the game of hopscotch taken to a deadly extreme in Spacy Industrial's 1990 arcade don't-step-on-the-cracks-em-up Evil Stone!Spacy Industrial? That's an interesting name. Are they the...
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STREET FIGHTER EX PLUS ALPHA (SNES)
By the mid-nineties videogaming's polygon revolution was in full swing, with companies falling over themselves to replace outdated 2D graphics with the latest Gourad-shaded, texture-mapped blocks of...
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GHOUL PANIC (ARCADE)
I held out for about five months, but in the end I couldn't wait any longer. I just had to write about a spooky videogame, Halloween season be damned. All the games I've covered since last October have...
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THE WONDERFUL COVERS OF THE ODYSSEY 2
Debuting roughly one thousand years ago in 1978, the Magnavox Odyssey 2 (also known as the Philips Videopac) is a console that I know very little about. I've never played one, and I've only ever seen...
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BLACK PANTHER (ARCADE)
The world is in danger, and only one man can save it. Unfortunately he was busy, so we got a cat to do it instead in Konami's 1987 arcade maul-em-up Black Panther!That's right, the title isn't a...
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EPHEMERA - CASTLEVANIA: SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT EDITION
The long-neglected Ephemera series returns, and with a double-sized edition to boot. Please, hold your applause. The reason for this bumper installment is that it's all about the magnificent...
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