If you were a North American kid in 1994, the kind who called the sport “soccer” while clutching a Game Boy, World Cup USA ’94 on Super Nintendo felt like a cultural ambush. Was it bizarre or classic? Both: a FIFA-sanctioned simulation grafted onto a 16-bit cart that curls shots like a boomerang and pipes one PCM crowd […]
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Is World Heroes for the Super Nintendo the guilty-pleasure energy drink of 2-D fighters—cheap cane sugar, questionable aftertaste—yet somehow the thing you reach for when Street Fighter II feels too polished? (Rhetorical, obviously; we both know you’ve tasted worse.) Dropped onto Neo Geo boards in summer 1992 and squeezed onto an SNES cart a year later, ADK’s time-hopping
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Is Syndicate a bizarre curio or a straight-laced classic? (Plot twist: it’s both, a trench coat of industrial-grade nihilism worn over razor-sharp design that still slices through 2025’s ocean of open-world busywork.) Criminally underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, depending on whether your first contact was a pack of pirated floppies in ’93 (underrated revelation) or
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Is Gateway 2: Homeworld the brilliant sci-fi banquet everyone forgot to RSVP to, or the crusty Tupperware lingering in interactive fiction’s communal fridge (complete with a passive-aggressive sticky note: “DO NOT microwave, Heechee radiation hazard!”)? Does it deserve an honored seat at the high table of early-’90 s adventure design, or is it wobbling atop an IKEA footstool
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Is Strike Commander a bizarre one-off or a straight-laced classic? (Trick question: it’s somehow both, wearing a leather flight jacket over a three-piece business suit.) Is it chronically underrated or secretly overrated?, Yes, in alternate frames of the same animation. And is it essential or eminently skippable in an era when your Steam library bulges