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SNES, Reviews

Mega Man X (SNES) – The Dash That Changed Platformers Forever

Is Mega Man X a solemn handshake with platformer tradition or a neon-glazed pop-punk rebellion that snatched its ancestor’s blue helmet and spray-painted an “X” across the visor? (Rhetorical, obviously; you can smell the hair gel from here.) When Capcom’s 16-bit debut blasted onto the Super Nintendo in January 1994, it upended expectations the way a maverick […]

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PC, Reviews

Return to Zork (PC) – Review – Want Some Rye? Revisiting the Most Bizarre ’90s Adventure Game

Is Return to Zork a bizarre detour or a textbook classic? (Trick question: it’s a pork barrel full of both, equal parts vintage Infocom whimsy and early-’90s multimedia hubris, like strapping a jet engine to a typewriter just to ask, “Paper jam?”) Underrated or overrated?, Yes, simultaneously, depending on whether your first encounter came via a free AOL demo

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NES, Reviews

Friday the 13th (NES) – Review – The Day-Night Cycle That Ruined My Childhood

Is Friday the 13th on the NES a misunderstood cult oddity or an over‑hyped shovel‑ware scare machine wearing an LJN logo like a scarlet letter? Trick question: it’s both, plus a third thing nobody warned us about, the moment Jason Voorhees swaggers on‑screen in a lavender tracksuit and teal hockey mask (he looks less like an unstoppable slasher and more

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The 7th Guest (PC) – Review – the CD-ROM That Tried to Eat Our Brains

Is The 7th Guest the gothic blockbuster that legitimized CD-ROM drives, or a glorified slideshow of jump-scares and logic worksheets? That isn’t a trick question so much as a gut check: if the words “Microscope puzzle” still send you into fight-or-flight, you already know the answer. In April 1993 Trilobyte’s mansion mystery promised bleeding-edge horror and delivered

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SNES, Reviews

World League Soccer (SNES) – The 16-Bit Football Sim You Never Rented

Every retro library hides at least one sports title that feels like it arrived from a parallel universe, recognisably “football,” yet wired together with quirks no FIFA or Pro Evo committee would dare ship. On the Super Nintendo that honour belongs to World League Soccer, a cartridge Mindscape released in North America in April 1992 (Japan had

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