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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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Pit-Fighter (SNES) – Review – When Digitized Muscles Meet 20 FPS Chaos

Some games age like wine, a few age like milk, and then there’s Pit-Fighter on the Super Nintendo, a bruiser that ages like a forgotten gym sock: questionable aroma, oddly nostalgic if you were there, and somehow still useful when you need a quick laugh. Is it a misunderstood relic or an archetype of “so-bad-it’s-good” brawling? Both, but only

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