Is Arnie 2 the unsung commando classic you never knew you needed, or a bizarre relic that should have stayed stashed in a dusty Babbage’s bargain bin? Do four scrolling missions of grenade-spamming glory earn it a berth alongside Cannon Fodder and Ikari Warriors, or does it merely flex pixel muscles in a dazzling display […]
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There are cult games, and then there’s the Konami oddity that plops the Pharaoh himself onto your Windows XP desktop and dares to call it a full release. Yu-Gi-Oh! Power of Chaos – Yugi the Destiny is at once a glorified tutorial disk and a black-hole time-sink: bizarro because it gives you exactly one opponent (Yugi Muto,
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Does Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire belong in the CRPG pantheon, or is it that eccentric cousin who turns up at genre reunions wearing a silk changshan and juggling shuriken nobody ordered? (Rhetorical question; self-answer: yes, on both counts.) Published by Mindscape in 1993, the game is simultaneously conservative, tile-based, isometric, mouse-optional, and gloriously bonkers, cramming Yueh-themed
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Is Star Trek: Judgment Rites one of gaming’s great lost tribbles or just another styrofoam boulder flung at the Enterprise crew by an under-caffeinated Interplay designer? (Spoiler: it’s both, depending on which side of the neutral zone you’re standing.) I’ve met people who will fist-pump like Kirk after an overdramatic neck chop whenever you mention this 1993
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Is Comix Zone, Sega Technical Institute’s late-1995 curve-ball brawler, the Genesis era’s best-kept secret or an over-inked novelty that time mercifully forgot? (Rhetorical question. Self-answer: emphatically yes, on both counts.) Picture a game where the hero swan-dives between comic panels like the Kool-Aid Man through drywall, bands together with a pet rat named Roadkill, and takes
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