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Comix Zone (Sega Genesis) – Review – Sketch Turner’s One-Man Comic Jam

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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PC, Reviews

Might and Magic V:Darkside of Xeen (PC) – Review – Crystal Keys, Dragon Pharaohs, and the Ultimate Two-for-One RPG

Is Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen a bizarre oddball or a straight‑laced classic—underrated gem or rose‑tinted relic—essential milestone or skippable footnote? (Why not all three? My answer is a resounding “yes, with extra Fireballs.”) Released in 1993, New World Computing’s fifth entry slammed a full‑sized sequel onto the back of Clouds of Xeen, then whispered, “Combine us

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PC, Reviews

Pirates! Gold (PC) – Review – The Sandbox That Invented Freedom

Is Pirates! Gold bizarro or classical, undersold or over‑hyped, essential or expendable? (Short answer: yes. Long answer: also yes, but with extra rum.) Picture 1993 me, flannel shirt, acoustic‑grunge mixtape looping in the background, squinting at a 14‑inch CRT that weighed more than an actual cannon. I had installed Pirates! Gold off six 3.5‑inch disks that chirped like panicked seagulls. “Is this just

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PC, Reviews

The Legacy: Realm of Terror (PC, 1993) – Review – Alone in the House That Hates You

Is The Legacy: Realm of Terror the creaky floorboard that time forgot or the missing vertebra in survival-horror’s spine? (Rhetorical, sure, but I’m contractually obligated to answer, so stand by.) Dropped onto DOS shelves in March 1993 by MicroProse, yes, the flight-sim and hex-map people, this first-person RPG straps you into a Beacon Hill mansion where Lovecraftian ichor seeps beneath

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SNES, Reviews

Wolfchild (SNES) – Review – The Lycra-Clad Loup-Garou Who Tried to Save the Super Nintendo from Itself

Is Wolfchild a delirious oddity or a respectable 16-bit workhorse? (Plot twist: it’s both, simultaneously flexing its biceps and breaking the fourth wall like a furry Deadpool.) Is it criminally underrated or quietly overrated?, Yes, depending on whether you discovered it in a dusty pawn-shop bin (underrated gold!) or paid today’s collector premium that rivals the GDP of

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