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Remembering Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics

  Functional simultaneous co-op is, or at least was, tricky business. Even the flagship Nintendo games of the Super Nintendo era, Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country, could not manage simultaneous co-op, instead forcing players to take turns. This weakness...

Remembering Pokémon Pinball for the Pokémon Mini

  Lately I've been thinking a lot about the late Gunpei Yokoi's core design philosophy, the one that led to him parting ways with Nintendo when the company decided to focus on creating more powerful hardware. Lateral thinking with withered technology. The idea...

New Release: Alien Breed 3D HD

Development house Team17 has become a prolific, popular company best known for its Worms series, which has appeared on nearly every platform since the 16-bit era. But in 1991, they were a new group that formed from the European demo scene. Their first major release...
A Look Back at Duck Hunt

A Look Back at Duck Hunt

  Recently I set up a Nintendo Entertainment System in my home. I'm just slightly too young to have any personal nostalgia for the NES (I was more in the SNES/N64 cohort), but my girlfriend is a different story. Despite being excited about having an NES in the...

The ESRB – by Tristan Ibarra

The ESRB – by Tristan Ibarra

This column / article / retrospective (or whatever you want to call it) is a reflection on why and how we collect and play video games. Each time we’ll cover a different collector (although not in this issue!) and discuss various (sometimes) polarizing topics that...

Boulder Dash – by Ryan Burger

Boulder Dash – by Ryan Burger

Boulder Dash is one of the games I distinctly remember playing on my Apple II computer in the mid-80s. Over a span of six years, it was released on nineteen different platforms after originating on the Atari 8-bit series of computers. Developed originally by Peter...

Mario Party – by Matt Owen

Mario Party – by Matt Owen

In the late ‘90s, the Nintendo 64 was the king of multiplayer gaming. In addition to standout single-player titles, there was a notable emphasis on group play, with four controller ports and a variety of excellent titles to try. One of the earliest and most memorable...

This Day In Video Game History

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