Spy Hunter

With its smart weapons, awesome cars, Spy Hunter was viewed as a very stylish game back in the arcades on the early 1980s. It was a title that playing into any boy's fantasies- secret agents, nasty weaponry, and a driving lincese. Make no mistake though, it was the action packed gameplay that kept people coming back for more again, again, and again...

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09 October, 2012

Desert Commander

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Release Date: 1989 Platform(s): NES Developer: Kemco Genre: Turn-based Strategy Desert Commander is one of the more complex turn-based strategy games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Set in North Africa during World War II, the player chooses between commanding either the Allied Forces of George S. Patton and Bernard Montgomery, or the Axis Powers or Erwin Rommel. Similar...

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03 October, 2012

Lemmings

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Release Date: 1991 Platform(s): Amiga, ST, PC, Other Ports Developer: DMA Design Genre: Puzzle Few games other than Tetris can claim to have appeared on as many formats as this historic action puzzler. Dave Jones, the founder of DMA Design, claims to have lost count at twenty, and that was before the numerous PlayStation and mobile iterations were added...

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18 August, 2012

North & South

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Release Date: 1989 Platform(s): Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, NES Developer: Infogrames Genre: Action / Strategy The American Civil War was surely not the most pleasant of wars. Wedged uncomfortably close to the nasty delights of industrialization, it was a muddle of shelling and gunpowder, in which people got their faces burned off, or were accidentally...

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15 August, 2012

Breath of Fire II

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Release Date: 1994 Platform: SNES Developer: Capcom Genre: Role-Playing Breath of Fire II is an RPG great on a console crammed full of them. Released on the SNES, it joins the likes of Secret of Mana, the Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger, and the original Breath of Fire at the very top of its chosen genre. It takes place 500 years after the end of the original game to...

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14 August, 2012

Wave Race 64

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Release Date: 1996 Platform: N64 Developer: Nintendo Genre: Racing Let's be honest, nobody ever fell in love with Wave Race 64. Despite hailing from the same stable as Super Mario and company, this Jet Ski racing game with its four identical riders just doesn't have the personality for that. The visuals don't help either. Superficially, Wave Race 64 is even a bit-- whisper...

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