Harvest Moon

Release Date: 1996 Platform: SNES Developer: Natusme Genre: Role-Playing What role would you want to play as in a video game? A spaceman? A God? A soldier? A knight on a perilous quest? Okay... How about a farmer? Tilling the land, tending the livestock, looking after crops, and basing your life around the passing seasons. Not so keen? Are you sure? Harvest Moon is a...

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Grand Theft Auto II

Release Date: 1999 Platform: Various Developer: DMA Design Genre: Action Grand Theft Auto 2 has been unfairly marginalized by the success of both its predecessor and it's successor. Keeping the top-down view of the first game in the series, it has been judged to be a minor iteration on an old formula, before the series' huge leap to 3D. But the game's innovations are far from...

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Diablo

Release Date: 1997 Platform: Various Developer: Blizzard Entertainment Genre: Action/Role-Playing If it's an online quiz you're working with, clicking on things is quite boring and monotonic. However, if it's Diablo, the simple game mechanic turns into something magical. Enemies explode in bursts of blood or collapse into piles of bone, heroes race across...

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Spy Hunter

Release Date: 1983 Platform: Arcade Developer: Midway Genre: Action 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...

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Donkey Kong

Release Date: 1981 Platform: Arcade Developer: Nintendo Genre: Platformer Donkey Kong was truely a game-changer (no pun intended)  when it was first released back in 1981. It's elaborate cartoon graphics set it apart from the industry standard of a scene filled with aliens and space rocks. It came at a time where the "great" protagonist was merely a yellow circle who...

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