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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24 December, 2011

Frogger

4:14:00 PM  D_Homes  1 comment

Release Date: 1981 Platform(s): Arcade Developer: Konami Genre: Action In theory, you should never lose at Frogger. The gaming world's first frog superstar has a straightforward task: to get across a highway, and then a river -- dodging vehicles in the first stretch, jumping across logs and turtles on the second. The surrounding world is obvious to its...

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22 December, 2011

Daytona USA

5:15:00 PM  D_Homes  1 comment

Release Date: 1993 Platform(s): Arcade Developer: Sega Genre: Driving The first time you successfully drift around a turn in Daytona USA, it all makes sense. First, steer into the curve. Then hit the brakes -- you'll learn how hard you need to push on the pedal -- and correct against the turn just so . You'll find yourself sliding sideways at high speed, your car in a...

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20 December, 2011

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

8:19:00 PM  D_Homes  1 comment

Release Date: 1996 Platform(s):  MS-DOS, Windows, PlayStation Developer: Westwood Studios Genre: Strategy Real-time strategy games tend to be fairly serious sorts of experiences. They're about war, for one thing, which is already serious enough, and they're generally enormously taxing and demanding, requiring players to take in an entire battlefield's worth...

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15 December, 2011

Star Wars: TIE Fighter

8:15:00 PM  D_Homes  3 comments

Release Date: 1994 Platform(s): PC Developer: Totally Games Genre: Shoot 'Em Up Star Wars: TIE Fighter features visceral space combat It was perfect symmetry. Before making Star Wars: TIE Fighter, designer Lawrence Holland of Lucasfilm Games created a suite of World War II dogfighting games, including Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. For Star Wars' space dogfights,...

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Mario Golf

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Release Date: 1999 Platform(s): Game Boy Color Developer: Camelot Software Planning Genre: Sports As Mario's unlikely shadow career as the world's most versatile sportsman evolved with the glorious playable Mario Kart games, golf was perhaps the most likely candidate for further expansion. The rolling hills of the Mushroom Kingdom would be an ideal location to sink a...

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11 December, 2011

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

12:56:00 PM  D_Homes  2 comments

Release Date: 1997 Platform(s): PC Developer: LucasArts Genre: First-Person Shooter Imagine the pressure. The original Dark Forces successfully coats a doom-like first-person shooter with the veneer of the Star Wars universe, it delights gamers, sells well, and a sequel goes straight into production. The anticipation for the next installment of Kyle Katarn's adventures...

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02 December, 2011

1943

7:51:00 PM  D_Homes  4 comments

Release Date: 1987 Platform(s): Arcade Developer: Capcom Genre: Shoot 'Em Up The year that the war ground on may have been 1943, when rationing continued to bite down hard, construction work on the Pentagon was completed, and the Japanese forces were driven back from Guadalcanal, but it's a whole lot more enjoyable if you think of it as this wonderful little vertical-scrolling...

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