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One Man’s Quest to Review Every 16-Bit Game
I’ve played, reviewed, and documented my thoughts about every single game that was released in North America during the 16-bit era. Crazy, right? That’s 716 Super Nintendo, 704 Sega Genesis, and 95 TurboGrafx-16 games, for a grand total of 1,515 fourth-generation titles. Obviously, this begs two questions: Why would you do such a thing? My…
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16 Underrated NES Games
The Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most successful and most enduring video game consoles ever invented. Following the North American console crash, the NES emerged not only as the dominating force in home gaming, but as a pop culture icon so ubiquitous as to be almost unmatched in its ubiquitatious ubiquitosity! Mario, Metroid,…
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Final Fantasy vs Dragon Warrior pt 1: A deep dive into JRPGs for the NES
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The 15 Best Sega Dreamcast RPGs
Sega’s systems have had plenty of great RPGs, but like Rodney Dangerfield, they get no respect. Sega Dreamcast was a very intriguing system that never lived up to its full potential. Despite having internet connectivity and good graphics, the Dreamcast lacked the sales to keep up with the competition. Remember, the system suffered from the…
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From Retro Games to Modern Strategy: How Classic Gaming Skills Shape Smarter Decisions Today
If you grew up mashing buttons on a clunky controller or dropping quarters into an arcade cabinet, you probably weren’t thinking about how it was helping your brain. You were just trying to save the princess, clear the screen of ghosts, or fit that pesky L-shaped block into the perfect spot. But it turns out…
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10 PS1 Games You Need to Get Your Retro Collection Started
The PlayStation, also called the PS1 or PSX, absolutely destroyed the N64 in terms of video game output. Over 4,000 titles came out for this fifth-generation system. Many of them, particularly the RPGS, were absolute gems. Others were not so great. With such a large number of games, it’s easy to get lost when you’re…
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10 N64 Games To Start Your Game Collection
The Nintendo 64 (N64) only released about 300 titles in the United States throughout its run. That’s almost 1,000 fewer than the PS1. With this smaller collection to choose from, it’s worth being a bit more selective when picking up some titles to put on display. We’ve come up with a list of 10 N64…
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How Retro Game Design Influenced Online Casino Games
Anyone who spent an afternoon feeding quarters into a Galaga cabinet or grinding experience points in Final Fantasy on the NES already understands something that modern game designers rediscovered decades later: good design sticks. The mechanics that made 8-bit and 16-bit games addictive didn’t disappear when consoles got more powerful. They migrated, quietly and thoroughly,…
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10 Essential SNES Games to Kickstart Your Retro Game Collection
The Super Nintendo (SNES to the cool kids) has a total library of around 1,700 games. Over 300 million cartridges were sold worldwide. For someone looking to add to their library, that means you have plenty of opportunities to scoop up inexpensive SNES games. We are going to look at 10 SNES games to start…
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10 Sega Genesis Games to Start Your Retro Collection
Whether you’re finally looking to start a retro collection or just now turning your focus to Sega Genesis games, it’s good to have somewhere to start. After all, North America had almost 900 licensed titles released. So, we came up with the following list to give you a quick rundown on the Sega Genesis games…
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Valorant Ranked System Explained: Tiers, RR, and MMR
You finished 29 and 5, top fragged both halves, clutched a 1v3 on Lotus B site, and Valorant handed you 19 RR. Your duo, who went 8 and 14, got 23 RR. If you have ever stared at the post-match screen, wondering what alternate universe the matchmaker lives in, welcome to Valorant’s competitive ranking system,…
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NES Games almost every 80s kid played
I’ve written a lot about the best NES games, the hardest NES games, the most quintessential NES games… Nintendo’s NES was—and still is—my favorite gaming console. So I write about it often! But since starting my eBay store, and more recently the Ghetto Gamer shop, I’ve noticed certain games that pop up again and again. …
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15 SNES Games That Still Hold Up Today
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) came out at just the right time to take advantage of the burgeoning acceptance of home consoles and video games as a whole. As a result, video game developers took chances, expanded the types of video games they released, and provided the SNES with an incredible library of games. …
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N64 Games That Actually Aged Well
Star Wars Rogue Squadron. That’s the list. You can all go home. I’m just kidding, of course. The Nintendo 64 had a lot of unforgettable titles throughout its run. You could probably think of about five N64 games that defined their respective genre in less than a minute. Unfortunately, just because a game is “good”…
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Every Nintendo 64 RPG Ranked
The Nintendo 64 was not known for its RPGs. In fact, the entire system produced fewer than a dozen true RPGs throughout its lifespan. At least, that’s the case if you don’t include the Japanese releases. That is why this list had to be cobbled together from true RPGs and those that blurred the lines…
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Nintendo 64 is here!
