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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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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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Collecting retro Nintendo doesn’t have to be expensive, actually.
Greedy doodoo-heads seem determined to make my favorite hobby unaffordable. It’s been a little while since DKOldies started popping off on social media, but their legacy of severely overpriced retro games still lives on. For now, at least. Astute readers already know where I’m headed. Yes, this post exists in large part to promote the…
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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
…in the Japanese version…a woman offers to sell puff-puff – a Japanese onomatopoeia for a girl rubbing her breasts in someone’s face, or juggling her own breasts. In the North American version, the woman sells tomatoes.
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Final Fantasy 7 Compilation Coming to Mobile with Ever Crisis
Off the release of the highly anticipated and wildly successful Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Square Enix has jumped back into the idea of 7 as a franchise. With the announcement of Ever Crisis, a retelling of the compilation of FF7 media that was released in the 2004-2007 period, the company seems to be putting all…
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10 Bizarre DOS Games That You Need to Try
Today I want to talk about bizarre DOS games. I didn’t actually own a computer until I was in my teens, so the DOS generation passed me by. In fact, most computer games did. Admittedly, there are tons of bizarre games out there, not just in DOS, but DOS games did provide a certain unintentional…
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How to Win at Diablo 2: Resurrected—A Survival Guide
The Prime Evils are coming. Use this guide for Diablo 2 beginners (or returning players) and learn to fight like hell. We asked for it, and we got it. Diablo 2 is coming back with better graphics, gameplay, and cross-platform ladder competition. In the past, I lamented the idea of a Diablo 2 remaster because…
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Most Popular CSGO Skins
If you are a CSGO player, you must have seen different skin types in the game. A lot of players like collecting different item skins and making their inventory strong. When we talk about CSGO skins, some skins are more popular than others, and many factors play a role in determining the popularity of an…
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Top 5 Game Developers of the 1990s
This perennially popular decade will likely go down as the “Good Ole’ Days” of gaming. Whether it featured the greatest amount high-quality games is of course up for debate, but I don’t think anyone can deny that it was the most inventive and seminal era in the industry. There were dozens of studios that stood…
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Bringing Back the Classics Without a Console
How do you revive a gaming classic without a retro console? For example, if you wanted to recapture the two-dimensional charm of Pong but you don’t have an Atari, could you do it? What about Space Invaders or Street Fighter II without a Super Nintendo? Bringing back the classics in their original form isn’t always…
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Diablo 4 Character Classes – Our Best Guesses
According to Blizzard, Diablo 4 is going to launch with three classes (Barbarian, Sorceress, and Druid) along with two others that have yet to be announced. What are the most likely choices given the history of the Diablo series? I was hoping the Diablo 4 quarterly update would give us some clues and answer the…
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CD-i Spotlight – Paint Schools 1 & 2
Welcome to the CD-i Spotlight. This is a series where I’m going to give the spotlight to some CD-i games in my collection and show off the system in general. My intention isn’t necessarily to convince you that the CD-i is the greatest system of all time but instead to show you that it isn’t…
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Top 30 Exclusive Playstation Games 1995-2013
When it comes to home-based consoles, Sony’s PlayStation brand holds four of the five best selling platforms of all time. In that span, they’ve built some of the most iconic franchises to date. Today we’re breaking down the top 30 exclusives from their first three consoles. Top Ten PlayStation 1 Exclusives While Sega tried and…
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Indie Gaming Hidden Gems You’ve Got to Play
It seems like every day a new game drops on the market. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, particularly for hardcore gamers like yourself. But sometimes the variety of games can feel overwhelming, even more so if you play on multiple platforms. Indie games especially seem to get lost in the shuffle. Trying to find…
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Hyp3rblue’s Top 11 Games of the 2010s
I, admittedly, haven’t played too many games that came out in the past decade. Life has a way of keeping me busy so a lot of titles slip by. But, there are still a lot of titles that come to mind that describes the cream of the crop, for me, from the past decade. I…