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Lemmings
A classic puzzle game that is completely unique and has yet to be replicated successfully
Lemmings was a novel puzzle game introduced at the height of PC gaming in 1991, taking off like wildfire and inspiring dozens of sequels. The player must save a requisite number of the lemming population on each level. L... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Epic Pinball
Epic Pinball is still the best available video pinball game nearly 15 years later, though it has its own flaws
Pinball's popularity waned with the growth in popularity of the video game. Video games are a more dynamic medium for play with limitless possibilities. Pinball is tied to two flippers, a ball, and a slanted play field. ... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Starcraft
Starcraft is a space-based real-time strategy game that is top-notch from start to finish in both single and multiplayer
At first glance Starcraft appears to be a standard RTS (real-time strategy) game where the player builds up a technology tree and gathers resources in order to create new and more powerful units to use against their oppo... Read Full Review
3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
Heretic
Heretic is a Doom clone set in a fantasy setting that is great fun, but ultimately feels like it's missing an ingredient
If and when you finish Heretic you will feel like you assembled a 10,000 piece puzzle, only to find that a piece was missing from the box. Sure, it was fun while you were playing, but you are denied complete satisfaction... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Even hard-core Star Wars fans would be hard pressed to find any redeeming qualities in this hodge-podge of item hunting
Yoda Stories was priced for the bargain bin when it was released, and with good reason. The game puts you in the shoes of Luke Skywalker, Jedi-in-training under Master Yoda. Yoda assigns tasks to Luke, who must then vent... Read Full Review
3 of 5 users found the following review helpful
Duke Nukem 3D
The gameplay is great, but it's the humor that keeps you coming back to play Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem 3D is a Doom clone, but its unique collection of weapons, humorous atmosphere, and highly interactive environment made it the standout title of its time. You are Duke Nukem, a Jack Burton clone who has no f... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Descent II
Descent 2 improves upon the weaknesses of its predecessor to offer more challenge, variety, and replay value
Descent 2 will make you feel dizzy, lost, alone, and claustrophobic, but you'll keep coming back for more. The Descent series is an FPS (first-person shooters) trilogy where the player is a mercenary hired to destroy min... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Expect more of everything you loved about the original - and vice-versa - in this content-packed expansion.
Wrath of the Lich King adds more content to World of Warcraft, increases the level cap from 70 to 80, an additional profession, and a new playable class for all races: Death Knights. This expansion requires the original ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Raptor is one of the best top-down arcade shooters ever made for the PC.
Let's face it, taking away the graphics pretty much every top-down and side-scrolling arcade shooter is the same. You fly a ship over a slowly scrolling landscape and hit the fire button as rapidly as possible to take ou... Read Full Review
4 of 4 users found the following review helpfulGalactix
What do you mean you never heard of it? Standard top-down space shooter fails to hold its own.
Galactix is a top-down space shooter on a fixed screen. You pilot a ship in one-dimension, left-to-right, in a manner similar to the classic Galaxian. You face 100 waves of enemy fighters in increasingly difficult waves ... Read Full Review
2 of 3 users found the following review helpful
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
If you loved the original Metroid, prepare to relive your glory days in this 2D exploratory shooter
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (ITSP) opens with a full orchestral score, your flying saucer (and your planet, for that matter) under attack by an unknown alien organism that has infected a nearby star- and that infectio... Read Full Review
6 of 6 users found the following review helpful
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold is ultimately a Wolfenstein 3D clone with mediocre innovations and a generic plot.
You play as Blake Stone, an agent of British Intelligence that is assigned to investigate Dr. Goldfire. The Doctor has delusions of taking over Earth with the backing of his organization (STAR) using human employees and ... Read Full Review
1 of 3 users found the following review helpful
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Limited Edition)
Nintendo makes the old new again in a fairy tale adventure with a princess, an elf, a sword, and a talking boat.
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is a standalone game in the Zelda series. While parallels can be drawn between the watery world and preceding installments of the series, gamers need not have played through its predec... Read Full Review
6 of 8 users found the following review helpful
Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
S:S&SEP is an adventure game that eschews compelling gameplay in favor of quirky humor and audiovisual pizazz
Superbrothers: Swords & Sworcery EP (S:S&SEP) is a unique take on the adventure genre. Your avatar is the Scythian, a Monk sent to complete "a woeful errand." At its core, you must steal and destroy a powerful, evil arti... Read Full Review
6 of 7 users found the following review helpful
Grand Theft Auto
The original GTA is great fun for adults, but don't expect a lot of depth.
The original GTA was released in 1997, with the first city freely available as shareware. Grand Theft Auto spread like a Paris Hilton tape through the internet due to the rebellious subject matter and completely origina... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 64 is one of the best multiplayer games available for the N64.
It is not often that I disagree with the rankings of Gamespot, but Mario Kart 64 deserved better than the 6.4 it was handed. As in its predecessor for the Super Nintendo, in Mario Kart 64 you can race as a number of N... Read Full Review
2 of 3 users found the following review helpful
Gauntlet Legends
Gauntlet Legends is a simple hack-and-slash game that is fun to play with a group of friends.
The young mage Garm, seeking power, used the power of twleve Runestones to bring the demon Skorne into the mortal realms. The demon kills Garm and scatters the runestones throughout the four realms for fear of their powe... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Z2:TAoL (Zelda II: The Adventure of Link) was the worst in the series, yet rocked.
Z2:TAoL was like an Olympian that came in last place. It might have done the worst in its group, but it was still a world-class athlete. In Z2:TAoL, Zelda has been put into a deep sleep and Ganon's minions are trying ... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Frogger
Frogger is a classic game of skill and timing that –while fun- may be too shallow for the tastes of the modern gamer.
Frogger is a simple game anyone can pick up and play. Your avatar is a green frog that can hop in one of four directions via the 4-way Atari controller. You did not use the button. The goal was to move your frog from the... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
DOOM
If you look up first-person shooter in the Dictionary, Doom will be the definition.
Doom was released in 1993 by iD software, hot on the heels of the popular Nazi-hunting Wolfenstein 3D. Doom took the main themes of Wolfenstein 3D - stay alive, find the exit, kill evil things - and improved the graphics... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Dragon Spirit: Aratanaru Densetsu
Dragon Spirit is a top-down shooter that allows the player to become a dragon, but does little else.
Dragon Spirit: The New Legend is the NES interpretation of the Arcade game. You are a warrior transformed into a powerful blue dragon that must rescue a princess from an evil demon. You will fly across lands of arid dese... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon II was near the pinnacle of 2D side-scrolling fighters for the Nintendo.
Double Dragon II (DDII) was released in the delicate period between the popularity of coin-op arcade games and consoles. The games follows the tradition of Golden Axe, X-Men: The Arcade Game, Streets of Rage, and Teenage... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Descent (1995)
Descent is a classic first-person shooter/space flight sim that should not be missed.
Descent was the first fully three-dimensional, 360 degree space shooter available for PC. You were a mercenary pilot hired by a mining corporation to destroy robots that went berserk due to a virus. The game took you thr... Read Full Review
5 of 5 users found the following review helpful
Commander Keen: Keen Dreams (3.5" Diskette)
A pioneering 2D platformer that lacks some of the appeal of other titles in the series, but is great fun for fans.
Commander Keen was Apogee's claim to fame before Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, but Keen Dreams was actually published by Softdisk. Softdisk employees would go on to found iD software, but the Keen series was developed while t... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Commander Keen Episode V: The Armageddon Machine
A pioneering 2D platformer that still holds its own today against classic like Super Mario Brothers 3 and Alien Hominid.
Commander Keen was Apogee's claim to fame before Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. The review for Keen V is roughly the same as that of Keen IV, since when you bought one you got the other. Episode IV was the first half of the... Read Full Review
2 of 3 users found the following review helpful
Commander Keen Episode IV: Secret of the Oracle
A pioneering 2D platformer that still holds its own today against classic like Super Mario Brothers 3 and Alien Hominid.
Commander Keen was Apogee's claim to fame before Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. You are eight year old Billy Blaze, a young genius who has constructed a rocket in his backyard (The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket). When the sitt... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Bejeweled
Bejeweled offers simple puzzle gameplay that draws you in, but it's no Tetris.
Bejeweled is a puzzle game where you have to recognize patterns by clicking a row of three gems of the same color. The grid contains an 8x8 grid of gems. The gems disappear when you click three in a row, net you points, ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
King's Quest VI is one of the crowning achievements of the adventure gaming genre.
The King's Quest series was part of the golden age of adventure games, and the sixth installment was the pinnacle of the genre. You play Prince Alexander, who has dreams of Princess Cassima in a land far away, locked ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Centipede
A timeless classic. You may have played copycats, but the original still reigns supreme.
Centipede was originally developed for an arcade machine with a dedicated trackball and one button to fire. The game was later ported to multiple systems, including the Atari A800. The game was, as far as I am able to te... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Angry Birds
Angry Birds is a fun and accessible diversion, but it's tough to imagine how it became such a phenomenon
Angry Birds is a two-dimensional, turn-based slingshot game with some puzzle elements. In essence, you fling birds - which are indeed quite upset - at pigs that have stolen their eggs. You win if you kill all the pigs be... Read Full Review
3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
Akumajou Densetsu
Best in the series, with more variety and better control response.
The Castlevania series boils down to the standard platform game formula: upgrade your character, move through a 2D "maze"-like environment, time your jumps carefully, fight baddies, and finish off a boss to mov... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
California Games
Unless your feeling nostalgic, there is little reason to play California Games.
California Games (CG) from developer Epyx is a collection of six 2D sports games that require various degrees of timing to correctly execute tricks, stunts, and obstacle avoidance. In modern-speak: CG is like an NES X-Ga... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Blackthorne
Blackthorne is an inferior version of the original Prince of Persia, but that doesn't mean it isn't still fun to play.
You are Kyle Blackthorne, a commando with amnesia flung into a future filled with monsters that rule over the Androthi people with an iron fist. Naturally, you must liberate the enslaved populace... with the liberal use ... Read Full Review
0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Wii Sports
Wii Sports has kept my spouse and I, friends, and family entertained for months, making it reason enough to own a Wii.
Nintendo is careful in the selection of the games they bundle with a new system. With the first Nintendo the bundled Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo hooked a generation of gamers. Wii Sports uses completely different su... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful
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