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Aero Fighters Special
It is late tonight and I don’t have much in me so I booted up Aero Fighters. It seemed alright. I didn’t get very far, but the graphics were good. I was annoyed I kept having to continually press the fire button. I’d like to be able to just hole the button to fire, even…
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Venture
This is a really neat arcade game, and I think it’s really close to being one that I really enjoy, but it doesn’t quite nail the landing. Venture is a 1981 dungeon crawler from Exidy. According to the blog Retrogame Deconstruction Zone, Venture was one of the first fantasy themed arcade games. However, it was…
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Sasuke vs Commander
Another day, another SNK game. This one is actually a pretty enjoyable little Space Invaders style game, but instead of aliens you shoot ninjas. The theme helps elevate this one, but I also like how reactive the enemies are. After being shot you have to dodge their falling body, which is perhaps a bit of…
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Clash-Road
Clash-Road is one of the stranger sports adaptations I’ve played for this project, though maybe the name should have tipped me off that this was not the usual biking game. Clash-Road is a biking game where you have to push competitors off the road and punch them off their bikes if you want to survive.…
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Monkey Magic
This is definitely not Nintendo’s best simian based game. It’s a breakout clone, but one that I feel misunderstands what made Breakout work. Breakout was great because the feeling of gradually breaking through a bunch of blocks was very satisfying. Sometimes a ball would get lodged behind a set of blocks and score massive points…
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Mrs Pac Man
I guess I retained my skills from when I was a kid. I played a ton of this game as a kid, and even had a period where I studied the Pac Man AI for a video. I’m not usually very good at these arcade games when I start, but this is the exception, and…
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Return of the Invaders
I’m sick today so I played a simple game. It’s a Space Invaders sequel, but it feels like making a complex pancake. Sometimes simpler is better. The new ships are just kind of alright, but some are a bit annoying, and I’m more endeared by the original game.
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Libble Rabble
I first learned about Libble Rabble because of Tim Rogers’ Pac Man video. The Pac Man video is the best Rogers video, in my opinion. The video touches on many subjects, as is the style of Tim Rogers, and among the discussion of Pac Man is Libble Rabble. According to Rogers, Libble Rabble is the…