Tag: NES
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Vintage Gaming – Super Dodge Ball
Super Dodge Ball might just be the ideal game from the 8-bit era that you didn’t play. It’s exactly what the title says, your team (USA in our NES version) battles dodge ball teams from around the globe in a tournament. Each team (from places like Iceland, Kenya and China) had different strengths and weaknesses,…
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Vintage Gaming – River City Ransom
River City Ransom is one of those games that, if you’ve played it, you probably love it…but not a lot of people have played it. I came across it by chance at the video store once, played the heck out of it, but it took me forever to find a working copy. I finally did,…
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Vintage Gaming – Destiny of an Emperor
I’m showing my age again to some of you young bucks, but when I mention my favorite classic RPGs, this one probably elicits the most blank stares. Destiny of an Emperor was released by Capcom way back in 1990 for the NES, and was a fairly typical JRPG. There were a few key differences, and…
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Old Game Tuesday – Uncharted Waters
This might be surprising, considering how much I love most other Sid Meier games, but I never got around to the original Pirates! game. I was deep into war games and looking at it, it just didn’t interest me. Another thing I found to be cool were Samurai (and by extension, ancient Japan), which led…