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Faselei!

These mechs might be called Toy Soldiers, but they’re not exactly child’s play…
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Magic: The Gathering

Before Magic: The Gathering Online became a huge success, Microprose released this superb little strategy game.
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B-17 Bomber

A single player World War II based game where you command a B-17 Bomber. The object of the game is to earn points by bombing targets displayed on a map that represented continental Europe and the surrounding seas.
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Dragon Trek

My friend Matt had Dragon Trek on the Dragon, and much as I liked to make fun of him for owning such a stupid computer, Dragon Trek was a pretty good game.
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Crush, Crumble and Chomp!

When I was still young (around the early Nineties), I played this game on the Commodore 64 called Rampage, a popular coin op that was converted by Activision The idea of playing as a monster smashing up buildings seemed to excite me…

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Pokemon Stadium 2

its difficult to state what really sets this game apart from its predecessor, apart from the obvious…

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Metal Marines

You are the equivalent of the Japanese space army, taking the fight to the evil Westerners…

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Mighty Bomb Jack

Out of all the consoles ever released, the NES has to have the most diverse game library ever…

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Syndicate

As anyone will tell you or that you can see for yourself from my site or other reviews, I am somewhat a fan of the Amiga system.
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Batty

Quite an obvious Breakout or Arkanoid copy down to the usual powerups – even down to very similar graphics…

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B-17 Flying Fortress

B-17 Flying Fortress or B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action is a flight simulation/role-playing video game released in 1992…

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Famicom Family Basic

Co-developed by Nintendo, Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation, and released by Nintendo in June of 1984, Family BASIC was an early attempt by Nintendo to sway computer users over to their newly released console…

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Ghostbusters

“Ghstbsssstrrrsss” squeaked the Spectrum as the game loaded… at least I think that is what it said, it sounded more like a badly tuned radio…

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Cannon Fodder

I had played it previous on my brothers amiga and instantly fell in love with the game – sensi soccer with guns!

After the hub screen of 'boot hill' – still bare of the hundreds of tombstones that will soon adorn it – ends and the game kicks in, the soundtrack blares as an attack chopper drops you off to do your thing…

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Herzog Zwei

Herzog Zwei (Duke Two in English) is I think a bit of an RTS gem, perhaps it could be described as the progenitor to all the other more well known real time strategy tiles such as Dune, Command and Conquer and Total Annihilation.
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David's Midnight Magic

This is one pinball game that is so difficult to master that it feels more like a game of survival, what with it's jittery, uncompromising physics, original and unusual table layout, and what seems like a powerful magnet turned up to an unnecessary level sitting unseen beneath the flippers almost daring you to have a flick at the ball…

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Bomberman Hero

If you’re a fan of blowing up your friends, you’ll very quickly notice that something is suspiciously absent on the main menu: multiplayer
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Sneech

Sneech, in the simplest terms is the game Snake mixed with Tron (the light cycles part, but taken to new levels).
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Theme Park

When Bullfrog started developing Theme Park for the Amiga and PC I doubt that even in their wildest collective dreams would the game end up on the humble Mega Drive…

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Civilization II

Way back in 1996 I was craving for another Civilisation game, I had played the first civilisation on the Amiga 500 and I was hooked, CIV II on the PC looked a thing of beauty…

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Special Operations

This is one my earliest memories of gaming, having played this on my first computer, the Acorn Electron…

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