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Super NES Retro Review: Donkey Kong Country
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Super NES Retro Review: Final Fantasy VI
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Super NES Retro Review: Super Punch-Out!!
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Today: Do your patriotic duty. Punch a fat clown.
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Super NES Retro Review: Mega Man X
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Today: Mega Man's brilliant 16-bit debut.
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Super NES Retro Review: Secret of Mana
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Super NES Retro Review: Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Next up: The best 16-bit Street Fighter game of all time. Unless you prefer Super Street Fighter II.
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Super NES Retro Review: Star Fox
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Super NES Retro Review: Contra III: The Alien Wars
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Today: Let's attack aggressively.
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Super NES Retro Review: Super Mario Kart
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Super NES Retro Review: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Today: The Zelda game that changed everything.
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Super NES Retro Review: Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
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Super NES Retro Review: Super Castlevania IV
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Super NES Retro Review: Super Mario World
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. First up: Possibly the greatest Mario of them all.
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Super NES Retro Review: Star Fox 2
Join us as we review every Super NES Classic game. Finally: A lost dog comes back home.
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A Link to the Past Deep Dive, Part 4: Why A Link to the Past's Dungeons Were Perfect
CLASSIC DEEP DIVE | In transforming dungeons from combat gauntlets to complex puzzles, the third Zelda reinvented the action RPG.
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How Dragon Quest Inspired the First Big Console RPG Boom in Japan, Both For Better and For Worse
HISTORY OF RPGS | A survey of the innovative RPGs to emerge in Loto's wake.
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The Bard's Tale Launched the Second Wave of RPGs
HISTORY OF RPGS | Welcome to Skara Brae, and to the future.
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How Wizardry Cast Story Aside in Favor of Casting Spells
HISTORY OF RPGS | In Part Two of our monthly series, Robert Woodhead enlightens us about Wizardry's pursuit of systems over story.
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How the Ultima Trilogy Took a Genre from Tabletop to Hi-Tech
HISTORY OF RPGS | In Part One of our new monthly series, Lord British shares his perspectives on the process of bringing pen-and-paper RPGs into the digital realm.
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Yuji Horii Remembers the Difficult Road to Liberating RPGs from Costly Computers With Dragon Quest
HISTORY OF RPGS | The great migration away from just PCs started with Dragon Quest in 1986.
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Roguelikes: How a Niche PC RPG Genre Went Mainstream
HISTORY OF RPGS | Mystery Dungeon tackled the daunting task of making roguelikes friendly.
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How Ultima 4 and Wasteland Ushered in a New Era of Maturity for RPGs
HISTORY OF RPGS | Inside Ultima 4 and Wasteland, two critical attempts to bring meaning to the genre of RPGs.
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Kotori Yoshimura and Star Cruiser: How Twitter Revived a Piece of Japanese Gaming History
An unlikely Twitter campaign unearths a unique chunk of video game history.
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From Busted Teeth to Broken TVs: The Oral History of Tony Hawk's Underground
The road to creating Tony Hawk's Underground in under a year was a wild one. We talked to the rebellious developers who made it.
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Behind the Creation and Evolution of Fallout's Iconic Pip-Boy
With insight from designers, what Fallout's iconic device tells us about its ever-changing post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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NES Classic Edition F.A.Q.: Everything You Need to Know About Nintendo's NES Mini
Fully updated! Your questions about Nintendo's new mini-console — answered!
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Pokemon Red and Green Beta Images Show Us a Nightmare Alternative Gyarados
Beta Gyarados, I most certainly do not choose you. What do you mean I "don't have a choice?"
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The Famed Konami Code from Contra Works on a New Fisher Price Toy
You need 30 lives to play with this toy, and you're going to burn through every single one.
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NES Creator Masayuki Uemura on the Birth of Nintendo's First Console
The man who designed Nintendo's revolutionary console recounts the system's birth and the challenges of building an international business.
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Why Are Fans Obsessed With Geno Being in Smash Bros Ultimate? Let's Break It Down
Sometimes a puppet is so much more.
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All 20 PlayStation Classic Games, Ranked From Worst to Best
We help you decide which PlayStation Classic games are worth going back to.
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Fire Emblem After 15 Years: Remembering the Beloved GBA Game That Brought Fire Emblem to America
We look back on Fire Emblem's first successful foray into North America, and why it remains a popular entry on both sides of the Pacific.
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The PlayStation Classic's Game Lineup Misses Out on Capturing What Made PS1 So Great
STARTING SCREEN | Licensing issues and questionable choices keep PS1 from reaching its potential.
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For Super Mario Bros 3's 30th Anniversary, Let's Look Back on This Mario Fanfiction I Wrote When I Was 10
Brought to you by a Mac Plus, ClarisWorks, and no idea how paragraphs are supposed to work.
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Only '80s Kids Remember: Breaking Into Houses to Get an NES Fix
The Reagan administration's "Just Say No" campaign left out one particularly powerful drug.
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When Tauros Was the King of Pokemon
A look back at the earliest days of competitive play in Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow.
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How Serebii Has Remained the Most Important Pokemon News Site for Nearly 20 Years
Faster than a Shaymin and steadier than a Rhydon, it's no wonder Pokemon fans still look to Serebii for news and community.
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PlayStation Classic Wishlist: The Games We Want for the Final 15 Spots (And Then Some)
Sony's revealed the first five games on the PlayStation Classic, so we dreamed up our own expanded line-up of what should join it.
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The PlayStation Classic is Going to Have a Much Harder Time Selling its Nostalgia Next to the SNES Classic
But if Sony remembers the power of the PlayStation's RPGs, it should be fine.
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Nintendo Switch Online: The NES Games You Need to Play, and the Ones You Can Safely Ignore
You get a mess of NES games with your Nintendo Online subscription, but not all of them are worth your time.
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Koji Igarashi is Begrudgingly Appreciative of the "Die, Monster" Line from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Symphony of the Night's Western success took Konami by surprise, and Richter's infamous quip might've played a small part in it.
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Remembering Barboach, and 9 Other Pokemon We Plumb Forgot Existed
They remember us, though. From the depths of their boxes, they remember us.
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Nintendo Reportedly Wanted to Shut Down Retro Studios After Metroid Prime Shipped
The road to Metroid Prime was paved with good intentions.
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10 Pokemon That Never Were - A Tribute to the Pokemon That Died Inside the Pokemon Gold Beta
These off-the-wall Pokemon beta children never got their chance to shine, but they deserve to be remembered.