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VC Tuesday: Attack of the clones

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2008-07-22 10:15:00 by JC Fletcher in Nintendo Wii Fanboy
Filed under: Virtual Console , Imports Nintendo of Japan is following the example of the American Virtual Console this week in two ways: by not releasing that many games, and by making one of them Donkey Kong 3 . If you've never played Donkey Kong 3 , it's certainly worth a look, because it's pretty bizarre. The concept also seems a bit backward...
 
Tags: donkey, donkey kong, samurai shodown, american virtual console, imports nintendo, virtual console, nintendo, space harrier, galaxian clone
 
 
 
 
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Monty's Christmas Misty Eyed Special

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2007-12-02 18:48:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
We make the cops look bad is so much more than a commendable social practice and the way to a better mankind. It's a fantastic blog of a highly talented retro remaker ( extensive info on the very playable part of said talents in a post that should appear before 2008 ), who also happens to be a human, a gamer, not particularly odd and a great...
 
Tags: monty, original monty, classic game mags, monty mole, christmas special, game, freeware public consumption, black adder bobs, fantastic blog
 
 
 
 
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Namco Museum Remix and DS Screens Equal Retro Fun

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2008-01-30 01:27:44 by Stephany in Gaming Today
Back in the Fall, Namco Museum DS and Namco Museum Remix hit retail shelves across North American and if you have not heard of either game, or are still on the fence about them, maybe these fresh screen shots will help swing you one way or the other. I myself bought Namco Museum DS this past weekend, and while I am not a huge fan of the DS (as...
 
Tags: namco museum remix, namco museum, games, remix, favorite games, original games, respective web page, game titles, game
 
 
 
 
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Play history

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2008-03-02 23:12:19 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
Game On This week Screen Play is devoted to the world's most significant exhibition of games and gaming culture, which opens on Thursday at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne The Game On exhibition has a hands-on focus, featuring 125 playable games which let visitors play their way through the entire 40-year history of...
 
Tags: play, play hard, play games, art, significant art form, games, team games, games history, videogames
 
 
 
 
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Retro Review: Galaga '90

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2008-03-13 13:09:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
Before I get started with the review I would like to draw your attention to an initiative thought up by fellow retro gaming blogger Racketboy. His idea is to form a kind of "book club" for gamers where he chooses a certain game and then everyone plays it for a certain amount of time before saying what they thought of it in the forums. I think...
 
Tags: galaga, game, game splits, original galaga, bad game design, aka galaga, standard stages galaga, tyical game, games
 
 
 
 
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Art Directors Love Retro Gaming

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2008-04-17 07:53:43 by Jean Snow in Wired: Game|Life
When art directors at W+K Tokyo (the Tokyo office of advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy) put down the keyboard and mouse for a break, that means it's time for a bit of retro gaming fun. At least for Phil Not only does he play a mean game of horizontal-scrolling shooter Super Cobra -- and we're talking the original 1981 arcade version, certainly...
 
Tags: tokyo, tokyo blog, art directors, tokyo office, original cabinet, msx family computer, shooter super cobra, classic arcade games, original
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn: Time to kill

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2008-05-19 23:00:23 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
Martin Whitehead is jealous of all those young whippersnappers who obviously get a lot more time to play video games than he does But Martin is extremely thankful he was alive to witness the birth of interactive games, and has been fascinated with them ever since, now passing his obsession onto his kids Martin, a mainframe applications...
 
Tags: time, play readers, play, play mystery house, play video games, electronic, electronic games, games, spare time
 
 
 
 
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Mysterious new Galaga game headed for Xbox Live Arcade

2008-05-29 09:46:00 by HASH0x8b5e79c in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
According to a listing on the USK's (Germany's classification board for games) Web site , a game called Galaga Legions is pending release on Xbox LIVE Arcade At this point, all we know about the game is that it's being published by Namco-Bandai, the company responsible for publishing the much-loved Pac-Man: Championship Edition Could Galaga...
 
Tags: galaga, xbox live arcade, xbox, galaga legions, legions, game, space invaders extreme, classification board, web site
 
 
 
 
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Our Giant Guide To Video Game Comics

2008-06-26 15:56:08 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
 
Whether you think of video game-based comics as crass marketing tools or welcome extensions to existing IP, theyre here to stay. From WWII action-shooter Brothers in Arms to space-based, survival horror title Dead Space to the elf and-orc-filled MMORPG World of Warcraft , comic books are being made for every kind of game We decided to list all...
 
Tags: comic book, comic book series, comic, one-shot comic based, comic series based, series based, subsequent comic series, comic series, video game
 
 
 
 
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Focus On: Futurama's New Game References, Bonus Episode

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2008-06-29 16:00:29 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
If you are at all sensible, you will likely have purchased the 'Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs' DVD , which came out this week. It's the second of a set of four DVD specials which will be cut up into sets of four episodes when shown on TV The Wikipedia page for the special has plenty of initial information, but one of the DVD extras...
 
Tags: futurama, lost futurama episode, futurama scriptwriter, futurama folks c