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NFL Quarterback Club, Good but not Great

NFL Quarterback Club is one of the many games that I didn’t know existed when I was a kid. This is one of the few games that got a handheld release before the home console version. The Game Boy game was released in 1993, and then the SNES and Genesis got the game in 1994.…

Rampart: Good Arcade Game, Not a Great Console Game

Rampart is a game that I’m pretty sure I’ve played before, but I don’t remember. It is a combination of a strategy game and Tetris. Originally released as an arcade game in 1990, Rampart was eventually ported to just about everything. It had some influence over the Tower Defense genre, which would become popular in…

Paperboy 2 on the Genesis isn’t that Great

There isn’t too much that I can say about the Sega Genesis version of Paperboy 2. The core game isn’t all that different from the original or the SNES version of Paperboy 2. Sometimes there is a difference between the SNES and Genesis versions of the game, but that isn’t the case here. While the…

Acclaim: An Odd Publishing Company

Acclaim is one of those companies that has an odd history. Many of its terrible games were hidden under the LJN and Flying Edge labels, and it had a long relationship with Midway and WWF/WWE. They did publish some great games, especially the ports of Midway’s arcade games. This is one of the companies that…

Paperboy 2 on the SNES is a Good Arcade game

Paperboy 2 was released in 1991, and depending on the version of the game you’re looking at, it was developed and published by a different company. This game wasn’t in the arcades, but it has many similarities to an arcade game. I’ll be looking at the SNES version, which was published by Mindscape. There were…

Mr. Do! A Great Arcade to SNES port

Mr. Do! was released in the arcades by Universal, not the film company, in 1982. It was a conversion kit, which was a cheaper way for companies to sell arcade games, and let arcade owners repurpose an older and less profitable game. It ended up selling over 30,000 units, which is very good for an…

The Best Retro Games I Played on an Emulator

Emulators were a big part of how I discovered and played retro games in the 1990s. Before I could really go anywhere outside of my hometown, I would wander from website to website downloading NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Genesis ROMs. I don’t remember all of the games I played back then, but some made…

Gauntlet IV is a Great Sega Exclusive

Gauntlet IV is a Sega Genesis exclusive and does a little more than just remixing the first game. It does that, but there are more game modes than a standard arcade experience. It would be nice if this game were more accessible, especially since the other games in the series were on a bunch of…

Retro Games that I like more now, and some that I don’t

I went over some of the games that I didn’t like when I played them; now I want to go over some of the games that I’ve changed my mind about. This will be a mix of games that I like more now and ones that I like less. Thankfully, there aren’t any that I’ve…

Paperboy on the Genesis: A Great Version

PaperBoy was ported to just about everything, and when Tengen moved to the Sega Genesis, it was released on that console. There wasn’t much difference between this game and the NES version. It did look much better, though. This is one of the games that I didn’t know existed. When I started collecting retro games…

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