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  • Reader PlayStation

    Gauntlet Legends review

    Ye olde introduction I deeply love ye olde Gauntlet games, and they've passed into true classic status since their debut in arcades in 1985. And rightfully so! The addictive quasi-overhead dungeon storming 4-player action, the…

    bloomer · March 8, 2004

  • Reader NES

    Contra review

    Back in the glory days, when video games came in cardboard boxes and Dr. Phil didn't exist, there were games that two people could play forever competitively. Duck Hunt would prove itself competitive as two people would put their dignity…

    Sclem · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Galerians review

    Who or what are Galerians? They are a new form of life: Humans engineered in the future by a rogue supercomputer named Dorothy to possess psychic powers. They exist both to serve her cause, and so that she may be the god of her 'own'…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Dino Crisis review

    Regina slumped against the medical room door. Relief that the horrors were locked out, at least for a moment, settled upon her with the same slow weight as the aqua neon glare. Dragging herself across the room, she was only now becoming…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Deathtrap Dungeon review

    I have grown to love Deathtrap Dungeon. Still, when I go to sum it up in one word, that word is gonna be 'Savage'. If I was going to splurge and use two words, I'd say it's 'Really Savage'. I like 'Tough' or 'Savage' when it's challenging…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Darkstalkers review

    Though being highly aware of them all, I'm amazed to say I'd never actually played one of Capcom's cartoon beat-em-ups prior to this one, either at the arcade or on a console. When I saw this game going cheap second-hand, and that it had a…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Danger Girl review

    When Danger Girl sashayed past me offering not one but three hyper-gynoidal heroines to play, and hot lashings of stealthy action-adventure, I groaned and almost fell over at the prospect. Danger Girl comes to the Playstation from the cult…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    D review

    One night in a downtown LA hospital under the gaze of a full moon, Doctor Richter Harris apparently goes insane and, without warning, carries out a mass murder of staff and patients. Good sense dictates that it should be up to the police…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Bust A Groove review

    After an ongoing farce in which I kept trying to buy 'Bust a MOVE' second-hand, and kept failing miserably (right disc, wrong cover... right cover, wrong disc... you name it, it happened), I unexpectedly found myself the confused owner of…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Bushido Blade review

    Bushido Blade (BB) is Squaresoft's infamous samurai swordfighting game of one-hit kills. There are no health gauges, combo counters or special powers here. BB follows the impulse of realism: One properly executed stab to the head or torso…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Bug Riders review

    For centuries, man dreamt of flight. And LO, he did subjugate gigantic insects to his will. LO, he did straddle these gigantic insects and verily they bore him aloft, like great bearing things. When I submitted the above in high school as…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    Akuji the Heartless review

    If you were about to be married but suddenly had your heart ripped out in a voodoo ambush by your treacherous brother, who then proceeded to toss your soul into Hades, you'd be more than a little pissed off too. This happened to Akuji the…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PlayStation

    40 Winks review

    40 Winks aims its cute and dreamy self directly at one of the toughest arenas of gaming to crack - the nebulous zone in which young children and almost-teens swim together. Perhaps at the same time it hopes (in vain?) that the Mario-like…

    bloomer · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Genesis

    Taz in Escape from Mars review

    Out of all the classic cartoon characters, The Tasmanian Devil is arguably one of the more forgettable. The fact that you could never understand what the lil' bugger was saying meant that he didn't convey quite as much character as old…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Genesis

    Cosmic Spacehead review

    Cosmic Spacehead... with a name like that the hero of this game from Codemasters was born to be an intergalactic explorer. So it's no surprise to see that that's exactly what he's up to here, although what is reasonably surprising is the…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Game Boy Color

    Looney Tunes: Twouble! review

    It's always nice when game developers try to do something just that little bit different with a licensed game. It shows that a bit of effort has been put into things, which is nice. The temptation to stick cartoon characters into simple…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Game Boy Advance

    Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island review

    OK, a quick lesson for all the less-British people out there. Here in the UK David Beckham is a bit of a legend. He is captain of the England football team, he married a Spice Girl (the ugly one), he gives his children daft names (step…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004

  • Reader PC

    Command and Conquer: Renegade review

    The rush you experience from rushing squads of tanks and soldiers into an enemy base is a memorable one- just ask any Command & Conquer fan. Westwood’s renowned real-time strategy franchise has captivated gamers for a long time, even…

    djskittles · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Game Boy

    The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening review

    Everybody loves Zelda. I'm fairly sure that it's a scientific fact or something. From the very first time young Link set out across Hyrule to rescue the titular princess back in the early days of the NES (has it really been that long??)…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004

  • Reader Game Boy

    Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins review

    When the first Super Mario Land appeared alongside Nintendo's Game Boy, it was quite successful, due in large to it being a really rather good platformer. As such, it can't have surprised anyone when Ninty announced a sequel called, in a…

    tomclark · March 7, 2004