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150 SNES games reviewed #36: Super Strike Eagle
Super Strike Eagle for the SNES was both developed and released by MicroProse. Yes, that MicroProse. MicroProse was a US video game publisher and developer, founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and the one and only Sid Meier. It developed and published numerous games, many of which are fondly remembered either to this day as …
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150 SNES games reviewed #35: UN Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a side-scrolling shooting game which came out in arcades in 1989. It was programmed by Capcom and released for use on their CPS arcade hardware. I won’t explain what this was but if you look back at my Final Fight review there is an explanation there. The game was released in Japan …
150 SNES games reviewed #34: Power Drive
When I buy retro games they tend to belong to one of three categories. They are games which I owned as a kid and want to get again because I have fond memories of them, games I remember friends owning and which I have fond memories of playing at their houses, or are games which …
150 SNES games reviewed #33: Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
If I was to say Rare in relation to games to most people then they would probably think about the Nintendo 64 and about Banjo-Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007. To me though Rare are so much more than that. I can remember their NES games and I also remember even …
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150 SNES games reviewed #32: NBA All-Star Challenge
The game I am going to be talking about is NBA All-Star Challenge. It was developed by Beam Software and published by LJN (Acclaim in japan). It was released in Europe in 1993. Back when I was younger there was only one NBA game that ever got plugged into my SNES, and there was only …
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150 SNES games reviewed #31: Alien 3
Alien 3 was developed by Probe Entertainment and Eden Entertainment Software, published In North America, Europe, and Japan by Arena Entertainment, Acclaim Entertainment, LJN, and Virgin Interactive. It is half-based on the film Alien 3. I have to say half-based because it’s set on the prison planet from the film and Ripley is shaved bald, …
150 SNES games reviewed #30: Super Mario Kart
Super Mario Kart – what can I say about it that you won’t all have heard a million times? I cant even build anticipation by trying to hold my opinion back until the end and starting this review by talking facts and figures. So let’s just start by saying I love this game and work …
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150 SNES games reviewed #29: The Magical Quest starring Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse was the best known character in the whole world, but back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Mario was just about everywhere – and not just in his video games. He had his own cartoon series, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, and then it spiraled from there to the point he had his …
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150 SNES games reviewed #28: Ryan Giggs Champions World Class Soccer
Ryan Giggs Champions World Class Soccer was the game I played a little last night as well as early this morning. It is obviously a football (soccer) game and it was released on the SNES as well as the Mega Drive. It was developed by Park Place Productions and published by Acclaim. You might not have …
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150 SNES games reviewed #27: Top Gear
Top Gear (or as our friends in Japan would know it, Top Racer) is a racing game for the SNES. It was developed by Gremlin Graphics and published by Kemco. It was one of the first racing games to be released on the SNES, so when it came out it was immediately popular. Everyone …