Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Developer: Retro Studios   Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 11/15/04   Genre: Action Metroid Prime is one of the highest rated games of all time and one of the best transitions from 2d to 3d gameplay. It silenced all critics who were...
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Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime

Developer: Retro Studios   Publisher: Nintendo   Release: 11/18/2002   Genre: Action Metroid Prime should not have worked. As Nintendo brought all of their intellectual properties into the third dimension on the N64 Metroid was conspicuously absent. When...
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Super Metroid

Super Metroid

Developer: Nintendo     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: 04/18/94     Genre: Action-Adventure Much has been written about Super Metroid in the decades since its release. It has been called a classic, a masterpiece, and groundbreaking. And all of it...
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Metroid

Metroid

Metroid has always been a bit of an anomaly in Nintendo’s library.  Where I was used to bright and cheery worlds in Nintendo’s games Metroid stood in stark contrast with its sci-fi theme and terrifying titular enemies.  But that is...
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Developer: KCET    Publisher: Konami    Released: 10/02/97    Genre: Action/Adventure Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the greatest games of all time. Let’s get that out the way right now. In 1997 when everyone was creating 3d games, whe...
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Blaster Master

Blaster Master

Developer: Sunsoft    Publisher: Sunsoft    Release: 11/88   Genre: Action-Adventure Blaster Master is a game I did not think highly of initially. That more than likely has to do with the terrible Worlds of Power novelization I read beforehand. Talk abo...
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Magical Pop’n

Magical Pop’n

Developer: Pack-In-Video   Publisher: Polestar Co.  Released: 03/10/95   Genre: Action As I plumb the import libraries of these old consoles I am continually astounded at the sheer number of hidden gems most have never heard of. You’ll hear plenty ab...
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