Tag: puzzle

Adventures of Lolo
November 16, 2020 one Response

Adventures of Lolo

Developer: Hal Laboratory    Publisher: Hal America    Released: 1989    Genre: Puzzle I miss the HAL Labs of the 8 and 16-bit days. Don’t get me wrong they are still a great developer but the diversity in their output is...
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Castelian
November 6, 2019 No Responses

Castelian

For the longest time growing up I had an unconscious bias against European games.  Long before I would learn where certain developers were based I learned to associate janky games with certain companies.  These were the titles that may have...
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A Boy & His Blob
August 19, 2019 No Responses

A Boy & His Blob

The NES library has its highs and lows.  Many genres that are still around today were created on that little gray box.  But it was also home to shovelware the likes of which is rarely seen in the industry.  During...
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Luigi’s Mansion
March 1, 2019 No Responses

Luigi’s Mansion

Developer: Nintendo EAD    Publisher: Nintendo     Released: November 18, 2001     Genre: Action In 2001 the thought of a Nintendo system launching without a Mario game was ludicrous.  After all, every prior system either had a Mario title packed in...
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Cacoma Knight in Bizyland
February 1, 2019 No Responses

Cacoma Knight in Bizyland

Developer: Affect    Publisher: Seta    Release: 1993   Genre: Puzzle Taito’s Qix is one of the few Gameboy games I played at release. I never owned the handheld myself but appreciated it from afar. Qix, much like Tetris seemed tailor made...
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Kickle Cubicle
January 28, 2019 one Response

Kickle Cubicle

Developer: Irem    Publisher: Irem    Release: 09/90   Genre: Puzzle In my mind R-Type is what I always associate with Irem. It is no secret why; R-Type is one of the most influential shooters of all time. But that one seminal...
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Mendel Palace
December 24, 2018 one Response

Mendel Palace

Developer: Game Freak    Publisher: Hudson Soft    Release: 12/12/89    Genre: Action In some ways I kind of miss blindly renting games. When you were young with no disposable income game rentals were your life blood. The only problem is there was...
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