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Tao: The Way

by Nilson Carroll – February 23, 2016 Tao is so strange, so inexplicably weird, and almost completely unknown and undocumented that it

Taiyou no Tenshi Marlowe: Ohanabatake wa Dai-Panic!

Taiyou no Tenshi Marlowe: Ohanabatake wa Dai-Panic! (“Sunshine Angel Marlowe: Panic in Bloomland!”) or just “Angel Marlowe” is a weird

Super Meat Boy

Great games often come from humble beginnings. Indie designer Edmund McMillen created Meat Boy, a tough-as-nails platformer with a retro

Super Spy Hunter

The original 1983 arcade Spy Hunter was a James Bond homage that thrilled players with top-down vertically-scrolling driving and shooting.

Sweet Home

Regardless of your opinions of the genre, horror movies can be a bit difficult to relate to or care about.

Beyond Oasis

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Oasis

Perhaps it’s got a bad rap, but the Genesis is not remembered for its RPG library. Despite being the home

Stretch Panic

Stretch Panic – known as Freak Out in Europe and Hippa Linda (“Pulling Linda”) in Japan – is Treasure’s first

Sunless Sea

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Fallen London

Lose your mind. Eat your crew. Sunless Sea was quite an ambitious project for Failbetter Games – both fairly original

Sqoon

Irem is the company behind R-Type, undoubtedly one of the most influential shoot-em up series this side of Gradius. Sqoon

Star Trader

Initially released on the PC88, Star Trader combines elements of an adventure game with shoot-em-up segments. As ace pilot Kain,

Starship Titanic

On paper, Starship Titanic sounds completely fantastic. The game was conceived by Douglas Adams, not only one of the most

Steel Empire

 The ’90s was the golden age of shoot-em-ups, especially on the 16-bit consoles, where games like Lords of Thunder where

Space Mouse

Space Mouse is the second of Mindware’s conversions of early 80s Japanese PC titles, originally published as a type-in program

SpaceStation Silicon Valley

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series SpaceStation Silicon Valley

Every generation sees a handful of wildly original games which forge new ideas, or rework old ones in such a

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