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Video Game Ad of the Day: Shining Force II

by on Sep.15, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


The Mega Drive wasn’t exactly an RPG powerhouse, especially when compared to the SNES, but it had a couple of games that could certainly hold their own. One such game was Shining Force II, a strategy RPG developed by a division of Sega that would eventually separate from the company and form Camelot Software Planning (best known for Mario Golf, Mario Tennis and Golden Sun)

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs

by on Sep.13, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day

Bulls vs Blazers and the NBA Playoffs MD
Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs is the third game in EA’s NBA Playoffs series, which preceded the better known NBA Live series. The pace of the gameplay is much slower than the Live series, but it does have Michael Jordan in it.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: CyberTiger

by on Sep.12, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


CyberTiger is a rather odd footnote in the history of EA Sports, coming from a brief period of experiementation where the company decided to try making arcade versions of their sports games to sit on shelves alongside their simulations. Didn’t go so well.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: A Bug’s Life

by on Sep.11, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


I just want to state again, for the record, that A Bug’s Life is a terrible film with absolutely no redeeming qualities beyond the fact that it ends. The game consists entirely of Traveller’s Tales’ brand of rather poor licensed game platforming.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: 90 Minutes: European Prime Goal

by on Sep.09, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


Once upon a time, anyone could make a football game, and people would lap it up because they didn’t really give a rats ass about licenses and real players. 90 Minutes: European Prime Goal is one such example of a time when football games flooded the market.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Zoop

by on Sep.08, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


Zoop is a puzzle game that came out on a variety of formats in the mid 1990s. The ad is better than the game. Many of the people who worked for Hookstone, the developer of Zoop, founded Mobius Entertainment who went on to become Rockstar Leeds, developers of the PSP Grand Theft Auto games.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Rise 2: Resurrection

by on Sep.07, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


Enough idiots were fooled by the pretty graphics of Rise of the Robots that a sequel could be made. Of course most of the press were so eager to make up for their mistaken overrating of the original game that they savaged Rise 2: Resurrection, regardless of its actual merit or lack-thereof.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee

by on Sep.06, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


Oddworld Inhabitants’ first project, Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee was pretty damn impressive upon first release, due in large to its impressive production values. A series reboot is due for release next year.

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Video Game Ad of the Day: Quake III: Arena

by on Sep.05, 2012, under Video Game Ad of the Day


Sega teamed up with id Software and Raster Productions to bring Quake III: Arena to the Dreamcast. It’s a pretty impressive port, but the best aspect was that you could play against PC players, provided that they ran a patch version that was compatible with the Dreamcast version.

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