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The player punches a pinky in Doom (1993)

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Doom At 30: Does 1993's Doom still hold up for a first-time player today?

Simple pleasures

Dec. 14, 2023 Kiera Mills

A PC gamer plays a retro-style game on an old CRT using a joystick

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Almost 90% of classic video games are “critically endangered” and it’s only getting worse, preservation study warns

“It’s bad, folks. It’s really bad.”

July 12, 2023 Matt Jarvis

A screenshot of a cave in spectrum game Auf Weidersehen Monty

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The ZX Spectrum games that ought to be on Steam

Speccy kids unite, you have nothing to lose but your games

Feb. 20, 2023 Stuart Gipp

The level editor open in Speedy Eggbert

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Speedy Eggbert's level editor made it the best game to ever score 4%

That's Eggbertainment

June 1, 2022 Stuart Gipp

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, the MMO for misanthropes, barely needs updating at all

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Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, the MMO for misanthropes, barely needs updating at all

Smashing stuff!

June 15, 2020 John Walker

Rogue Legacy is still the most approachable roguelite of them all

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Rogue Legacy is still the most approachable roguelite of them all

Genealogical thinking

June 8, 2020 John Walker

I don't think my dad could ever Escape Rosecliff Island

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I don't think my dad could ever Escape Rosecliff Island

The Hidden Curse

June 1, 2020 John Walker

Might it already be too late to remake 2002's Mafia?

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Might it already be too late to remake 2002's Mafia?

Maul In The Family

May 25, 2020 John Walker

You forgot all about Nox, and should probably put that right

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You forgot all about Nox, and should probably put that right

The forgotten ARPG

May 18, 2020 John Walker

Bookworm Adventures has been erased from the internet, and I want to know why

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Bookworm Adventures has been erased from the internet, and I want to know why

Misadventure

May 11, 2020 John Walker

Gunpoint is perhaps the least judgmental game ever made

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Gunpoint is perhaps the least judgmental game ever made

Definitive Defenestration

May 4, 2020 John Walker

Titan Quest is two-thirds of a game, but exactly what I need

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Titan Quest is two-thirds of a game, but exactly what I need

Great Zeus

April 27, 2020 John Walker

1987's Rainbow Islands boasts more great ideas than most modern platform games

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1987's Rainbow Islands boasts more great ideas than most modern platform games

GOAL IN !

April 20, 2020 John Walker

Starship Titanic really isn't worth dredging up from the bottom of the Santraginus V sea

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Starship Titanic really isn't worth dredging up from the bottom of the Santraginus V sea

Aim for an iceberg

April 13, 2020 John Walker

I still love The Dig despite just about everything

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I still love The Dig despite just about everything

Move your silly buttocks, you fool

March 30, 2020 John Walker

Unreal (1998) is the FPS you have been missing

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Unreal (1998) is the FPS you have been missing

Truly Epic

March 23, 2020 John Walker

King's Quest VI is as good as the King's Quest series got

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King's Quest VI is as good as the King's Quest series got

Islands Of Terror

March 16, 2020 John Walker