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Where Old School Video Games Live On

21 August, 2008 | No comments

The Best RPG of All Time

By Brendan Durkin

When Baldur's Gate came out in 1998, I a middle school kid introduced to it by watching my dad play it. Baldur's Gate, for me, is the epitome of what a medieval fantasy role-playing game should be. I personally enjoy when a game, such as Baldur's Gate, starts the player out with little more than a stick and a few gold coins. Nothing is more fun than running around an area and picking up everything imaginable just so when I sell all the junk I found I can afford a decent piece of chain mail.

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18 August, 2008 | No comments

FireNES - Old School NES Games in your browser

2 things I love old school games and FireFox. Well, now I can I have the best of both worlds with this great plugin, FireNES.
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2 August, 2008 | No comments

Towering Inferno for the Atari 2600

ClassicGameRoom.net provides a classic game video review of Towering Inferno for the Atari 2600.
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31 July, 2008 | No comments

How to turn your NES into a DVD Player

What looks like your typical NES system is actually a DVD player in disguise. Check out this awesome modification in the video below.
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3 July, 2008 | No comments

10 Classic PC Games

Den of Geek put out another great classic gaming article and this time they talk about 10 PC Gaming Classics.
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3 July, 2008 | No comments

Top 10 Mega Man Robot Masters

Which Mega Man Robot Master takes the top spot on this list.
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1 July, 2008 | No comments

The History of Tomb Raider

IGN has put out a great article that chronicles the history of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider.
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30 June, 2008 | No comments

Sonic The Hedgehog Review

Sonic The Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis was Sega's attempt to prove to the gaming world that not only could the make platforming games as well as their arch rival Nintendo, Sega could make these types of games better than Nintendo could. While this argument is debatable, what is clear is that Sonic The Hedgehog certainly took platform gaming to new and unexplored heights when first released.
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29 June, 2008 | No comments

Atari: Past and Present

Atari has been through many ups and downs over the past 36 years. IGN takes a look at Atari: Then and Now in one of their latest articles.
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27 June, 2008 | No comments

Games that stand the test of time

1UP has done a feature article on classic video games that continue to stand the test of time.
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