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Yars’ Revenge is a space ship shooting game of sorts released for the Atari 2600 in 1981. It's one of the system's most popular titles, so let's find out why.

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Atari Karts was released for the Atari Jaguar in December of 1995. The Atari Jaguar was discontinued three months later, making Atari Karts one of the final, and rarer, games released by Atari.

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Bust-A-Move for the Super Nintendo was released in 1995, just one year after the arcade original. As you’ve no doubt played this title, or one of the dozens of sequels or knock-offs over the years, I’m going to instead focus on at what makes this version unique.

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Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy was released by SNK for the Neo Geo CD in 1994. The title is a side scrolling action game and a breath of fresh air in comparison to the flood of fighter games usually associated with the Neo Geo platform.

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In the year 2000, Merlin Racing was released on the ill-fated NUON. Three years later the developers chopped the game into four parts and released them on the PlayStation 1 as budget titles. I’ve previously looked at Miracle Space Race, and today we’ll be looking at ATV Racers.

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PlayStation TV First Impressions

I was really excited when Sony announced the PlayStation Vita TV a year ago in Japan. A year later, and the the rebranded PlayStation TV has arrived in North America. So does it live up to my lofty expectations?

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released in early 1994, and in many ways is half finished. The other half of the game was released later in the year as Sonic and Knuckles. Sonic 3 can be locked onto Sonic and Knuckles to form the complete adventure.

For this review, I'll be looking at Sonic 3 as a stand alone title. We'll look at Sonic and Knuckles in a future video.

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This is TI Invaders, released for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a home computer in 1981. The reason it looks exactly like Space Invaders, is because it is exactly like space invaders. Welcome to the 80's.

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After Burner was developed by Rutubo Games and released for the Sega 32x in 1995. Think of this as a retro-retro game, developed before re-releasing old 80's games was a thing. After Burner had been released on dozens of home consoles and computers before 1995, but this version finally did the arcade classic justice.

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Power Drive Rally is an Atari Jaguar exclusive, developed by Rage Software, and released in 1995. It is the sequel Power Drive, which was available on most home consoles and computers in the European market.

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New Super Mario Bros. U was a launch title for Nintendo’s Wii U console back in 2012. Despite the positive reviews at the time, this game wasn’t enough to move hardware units and Wii U sales have been mostly disappointing since.

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River Raid is an early vertical shooter for the Atari 2600 released by Activision in 1982. If you are looking for a good way to get into the 2600, it doesn’t get much better than this.

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Downfall is a home-brew title for the Atari Jaguar CD by developers Reboot. It's based on another home-brew title for the 2600 called Man Falls Down, though I don't believe that project was ever finished.

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Princess Rescue is a home-brew title for the Atari 2600 released by AtariAge.com in July of 2013. The game is a tribute to the original Super Mario Bros for the 8-bit Nintendo.

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Now that I have a Wii U, I can finally catch up on some of the Wii titles I've missed over the past 8 years. At the top of my list is Sonic Colors, a 2010 release that never found it's way to my beloved Xbox 360. I knew this game had received a lot of praise upon release, but that wasn't enough to get me to buy a Wii. So with that, I am finally diving in.

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Sonic 3D Blast was released for the Sega Genesis in November of 1996 and represents the final Sonic game to grace this classic system. It is a dramatic departure from the main side-scrolling series, featuring an isometric viewpoint utilizing sprites to simulate a 3D environment.

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Checkered Flag was released for the Atari Jaguar in November of 1994 as polygon racers were taking arcades by storm and making their way to home consoles. Atari needed to check polygon racer off their 64-bit gaming checklist and produced Checkered Flag.