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| 38 11% | Q*bert (1982) - Rated 24 Apr 2024
"One you'd always see around somehow. It looks nice enough, and I suppose the isometric setup isn't overly confusing when your movement is so constrained. However, even once you get down the cycle of luring the snake off the side, my overall feelings while playing may be summarized in one word: @!#?@!"
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| 58 33% | Yars' Revenge (1982) - Rated 24 Apr 2024
"A popular one in its day. Not nearly as complicated as it may look when you first start it up and see that "Neutral Zone" flashing in the middle. Gets tricky once the pace picks up a bit, though. I must confess to liking all the odd tie-in about our protagonist and the planet of the house fly people more than the game itself, though."
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| 72 59% | Joust (1982) - Rated 23 Apr 2024
"A quick chaotic credit with an endearingly odd setting. Some may like the "What, you thought making an ostrich fly would be easy?" controls more than others, though they're part of the fun in the right mood. Port quality's a bit all over the the place; crucially, no two ever seem to handle at all the same. The NES one's actually kind of disappointing; funnily enough, it was the first game of Satoru Iwata, who'd shortly do a better job of things with Balloon Fight."
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| 63 38% | River Raid (1982) - Rated 10 Apr 2024
"A fun and distinctive spin on the then-very-new model of Scramble providing by far one of the best shooting experiences you could play at home at the time. It's actually not that hard to start racking up the score once you get the hang of your ability to go slower or faster. (You can even get away with shooting the fuel for points after you're already recharged from it.)"
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| 61 36% | King's Quest: Quest for the Crown (1984) - Rated 23 Jan 2024
"The series that took the fairy tale business of Roberta Williams's preceding hit The Wizard and the Princess and ran with it. The original does look and feel for all the world like the arbitrary nonsense of the Hi-Res Adventure days with the added advantage of little characters moving around on-screen; and they really did liven things up more for the time. An interesting step towards the future it may be, but pretty thoroughly displaced by the remake for good reason."
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| 43 17% | Kung-Fu (1984) - Rated 22 Jan 2024
"Well, it may not much look like it, but that's Jackie Chan, and this is his (first) game (it had the Wheels on Meals/"Spartan X" license in Japanese arcades, hence "Thomas", "Sylvia", and "Mr. X" though that's as far as any resemblance to the movie goes). Doable enough once you've been through it a bit to know what the enemies do."
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| 58 33% | Marble Madness (1984) - Rated 20 Jan 2024
"An appealingly bizarre setting, though was the control gimmick really that fun to play with? Eh. Handy thing the limit is time rather than lives, at least. Also, my dentist used to have the cabinet on free-play, sparing the truly greatest frustration of games built around short credits."
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| 46 23% | Excitebike (1984) - Rated 18 Jan 2024
"Not much of a "racer", as it's mostly down to having a good sense of when you might want to slow down or speed up a little to avoid spilling on a hill (though you should clear the tracks easily so long as you lean forward in the air). There is a track creator to monkey around with, though."
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| 77 67% | Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013) - Rated 01 Jan 2024
"A short and sweet standalone expansion that went all in on its goofy theme (and earning that M, for better or worse). Cuts to the chase with the action, though these are actually really different sorts of bases than in the original, and involving those dragons in the base raids certainly adds a wrinkle."
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| 78 70% | Far Cry 3 (2012) - Rated 28 Dec 2023
"The one that set the formula for this series (and probably a few others) going forward, taking the base raids from the 2nd, and going all-in on skill trees, and a big fancy main quest, and whatnot. I see what they were attempting with the plot, though the many tonal and plotting issues with this bro-step into the heart of darkness get a bit hard to ignore (especially on the rather superfluous second island). But the raids are good, and it's fun poking around the pretty map for collectables."
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