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5 (42) 4 (10) 3 (24) 2 (37) 1 (98) 2.3 starsAverage score of 211 user reviews
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The Last of The Last of Us on the PlayStation 4. 0
A word of warning: this may be the longest review yet.Before we get into this review, the plot for the sequel to The Last of Us was leaked online, which revealed major plot details and pivotal cutscenes. Many major characters ended up dying in disgrace and because of Naughty Dog's out-of-control crunch culture and poor attitude towards its employees. However, some of the elements present in the leaks were confirmed to not have been seen in the final game. At the time, people suspect that a disgr...
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Not all fun and games... 0
Winter Games is a video game released for the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Famicom Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System. Though Winter Games was a high-selling game and most ports were favorably received, the NES/FDS version was critically panned.While the other ports of Winter Games had seven or eight events, the NES/FDS version had only four (just like the Atari 7800 version) due to hardware limitations. The NES port also has some of the most unresponsive controls to ever be ...
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We now present to you, a butchered NFL game made by LJN. 0
This 1989 American football sports game, developed by Atlus and published by LJN for the Nintendo Entertainment System, is an officially licensed National Football League game, and some teams from the NFL that existed at the time such as the New Orleans Saints are listed by their official NFL trademarked name. However, due to a lack of an NFLPA license no players are named by their actual real life name.The game features a side view of the on-field action. This game was the first since NFL Footb...
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Major League Baseball struck out swinging. 0
Developed by Atlus and published by LJN for the NES, this game is based on an American baseball league of the same name, and contains all of the official teams in the league, although all player's names were omitted and stats were slightly modified, (which caused an entire lawsuit because of that). It was released in 1988 exclusively for the North American region.In 1989, Clark Thiemann was excited to play his brand new NES game, LJN's Major League Baseball. But when he started playing, his favo...
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Kong won't strike back this time... 0
Kong is a video game developed and published by Ocean Software in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum. It is a clone of Donkey Kong.The soundtrack is like someone was actually dancing to a music that is so loud, the composer of this game actually wanted to do the same thing with the soundtrack of Kong. And unsurprisingly, the composer of this game literally has done it. The soundtrack is abysmal and ear-bleeding. The level theme sounds like a broken giant speaker that tries to play some music, but fails, o...
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No screenshots. PERIOD. 0
One of the most controversial arcade games, Lover Boy was produced by Global Corporation Tokyo in 1983. The game was lost for over two decades because it was released only in Japan and before the internet became hegemonic. Nowadays, there are dumped ROMs and it can be emulated on MAME (an arcade emulator).Unlike the other games on Giant Bomb and elsewhere online, Lover Boy is not panned because of gameplay or aesthetic flaws. In truth, Lover Boy is a good Pac-Man clone and has nice pixelated gra...
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This, unfortunately, isn't the only time that Tiertex makes a sequel to a Capcom game. 0
This 1989 fighting game was developed by Tiertex and published by U.S. Gold for various home computers as an unofficial sequel to their port of the first Street Fighter, using the same game engine, but different characters to the original Street Fighter. It is the first fighting game to feature four-legged animals (Shepski and Brutus), it was released twenty-three years before the likes of Samurai Shodown VI and Fighting is Magic/Them's Fightin' Herds.The 8-bit computer conversions have terrible...
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Bowl or Bust! Actually...just bust. 0
In this 1988 action game based on the TV series of the same name by Hanna-Barbera, Fred and Barney want to go bowling but Wilma has other ideas......and guess who's left holding the baby? Join The Flintstones in this officially licensed arcade adventure based on the famous Hanna Barbera cartoon characters. First, poor grasp of the source material. Despite appearing on the cover and loading screen, Betty Rubble doesn't appear in the game at all. Aside from bowling with Fred in level 3 and rescuin...
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Well, at least the title isn't inaccurate. 0
Developed by Lenar and exclusively licensed by Irem as a software title for the NES this action RPG was released in Japan in December 1986 and North America in September 1987, Europe would never get a release, but it was actually one of the earliest RPGs in North America. The game was originally called Hell Bell in Japan, known as and was going to be called Hells Bells in the US, but was changed due to Nintendo of America's censorship policies at the time and to not affiliate with AC/DC's song o...
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Alf won't return to his home planet anytime soon. 0
Developed by Nexa and published by Sega, this game is based on the SF sitcom of the same name. ALF must locate pieces of his spaceship in order to return to his home planet.The graphics aren't too bad; for a third-generation console such as the Master System, this was acceptable. The music is alright as well, for the same reason as the graphics. In fact there is only music and no sound effects. Hong Kong 97 would make the same mistake years after this came out.The screen only moves when ALF is a...
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When your game is far worse than even the standard Kusoge games, you screwed up big time. 0
Developed in 1987 for the Famicom by Another (developers behind The Black Bass) and published by Hot-B, this game involves four kids with ESP powers who must stop a computer which went insane and now threatens the world. These four are very decent main characters in the game, plus they have really good character designs too. Their battle sprites also change depending on their experience level, which is a pretty unique mechanic. So you can nowadays balance the game, improve its graphics and story...
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I am so afraid of this game 0
For the most part, this video game adaptation follows the movie quite faithfully. The soundtrack by Frank Kovitz and Mark Van Hecke is quite good. It also has a decent rendition of the Ghostbusters theme. Unfortunately, this game actually prevented New Ghostbusters 2, a far better game, from being released in North American markets, because it would have caused confusion over this game.The sprites are poorly detailed. The sprites don't have very much detail into them. Despite this, the backgroun...
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Needless to say, Bram Stoker's rolling on the coffin with his character being reduced to a miserable Castlevania knock-o 0
Okay, so this is an E-rated game adaptation of the 1992 R-rated film adaptation of the classic novel. Making an E-rated game based on an R-rated movie is an unusual decision. It's like making a T-rated game based on a PG-rated film or a G-rated film or an animated television series rated TV-Y or TV-Y7 or TV-G or TV-PG.The game is a blatant Castlevania rip-off, and does almost offers nothing to stand out from Castlevania. It also barely follows the movie at all. To name a few inconsistencies, Ren...
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Subordinate! 0
Based on the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, this game was developed by Rocket Science Games and published by LJN. In this game Bill and Ted must rescue historical figures kidnapped by time-space rebels and bring them to their proper timeline or the two will miss the big concert that launches Wyld Stallyn's music career.The game missed out on being a potentially educational game. In order to locate the historical figures, Bill and Ted must locate historical items to find them. Th...
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I never saw the original cartoon... 0
...but this interactive cartoon from THQ is a load of garbage. Why do we even need this? Why is this necessary? Who even asked for this, I tell you? Can't you people remember what Rocky and Bullwinkle used to be like?First of all, let's take a look at the cover and the title screen.The game is called "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" on the cover art (like the Jay Ward cartoon), but the title screen calls it "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle". Also on the box art, there ...
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How dare you, Ted Turner! 0
This interactive adaptation of the 1990-1997 TBS environmentalist animated series of the same name consists of 5 stages, each stage is divided into two portions. The first portion is a shoot-em-up stage where the player controls one of the team's vehicles, such as the Eco-Jet, to combat enemies, avoid obstacles and navigate to an enemy fortress. The player is capable of using all five of the Planeteers' powers: The Earth, the fire, the wind, the water, and the heart. The second portion has th...
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This game is the haunter of daydreams and dreams in general. 0
This is an early 1990's NES game developed by Sculptured Software and published by HAL Laboratory, who also went on to create the Super Smash Bros. franchises.First, the title makes no sense; Davey falls asleep at certain times which is easily considered narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that is completely different from daydreaming! Also, look at the character designs. Atrocious. Not to mention the teacher on the game's cover art doesn't match her in-game appearance. Davey's cover design makes hi...
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When do we eat? Not now or ever here... 0
Developed by Realtime Associates and published by Bandai as a tie-in for the Disney movie of the same name, Dick Tracy is an action/adventure game featuring the comic strip character Dick Tracy released for the NES in late 1990. This was one of the few video games to rely on detective work before L.A. Noire was released years later. There are several other Dick Tracy games published as tie-ins for the 1990 movie. One was released for the Sega Genesis and Sega Master System, one for the Game Boy ...
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A technical revolution, but a disappointing game. 0
Here we have a racing game that centers around the movie that came before it, Days of Thunder. It was developed by Beam Software (on NES), and was published by Mindscape Group. The game's main focus is the championship. After every race, points are awarded for your finishing position. The driver with the most points after the season is crowned champion.I'd been looking forward to this one. While that movie Days of Thunder is neither based on a true story, nor a biographical film, the main charac...
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Brought to you by the same developers behind the Donkey Kong Country series, and it's a total flop. 0
This is one of many side projects that Rare has developed for the Milton Bradley Company at the time. In this action-platforming game, it is the year 2999, and warriors from the planet Drakkon are launching a savage attack on Earth. Their weapon: a powerful time travel device. Their objective: to control us by changing the course of our history. To win this war, we must meet the Drakkons on a unique and dangerous battleground: our own past!The terrible graphics look like they were made in Micros...
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It should fall rather than rise... 0
The video game adaption of the popular film of the same name was developed by Double Helix Games and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, and mobile devices. Much like the 2007 movie tie-in game Ghost Rider, Scarface: The World is Yours, John Woo Presents Stranglehold, the T rated Shrek game and the 2003 movie tie-in game Hulk which are sequels, this serves as a sequel to the film it is based on. Unfortunat...
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Even The Terminator himself is shocked. Look at his face! 0
Developed by Grin and published by Evolved Games to coincide with the film's theatrical release, Terminator Salvation is basically a third-person cover based shooter, much like Gears of War and Brothers in Arms: Hells' Highway. As John Connor, the player will go through nine chapters battling enemies from Skynet like in the movie, in addition to new enemies that are exclusive to the game. It costed $60 at launch, but it's not even worth that due to how little content there is.The gameplay as who...
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You know your game's terrible when the NES version is considered to be somewhat far superior. 0
In this 16-bit adaptation of the movie of the same name, developed by Bits Studios and published by LJN for the Super NES and by Flying Edge for the Sega Genesis, you're the T-800 sent back in time to 1995, to protect John and Sarah Connor from the T-1000. There are two gameplay types: side-scrolling and driving. During the side-scrolling levels, the player's objective is to locate and retrieve all future objects, which are gray boxes with a flashing light on top, that, when broken open, look li...
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You're terminated. 0
Released for NES in December 1992, and loosely based on the 1984 movie of the same name, The Terminator was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Mindscape and Bethesda Softworks. You play as Kyle Reese, starting in the future, with a gun and grenades, fighting many enemies in order to stop the T-800.First and foremost, despite the NES itself being capable of creating far better graphics than those in this game, The Terminator is just like every other bottom of the barrel NES game ...
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Ah, yes, the "spiritual successor" that no one is reminded of today. 0
Frequently known as the "spiritual successor of Wolfenstein" before its release, this game was made on IC Engine, which was used in Monkey's Adventures and Wolfschanze 1944: The Final Attempt. The sequel of the game: Mortyr II, was released in 2004.Okay, so this is a first-person shooter that, in terms of gameplay is almost the same as Quake or Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the whole game is divided into two episodes: the first one is set in 1944, and the second one is set in a futuristic era, e...
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The game wasn't kidding when the title clearly says Impossible... twice! 0
Based on the 1996 film of the same name. Developed by Infogrames and published by Ocean Software for the Nintendo 64. The PlayStation version released later has improvements, featuring more polishes, better cutscenes, better music, a lot more voice acting (though it is mediocre), better aiming, better controls (although still feeling a bit stiff with movement), and a quick-save feature that allows you to save checkpoints within missions. For the purpose of this review, I am reviewing the N64 ver...
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Not so perfect at all, no. 0
Developed by Gray Matter and published by ASC Games, Perfect Weapon is an action-adventure beat 'em up game, marketed as "Tekken 2 meets Resident Evil".It has poor graphics, even by mid-to-late 1990s standards, with Resident Evil style pre-rendered graphics and very blocky 3D models, although the PC version has sharper backgrounds due to higher resolution.The music in this game sounds mediocre, dull and repetitive most of the time.The voice acting for characters sound lame, dull and boring to li...
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The fifth game in the Police Quest and SWAT series doesn't have any plot whatsoever, unlike the other.The game's in-game menus, which are used for communicating with fellow officers and selecting weapons and items, are confusing to navigate.Despite its artificial difficulty and tedious gameplay, the game is actually very short because of lack of missions. Most of the game is spent just exercising in a police room.....which is the exact reason why there are only three missions in the whole game (...
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Soooo... where are the aliens now?? 0
Developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 exclusively in North America, this game is a spinoff of the Contra series, being the third and final game in the series on the NES, following the original Contra and Super C, although the game's plot and setting are unrelated to previous entries, as the villains in the game are human terrorists instead of an alien menace.The game wasn't going to be a Contra game at all. Instead, it was advertised in Japan under the n...
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Get a bigger boat or feed it to the sharks. 0
This game is based on not the first film, but the terrible fourth film to be precise. Do I have to explain why that film this time is not personal? Again? Sigh...Although the main objective is to hunt and kill Jaws, they padded out what little gameplay there is by shoehorning in a pointless RPG element. You're unable to kill Jaws at the start because Jaws always starts with full health when you encounter him no matter how much damage you did to him in previous fights and you're not strong enough...
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Not the best around 0
Here we have an adaptation of a popular drama film of the 1980s, published by LJN and developed by Atlus. While the graphics and music are decent for its time, it doesn't offer any variety in the gameplay. There's a one-on-one option that allows players to fight each other, but you cannot change the level setting or who player 2 is. The length of the game is extremely short. It has only four levels, but it quickly spikes up in difficulty. There are also no continues whatsoever in this game. Gett...
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Who you gonna call? Not necessarily this game but at least it's better than the NES version. 0
Ghostbusters was originally released for various platforms in 1984, similar to the NES version it was a port of the same game. Although the NES version is far worse, the SMS version still has a few problems.It does have its fair share of outstanding graphics and more variety of ghosts, items, and vehicles. The cars are also much easier to avoid. But like the NES version, the Ghostbusters theme plays throughout the entire game except for the endings. The title screen at least has Ghostbusters lyr...
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GHESTBUZTERZ! 0
Actual ending screen:CONGLATURATION!!!YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT GAME.AND PROOVED THE JUSTICE OF OUR CULTURE.NOW GO AND REST OUR HEROES!My response:CONGRATULATIONS!YOU HAD THE PATIENCE TO SIT THROUGH THIS AWFUL GAME.YOU PROVED YOU'RE BUSTED.NOW GO BUST YOURSELF!Yeah, I had to add that in here. Anyways, this is Ghostbusters, an action game originally released for various platforms in 1984, and ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System by Bits Laboratory and released in 1988. It is based on the ...
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The most unresponsive kart racing game ever made. 0
This 1988 racing game was originally released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore 16 and MS-DOS and published by Anco Software Ltd. While the graphics in the Amiga version are alright for a top-down racer, the same cannot be said for everything else, including the C64 version, which, if anything, is just a straight port of the C16 version with little-to-no enhancements.The game is a cheap knock-off of the Atari racing game Super Sprint, except with a top-down view instead of an isom...
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Quality assurance not guaranteed. 0
Based on the film of the same name, this is a run and gun game published by LJN and developed by Probe Software. It was originally released in August 1992 for Sega Genesis and was later ported to many different platforms like the NES which this review covers.The controls are swapped; B is used for jumping, and A is for firing your weapon. Also, unlike most games, you cannot jump off the ladders. Even worse, the screen doesn't keep up with the player; there is even a time limit, which you can't s...
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It doesn't even have the power 0
At the Utonium chateau, the Girls bake the perfect little pie by adding together their own mix of sugar, spice, and everything nice, and Bubbles adds Chemical X to make it super. Then Mojo Jojo decides to steal it and feed it to all of the villains and bullies in Townsville! So then the Girls must fight every bad guy in Townsville and retrieve all of the Chemical X before it's too late.The game plays like the Capcom fighting game Power Stone, where you play as one of the girls and use punches, k...
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It doesn't have the power 0
At the Utonium chateau, the Girls bake the perfect little pie by adding together their own mix of sugar, spice, and everything nice, and Bubbles adds Chemical X to make it super. Then Mojo Jojo decides to steal it and feed it to all of the villains and bullies in Townsville! So then the Girls must fight every bad guy in Townsville and retrieve all of the Chemical X before it's too late.The game plays like the Capcom fighting game Power Stone, where you play as one of the girls and use punches, k...
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This would have worked better as a one-off TV special. 0
The characters from Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Lab, The Powerpuff Girls, I Am Weasel, and Courage the Cowardly Dog compete in a race in the style of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!This is the only console Cartoon Network game to have the entire correct voice cast, who each reprise their roles for each character (yes, Candi Milo as Dexter counts, since she voiced him in Seasons 3 & 4, even though those seasons weren't really necessary in the first place; we don't have any more time to ...
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Unlike the Genesis and Master System versions, this game is pure mania. 0
In this game, based on the TV show of the same name, Tazzy's father tells him and his siblings the story of the seabirds. They lay giant eggs that can feed tasmanians for over a year. Intrigued, Tazzy goes on the hunt to find an egg from seabirds throughout Tasmania.The music and sound effects are unbearable to listen to. They sound like Tazzy himself composed it.Unlike the Genesis and Master System versions, spinning into a tornado drains your health. This is a problem because spinning is neces...
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You thought the Game Gear version was the only version that sucked? NOPE! 0
In this game, based on the Cartoon Network TV series of the same name, Tazzy's father tells him and his siblings the story of the seabirds. They lay giant eggs that can feed tasmanians for over a year. Intrigued, Tazzy goes on the hunt to find an egg from seabirds throughout Tasmania. This story is the same for all 3 versions. The characters from the show do look like they're supposed to look, and the sound effects actually sound like they're from the cartoon and do a good job. While the charact...
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