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Super Skweek – Atari Lynx
Super Skweek is a cautionary tale to developers who try too hard to faithfully port a game to a different system. Despite solid efforts and great intentions, Super Skweek ended up as merely a great concept with way-too-busy visuals.
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Cybermorph – Atari Jaguar
Ah, the ’90s. When polygons looked like polygons and this was all fields. Join me on an introspective journey through Atari’s last fumble at gaining a toehold as a console manufacturer and my hot, sweaty summer of Jaguar. Did I mention “sweaty” just to make this sound foxy and more interesting? Yes.
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Pinball Fantasies – Atari Jaguar
Pinball?? On the Atari Jaguar?? You’ll have to read it to believe it!
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Donkey Kong – Atari 2600
The first Mario game I ever owned. While all my friends were having a blast with Super Mario Bros. 3, I was knew the real party was here on the Atari 2600, the duct-taped console I had received. I cried myself to sleep most nights — totally unrelated. Anyway, this version of Donkey Kong, surprisingly, rocks.
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Ghost Manor – Atari 2600
It’s almost Halloween, and you want to play your Atari. But alas, you don’t know of any games themed appropriately for the impending holiday. Luckily for you, I do. Ghost Manor might not be the best shocks the Atari 2600 has to offer … or it may … In all the confusion, I sort of lost track myself. Better read this story so you know.
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Robot Tank – Atari 2600
There isn’t much you could call a first-person shooter on the Atari 2600, but with “Robot Tank,” Activision just manages to fill the criteria, with a game that stands up today better than most Atari fare.
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Club Drive – Atari Jaguar
Wrapping up Aprils’s Foolish games, may I present perhaps the most foolish game of all, Atari’s “Club Drive,” for the Jaguar. Oh, sure, it features ugly boxes for graphics, and it’s hard to control, but on the other hand … well …
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International Sensible Soccer – Atari Jaguar
It’s Nerd Bacon. It’s ZB. It’s International Sensible Soccer for Atari Jaguar. April’s Foolish Games isn’t over until I say it’s over.
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White Men Can’t Jump – Atari Jaguar
So, you now own an Atari Jaguar, huh? Hopefully you didn’t spend too much money on it. Now that you’re stuck with this dental equipment- I mean console, you’re hoping to get some recommendations for solid titles. Well, my friends, you’re not in luck. It’s April’s Foolish Games month. Don’t expect any game recommendations right now – however, perhaps you’ll gain something from ZB’s throw down on White Men Can’t Jump for the Atari Jaguar.
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E.T. The Extra Terrestrial – Atari 2600
Nerd Bacon’s Variand bites the bullet and reviews the WORST GAME EVER, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Did Atari Just Phone it in or was it something to phone home about?
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Pac-Man – Atari 2600
If we ever needed a lesson on how not to port an arcade game, Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 is that. This isn’t a retro-version of Pac-Man, this is crap.
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Breakout 2000 – Atari Jaguar
In this crazy world, it is even possible to get nostalgic about nostalgia. But is looking back on a 1996 relic which itself looks back upon a 1976 relic really going to cut your bacon? It depends on what kind of gamer you are.
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Zool 2 – Atari Jaguar
This is one of the best 2-D ninja goose-and-lamp murdering platformers I’ve ever encountered. But back in 1994, “64-bits” were supposed to look like a bunch of yucky polygons. A safe distance from the ’90s, does ‘Zool 2’ hold up? This reviewer thinks it’s a damn fine pepperoni pizza.
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Dragonfire – Atari 2600
Dragonfire has more fire jumping, dragon evasion, and treasure collecting than ten normal games put together. If long, complex games that want to displace your real life have you ready to hang up your gamepad forever, you might give Dragonfire a try — it might just pull you back in again.
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Dolphin – Atari 2600
If you think Ecco was the first video game dolphin, you haven’t been to 1983. Activision’s Matt Hubbard loved dolphins so that he coded a game intended to inspire interest in marine life. Did it work? Did it? I mean, did it?
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