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Billy
Posted on 28 September, 2026 at 5:38PM
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So, I'm one of the six people that had a Wii U when it was relevant. I actually knew that it wasn't just a tablet add-on to the Wii! Nintendo had a lot of interesting ideas going on with the Wii U, including things like asymmetric multiplayer, using the tablet as a second gameplay screen (for things like a map). But the tablet also allowed for gyro controls. First and third person shooters on consoles have always had this issue where the precision just always wasn't there compared to on PC, where you are using a mouse. They probably weren't the first, but Nintendo realized they could bridge the gap at least a little using those gyro controls. They also Nintendo'd it up and made the goal less about killing people and more about territory control.
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Lazlo Falconi
Posted on 19 March, 2014 at 8:08PM
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The year is 1993. We've seen 3D on TV and in the arcade. But at home? Only that one kid with the rich parents had a computer that could play 3D games, and the rest of us just had the same 2D sprites that had been kicking around since the NES days. Then here comes Nintendo, ready to once again blow you away.
Star Fox is a game about flying space triangles and exploding ground squares, or something. Maybe there's a monkey in there? The green circle at the end of the map, named Venom and piloted by the vicious Admiral Andross is turning itself into a technological powerhouse, and terraforming planets to suit his army of mechano-men, when General Pepper of the Cornerian Mothers Against Change launched a full-scale war.
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Davrinsky sky
Posted on 5 January, 2014 at 3:42PM
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One of the rarities of my father's imported video games for his store was Head Extreme Destruction Zone. After taking this game off the shelf and popping it into the computer in the back room, that was the only place in the store I would be found. The Story of this game is very vague. The first thing you see is a video of random humans around the world being abducted by aliens. The humans would then have their heads pulled off and used by the aliens as masks a
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Lazlo Falconi
Posted on 11 October, 2013 at 9:59PM
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It's no secret that we here at Retro of the Week love our Dreamcast games. Either in their natural habitat or ported to other, more successful consoles, the Dreamcast had a huge library of great games. One of those beloved titles is Ikaruga, an extremely fast vertical arcade shooter with a rather interesting play concept. Instead of just shooting at everything you see, and avoiding obstacles, you have to switch the polarity of your ship to either destroy opposite colored enemies, or absorb si
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Davrinsky sky
Posted on 11 July, 2013 at 11:52AM
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I traded a CD with some kid neighbor for 2 "shoot em up" CDs.. full of multiple demos of games.. some examples include: Star Fighter 3000, Quake, Doom, Hexin, Space Girl, Raptor, Take no Prisoner, Worms 2... the list goes on. one of these discs had the Outwars demo on it, and that game was all I played for a good while. The single player demo only consisted of 2 missions. It also lets you play with another demo player on a local network via IP address. this was the only way i was able to play
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Swifto
Posted on 13 January, 2013 at 2:59PM
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Axelay is a perfect game.
Now now, put down dem pitchforks. I could never say that a game is TRULY perfect. There's always a flaw and there's always improvements to be made. Nothing in life has ever been or ever will be perfect. But to use a loose definition of the word, and to keep in mind the time it was made, Axelay is indeed perfect.
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