2019 Holiday Gift Guide: Top 5 Gaming Gear

Jason D'Aprile
Astro C40 TR ($179.99) https://www.astrogaming.com/en-us/products/controllers/c40-tr-gen-1.html Xbox enthusiasts now have two generations of the superb Elite Wireless Controller, but Sony has yet to make ...
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Retro: Force 21 review

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This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999. Force 21 is far from your normal real-time gtrategy game. You don't have a base where you begin -- mining resources, building buildings, which in...
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The PlayStation 2 launch titles

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December 2008. Sony PlayStation 2 has been a viable product for eight years, selling about 140 million units wordwide, more than any other video game console in history. The fact that we're still talking abo...
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Mega Man 9 shines with nostalgia, charm

Joe Sinicki
It would have been easy for Capcom to release yet another reboot of the Mega Man series. Instead, Mega Man 9 is a frustrating, pixelated adventure that looks like it’s been sitting in out game collection for the past 15 years. [...]
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The Old Shoebox: Cylindrix

John M. Guilfoil
Cylindrix was coded to run in Dos DJGPP Protected Mode so that it could address more than 640 KB of memory, something that the Dos programmers felt was impossible at one point in history.
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The Old Shoebox: Download Overkill

John M. Guilfoil
In 1992, Epic MegaGames released this almost forgettable little EGA game called Overkill. You, the pilot, are tasked with destroying all the evil alien forces that captured six otherwise peaceful planets, enslaving the populations along the way. Destroy them.
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Retro: An ode to Super Mario World

Derrick Kasianowicz
A couple of days ago, I found myself in an interesting situation. I found, that I had no desire to play my next-gen games. Hell, I didn't even want to play my PS2. No, I wanted to play something 2D, and not the...
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Intellivision Lives! review

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This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999. The Intellivision collection was relaunched on the last generation of consoles -- Xbox, PS2, GC -- in 2004 to mixed reviews. You have to give Ke...