Game Reviews8.1/10
Arcade basketball’s loudest dunkfest returns with its two-on-two chaos intact
NBA Jam's 2010 revival brought back the fire, the dunks, and Tim Kitzrow. EA Canada kept the arcade chaos intact and added new modes.
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Game Reviews8.3/10
Zombies Ate My Neighbors wastes no time explaining itself
Zombies Ate My Neighbors review: LucasArts' 1993 horror-comedy shooter still earns its 8.3, thanks to a brutal rescue rule and co-op chaos.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together — The 1995 Strategy Classic That Still Demands Everything
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together review — the 1995 Super Famicom strategy RPG with eight endings, hard moral choices, and a 2010 remake that softened them.
Game Reviews7.8/10
SimCity on the SNES: Will Wright’s City Builder, With Nintendo Holding the Blueprints
SimCity on the Super NES brought Will Wright's city builder to consoles in the early 1990s, with Nintendo advisors, disasters and a gamepad. Score: 7.8/10.
Game Reviews8.2/10
SimCity 2000’s console port asks more of players than the PC original did
SimCity 2000 on SNES reviewed: nine power plants, underground pipes, brutal budgets, and the query tool that made Maxis' city-builder a lasting template.
Game Reviews8/10
Rock n’ Roll Racing: Aggression Is the Fastest Route Up the Field
Rock n' Roll Racing hit the SNES in 1993 with four cars, four laps, licensed metal, and combat-first racing where attacking beats a clean line.
Game Reviews8.5/10
The Amstrad CPC port of Prince of Persia keeps the animation but cuts the palace down to size
The Amstrad CPC port of Prince of Persia delivers Brøderbund's acrobatic side-view adventure cleanly, scoring 8.5/10 for a faithful conversion.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Civilization: The 1991 Game That Invented a Genre and Still Explains It Best
A review of Sid Meier's Civilization (1991), the MS-DOS game that defined the 4X genre and still plays better than most of its descendants. Score: 8.5/10.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Breath of Fire II arrived in 1994 as the second entry in Capcom’s role-playing series, a direct sequel set 500 years after the first game.
Breath of Fire II review: Capcom's 1994 Super Nintendo follow-up with nine playable characters, town building, and dragon powers. Ambitious but uneven. 6.5/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Breath of Fire Review: Capcom’s First RPG Still Earns Its Place
A retro review of Breath of Fire, Capcom's first RPG, on Super Nintendo: Ryu, the Light Dragon Clan, six keys, eight party members, and a 7.9 score.
Game Reviews8.4/10
SNES god game Actraiser mixes city-building with swordplay, and nothing since has copied the trick
ActRaiser on the SNES fused side-scrolling action with city-building simulation. A retrospective on Quintet's 1990 cult classic, its ending, and its legacy.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Super Street Fighter II Sticks the Landing on 16-Bit Hardware
Super Street Fighter II hit the SNES in 1994 as the most complete home version of Capcom's fighter, adding Cammy, Fei Long, T. Hawk and Dee Jay.