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Review: Crush the Castle for the iPhone Is a Smashing Good Time
The beauty of many, if not most, video games lies in their ability to distance players from the real world by taking them into a fantastical alternative reality. So imagine, if you will, that you live in a world covered with elaborate castles made from wood, iron, and stone, but that are held together without […] Continue reading
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Review: Voltron iPhone App — Megathrusters GO!
Here’s a quick test to see if you’d enjoy the Voltron iPhone game: Do the phrases “Activate interlock!” and “Form feet and legs!” invoke feelings of nostalgia, and can you recite the next lines? If so, I can virtually guarantee this game is for you; if not, you’ll probably still enjoy it.
I loved the Voltron […] Continue reading
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Care for Your Own Virtual Toddler with My Baby: First Steps
When I first received this unsolicited but free review copy of My Baby: First Steps, I thought, oh great, it’s going to be another cutesy game that even the kids wouldn’t like. I was wrong, for a variety of reasons. This game is pretty authentic. Right down to the dirty diapers, bath time, monotonous feeding […] Continue reading
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Tagged children, Electronic Geek, Nintendo DS, Toys and Technology, Video game, wii, Wii Remote
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Atari’s Site Refresh Features Playable Classic Arcade Games
One of my fondest childhood memories is of dropping a token in the Battlezone machine in the side room of the pizza restaurant near our house, stepping up to the simulated periscope, grasping the joysticks and moving my green wireframe tank across the moonscape in search of other tanks, the random cubes they hid behind […] Continue reading
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Tagged Arcade game, Armchair Geek, Atari, Battlezone, Coin-Op, Crystal Castles, Games, Lunar Lander, Video game
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