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Continuing my dust-covered crusade against modern unboxings, here's another vintage unboxing, in which an Atari…
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Mommy, where do video games come from? They come from factories, dear, factories like these, from the 1980s.
It's perhaps not as famous as other hatchet jobs on the English language perpetrated by Japanese developers in the…
From Suikoden II. Which I don't think I've ever actually played. Maybe I should, because this looks great.
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As awful as this is, I can't stop watching.
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This is Game Over, a title for the Spectrum, first released in 1987. A game released amidst controversy. See, while…
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