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Atthe big VGJunk site today: a Capcom racing game with an unusual history, familar music, grasping robots and a talking car - it’s LED Storm: Rally 2011, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: The Amiga version of Mickey’s Jigsaw Puzzles, where the world-famous mouse provides some gentle puzzle experiences, constantly reminds us that he is the greatest and pulls an all-time world-class facial expression. Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: (mostly) one-on-one fighting action in the no-it’s-not-Power-Rangers Genesis / Megadrive fighter VR Troopers! It’s got turtlenecks, useless guns and pizza-loving dogs, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: it’s World Cup season, so I thought I’d take a look at World Cup Striker for the SNES! Featuring crying clowns, unlikely goalscorers and the comparison between Diego Costa and Pyramid Head, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: it’s not quite Mario and it’s barely even a Master System game - it’s Super Bioman 1, a bootleg adventure through a Mushroom Kingdom of eternal night where the turtles are weird and the dead strike back. Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: a look at some cover art from the vast array of Donkey Kongrip-offs of the 1980s! It’s got big apes, sad apes, battleaxes, beavers, Victorian sunbathers and nightmares, and you can read all about them here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: more educational software for the BBC Micro with Facemaker, although I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be educating about. Certainly not human faces, but join me anyway for the recreation of Steven Seagal and a celebrity face-quiz. Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: multi-event games action with some lesser-known sport in the NES version of World Games! It’s got neck-breaking jump, arse-brusing leaps and the horrible VITA MAN, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: some classic eighties critters (but not, y’know, Critters) get the Commodore 64 graphic adventure treatment with Gremlins: The Adventure! It’s got uncouth gremlins, killer snowploughs and rather more metalworking than I expected, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: purveyors of unlicensed NES tat Color Dreams cast ther baleful gaze over the Gulf War and give us Operation Secret Storm, a game about fighting devils and kicking helicopters that still manages to be dull, dull, dull. Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: a classic piece of British computer game history with Granny’s Garden on the BBC Micro - an educational tale about witches, eating door keys and bizarre dragons that don’t like chips. Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: it’s VGJunk’s 8th anniversary, so to celebrate I made a short, spooky visual novel. Check it out here!
(edit: fixed a couple of issues.)
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: who ya gonna call? An Italian with a small van! Well, you will if you’re playing ZX Spectrum mini-game Ghost & Booster,which you can read all about here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: an unreleased NES game starring a superhero who definitely isn’t Superman, no sir (spoilers: he is Superman) in Sunsoft’s Sunman!Read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: an unreleased arcade game? About ninjas? And with gelatinous cubes and a Final Fantasy V boss’ less successful cousin? Sure, why not - it’s Hangzo, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: I take a look at a whole bunch of Mortal Kombat magazine covers! There’s much more Kano that you might expect, digressions about Hellraiser and memories of the videogame rivalries of yesteryear, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: it’s another princess rescue mission, folks, but this one’s got evil dressing gowns, hidden cauldrons and key cutting: it’s Heartbroken on the ZX Spectrum, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: mechanical rabbits flaunch into battle against robotic bulls, wonderful ghosts and, erm, ocatagons - it’s the arcade shoot-em-up Rabio Lepus, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: more spooky hidden object fun with the PC click-em-up Sinister City! It’s a tale of children’s TV superstars, frustrated actors and helmets full of soup, and you can read all about it here!
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Atthe big VGJunk site today: the traditional seaside puppet show gets a Commodore 64 makeover in Punch and Judy, a game all about avoiding the police, hitting people with sticks and crocodiles. Read all about it here!
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