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The Christmas Gaming Gift Guide 2008 Part 1: Must Have titles

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2008-11-10 13:53:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...gamer in your family. This first section covers 10 games that I consider "must haves" - some are new releases, some are coming out soon others came out earlier in the year. Part 2 will feature 10 games that I have my doubts about but are nevertheless worth keeping an eye on and perhaps picking up in the sales, then part 3 will cover gaming on...
 
Tags: time, main time, real time action, friends, friends game, action, game, classic snes game, snes
 
 
 
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 9: Crazy Taxi

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2008-10-09 08:38:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game of this Sega classic, which was expertly ported over to the Dreamcast completely intact by Hitmaker . In it, you take control of the titular Crazy Taxi and head out into the fictionalised version of San Francisco to earn fares by taking people where they want to go within an increasingly tight time limit. Only, this is Sega's version of...
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 8: Quantum Redshift

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2008-10-08 08:33:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game like this, the speed is most definitely present and correct once you get past the lowest difficulty setting Quantum Redshift does things a little differently from most other racing games in that the main tournament mode isn't the same fixed journey through all the tracks every time. In fact it is dictated by your choice of character and...
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 7: R-Type Final

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2008-10-07 08:35:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...games that can be picked up and put down quickly and easily, and we've started to see shoot 'em ups come back into fashion. Admittedly most of them have been vertical shooters so far, but Konami is working on a new downloadable Gradius game, and there's also a brand new R-Type on the way Which is funny, considering that this was supposed to...
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 6: Chibi Robo

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2008-10-06 08:35:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...Gamecube Genre: Action/Adventure Expect to pay: 15 - 40 As fantastic as I most definitely think Nintendo is, they do tend to wheel out the same old mascots over and over again. How many games have you seen Mario in lately, and Link is almost as bad. For that reason it's great to see them developing a new IP every once and a while. On the...
 
Tags: chibi, chibi house, chibi robo, chibi walks, chibi -copter, house, game, adventure game, time
 
 
 
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 5: Wacky Races

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2008-10-03 08:32:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game on most of them (PS1, GBA ) and should be avoided. The Dreamcast version (and its PS2 port) is the one worth looking at Borrowing quite heavily from the structure of both the aforementioned racers, Wacky Races puts you in a open world environment with various sub levels that you can drive up to and enter various challenges, which are...
 
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Steambot Chronicles is awesome!

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2008-09-22 12:28:35 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game once I'm done with it, but I just had to say that I'm now about 15 hours into the game and loving it. The handling of the trotmobiles can take some getting used to and there's some pretty tough battles from time to time but for the most part it's a very relaxing sandbox adventure with lots of things to do and see. Imagine GTA with all...
 
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100 games of the last generation still worth playing today - Volume 4: Fable

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2008-09-12 13:11:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game industry. He is extremely passionate and enthusiastic about the games that he makes and sometimes in press interviews that enthusiasm can cause him to get a bit carried away and promise things that eventually turn out to be just too ambitious. He is on record saying that Fable would be "the greatest RPG ever made" way back when it was...
 
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The UK Pinball Show 2008

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2008-09-05 13:01:00 by Wibblefish in The RetroModern Gaming blog V2.0
...game of on the Dark Knight it wasn't unheard of to have to queue for half an hour or more. The Indiana Jones table didn't really impress me much - sure it looked nice and the speech samples were brilliantly clear, but the game seemed very shallow and consisted mainly of four modes (on for each of the films) and a few sets of drop targets. The...
 
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