Category: 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die
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Blade Runner (1982) was a cult classic with Harrison Ford about hunting androids passing themselves off as humans. It was based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a 1968 Nebula award nominee. Many years later there was a sequel movie called Blade Runner 2049 Westwood Studios made Blade Runner, the video game It’s amazing…
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Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, and Quadrilateral Cowboy are amazing games in that they tell stories with low-polygon 3d models, giving it a wonderful, whimsical appearance. Thirty Flights of Loving is in the book and list 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, and it includes Gravity Bone in the copy I…
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First things first, the line drawing star ship game started with X. It’s pretty good for the old time hardware on Game Boy. Then comes Star Fox on SNES using an FX chip in the cartridge. Star Fox 2 was finally released on SNES mini, but Star Fox 64 is the only one on the…
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This arcade game was a very successful pioneer, melding extremely well-done animation with new LaserDisc technology and funneled that into the emerging technology of arcade games. There’s something about those times when you would go to Chuck E. Cheese and play Dragon’s Lair or see the game somewhere. The whole point of arcade games like…
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Portal, along with Half-Life, is one of the unique video games Valve made. The puzzle mechanics are quite good, but what brings it over the top is the science fiction background and quirky humor the AI robot GLaDOS. While considered a short game, it and its sequel are listed on the 1001 Video Games You…
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Photo By https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/arts/akira-toriyama-dead.html, Fair use, Link This manga creator is responsible for the most famous and beloved video games and comics of all time. He created the ultrafamous Dragon Ball series, and the character designs for Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon and the Dragon Quest series. Dragon Ball is on the 1001 Comics You Must Read…
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William Gibson was one of the first cyberpunk authors, and showed that there was demand for this thing called cyberpunk. After him there could be a market for Shadowrun and Cyberpunk tabletop RPG games, as well as their video games. Neuromancer is somehow both on the list of 1001 Books You Must Read and 1001…
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Missile Command is among the first arcade games to really take off and one of the first Atari 2600 games that created a compelling reason to buy that system, which I mean having an arcade game playable in your own home. The Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 version are listed in book The 100 Greatest…
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An extremely well-done fantasy RPG game made by BioWare, the makers of the famous Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. This game is on the 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die list. It’s also the first game in the series, and you might want to play it before Inquisition, the 3rd…
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The original arcade game was put out in 1990, and was a surprise success for the struggling company that made it. Its character created a series of games, even when the original company was no longer making them. It’s a vertical shooter, which was popular at the time, but it does it particularly well. It…
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