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Like the velociraptors it saw being brought back to life, there’s no doubt that the 2015 film Jurassic World did exactly the same thing for the big lizard franchise which had lain dormant since 2001 when the third film in the series had been released. And what an awakening it was. Almost immediately, it started […]
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Jurassic World: Operation Genesis – Dinosaur or Still Worth Playing?
January 25th, 2018 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, Console, News, Playstation 2, Sony 
Tags: jurassic park, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Them Park World 
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A Retro Gamer’s 12 Days Of Christmas: The Seventh Day, The Warriors
December 18th, 2017 Brandon Weicks On the Seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me, seven swans a-swimming It’s hard to believe some of the ideas that get greenlighted when it comes to adapting movies or TV shows to video games and vice versa. Some go well, like M.A.S.H for the Atari 2600 or the original The Italian […]
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Crystal Dyanamics Turns 25 Years Old, Buckle Up for Ride Down Memory Lane
December 13th, 2017 Carl Williams Raise your hand if you remember the early days of Crystal Dynamics. The days of Off-World Interceptor and Total Eclipse on 3DO, Solar Eclipse on Sega Saturn. Who can forget Gex, Legacy of Kain, and Tomb Raider more recently? Yep, the company behind those games is turning 25 years old. I remember the days when […]
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The Top Retro Games that Bring People Together
December 13th, 2017 Carl Williams Video games are a social experience. Either through playing with people or chatting to them about games, it’s a widespread hobby with thousands of different niches and nuances, including retro gaming! But some games still reign higher than others: a great example would be comparing Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, which has brought millions of players […]
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Lara Croft: New Sales Details Reveal Retro Gaming Icon is in Rude Health
November 30th, 2017 Carl Williams It says a lot about how quickly technology and the gaming world have evolved that a character which first hit our screens just over 20 years ago can be placed in the pantheon of much-loved retro gaming icons. However, the adventures of everyone’s favorite Tomb Raider Lara Croft have been such an important part of […]
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My Favorite Gaming Hidden Gems, Part Two: Dark Summit (2001, PlayStation 2)
November 15th, 2017 Michael Crisman I’ve been playing and collecting video games since the early 1980’s, and while there’s something to be said for enjoying the greats of the gaming world, there’s no better feeling for me than picking out something I’d never heard of, throwing it into my system, and being unable to tear myself away from it because […]
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Shadow of the Colossus PlayStation 2, 3, 4 Comparison
September 23rd, 2017 Carl Williams Any chance I can get to write about Shadow of the Colossus or Robowarrior is going to result in my writing another 300+ words on them. Just the way things are. Since there is no HD Robowarrior Remake I am aware of, it is time to focus on Shadow of the Colossus on the PlayStation […]
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PS2 Collecting – Thirteen Must-Have Titles For Any New Collector on a Budget
September 20th, 2017 Michael Crisman PS2 collecting, especially if you’re just getting started and didn’t grow up with the system, can be overwhelming: the system’s complete game library clocks in at over eighteen hundred titles, and that’s not counting cross-regional variants where the same game was released in multiple territories. The good news is, not only is the PS2 hardware […]
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Kingdom Hearts Combines Disney Square Enix on PlayStation 2 – September 16th, 2002 – Today in Video Game History
September 15th, 2016 Carl Williams When I first heard about Kingdom Hearts I was a little dismayed. I was, still am, a big Disney fan. The problem is, I was coming out of the whole “Square rocks” phase of my gaming life. It was intriguing to see what Square Enix did with a blanket Disney license. Something I am sure […]
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 Flawlessly Ends Trilogy of Arcade Games – June 29th, 1998 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 Carl Williams Street Fighter Alpha 3 was the final entry in an interesting trilogy. It is not like Capcom to simply release a fighting game and not milk it somehow. We saw this with Street Fighter II which has many updates. Each update was an additional full purchase, on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. Maybe they realized […]
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