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Plants vs Zombies is, at its heart, a tower defense game. This was a genre that was extraordinarily popular for a period on mobile devices. Most entries in this genre share common traits. They are single screen affairs. You are limited in where you can place defenses. The enemy comes in waves and must be […]
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Plants vs Zombies Makes Landing on Android – December 14th, 2011 – Today in Video Game History
December 13th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Android, News, Portables 
Tags: 2011, december, December 14, December 14 2011, December 2011, plants vs zombies, popcap, tower defense, zombies 
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WonderSwan Color Makes Debut in Japan – December 9th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
December 8th, 2020 Carl Williams The WonderSwan Color is one of many portables that we never got in North America. This is actually the second iteration of the WonderSwan, a portable originally released in March 1999. As the name would suggest, Bandai added color to this version, similar to Nintendo’s release of the Game Boy Color in 1998. Sadly, there […]
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Castlevania The Adventure Marks Game Boy Debut for Franchise – December 6th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 5th, 2020 Carl Williams Castlevania The Adventure for the Nintendo Game Boy marks the first time the franchise went portable. Konami was all in with Nintendo at this time and the Game Boy had just launched. Bringing Castlevania to those new gamers was an easy choice to make. Thus, we got our first taste of the whip cracking franchise […]
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Posted in Game Boy, News, Nintendo, Portables Tags: 1989, 2d, action, adventure, castlevania, Castlevania The Adventure, december, December 1989, December 6th, December 6th 1989, dracula, konami, side scrolling No Comments »
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Was Almost a Nintendo 64 Launch Title – December 3rd, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
December 3rd, 2020 Carl Williams Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was one of the first third party games to launch for the Nintendo 64. LucasArts postponed the release to give the developers a bit more time to clean things up. That does not happen all that often. Anyhow, not being able to use the main characters from the movies […]
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Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Adds Four Swords for Game Boy Advance Port – December 2nd, 2002 – Today in Video Game History
December 2nd, 2020 Carl Williams Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past and Four Swords was the Super Nintendo classic ported to the Game Boy Advance (GBA). For the most part, the original game was not changed, just minor fixes and updates. The real draw with this release was the Four Swords add-on. Unfortunately, this meant having at least […]
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Atari Karts on Atari Jaguar Turns 20 – Today in History – December 22nd, 1995
December 21st, 2015 Carl Williams Atari was hurting for new, original, titles for their Jaguar console when it launched. With a name like Atari, you kind of have to do something original and interesting. Sadly, the best they did was more of the same, although Tempest 2000 was pretty cool (it wasn’t an exclusive though). We never got updates to […]
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Commander Keen Proves Computers Can Game – December 14th, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 14th, 2015 Carl Williams What do you do when you have spent a lot of money and time creating a pretty damn good rendition of Super Mario Bros 3 but for PC? First, you shop it out to Nintendo and when they say no, you take your superior engine and rework the graphics and levels to make something new […]
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Polaris SnoCross Shreds Onto the Nintendo 64: Today in History- December 27th, 2000
December 27th, 2014 Carl Williams Before Vicarious Visions were working their magic for Sega and the whole 2k sports line on the Sega Dreamcast system, they were creating games like Polaris SnoCross for companies like Vatical Entertainment for the Nintendo 64. While not a graphically impressive game, it does show off Vicarious Visions capabilities with early 3D (which they tweaked […]
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Viewtiful Joe 2 Snubs Xbox and Lands on Sony Hardware – December 8th, 2004 – Today in Video Game History
December 8th, 2013 Carl Williams Back in the day, Microsoft had it kind of tough getting original titles on their Xbox system. Some companies showed support while hold certain games back for whatever reason. Viewtiful Joe 2 is one of those titles that snubbed the console from Seattle. Previously released on the Nintendo Gamecube, Viewtiful Joe 2 made his debut […]
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