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Xevious Review: The Scrolling Shooter Grows Up at Home
Two buttons, two wars: Namco’s layered scrolling shooter with its bomb sight, hidden citadels and screen-filling mothership, whole on the 7800.
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Pole Position II Review: Four Tracks, One Pack-In Pedigree
The 7800’s pack-in racer: four circuits — Test, Fuji, Suzuka, Seaside — honest qualifying and genuine speed, judged forty years on.
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Ms. Pac-Man Review: The Maze Queen’s Best Early Port
GCC invented her, built the console she runs on, and ported her perfectly: four mazes, bouncing fruit and the intermissions, all present and correct.
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Joust Review: Flap, Bounce, Bragging Rights
Williams’ one-button aerial duel, complete with the full rider ladder, the pterodactyl and both two-player modes. The definitive home Joust of its era.
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Galaga Review: The Shooter That Finally Came Home Right
The finest home Galaga of the 8-bit years: the captured-fighter bargain, the challenge stages and the full formation, at full speed, on GCC’s hardware.
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Dig Dug Review: Pump, Pop, Repeat — Perfected
Namco’s tunnelling classic in its finest classic-era home form: rich strata, honest enemy behaviour, and the pump-versus-rock dilemma intact.
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Centipede Review: The Garden War, Arcade-True at Last
The arcade garden faithfully replanted — plus a simultaneous two-player mode no other classic-era Centipede offered. GCC’s launch port, reviewed.
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Ballblazer Review: Lucasfilm’s Future Sport Still Flies
Lucasfilm’s first-person future sport on the 7800, with a POKEY chip in the cartridge supplying the finest soundtrack on the system. Our review of a top-five 7800 game.
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Asteroids Review: The Vector Classic, Rebuilt in Raster Colour
GCC’s 1984 rebuild of the arcade classic gives the 7800 solid coloured rocks, a simultaneous two-player mode and the definitive home Asteroids of its era.
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