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Tass Times in Tonetown Apple IIGS Review: Stay Tass, Traveller
Interplay’s new-wave adventure in its definitive edition: rescue Gramps, mind your outfit, and let the Ensoniq soundtrack announce a new kind of Apple.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Thexder Apple IIGS Review: The Robot That Launched a Machine
Game Arts’ transforming-robot shooter in Sierra’s landmark conversion: the first game that proved the IIGS’s colour, speed and sound, laser betrayals and all.
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Best Sega 32X Games: The Essential Top 10, Ranked
From Chaotix’s rubber band to AM2’s racers and the port that sold the system: the ten 32X games every collection needs, ranked and argued.
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Sega 32X Hidden Gems: 10 Deep Cuts From the Mushroom’s Second Shelf
Beyond Doom and Chaotix: a Spider-Man swansong, Blizzard’s darkest platformer, two baseball games, a kart racer and five more — the 32X’s second shelf, celebrated.
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The Library That Wasn’t: The Cancelled 32X Games
X-Men with a fatal bug, a hamster that raced polygons, an Alien trilogy and a golf cart from beyond: the 32X’s cancelled library, game by game.
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32X CD: The Add-On for the Add-On
It took a Genesis, a Sega CD and a 32X stacked together to play them: Fahrenheit, Night Trap and Corpse Killer — the tiny, notorious library of the Tower of Power.
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Toughman Contest 32X Review: Butterbean, Big Sprites and the People’s Boxing Game
EA’s first-person slugfest with Eric ‘Butterbean’ Esch on the cover: huge fighters, signature moves, and the most approachable boxing on the system.
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Brutal: Above the Claw 32X Review: Kung Fu Animals, Tournament Rules
The 32X-only upgrade of the animal fighting game: more fighters, more speed, a belt system that makes you earn your moves — charm and claws in equal measure.
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Darxide 32X Review: Frontier’s Last Stand for the Mushroom
David Braben’s studio defends a mining colony in textured polygons: Europe’s 32X swansong and now one of the rarest cartridges on the system.
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Zaxxon’s Motherbase 2000 32X Review: Polygons Over an Isometric Ghost
Sega’s isometric heir rebuilt with polygon ships you can hijack mid-flight: a clever idea in search of the frame rate to carry it.