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Berzerk Vectrex Review: Chicken, Fight Like a Robot — in Silence
Stern’s maze shooter without its famous voice but with everything else: robot crossfire, electrified walls and Evil Otto, drawn in perfect vector light.
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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Armor Attack Vectrex Review: One Shell, One City, Two Jeeps
Cinematronics’ tank duel in a wireframe city: one shell at a time, a helicopter that ignores walls, and a two-player mode that turns a good port into a great one.
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Mine Storm Vectrex Review: The Built-In Classic That Came Free With the Machine
The game inside every Vectrex: an escalating Asteroids evolution with magnetic mines, fireballs and a minelayer, judged as the finest built-in game of its era.
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Atari ST Hidden Gems: 10 Games the Amiga Crowd Missed
Thalion shooters, French adventures, a sandbox pioneer and a dwarf in a haunted castle: ten superb ST games that grew in the famous titles’ shadow.
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The Serious ST: Desktop Publishing, Word Processing and the Machine at Work
Calamus on the desk and an SM124 on the invoice: the ST’s professional life in DTP, word processing and small-business computing.
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The Demoscene on ST: Squeezing Miracles From a 68000
Open borders, sync scrolling and chip tunes that should not exist: how scene coders spent a decade finding the extra machine hidden in the ST.
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ST vs Amiga: The Rivalry That Split a Generation
Two 68000 machines, one playground divided: what each genuinely did better, and why the argument made both of them great.
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International Karate + Atari ST Review: Three Fighters, One Sunset, Infinite Grudges
Archer Maclean’s three-way karate tournament: sixteen moves, a points paddle and the purest competitive design on the machine.
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Turrican II Atari ST Review: The Conversion That Argued Back
Factor 5’s vast run-and-gun in full on the ST: huge levels, a hundred secrets and Huelsbeck driving the YM chip.
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Sundog: Frozen Legacy Atari ST Review: The 1985 Trading Epic With a Mouse
The newborn ST’s windowed space-trading adventure: haul cargo, walk planetside and pay off the uncle’s debt.