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Midwinter Atari ST Review: The Island War You Recruit One Ski at a Time
Mike Singleton’s snowbound strategy epic: 32 people, one island, and a resistance you assemble person by person.
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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Captain Blood Atari ST Review: First Contact, One Icon at a Time
ERE’s beautiful, baffling space adventure where the gameplay is learning to talk to aliens — Jarre on the soundtrack, Rho on the art.
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Starglider 2 Atari ST Review: A Whole Solar System, No Loading Screens
Argonaut’s seamless space epic on the ST: five planets, one unbroken flight, and 3D fast enough to embarrass the future.
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Dungeon Master Atari ST Review: The Dungeon That Changed RPGs Forever
FTL’s real-time masterpiece judged on the machine it was born on: mouse in hand, torch burning down, fourteen floors of invention.
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The Translation Scene: How Fans Finished the Saturn’s Library
Policenauts, Dragon Force II, the whole Shining Force III trilogy: how fan translators spent three decades completing the Saturn’s English library.
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Saturnday: The Surprise Launch That Sank Sega’s American Saturn
11 May 1995: Sega ambushed its own launch — retailers, developers and customers alike — and spent four months of head start apologising. The full story.
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Dragon Force Saturn Review: Two Hundred Soldiers, One Screen
Eight monarchs, a continent of sieges and two hundred troops in real time: Sega’s strategy spectacle in Working Designs’ English edition.
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Die Hard Arcade Saturn Review: Yippee-Ki-Yay, Beat ‘Em Up
The 3D brawler’s founding document: a forty-minute tower of weapon-strewn two-player chaos, converted from the Saturn’s own arcade twin.
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Fighters Megamix Saturn Review: The Crossover Brawl Before Crossovers
Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers in one ring, thirty-two fighters deep, plus a fighting car and a palm tree: AM2’s superb engine at a carnival.
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Shining Force III Saturn Review: One Third of a Masterpiece
Camelot’s three-army tactical epic: friendship as a mechanic, twelve-strong battles, and the trilogy fans finally completed in English.