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Sega Saturn Hidden Gems: 12 Games the West Mostly Missed
The Sega Saturn is the great what-if of the 32-bit era. In Japan it was a success — Sega’s best-selling home console…
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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Best Genesis Shmups: 12 Shooters That Made the Blast Processor Sing
Sega’s marketing department invented “Blast Processing” as a slogan, but the Genesis shmup library is the closest thing to proof it ever…
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Best N64 RPGs: The Definitive Ranking of a Famously Thin Library
Let us get the joke out of the way first, because every N64 RPG list has to: yes, there are only about…
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The Best TurboGrafx-CD Games: 12 Discs That Proved CD-ROM Was the Future
Everyone remembers the Sega CD as the add-on that dragged gaming onto compact disc, but Sega was late to its own revolution.…
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The Best Neo Geo Games: 15 Essentials From the Rolls-Royce of Consoles
Every console generation has a machine most of us only ever saw behind glass, and for the 16-bit era that machine was…
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The Best Sega Saturn Games: 15 Essentials That Deserved a Bigger Audience
The Sega Saturn lost the war in America and Europe, and I have made my peace with that. The surprise launch, the…
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The Best Genesis RPGs: 12 Games That Proved Sega Could Do Epic
Ask most people to picture a Genesis in 1992 and they will picture speed. Sonic looping the loop, a Madden cartridge still…
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EarthBound (SNES)
SNES · RPG · REPLAY REVIEW Developer: Ape Inc. / HAL Laboratory · Publisher: Nintendo · Released: June 5, 1995 (NA) ·…
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The 15 Best Atari Jaguar Games: The Definitive List
Let’s start with the honesty, because the Atari Jaguar demands it. This is not a long list drawn from a deep well.…
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TurboGrafx-16 Hidden Gems: 15 Games You Missed (and Shouldn’t Have)
The TurboGrafx-16 lost the console war in North America, and it didn’t lose close. In Japan, the same machine — the PC…