Marble Madness
Mark Cerny designed the isometric race Marble Madness for Atari Games, a trackball cabinet that rolls one marble down ramps.
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Mark Cerny designed the isometric race Marble Madness for Atari Games, a trackball cabinet that rolls one marble down ramps.
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White spy and black spy rig one split screen in Spy vs. Spy, First Star Software's adaptation of Antonio Prohias's Mad magazine strip.
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Arthur's armor falls away after one hit in Ghosts 'n Goblins (1985), leaving him in his underwear among graveyard monsters.
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Handlebar cabinets steer the bicycle in Paperboy, Atari Games' route past dogs, skateboards, and broken windows.
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Super Mario Bros. turned a running jump, a fire flower, and a flagpole into the pattern later Mario games still answer.
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Yuji Horii, with Akira Toriyama, Koichi Sugiyama, and Chunsoft, made Enix's Dragon Quest (1986) the template for Japanese console RPGs.
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Midenhall's prince sets out with two cousins in Dragon Quest II (1987), Enix's quest drawn by Akira Toriyama and scored by Koichi Sugiyama.
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Class changes and a hero who builds a party define Dragon Quest III (1988), the Enix RPG Enix shipped on a Wednesday in Japan so students would not skip school.
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Tanooki suits and a world map turn short stages into a toy box in Super Mario Bros. 3, with airships parked between the levels.
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Rotoscoped leaps and a one-hour dungeon define Prince of Persia (1989), Jordan Mechner's Apple II game of traps and sword fights.
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Elemental blades of wind, fire, water, and thunder arm the hero in Crystalis, SNK's NES quest set after a disaster.
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Descending invaders and destructible bunkers define Space Invaders (1978), the Taito game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado.
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Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde chase the dot-eater in Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani's maze for Namco.
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Dave Akers designed Klax for Atari Games, catching colored tiles off a conveyor and stacking them into lines.
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A punch from the handlebar defines Road Rash (1991), Electronic Arts' Genesis motorcycle race where police join the chase.
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Link washes ashore on Koholint in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (1993), an island that is not Hyrule, and tries to wake the Wind Fish.
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Ocean's squirrel platformer Mr. Nutz started on the Amiga and the Super Nintendo.
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Infogrames' Tintin in Tibet turns Hergé's album about a mountain rescue into a platformer.
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Japan's first retail pair was Red together with Pocket Monsters (Pokemon Green Version).
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The friendly-ghost film spawned Casper on separate Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges in the years after the movie.
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DMA Design's Grand Theft Auto starts as an open-city crime game on PC.
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Enix's Game Boy spinoff Dragon Quest Monsters reached the West as Dragon Warrior Monsters.
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Game Freak's Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition keeps Pikachu outside the ball and follows the anime more closely than Red and Green.
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Intelligent Systems recast Panel de Pon with pocket monsters for Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, a Game Boy Color stack-matcher.
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Dave Theurer's arcade classic Missile Command (1980) asks you to shield cities from warheads with a limited stock of interceptors.
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Ed Logg and Dona Bailey designed Atari's Centipede (1981), a trackball shooter in a mushroom patch where the insect splits when hit.
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Irem's side-scroller R-Type (1987) is remembered for the Force, a detachable pod that shields the ship and powers its shot.
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Sensible Software joked that war has never been so much fun, then sent named soldiers to die for good in Cannon Fodder.
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Pre-rendered fur and a mine-cart ride define Donkey Kong Country, Rare's jungle where Diddy covers ground the big ape cannot.
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A robotic suit turns a worm into a run-and-gun hero in Earthworm Jim, launched by Shiny Entertainment and David Perry.
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Konami's Frogger (1981) hops a frog through traffic and across a river, one of the simple arcade ideas that became universal.
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Stainless Games made Carmageddon a car-combat race notorious for running over pedestrians, and SCI published it.
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Midway took the tournament into polygons in Mortal Kombat 4, the first main entry to leave sprites behind.
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A sun meter charges the chain in Puyo Puyo SUN.
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George, Lizzie, and Ralph punch skylines again in Rampage World Tour.
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Weather moves across the stage in Top Gear Rally.
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Disney•Pixar A Bug's Life licenses the Pixar film, and the Nintendo 64 platformer is a different game from the Game Boy versions.
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Crystal Dynamics brought the television-quoting lizard back in Gex: Enter the Gecko (1998), chasing him through movie-set rooms on PlayStation beside the Nintendo 64 release.
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Ubisoft, the Rayman team, spilled a magic drink across Earth in Tonic Trouble and followed the clumsy alien who dropped it.
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Luxoflux set armed muscle cars loose on an alternate 1970s highway in Vigilante 8, a demolition derby that reached PlayStation and Nintendo 64 during 1998 with named drivers.
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Konami kept the kickoff going with International Superstar Soccer 2000. A runner off the ball is still the camera's subject.
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High Voltage Software built LEGO Racers in 1999 for LEGO Media, a kart racer whose cars are made of bricks.
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Playbooks open another NFL August in Madden NFL 2000. Depth charts for that camp are not the next season's roster.
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Stroke play shares a menu with a role-playing mode in Mario Golf (1999). A created golfer's approach still obeys the wind.
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Stock cars circle another EA season in NASCAR 2000. Daytona's banking shares a weekend with the shorter ovals.
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George, Lizzie, and Ralph leave Earth in Rampage 2: Universal Tour, Midway's follow-up from 1999 that smashes cities on other worlds.
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Afro Thunder and other exaggerated boxers headline Midway's Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, a cartoon bout from 1999 already.
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LucasArts spun podracing out of The Phantom Menace as STAR WARS: Episode I Racer.
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Neversoft turned real skaters and a two-minute timer into Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, published by Activision.
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Team17 stuffed a deep editor and a huge weapon list into Worms Armageddon, widely treated as the high point of the flat artillery series.
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Stone Cold and The Rock headline WWF Attitude, Acclaim's wrestling game from 1999 covering the Attitude Era on Nintendo 64 and PlayStation.
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AKI's editor grew again for WWF WrestleMania 2000. No Mercy's editor is the aisle this game was paving.
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Green plastic soldiers meet the tan army again in Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2, the 3DO sequel from 2000 that sends Sarge through household worlds.
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Fantasy roads replace the world tour in Cruis'n Exotica.
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Ubisoft's chase Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers sends Donald after Daisy, while Europe titled that adventure Quack Attack in its 2000 release.
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Tables and the promotion's reputation define ECW Hardcore Revolution.
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Ubisoft put an official Formula 1 license on Nintendo 64 as F1 Racing Championship, a season racer from 2000 with a simpler Game Boy Color edition under the same name.
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LucasArts sent Indiana Jones after a Soviet dig in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, a 3D adventure that debuted on PC.
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Another August kickoff in a long annual line is Madden NFL 2001. John Madden's name still sits over the August kickoff.
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Pete's theft of Pluto starts Mickey's Speedway USA, Rare's kart racer from 2000 for Nintendo 64 starring Mickey and the Disney cast.
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Polaris sleds hit snowmobile gates in Polaris SnoCross.
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Airborne lanes and underground cuts push the city forward in San Francisco Rush 2049. A flying gap between towers replaces a simple hill shortcut.
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Neversoft added the manual and custom parks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, extending a timed trick run into linked lines.
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One of the last Madden seasons on the hardware is Madden NFL 2002. This season feels like a farewell kickoff on that hardware.
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A revert links a vert trick back into a manual in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, the move Neversoft added with a deeper park editor.
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A tree stand and a deer call are the equipment in Deer Hunter.
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Dixie and Kiddy star in Donkey Kong Land 3, Rare's companion from 1997 to Donkey Kong Country 3, with animal buddies along their route.
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Victor Interactive made the first handheld farm as Harvest Moon GB, a 1997 sim of crops, livestock, and town visits that Natsume published in the West.
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White Bomberman jumps in profile in Pocket Bomberman, and the maze battle is gone.
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A fresh little map appears every time Yoda gives an errand in Star Wars: Yoda Stories.
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Green plastic faces tan plastic in Army Men, the 1998 opener of a long toy-soldier line from 3DO.
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Hudson Soft took White Bomberman off the single-screen bomb grid and sent him walking across a world map in Bomberman Quest, a 1998 Game Boy Color journey.
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Shadow Moses is the infiltration in Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid, the first Metal Gear in three dimensions.
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Real cabinets, not fictional tables, are the attraction in Microsoft Pinball Arcade.
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Energy cards and a prize pile teach a deck in Pokemon Trading Card Game, a campaign of battles rather than a grass-patch league.
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Bub and Bob aim upward again in Puzzle Bobble 4, the Taito matcher also sold as Bust-a-Move.
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Kayley's chase after Excalibur is the spine of Quest for Camelot, the 1998 action tie-in to Warner Bros.' animated film.
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Superbike lean is the whole camera in Redline Racer, and it is Criterion Games' first release.
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Treasure totals and multiple endings matter more than a life counter in Wario Land II.
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Konami's tower climb reached color handhelds as Azure Dreams GB, a 1999 companion to the PlayStation release where random floors and egg hatching remain the loop.
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These soldiers cannot jump, so the claw is the only way up in Bionic Commando: Elite Forces.
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A gentle squirrel, not a foul-mouthed one, stars in Conker's Pocket Tales.
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Baron Dante's crocodile returns in Croc 2 still looking for the Gobbos and, this time, for the parents he never met.
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Tanner's undercover driving in Reflections' Driver (1999) turned film-style car chases into a PlayStation hit.
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Psycrow's grudge follows the worm into Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy, the 1999 handheld platformer from Crave and IMS Productions.
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EA Sports named the soccer annual FIFA 2000 for the season ahead and shipped that box in 1999, beside console and PC copies.
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Gang respect meters steer DMA Design's Grand Theft Auto 2, which stays top-down.
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Natsume's sequel Harvest Moon 2 GBC (1999) builds a bigger town and more villagers than Harvest Moon GB, sitting between that first pocket farm and Harvest Moon 3 GBC.
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A stone knight wakes in the wrong century in Hype: The Time Quest, Ubisoft's 1999 action role-playing game.
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Yuki's Heaven Jewel has been stolen, and fishing it back is the errand inside Legend of the River King 2. Natsume and Victor Interactive brought the Game Boy Color sequel out in 1999. Two brothers can lead, rods improve when the current tackle cannot hold a strike, and a catch book records every species that actually reaches shore.
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Rare parked a garage between Mickey and the checkered flag in Mickey's Racing Adventure.
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One-timers across three periods define NHL 2000, the hockey annual EA Sports shipped in 1999 under the following year's name.
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Rugrats, Hey Arnold, and other Nickelodeon stars share a starting grid in Nicktoons Racing.
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Pokemon Gold moves the journey to Johto, where a real-time clock changes which creatures are awake.
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Lugia waits at the version's edge in Pokemon Silver.
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Catching happens on the playfield in Pokémon Pinball.
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Power-ups stuck to a paddle are the update in Pong: The Next Level.
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Challenge scores and a linked versus race sit beside the familiar pipes in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe.
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Hunger and a handmade axe matter more than a sword in Survival Kids, Konami's 1999 island story, also called Stranded Kids.
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A factory team, not a fictional mascot, is the license in Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing.
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Licensed metal and a police radar define Test Drive 6, Accolade's 1999 street-racing stop on a series that had been selling point-to-point courses for years.
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Accolade kept the dirt-racing line going with Test Drive: Off-Road 3, the off-road entry from 1999 that swaps sports cars for trucks and buggies.
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Lucy Lawless's syndicated hero reached living rooms again when Xena: Warrior Princess became a 1999 action game, and Titus later shipped a separate handheld version.
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Oddball and her brother Domino carry 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue, the chase spun from the film sequel.
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Wesley Snipes's daywalker carries the sword in Blade (2000), cutting through vampires that hate his sunlight.
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Emperor Zurg, not Andy's toy box, is the threat in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
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Ginger's pie-machine escape is the plot of Chicken Run, the 2000 tie-in to Aardman's stop-motion film.
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John Romero's Ion Storm shooter Daikatana is the PC game from 2000 whose long delay became infamous, with Hiro Miyamoto carrying a time-shifting sword.
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X Games dirt and a side-view trick line meet in Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, Acclaim's 2000 debut built around the real rider and other pro BMX names.
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Aladar's herd trek licensed Disney's Dinosaur in a wave of home versions from 2000, and the Game Boy Color cartridge is one of them.
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Hasbro put a named villain in the title of Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, the 2000 sequel to the Frogger revival, and added more obstacle courses.
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Crops and livestock fill the days in Harvest Moon 3 GBC (2000), the third color-handheld entry after Harvest Moon GB and Harvest Moon 2 GBC.
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A tilt sensor inside the cartridge steers Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, the HAL and Nintendo toy from 2000 that makes you pitch the whole handheld.
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Gadgets and a ticking contraption define LEGO Alpha Team.
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Brick-built ramps are the courses in LEGO Stunt Rally, a 2000 racer whose tracks are assembled from LEGO pieces.
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Bugs and Daffy take the wheel in Looney Tunes Racing, Infogrames' kart racer from 2000 with a Game Boy Color version beside the PlayStation release.
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Solid Snake infiltrates Galuade in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, and the mission is not a replay of Shadow Moses.
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Pheasants explode out of a countryside scene in Moorhuhn 2, the sequel Germany already knew under the Crazy Chicken name.
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Susumu Hori's air meter is the real opponent in Mr. Driller, Namco's 2000 descent through colored blocks.
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Hasbro's stock-car license NASCAR Heat covers that NASCAR season in a release from 2000 for PlayStation, PC, and Game Boy Color.
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Rare built stealth-leaning missions for Joanna Dark in Perfect Dark (GBC), a 2000 Game Boy Color companion to the Nintendo 64 shooter.
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Suicune's pursuit runs through Johto in Pokemon Crystal, with animated battle sprites Gold and Silver lacked.
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Johto's gyms open at odd hours in Pokémon Gold Version, because a clock inside the cartridge changes the route.
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Panel de Pon returns wearing Pokémon faces in Pokémon Puzzle Challenge (2000), Intelligent Systems' stack-clearing contest and the color-handheld cousin of Pokémon Puzzle League.
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The Brazilian striker, not the later Portuguese star, is the face of Ronaldo V-Football.
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Children sign pacts with demons in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children.
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Setsuna's route is the one sealed in Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children: Black Book.
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Mirai's pact is the campaign inside Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children: Red Book.
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Infogrames built the French day-long race into Test Drive Le Mans, also sold as Le Mans 24 Hours, an endurance racer from 2000 whose night stints matter.
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Whoville's presents are the target in The Grinch, the platform tie-in to Ron Howard's film of the Dr. Seuss book.
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Activision followed the earlier platformer with The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure, a 2000 continuation into scenes past the first film.
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The octagon, not a temple, is the ring in Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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Space Mountain and the Haunted Mansion become laps in Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour.
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Status effects replace death in Wario Land 3. A flattened Wario still rolls into the next door.
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Queen Azarel's humans and Chief Zog's beasts divide Warlocked into two campaigns of real-time war on the Game Boy Color.
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Hack-and-slash corridors, not a hero grid, are the battlefield in Warriors of Might and Magic.
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A laugh and a beak lead the grid in Woody Woodpecker Racing, the 2000 kart racer headlined by Universal's cartoon bird.
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Danger Room style sparring is the frame for X-Men: Mutant Academy, Activision's 2000 one-on-one fighter.
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A scrolling fight, not a versus round, is the shape of X-Men: Mutant Wars.
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Boards, bikes, and a snowfield share one cartridge in Xtreme Sports (2000), WayForward's multi-event handheld.
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Edward Carnby returns in Infogrames' Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, a survival-horror sequel.
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Gotham's rogues spill into the streets in Batman: Chaos in Gotham, a 2001 handheld action game drawn from the animated-series era of Batman licenses.
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Milo Thatch's expedition becomes a run of stages in Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Cobi's Journey and Tara's Adventure are the two United States releases of Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, both built by Tose for Enix.
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Western shelves met the hamster club through Hamtaro Ham-Hams Unite!
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Hogwarts is a turn-based journey in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (GBC), Griptonite's 2001 role-playing take on the first story.
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The Danish television troll returns in Hugo: Black Diamond Fever, a 2001 entry from Interactive Television Entertainment's long Hugo line.
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Michel Ocelot's French animated film licensed Kirikou, a Game Boy Color release from 2001 aimed at European players.
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Agents still wear the helmets in Lego Alpha Team (2001), but the puzzles are not the computer adventure's chain of gadgets.
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Pepper Roni pedals after an escaped convict in LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge.
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Ancient Sinistrals haunt the party in Lufia: The Legend Returns (2001), a pocket journey of towns and turn-based battles.
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Vert ramps carry the name of a real rider in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, Activision's 2001 trick game from the same boom as Tony Hawk.
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Capcom remixed stages from the first two Mega Man X games for Mega Man Xtreme, a Game Boy Color X entry that North America received in 2001 with Sigma-era rooms rearranged.
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A parts menu and bosses from Mega Man X3 define Mega Man Xtreme 2, Capcom's Game Boy Color follow-up from 2001 that stayed handheld-only.
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Germany's Crazy Chicken fad continued with Moorhuhn 3, a 2001 entry in a deliberately silly hunting series.
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Flying traffic over a future Manhattan is what survived of a canceled movie license in New York Race.
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Mudokons still need a chant, and Sligs can still be possessed, in Oddworld Adventures 2, the handheld follow-up drawn from Abe's Exoddus.
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New duelists and a larger card pool arrive in Pokemon Trading Card Game 2, the Japanese sequel to the first card adventure.
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A cruise-ship outbreak with a timing gauge is Resident Evil Gaiden, Capcom's side story from 2001 built outside the main survival-horror team.
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Webs replace stairs in Spider-Man (2001), one of the action games from the wave of Spider-Man titles just before the 2002 film.
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Doctor Octopus, Mysterio, Electro, the Vulture, Sandman, and a sixth schemer share the marquee of Spider-Man 2: The Sinister Six.
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A golden spatula, not a secret recipe, is the quest in SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula.
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A private planet and a returning crew define Star Ocean: Blue Sphere.
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Past and present reshape Labrynna in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, and puzzles depend on the era under your feet.
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Winter can freeze a lake that summer opens when the rod is used in The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
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Two Tribes made a limited-move egg hunt in Toki Tori (2001), a Game Boy Color original about a small chick whose later Wii and Nintendo 3DS releases are remakes.
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Lara Croft's pistols meet a cursed blade in Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword, the 2001 handheld adventure Core Design made and Activision published.
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Adamantium claws lead every screen in X-Men: Wolverine's Rage, the 2001 handheld built around Marvel's berserker.
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Banpresto retold major fights with cards in Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors, a Game Boy Color strategy game from 2002 that Infogrames published in the West.
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A basilisk in the pipes waits at the end of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (GBC).
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A witch's curse splits a family across glass in Hugo: The Evil Mirror, a 2002 stop on the long trail of the Danish television troll.
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Hair whip and a belly dance share a button rhythm in Shantae.
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Margalo the canary and a falcon pull Stuart into the city in Stuart Little 2, the 2002 tie-in to the second film.
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Patience Phillips's whip leads Electronic Arts' Catwoman, the tie-in to the Halle Berry film.
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Parachute, Helmet, Chef, and Vermin sit beside Mario redraws in Game & Watch Gallery 2, Nintendo's second collection of the old liquid-crystal games.
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Koholint Island washes Link ashore in Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX.
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Andrew Greenberg and Robert Woodhead sent parties into Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Sir-Tech's Apple II maze from 1981, with Werdna waiting below.
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A detective's pistol faces a maze of robots in Shamus (1982), the Atari favorite William Mataga wrote for Synapse.
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Imported veterans hunt the knight's armor in Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds, Sir-Tech's shorter scenario from 1982 on the Apple II line.
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Howard Scott Warshaw's insect-versus-shield duel Yars' Revenge became one of the Atari 2600's biggest original sellers after its 1982 release, built around a Yar and a Qotile.
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Descendants close the Apple II trilogy in Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, Sir-Tech's third scenario from 1983, where alignment changes how the maze treats you.
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A jetpack hangs over a single screen in Dropzone (1984), where Archer MacLean follows the Defender tradition.
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A black gem at the bottom of a dungeon is the prize in The Black Onyx.
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A bathroom stall, a headache, and a murder charge open Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True.
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The General Lee's horn is the fantasy in The Dukes of Hazzard, a game based on the CBS series about cousins Bo and Luke Duke.
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Matching tiles vanish in pairs in Shanghai.
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Taito replaced bubbles with climbable rainbows in Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2, the Bubble Bobble follow-up whose 1987 cabinet stars Bub and Bob.
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A torch burns down while you stand still in Shadowgate Classic.
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A carrier deck is home base in Wings of Fury (1987), and the plane must strafe ships before it lands.
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Bubbles are the key and the weapon in Milon's Secret Castle (1988), Hudson Soft's maze of hidden doors.
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Inner tubes and a handful of cans send Bif and Jet downriver in Toobin'.
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Mario's head is the paddle in Alleyway.
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Alice stays aloft with the balloons in her hands in Balloon Kid (1990), pumping a new one whenever one pops.
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Ship fire knocks holes in a fortress during Rampart (1990), then a clock demands the walls be rebuilt.
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Dick Dastardly's Mean Machine belongs to the cartoon, but Wacky Races (1991) is a computer platformer from Hi-Tec Software, not a lap around those deserts.
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Electronic Arts added split-screen to motorcycle combat in Road Rash II, the Genesis sequel to Road Rash from 1993 where a punch still counts during a heat.
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Suzy has been taken toward Marrakech, and the rescuer is a fox who throws crates, in Titus the Fox (GB, GBC).
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Demon partners fill the party in Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible, the Game Boy spinoff that opened the Last Bible line.
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Towns and creature stacks fill New World Computing's Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest, the first Heroes game.
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Columns of color fall, and a jester throws them back, in Magical Drop.
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Mr. Dark menaces the limbless world Michel Ancel introduced in Ubisoft's Rayman, first shown on the Atari Jaguar.
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