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Super Castlevania IV SNES Review: The Whip That Changed Everything

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Some games age like a photo album and some age like a good leather jacket. Super Castlevania IV is the jacket. Konami released it in 1991, right at the start of the Super Nintendo's life, and it is still the Castlevania that most players hand to a friend who has never touched the series....
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EarthBound Fan Versions for SNES: Four Fan Made Trips Back to Eagleland

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Some games get sequels. EarthBound got a community instead. Nintendo published it on the SNES in 1995, built by Ape and HAL Laboratory and written by Shigesato Itoi, and it quietly turned almost everyone who played it into a lifelong fan. Decades later those fans are still building new things inside it, which is...
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Pokémon Platinum DS Review: The Definitive Trip Through Sinnoh

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Ask a group of Pokémon fans which generation they would defend to the death and somebody will always speak up for Sinnoh. Ask which Sinnoh game you should actually put in your DS and the room agrees a lot faster. It is Pokémon Platinum, the third version of generation four, made by Game Freak...
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