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Indiepocalypse #29: I Treat you Special, ’cause You Rally Special

Our monthly feature highlighting oddball and obscure  games for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse rides again! This month sees 1988’s Paris-Dakar Rally Special! for Nintendo’s Famicom speeding onto the scene; and presenting us a gauntlet of grueling driving, maze-solving,  on-foot platforming, and even encounters against …

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Indiepocalypse #27: Resident Evils, Dressed in Black

Our monthly feature highlighting the merits of forgotten and misbegotten  games for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse returns! This month brings us… Resident Evil 2?! Is this another April Fool’s gag? Nah: We’re just talking about its Tiger Game.com conversion. Doing so gives us the …

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Indiepocalypse #26: The Jaws of Life

Our monthly feature extrapolating neat ideas from oft-maligned games for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse returns! As you may remember, our last feature covered Friday the 13th on NES: The 8-bit approximation of a popular movie license, brought to us by the fine folk …

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Indiepocalypse #24: Gotta Get Down on Friday the 13th

Our monthly feature on unfairly maligned games for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse returns, with a return to Camp Crystal Lake. That’s right, folks: We wound up talking about Friday the 13th on NES again! Of course, this new article represents entirely new talking points, …

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Indiepocalypse #23: As We Forgive Those Who Trespasser Against Us

Our monthly feature on historically panned games for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse returns, with an article on the prehistoric Trespasser: The Lost World – Jurassic Park. We take the opportunity to explore its troubled development, technically-challenged release, and what ultimately proved to be a …

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Indiepocalypse #21: Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle

( Full Title: “When Alex the Kidd Was a Very Young Lad, in Enchanted Castle He Went to the Bad.” ) Here we go again with our monthly feature for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse, with a travel guide for the scenic Enchanted Castle! …

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Indiepocalypse #20: Because I’m Bad, I’m Bad — Really, Really Bad (at Street Brawling)

We’re back again with our monthly feature for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse, with a walk down Bad Street Brawler on NES! It’s a game which we’ve covered before here on the Bad Game Hall of Fame, but certainly still a title that I …

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Indiepocalypse #19: Oh My Gods. And Also: Generals

We’re back again with our monthly feature for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse, with a glimpse at the historical first-person shooting of Gods and Generals! While the format doesn’t necessarily entail my covering the full breadth of the game’s many, many follies; it does give …

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Indiepocalypse #18: Captain Novolin IV: The Quest for Peace

Our monthly feature for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse returns, with a new angle on an old classic of the Bad Game Hall of Fame: Captain Novolin! Now, rather than attempting to rehash that existing article in any sort of substantive way, the …

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Indiepocalypse #16: The Curious Case of the Quiet Man

My monthly feature for @PIZZAPRANKS‘ Indiepocalypse continues; with a piece on the potential creative design concepts that can be explored through “deliberate inaccessibility,” and how 2018’s The Quiet Man squanders / walks back its most novel idea. Where Square Enix …

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