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  • Wall Street Kid (NES)

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    So, who’s up for some stock trading? I’m looking for hands! Oh come now, there must be someone out there. No, not you, balding thirty-eight year old man. I’m looking...

  • Carbonated News (November 2003)

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    – Interested in nabbing some free games? Know any good knock-knock jokes? Boy, are you ever in luck! Nintendo is sponsoring a new contest to promote their upcoming GBA title...

  • Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)

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    You know what? I don’t care what any of you cynical angsty youngsters think—to me, Walt Disney World has always been a magical place. From the time in 1991 when...

  • Carbonated News (October 2003)

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    – Much like Sonic the Hedgehog before him, Mega Man is about to have released a vast collection of his elderly titles. This compilation, which is being released to honor...

  • Comix Zone (SG)

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    I was warned about saying too many negative things in this review. Specifically, GameCola’s own Allec Johnson (i.e., the guy who reviewed Bomberman right above this) explicitly stated that he...

  • Peter Pan and the Pirates (NES)

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    If the name of this game looks familiar, congratulations—you are one of maybe five people in the whole world who remember that old Fox cartoon Peter Pan and the Pirates....

  • The Mystery of Monkey Island

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    The Mystery of Monkey Island: Why the Fourth Game Was Terrible All right, so there wasn’t really much to the plot. Something bad happens to your girlfriend/fiancé/governor upon whom you...

  • WWF Super WrestleMania (SNES)

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    Haven’t you always wanted to don the tights of pro-wrestling legend Typhoon? Yeah, me either. They wouldn’t fit, for one. For two, he sucks. But you can do just that...

  • Very Little is Known About the BttF Games

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    But hey, you can still watch these two videos, recently released by Telltale Games! The first video talks a little about Christopher Lloyd (now 115 years old) once again playing...

  • Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy’s Invention (SG)

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    Well, at least the effort was there. Instead of just slapping a license onto a premade crappy game (à la Back to the Future (NES), Toy Story (SG, SNES), Jaws...