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Review of Skate 3 — You wanna go skateboards?

When EA decided to start the Skate series and go head-to-head with Activision’s Tony Hawk franchise, that was a big deal.  The latter had long been the king of virtual skateboarding, but it was beginning to go downhill in the late 2000’s, and something else eventually had to drop into the halfpipe and issue a challenge.  Thanks […]

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Review of Daytona USA — Stock car racing discovers kansei dorifuto

It’s not like this needs to be said, but I’ll start this review by saying it — If you asked a big number of people what their favorite arcade-cabinet racing game is, a very common answer would be the game that picked up where Sega’s own Virtua Racer left off; The one that was less […]

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Review of Burnout: Revenge – Take a look around at all the lights and sounds

Few gaming genres get my adrenaline pumping as much as arcade racers.  For the majority of my life, I’ve been throwing Koopa Shells in Mario Kart and evading cavalries of police officers in Need for Speed, but another racing series that I absolutely adore completing laps in is Burnout, a cult-classic arcade racing series that is known for its […]