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Retro Game of the Day Archive - June 2011

Pontinho says:
The graphics in this game may be a little childish, but it looks so clear and sharp that you just have to love them. The gameplay itself is simply AMAZING with the 7 combineable copy abilities.

User Rating: 4.33/5.00

MajinCry says:
Digimon World revolves around you, the player, saving the Digimon World (Who would have guessed it..). You come home from school, and your mother has been gone, and there's a flashing light coming from your bedroom. You go to your bedroom to find a handheld console with a picture of Koromon (Pink ball ...

User Rating: 4.71/5.00

Jack Frost says:
The first Sonic game. Sonic the Hedgehog was designed as THE competitor to Mario, and for the Genesis era, it was. The USA version was released three days before the Japanese version, on June 23, 1991. A very fun game, it doesn't have the spindash though. Do NOT play the crappy GBA port. Enjoy Sonic's ...

User Rating: 4.71/5.00

TheBigL1 says:
Pike is a young boy who lost his family to a horde of monsters when he was just a baby, and was raised by a village of winged humans. On a day like any other, an evil magician turns his adoptive sister into stone, and he sets out in search of a cure with the help of a sentient sword, Cirrus. Several ...

User Rating: 4.59/5.00

rikku911 says:
It is a basic farm game. Your old grandpa gives you a farm and leaves you in charge of it. Would be the jist of it. And your job is to turn the farm around from a wasteland filled with rocks into a real farm that is successful, another feature of this game is being able to marry with your choice of female ...

User Rating: 4.54/5.00

taintedcereal says:
 Some might be skeptikal of this game at first glance. A videogame that's base on a card game that's base on a video game that's based on an anime? Why not just play the other poke'mon gameboy games?There is fun to be had with this game, it follows the exact rules of the Poke'mon TCG. So for those that ...

User Rating: 4.79/5.00

Clayton says:
The PAL release of Silent Hill had some things removed of the original NTSC version. But, it doesn't avoid us of playing this exciting and scary game, that is the very first of the saga (and maybe the best). You control Harry Mason, a writer, that is on vacation with his daughter Cheryl. They go to the ...

User Rating: 4.63/5.00

Vince says:
This final PS1 installment in the X series has some issues with gameplay and stage design, but the graphics and soundtrack are EXCELLENT. It's probably worth at least a good try.

User Rating: 4.55/5.00

Tanthias says:
The hit game that began the series, Resident Evil follows the adventures of the S.T.A.R.S (Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (later changed to "Special Tactics and Rescue Service")) Alpha members as they search for their comrades, Bravo team. They locate the downed helicopter, but aside from the ...

User Rating: 4.42/5.00

tamh says:
Some Sega Genesis/Megadrive games saw the light on their lower spec conterparts, the Master System and the Game Gear. However, what saw the light in Sonic 1's case was not a direct port of the game but a whole new different experience, with low end graphics, but awesome gameplay. The story of this ...

User Rating: 4.66/5.00

Sloshy says:
Mega Man 64 is a port of Mega Man Legends for the PSX, but super-compressed to fit on an N64 cartridge. Legends was Mega Man's first foray into the world of 3D movement, and for the most part it worked very well. The controls are a little hard to get used to but generally work. The fun part of this game ...

User Rating: 4.39/5.00

Nevetoss says:
One of Rare’s first games for the N64, Diddy Kong Racing is a Mario Kartish game where players race on many different tracks and try to shoot their opponents with various weapons without being hit themselves. Unlike Mario Kart, players are able to choose from three different machines: a car, a ...

User Rating: 4.47/5.00

SephirothReborn says:
Final Fantasy 7...To put this clearly, one of the most celebrated games in the Final Fantasy series, generating over 9,000,000 copies sold. First of it's kind when it came to 3d gaming, it pioneered their already vast audience and fans with a storyline unlike any other to this day. The story behind Final ...

User Rating: 4.67/5.00

taintedcereal says:
Shenmue II follows the adventure of a teenage Ryo Hazuki who seeks revenge on a martial arts master who killed his father. This game takes place shortly after the conclusion of the first one. Ryo leaves on a ship to Hong Kong where he  follows the trail of his father's murderer and gets caught in the ...

User Rating: 4.43/5.00

skweebl says:
Kirby Super Star is an excellent game. Naturally, you play as everybody's favorite super-hungry pink powder puff through several mini-adventures. The games themselves are actually quite varied - there's an almost literal remake of the original Gameboy Kirby's Dream Land here, along with a Metroid-esque ...

User Rating: 4.52/5.00

Travis Chapman says:
Tales of Destiny is a video game in the RPG genre published for the PlayStation console by Namco on December 23, 1997 in Japan, selling 1,139,000 copies. Tales of Destiny's characteristic genre name is 'RPG of Destiny'. Both the Japanese and North American versions of the game have an introductory video ...

User Rating: 4.69/5.00

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Genre: Adventure-Action (single player) Platform: PlayStation, PlayStation Network Release: June 5, 1998 Alundra is considered a spiritual sequel to Climax Entertainment's Landstalker on the Sega Genesis. The game starts with Alundra being on a ship. After walking around and talking to the people, ...

User Rating: 4.74/5.00

The Wha!? says:
The Curse of Monkey Island is a point & click adventure game developed by LucasArts, it is the third game in the Monkey Island series. The game was released in 1997, 6 years after the release of Monkey Island 2. After confronting zombie pirate LeChuck and finding a ring in his treasure hold, Guybrush ...

User Rating: 4.46/5.00

Clayton says:
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offence, is the meaning of car destruction. It has a nice gameplay, where you have simple objectives. There is an average story behind this game. In quest mode you have to choose between 3 groups, each with the same objectives for every car in the group. When you complete the quest mode ...

User Rating: 4.38/5.00

The Wha!? says:
Based on Steve Purcell's (then a LucasArts employee) excellent comic book series Sam & Max: Freelance Police. Sam & Max Hit the Road is a point and click adventure game developed by LucasArts. The game was released in 1993. It is frequently mentioned as one of the funniest games ever made. ...

User Rating: 4.37/5.00

someone says:
STORY: From different worlds, 7 characters are teleported by a mysterious force and changed into statues inside a shrine on an island. A knight breaks free and begins a quest to free the others and find magic arks in order to save their worlds from evil. GAMEPLAY: Menu system with options to fight monsters, ...

User Rating: 4.82/5.00

L3n0x says:
  If you thought that the first Sonic game was awesome well think again, Sega really made Sonic Run to and all new level, polished what they already had and make it even better with 8 new levels, a new buddy named Tails Miles Prower and new bonus stages, winning on the bonus stages gives you a ...

User Rating: 4.5/5.00

skweebl says:
Secret of Mana is the SNES sequel to the Gameboy game Final Fantasy Adventure. Here, you step into the shoes of a young man who has been chosen by the legendary Sword of Mana - and exiled from his home village for removing it and unleashing monsters. It turns out that the power of Mana, which nearly ...

User Rating: 4.48/5.00

psy_commando says:
This is one the first two games of generation 2. Pokemon Gold was released along with Pokemon Silver, just like the first generation (Red and Blue) some Pokemons can only be caught in either Gold or Silver, but not both. Pokemon Gold/Silver introduce many upgrades to the Pokemon universe, along with ...

User Rating: 4.47/5.00

varklore says:
The town of Monsbaiya, a desert town with single mysterious Tower in the middle. The Tower is filled with monsters, and there are people called monster tamer, who tame those monsters as their job while trying to unravel the mystery of the tower. One famous monster tamer, Guy, has set to reach the top ...

User Rating: 4.79/5.00

Brendoge says:
The Duke is back in his 3D outing for the Nintendo 64, before you wind up for Duke Nukem Forever settle down with the classic based on the Doom engine style of gameplay. With tongue firmly in cheek as far as humor goes, the Duke will have you laughing, entertained, perplexed like no other. It's ...

User Rating: 4.52/5.00

Zelda: Wand of Gamel says:
This Zelda in not Nintendo made and you will never hear Nintendo talk about it. The controls are a little stiff, but when using a rom, it becomes much easier. The story begins with the King of Hyrule stating that he is going to the island of Gamelon, after receiving word from Duke Onkled, the ruler ...

User Rating: 4.95/5.00

Pontinho says:
This sequel of the resident evil elevates what was so great about the first one to a complete new level of terror.

User Rating: 4.36/5.00

Neoregn says:
The player takes on the role of Sir Daniel Fortesque, who is to liberate the fictional country Gallowmere from the clutches of the evil wizard Zarok. The history that is crucial, says that Sir Fortesque ever fought against the sorcerer Zarok and thereby acquired great fame, it surely means that he was ...

User Rating: 3.96/5.00

DeRaza360 says:
Sequel to Golden Eye, it's awesome. Totally customizable multiplayer battles. Like, over twenty personalities for bots, and choose any guns you want in the game. Also, it has an awesome 1p story mode. One of the best N64 games out there.

User Rating: 4.47/5.00