X-Men – Children of the Atom

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X-Men: Children of the Atom is a 2D fighting game and the first Capcom title to use licensed characters from the Marvel comic universe. It has six main characters and four of their enemies that are playable. The X-Men are Colossus, Cyclops, Iceman, Psylocke, Storm and Wolverine. The villains are Omega Red, Sentinel, Silver Samurai and Spiral. The two main bosses are Juggernaut and Magneto, and Akuma is available as a secret character.

Fighting is done one-on-one with a traditional best-two-out-of-three match setup, with automatic or manual blocking. Similar to the Super Combo gauge in Super Street Fighter II Turbo there is an X-Power gauge of different levels, filled up when the player performs moves. When it is maxed out an X-Ability or Hyper X special move can be performed. Other general features are the abilities to super jump, roll away and aiming projectiles. …

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X-Men – The Ravages of Apocalypse

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X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse is a conversion of Quake. The evil mutant Apocalypse has created an army of evil X-men clones. The only thing standing in his way is you, a cyborg created by Magneto with the ability to morph your arms into a variety of devastating weapons.

In the single-player game, you battle clones of twelve X-Men across two episodes building up to a final confrontation with Apocalypse. The X-Men are realistically modeled complete with their mutant powers (the Wolverine clone, for example, will not stay down, imitating the original). In multiplayer, you can take on the role of any of the X-Men for mutant deathmatch action in five original maps including the X-Men mansion. …

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Athens 2004

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The official game of the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad held in Athens in August 2004, Athens 2004 features 25 events spread around 8 sports, the real stadiums and arenas such as the state of the art Olympic Stadium built for the competition and the Panathinaiko, venue of the first modern Olympics, and 64 nations from all around the world.

While new developers Eurocom (following two games from ATD) kept most of the gameplay still inspired by the old button-mashers of the early 80s, some events feature interesting twists. While sprinting events don’t need introductions, there are two middle distance events (800m and 1500m) that require the player to control their pace in order to reach the final curve fresh enough to have a second wind and sprint towards the finish. Other innovations are on field events, such as the high jump requiring the player to alternate buttons not as fast as possible, but time them as well as possible to the athlete’s steps as possible, and the discus has the player circling the analogue knobs to build up power, among others.

All four swimming events are played in the same fashion as sprinting events, except the athlete must breathe as quickly as possible in intervals, or risks losing precious speed over a section of the race. …

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Atlanta 1996

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An officially licensed product of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Inc.

This was the first true 3D multi-event sports game with 15 sporting events (100 meters, 400 meters, 100M crawl, Javelin, Hammer, Discus, Long Jump, Triple Jump, High Jump, Pole Vault, Fencing, Rapid Fire Pistol, Weight Lifting, Archery, Skeet Shooting) that mirrored those in the actual Atlanta ’96 games.

The game supported up to 8 players, competing in arcade-style games and Olympic-style tournaments.

The in-game commentary was by BBC Radio 5’s Alan Green. …

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Bonkheads

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Bonkheads is a fun little Mario Bros clone that plays a lot harder than it looks. You control Crag as he travels down the underworld – twelve worlds are on offer with five levels each, plus numerous enemies, power-ups and the odd boss fights along the way. Gameplay is pretty much identical to Mario Bros – you have to knock out enemies by hitting the tiles that they walk on, kind of like you could do in the old Mario games. Enemies become unconscious after you knock them out, and you have a few seconds to throw them off the level before they get back up.

It sounds simple but the levels become increasingly challenging and the gameplay ever more frantic as you progress. It’s a fine tap dance as you try to avoid getting swarmed while dodging the occasional random hazard like falling tires. You can even the playing field by saving periodically and bringing a friend to play with you, as Bonkheads supports two players on the same computer. It’s all good simple, challenging fun. …

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Crayola 3D Castle Creator

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Crayola 3D Castle Creator allows you to create over 60 3D castle pieces inspired by Middle Ages castle architecture. There are pre built and half built castles provided to get you started. View your castles in different perspectives with 24 realistic patterns and loads of different backgrounds to build your wacky castles. Cool real-time 3D lets you fly through and around your castles. Meet authentic animated characters like the King, Queen, Page, Minstrel, Knight and more. See authentic furniture, artwork, tapestries, torches, thrones and more Learn about castles and life in the middle ages …

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Fantastic 4

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This game is a licensee of the 2005 movie “Fantastic 4”. Unlike many licensed titles, this third-person action game in the vein of the Onimusha or Devil May Cry series only takes the base of its plot from the actual movie, then liberally changes it to make for better gameplay.

Generally, the game brings in more content from the comic books than the movie, particularly considering the villains that appear. While the movie pretty much only concerned itself with Victor von Doom aka “Doctor Doom” as its supervillain of choice, the game brings in various characters from the comic books as well – the Mole Man, the Puppet Master, or Diablo, to name a few. …

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