Retro
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Speedrunner Beats All Of Link To The Past’s Dungeons Without A Sword
1The highlight of this week’s Summer Games Done Quick marathon happened yesterday, as the charismatic speedrunner Andy broke the hell out of Link to the Past, beating the whole game without using a sword.
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The Super Nintendo’s Most Valuable Games
The Super Nintendo is certainly a contender for the world’s most beloved console. The 16-bit juggernaut has a library brimming with first and third party classics that are known for their tight gameplay and pretty pixels. Unsurprisingly, some of those games are worth some serious cash.
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Meet ‘Testocles’, Planescape: Torment’s Long Hidden NPC
From time to time, we get to see some of the behind-the-scenes quirks of our favourite games — debug menus, unused dialogue, scrapped environments and so on. Given the scope of 1999’s Planescape: Torment, it was packed with gems like this, including the unfortunately-named character “Testocles”.
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Lucasarts Adventure Games, Ranked
Kicking off in 1986, Lucasarts presided over an era (running until around the year 2000) in which they were the adventure game Kings, releasing a string of titles that remain all-time classics even decades later.