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Category: Mack’s Classics
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Worst of 1989
The Worst of 1989. Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome back to Georg Mack Plays the Classics. When you have so many games released in a year, there are bound to be some stinkers that get in the way of the good stuff. We’re going to look at the 10 worst games of 1989 so…
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Best of 1989
The Best of 1989. Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Georg Mack Plays the Classics. I’ve finally wrapped up 1989 and am looking forward to looking back on the year. 174 games were released on the NES, Sega Master System, TurboGrafx-16, and Sega Genesis in America in 1989. Four of them were Power…
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Golden Axe (Genesis)
Golden Axe System: Genesis Release Date: December 22, 1989 Developer: Sega R&D2 Publisher: Sega Genre: Beat ‘em Up The final game of 1989 is here and it’s a treat with Golden Axe. Death Adder and his soldiers have taken over the land of Yuria, kidnapped the King and Princess, and seized the Golden Axe. It’s…
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The Revenge of Shinobi (Genesis)
Revenge of Shinobi System: Genesis Release Date: December 2, 1988 Developer: Sega AM7 Publisher: Sega Genre: Action Joe Musashi is back in Revenge of Shinobi and the evil Zeed corporation is back as Neo Zeed. No longer content to kidnap the children of world leaders, they’re straight up trying to take over the world with…
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IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II (NES)
IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II System: NES Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Zippo Games, Rare Publisher: Acclaim Genre: Action Ahhh, the strength of Fabio greets us on the cover of IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II and we expect a great romance to follow. Well, we’ll be disappointed. The goal is to reforge the IronSword by…
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RoboCop (NES)
RoboCop System: NES Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Data East, Sakata SAS Publisher: Data East Genre: Action I never had watched RoboCop before, so I turned it on as I played through the NES game. I can probably say I feel the same about the movie as the game. Nothing amazing, but it’s good enough…
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Forgotten Worlds (Genesis)
Forgotten Worlds System: Genesis Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Sega R&D2 Publisher: Sega Genre: Shoot ‘em Up I’m two in a row with a Capcom arcade release ported to a non-Nintendo system, this time with Forgotten Worlds. Coming off of a poor game in Sidearms, I was much less disappointed here. It’s the far future…
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Sidearms (TG-16)
Sidearms System: TG16 Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Radiance Software Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Sidearms or Hyper Dyne Side Arms or Side Arms Hyper Dyne depending on where you’re at is a port of a Capcom side scrolling shoot ‘em up. Right away, the manual uses light years to denote time instead of…
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All-Pro Basketball (NES)
All-Pro Basketball System: NES Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Aicom Publisher: Vic Tokai Genre: Sports So I see All-Pro Basketball coming up on my list and I’m thinking, hey, alright, maybe I’ll get a proper basketball game this time! Then as I looked at the manual, and the screenshots caused my heart to drop. The…
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World Court Tennis (TG-16)
World Court Tennis System: TG-16 Release Date: December 1989 Developer: Namco Publisher: NEC Genre: Sports World Court Tennis is the first Sports RPG game we come across in this chronological playthrough. It’s pretty easy to add RPG elements to a game and give it a new outlook on life. You can play this as a…