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Max Payne

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Max Payne was a police officer of the New York City police. On one terrible day, his wife and newborn daughter were killed by three junkies, who broke into his apartment after having ingested a new designer drug known as Valkyr. After the tragedy, Max quit the police force and joined the Drug Enforcement Administration. Three years later, during a raid on a mafia compound that was reportedly trafficking Valkyr, his best friend and fellow DEA agent Alex is killed, and he becomes the prime suspect in his murder. Now Max is all alone in the cold, snowy night of New York. The mob is out to get him. The police are out to get him. The only way out is with guns blazing, because he has nothing to lose.

Max Payne is a third person shooter stylistically influenced by film noir, “hardboiled” detective stories, and Hong-Kong action cinema. Max can perform rolls and leaps to try and dodge enemy fire. The weapons at his disposal range from baseball bats to Ingram sub-machine guns, grenades, Molotov cocktails, and others. A unique feature of the game is the usage of the so-called Bullet Time – a time-slowing ability that was popularized by the first Matrix movie. Activating the Bullet Time slows down everything that happens around Max (including his own movements), allowing for slow, but precise performance of moves to take care of his enemies. A special meter indicates how much time the effect will last, and how long Max needs to wait until it can be activated again. …

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The Typing of The Dead

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This is essentially the same game as the arcade light-gun rail-shooter House of the Dead 2, except they’ve turned it into a edu-tainment typing trainer. Instead of guns, your characters have keyboards strapped to them, and instead of shooting the zombies that constantly jump out at you you’ll need to type out the words attached to the zombies in order to kill them before they crack open your head and feast upon the goo inside. The game ranks you on your typing speed and provides various tutorials and other edu-tainment sundries.

Otherwise it’s pretty much the same game as House of the Dead 2. Much like the Resident Evil series, the zombie hordes have gone from infesting a vaguely gothic creepy old mansion to infesting a vaguely gothic decaying city, and its your job to stop them and save the human race (as usual). …

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SpongeBob SquarePants – Operation Krabby Patty

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Spongebob Squarepants: Operation Krabby Patty is based on the Nickelodeon TV cartoon that aired in 1999 and is still ongoing as of 2017. There are two sides of the game. The Right side features Plankton developing a robot version of Mr. Krabs for his secret Krabby Patty formula, and Spongebob has to foil Plankton’s plans and get rid of the robot for good. The Wrong side features Spongebob’s snail Gary, who is lost somewhere in Bikini Bottom, and Spongebob has to accomplish a number of tasks to rescue his pet snail. There are five areas of each side of the game, and movies can be watched again in the main screen by clicking on the television set.

The game features two separate stories, depending on which side of the bed the player chooses to wake up on. The game features five mini-games.

– Wrong side
Plankton kidnaps SpongeBob’s pet snail Gary, and SpongeBob is required to do tasks for Plankton to give Gary back.
SpongeBob’s first task, given over a tape recorder, is to get his boating permit. The recorder fails to self-destruct after the briefing. …

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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Rubeus Hagrid, a mysterious giant, leaves an orphaned Harry Potter, whose parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort, on the front door step of his bullying relatives, The Dursleys. For ten years, Harry has lived with the Dursleys, not knowing that he is a wizard, and famous in the wizarding world for being the only one to survive the attacks of Voldemort, whose name no one dares to say. Harry receives a letter inviting him to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is told who he really is. After buying his school supplies, at Diagon Alley, he boards the Hogwarts Express on platform 9¾ with the other students. Once they arrive at Hogwarts, the students are sorted into houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. It is explained that if a student does a good thing or a bad thing, “points” will be added or deducted from their “House Points”. This is important, as the House with the most points will win the House Cup at the end of the year. Harry is sorted into Gryffindor, after pleading with the Sorting Hat, a talking witch’s hat, not to place him in Slytherin, notorious for being the house of darker witches and wizards, as well as Lord Voldemort. Once sorted, Harry meets Ron Weasley, a poor boy from a large, pure-blood, wizarding family and Hermione Granger, a witch born to Muggle parents.

At school, Harry begins his training as a wizard and learns more about his past. After retrieving a remembrall while riding on a broomstick, for his classmate Neville Longbottom, Harry is appointed seeker of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Tricked by Slytherin, Draco Malfoy, Harry, Ron and Hermione, accidentally come across a huge three-headed dog on a restricted floor of the castle. After escaping they realise the dog was standing on a trap door which is guarding the Philosopher’s Stone, a magical object which grants the user immortality. When Harry is almost killed during a game of Quidditch, by what appeared to be Professor Snape uttering a curse at him, Harry concludes that he is after the Philosopher’s Stone. …

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HyperBowl Arcade Edition

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HyperBowl scores just like conventional bowling, but the style of play is entirely unique. In this virtual bowling game, you can steer the ball all the way to the pins!

Sound too easy? Not really — you must dodge trolley cars in San Francisco 2099, leap buses on the streets of Tokyo, navigate across a pitching ship on the High Seas, and avoid whatever other obstacles are thrown your way.

Players seeking more predictable play can always fine tune their skills in a Classic bowling alley or bowl through a peaceful Yosemite forest. …

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Lego Island 2 – The Brickster’s Revenge

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Lego Island 2: Brickster’s Revenge is the sequel of Lego Island.

The game begins with the player traveling around Lego Island, delivering pizza and talking to fellow citizens until the event where Brickster escape from prison, and attempts to deconstruct all the buildings on Lego Island.

Varied gameplay, as the game is part flying game, part racing game, part sky-diving drill, and part astronaut training mission. The player will interact with around 50 or more different characters from Lego Island. Along the way, the player will have to fly bi-planes, race LEGO cars, command space shuttles, and skateboard through a plethora of areas based on LEGO’ series of play themes, like LEGO Knight’s Kingdom, and the LEGO Adventurers.

Also featured are 18 sub-games, as well as a LEGO-themed skate park where the player and Pepper can try a ton of skateboard tricks anytime. …

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Black & White

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Spiritual descendant of the Populous games, Black & White is a ‘god’ game in which players take the role of a fledgling deity, called upon by people in need.

Entering the 3D world, players can manipulate objects, move people, and cast miracles. To assist the player, there also exists a creature with its own intelligence and personality. Both the players and their associated creature will evolve during the course of the game, becoming benevolent beings, cruel tyrants, or somewhere in between. As the player’s characters develop, both their creature and the land itself will change, depending on their alignment.

Although the main purpose of the game is to work through the five lands of Eden and win the faith of as many of the tribes as possible, the game is somewhat open ended in its aspects of wandering, exploring, and developing the sidekick creature.

The creatures in the game feature their own artificial intelligence and will grow like a child, both physically and emotionally. They’ll learn by example and put together their own moral codes based on what they witness and learn. Players can pet or scold their creature, nurture it, spoil it, or abuse it. In the end, Black & White is part strategy game, part role-playing game, part child rearing simulator, and part self-examination of the player’s personality. …

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