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		Retro: Fond Memories: The Secret of Monkey Island This Lucasarts classic is a certified masterpiece.
		Retro: G.I. Joe Arcade Screens The Joes burn through Cobra in this Konami arcade shooter.
		Retro: Alien Syndrome Arcade Gallery Creepy space crawlies are all over SEGA's classic arcade shooter.
		Retro: Arabian Fight Screens This classic SEGA beat-'em-up rocked awesome anime art.
		Retro: Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars Screens Alex Kidd was in an arcade game?
		Retro: Poll Results - Imagic Demon Attack? Atlantis? Which were your favorite Imagic games on the 2600?
		Retro: Super Star Wars Screens A new hope for the SNES.
		Retro: Super Stars Wars: Return of the Jedi Screens Hans, Luke, and friends make good on their promise to beat that Vader guy.
		Retro: IGN Presents the History of Star Wars Games The saga behind the interactive saga.
		Retro: 9/9/99 @ 9 The Dreamcast launch.
		Wii: Cho Aniki Review It's raining men!
		Wii: Final Soldier Review About as "Final" as Fantasy and Fight.
		Retro: IGN Classics: Dreamcast Launch Guide Every Dreamcast launch game reviewed.
		Retro: Space Cavern Screens Creepy-cool forgotten gem for the Atari 2600.
		Retro: Sorceror Screens An Atari 2600 oddity.

		Retro: Poll Results - Imagic Demon Attack? Atlantis? Which were your favorite Imagic games on the 2600?
		Retro: Poll Results - Favorite Year 1984? 1987? Which was your favorite year of classic gaming?
		Sports: The Ballad of Glass Joe The fantastic story of how Punch-Out's!! loser became a winner.
		Retro: Poll Results - SEGA Hardware Should SEGA get back into the hardware game?
		Retro: Poll Results - Nintendo Revival Who deserves a comeback? DK? Duck Hunt?
		Retro: Poll Results: Capcom Revival Which Capcom classic deserves resurrection?
		Retro: Poll Results: Favorite SEGA Console We asked which one you favored. You answered.
		Retro: Poll Results: Classic Handhelds Which handheld system did you think reigned supreme?
		Retro: E3 2008: The King Gets Konged Steve Wiebe makes another run at the record.
		Retro: E3 2008: Where Are the EA Classics? When will EA finally unearth its incredible legacy?
		Music: Video Games Live Comes To CD New album available now in the U.K.
		Retro: Poll Results: Atari Jaguar Did you buy Atari's final flop?
		Retro: Poll Results: 80s Gaming Were you numbing thumbs on a computer or console while listening to Duran Duran?
		Sports: The Ten Best Fake Wrestlers In Videogame History From Star Man to AKI Man.
		Wii: Mega Man 9 Set for WiiWare Looks like the Blue Bomber is going back to his roots.

		Wii: Cho Aniki Review It's raining men!
		Wii: Final Soldier Review About as "Final" as Fantasy and Fight.
		Wii: King of the Monsters Review Though lost in the shuffle of the summer, there's little reason to go back and play this mediocre fighter.
		Wii: Clu Clu Land Review 'Round and 'round and 'round she goes.
		Retro: Burning Rangers Retro Review This game (and the Saturn itself) deserved a better send-off.
		Retro: Keith Courage in Alpha Zones Review Remember when game titles like this weren't ironic?
		Wii: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Review The Virtual Console's 250th title is Mario's classic role-playing debut.
		Retro: Demon Attack Retro Review And just how does a 26-year-old Atari 2600 shooter play today?
		Wii: Ys Book I & II Review One of the most highly regarded TurboGrafx adventures ever. (And also one of the oddest.)
		Wireless: PuzzLoop Review Hudson gets ahead of Zuma with the game that was ahead of Zuma.
		Wii: Neo Turf Masters Review SNK's arcade golf sim mixes a slow-paced sport with fast-paced action.
		Wii: Mega Man Review The Blue Bomber's original adventure finally comes to the Virtual Console.
		Retro: NiGHTS into Dreams... Retro Review It defined the Saturn. But it did so too late.
		Wireless: Pac-Man iPhone Review Way too expensive for a no-frills arcade classic port.
		Wii: Gley Lancer Review Anime girls gone wild.

		Retro: Fond Memories: The Secret of Monkey Island This Lucasarts classic is a certified masterpiece.
		Retro: IGN Presents the History of Star Wars Games The saga behind the interactive saga.
		Retro: 9/9/99 @ 9 The Dreamcast launch.
		Retro: IGN Classics: Dreamcast Launch Guide Every Dreamcast launch game reviewed.
		Retro: From Janitor to Superstar Gunpei Yokoi, inventor of the Game Boy, would have been 67 this week.
		Retro: Space Harrier Retrospective The 20-year story of Yu Suzuki's whimsical shooter.
		Retro: RetroCity Podcast, Episode 12 PAX impressions, retrogaming on iPhone, and jukebox time.
		PC: The Evolution of the Survival Horror Genre Memories, like the blood-stained colours of my mind...
		Retro: The Revolution of I, Robot This 1983 arcade landmark is the origin of polygons.
		Retro: Xonox and the Double-Enders It's not a band, but a collection of carts that helped bring down the industry.
		Wii: Mega Man 9: Fanboy vs. Fresh-Face One of us loves it, one of us doesn't. It's the original odd couple!
		Retro: Top 10 Best-Selling Atari 2600 Games Best-selling doesn't always equal good, you know.
		Retro: Death Race Watch the movie, then revisit the original violent videogame.
		Retro: The House of the Dead Rundown The prequel's coming to Wii. We chart the zombie timeline.
		Retro: The Other Mario Games, Vol. 4 Because you asked for it, Mario's Time Machine.