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Games Beginning With ‘C’ Week

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It’s time for another random celebration of video game goodness!

This week I’m posting grabs of games beginning with the letter ‘C’… 🙂

Here’s a full run-down of what was posted (in published order):

Chakan: The Forever Man, Megadrive/Genesis (1992)
Cadash, Arcade (1990)
Castlevania: Dracula X, Super Nintendo (1995)
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, XBox (2005)
Chiller, Commodore 64 (1985)
Chiller, ZX Spectrum (1985)
Chiller 2, Commodore 64 (2020)
Clockwork Knight 2, Sega Saturn (1995)
Colt Canyon, PC (2020)
Crysis, PC (2007)
Championship Pool, Game Boy (1993)
Combat School, Arcade (1987)
Commando, Atari 7800 (1989)
Crash Bandicoot, PlayStation (1996)
Crime City, Arcade (1989)

Enjoy,
The King of Grabs

Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Ashby Computers and Graphics, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Famicom Disk System, Lists, MSX, PC, Rare, Ultimate Play The Game, VIC-20, Windows, ZX Spectrum

Complete list of Ultimate Play the Game releases

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A list of all the official Ultimate Play the Game releases, plus known, completed homebrew conversions, remakes, and unreleased titles.

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Lists, Taito

10 Best Bubble Bobble Conversions

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LISTS: as decided by The King of Grabs, in order of greatness:

Taito‘s classic 1986 arcade hit, Bubble Bobble, has been converted to pretty much every format on the planet. We played through them all recently and have compiled a list of the best. Click a link to view each conversion individually. Do you agree with our choices? Let us know in the comments.

1. Sega Saturn (1996)
2. Nintendo DS (2005)
3. Game Boy Advance (2003)
4. X68000 (1990)
5. FM Towns (1990)
6. Sega Master System (1988)
7. NES/Famicom Disk System (1987)
8. PC MS-DOS (1989)
9. Atari ST (1989)
10. Amiga (1989)

See also:
MSX (1987)
Commodore 64 (1988)
ZX Spectrum (1987)
Amstrad CPC (1987)
Game Gear (1994)
Game Boy Color (1999)
Game Boy (1991)
BBC Micro (1989)
Apple II (1988)

See also: BB4CPC (2014) on the Amstrad CPC and Super Bubble Bobble MD (1995) on the Megadrive/Genesis.

Did we miss any official conversions of Bubble Bobble? Please let us know in the comments.

In memory of Fukio Mitsuji (1960-2008), the designer of the great Bubble Bobble.

More: Bubble Bobble on Wikipedia

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Bubble Bobble artwork
Big Red Software, Codemasters, Lists, Team Yolkfolk, ZX Spectrum

The Dizzy adventure series

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The Dizzy adventures are well-known and much-loved on the ZX Spectrum. Created by The Oliver Twins, they feature an anthropomorphic egg called Dizzy who somersaults when he jumps and solves item-based puzzles, often in an attempt to rescue his friends, the “yolkfolk“.

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Celebration, Sega

Sonic the Hedgehog Special

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This week I’m going to be featuring all the early Sonic the Hedgehog games on the blog.

They’re all Megadrive/Genesis games, except for one on the Sega CD. And they’re all classics, and deserve a set of grabs, showing just show beautiful and colourful they are. And, of course, a few words about what makes them good.

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Celebration, Lists

100 Best Level-Grinders Of All-Time

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Level-Grinders; Dungeon-Crawlers; Role-Playing Games – whatever you want to call them – they are my (and many other people’s) favourite type of video game.

They allow you to build up your characters via the process of levelling. That is: by gaining experience, which in turn increases your character’s power levels.

Level-Grinders also allow you to hoard virtual items that don’t exist in the real world; accumulate unimaginable wealth in an imaginary world, and solve mysteries while you’re doing it.

Over and over again. For the love of the grind…

So here we go… The 100 Best Level-Grinders Of All-Time…

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Celebration, Lists, Programmers, ZX Spectrum

Jonathan Smith’s Classic ZX Spectrum Games

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A British programmer/developer who made a name for himself with his very first game, Pud Pud, which was published by Ocean Software for the ZX Spectrum in 1984. Smith was just 17 at the time Pud Pud was released, but was fortuitous in that his pitch to Ocean, and them signing him up as ‘talent’, was all filmed and later broadcast on television in an episode of BBC TV’s Commercial Breaks, which gave him an instant profile to an appreciative audience. Bob Wakelin‘s ace cover art also did Smith‘s early games a lot of good.

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To Infinity And Beyond: The Infinity Engine Games

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The Infinity Engine by BioWare is synonymous with great RPGs. You think Infinity Engine, you think Planescape: Torment, or Baldur’s Gate. Or Icewind Dale. All great level-grinding adventures and all published by Interplay in the late ’90s and early 2000s.

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10 Best Prince of Persia Conversions

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LISTS: as decided by His Majesty The King of Grabs, in order of greatness:

1. Super Nintendo (1992)
2. PC Engine/Turbografx-16 (1991)
3. Commodore 64 (2011)
4. PC MS-DOS (1990)
5. Atari ST (1990)
6. Amiga (1990)
7. Sega CD (1992)
8. Sharp X68000 (1991)
9. ZX Spectrum (1996)
10. Megadrive/Genesis (1993)

And of course there’s always the Apple II original, which is ‘The Daddy’ of them all.

All Hail The Prince of Persia, and all hail Jordan Mechner!

More: Prince of Persia on Wikipedia

All versions of Prince of Persia on The King of Grabs:
Apple II, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, PC MS-DOS, SAM Coupé, Sharp X68000, PC Engine/Turbografx-16, Sega Master System, Sega CD, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Megadrive/Genesis, Game Boy Color, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum

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Bethesda, History, Lists, PC

The Elder Scrolls Series, PC

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There’s been approximately four years on average, between episodes of The Elder Scrolls series, and we are currently long overdue an announcement on a follow-up to 2011’s Skyrim. At the time of writing, it’s been eight years since Skyrim, and three years since the remaster.

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