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Land of the Dead: Road To Fiddler’s Green, XBox

This adaptation of George A. Romero‘s 2005 film, Land of the Dead, was developed by Brainbox Games and published by Groove Games.

Road To Fiddler’s Green was released not long after the film came out, and it utterly fails to capture any of the ‘fun’ of the film, or the visual style of it.

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Dirty Larry: Renegade Cop, Atari Lynx

This handheld run-and-gun/beat ’em up hybrid was obviously made to parody the character of Dirty Harry, as portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the films. It was developed by Knight Technologies and published for the Atari Lynx in North America and PAL regions in 1992.

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Raid On Bungeling Bay, NES/Famicom

The NES/Famicom version of Will Wright‘s famous overhead-scrolling helicopter game, Raid On Bungeling Bay, was developed by Hudson Soft in Japan and first published by Brøderbund on 22nd Feb 1985 (despite what it says on the game’s title screen).

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Slap Fight, Commodore 64

A Commodore 64 conversion of the 1986 arcade game by Toaplan, published by Imagine in 1987.

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Black, PlayStation 2

Developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts in 2006, Black is a console-exclusive First-Person Shooter set in contemporary Ingushetia and Chechnya, Russia. You play as a member of a CIA “Black Ops” unit, embarking on various missions.

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Uridium Plus, ZX Spectrum

First released in 1987 by Hewson Consultants, Uridium Plus is a continuation and update of Andrew Braybrook‘s classic scrolling shooter, with all-new levels.

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Uridium, ZX Spectrum

Andrew Braybrook‘s classic Commodore 64 shooter, Uridium, was converted to the ZX Spectrum by Dominic Robinson in 1986, and – considering the machine’s limitations – he did a remarkable job.

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, PC

Developed by Infinity Ward and first published by Activision in 2007, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the point where the Call of Duty series went from merely just “big” to absolutely stratospheric.

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Call of Duty 3, PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 version of Treyarch‘s Call of Duty 3 was first released on 17th November 2006 in North America; in PAL regions on 23rd March 2007, and in Japan in 14th June 2007. It is an enhanced port of the PlayStation 2 original, with more detail in the models and environments.

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