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Wirehead

Wirehead
2.5

Wirehead represents MGM Interactive’s foray into the house that Digital Pictures built. I understand the logic in their thinking. “Movie games” were becoming a buzzword, MGM knows about movies, and they can hire someone else to take care of the game. This logic led them to a partnership with Sega, and probably should have resulted [...]

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Power Factory

Power Factory
1.5

If you haven’t heard of Digital Pictures’ “Make My Video” line of games, I can’t say I’m surprised. All four of them sort of fell from notoriety, probably because they weren’t very interactive or fun. At all. I also don’t know why this title was renamed to “Power Factory,” distancing itself from the other Make [...]

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Night Trap

Night Trap
3

If you haven’t heard of Night Trap, you probably weren’t playing games in the 90s. It was this game and Mortal Kombat that set up the Congressional hearings on video game violence, and this was the most mis-represented of the collection they showed. It also represented a fortuitous save for Digital Pictures. They shot all [...]

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Road Avenger

Road Avenger
4.5

I have admitted before that I, your gallant reviewsmith, actually wasted money on a real Sega CD when it first came out. Point of fact, I still have it, in its original box, and I assume it still works. I still have it, because I can’t get anyone to buy it. Regardless, purchasing a Sega [...]

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Loadstar

Loadstar
1.5

Loadstar, an interactive movie from Rocket Science Games, is all about the trials and pitfalls of interplanetary trucking. It follows the story of one brave king of the proverbial space road, Tully “Iron Dog” Bodine, as he’s looking for one last haul so that he can retire and settle down with his sweetcheeks. He’s approached [...]

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