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The Nintendo AVS: The NES that could have been

           Nintendo Advanced Video System: The NES that could have been                                                                                     T he Origins The Nintendo Family Computer nicknamed the Famicom released on July 13th 1983. It saw massive success in Japan, which lead to the idea of releasing the system internationally. Nintendo wanted to work with the company Atari to release it in other countires . Those plans fell through due to Coleco developing a computer version of Donkey Kong for the Coleco ADAM, the Video Game Crash Of 1983, and Atari's upcoming 7800.  Consequently Nintendo decided to make their own version of the Family Computer for the internatioal market.                                                               Details The Nintendo AVS was introduced to the world at the 1984 CES. The system was a pc/console hybrid and bundled with a keyboard, joystick, light gun, two regular controllers, and a cassette player. All of the bundled devices were w

Sonic The Hedgehog (Game Gear) Review

                     Sega City                                     Sonic 1 on Game Gear Review                                                                       Plot      In this game, the evil Dr Robotnik or Eggman depending on your region he captures   Sonic's animal buddies to turn them into robots. Sonic needs to stop Robotnik/Eggman and rescue his friends.                                                                                           Gameplay    The gameplay is really fun most of the time. Even though it is completely different from the Genesis version so much so that it is basically a completely new game besides a few levels that are the same as its Genesis counterpart. Instead of doing some trippy, psychedelic, headache inducing special stages to collect emeralds. You find them in  various zones of the game. In this version, due to the game gears screen being small all the boss fights with Robotnik/Eggman are basically cake walks. There are also diffrent speci