Lost in the flap over the 20th anniversaries of the Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 2009 was the 20th anniversary (last month, in fact) of the Atari Lynx, the second-to-last console to carry the ill-fated Atari brand. The Lynx was, and remains, one of the finest examples of a machine that was both truly excellent and far too fatally flawed to succeed.
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Some Other Random Old Games, Part 1: Ikaruga (XBLA), Gradius V (PS2), Unreal Tournament (PC)
Over the last few days, inspired by Ikaruga’s temporary half-pricedness thanks to Xbox Live’s often maligned Deal of the Week (this was how to do it right, Microsoft; more please), I’ve been revisiting a few old favorites from the last decade or so of gaming. And they all involve shooting things!
