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JUMPY JEFF - REVIEW A BAD GAME DAY

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My written review for this year's Review A Bad Game Day was Jumpy Jeff , an iPhone game with a difference: it's terrible. For all other RABGD reviews, here's the link .

ECSTATICA - REVIEW A BAD GAME DAY

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I reviewed MS-DOS game Ecstatica for Review A Bad Game Day . But is it really a bad game?

DENNIS THE MENACE (SNES) - REVIEW A BAD GAME DAY

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So it's Review A Bad Game Day again, that most magical time of year where we gather around and celebrate a bad game worthy of mention. Today, I'll be looking at the SNES version of cartoonish platformer Dennis The Menace which also came out for the Amiga and the Game Boy. Based on the live-action movie from 1993 which itself was an adaptation of the old cartoon series, the game has you take control of the titular troublemaker as he wanders around grumpy neighbour Mr Wilson's home and other locations causing all sorts of mayhem. Incidentally, it looks like Hell has already broken loose in all of those places since poor old Dennis is soon awkwardly manoeuvring around thousands of purple cats, bouncing tea cups, killer fish, giant frogs and mice. Now I'm not sure what Mr Wilson's been up to but it can't be good because his house is like the Halloween version of Pee-Wee's Playhouse . It's a bit like the Home Alone games in that everything is out to ki

SPYRO: ENTER THE DRAGONFLY - REVIEW A BAD GAME DAY

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Review by Marcelo Espinoza Spyro   is a series I grew up with alongside   Crash Bandicoot ,   Tekken ,   Rayman , and many others. Insomniac made the original Spyro trilogy, and they made those games well.  However, when the Spyro franchise went through the same thing as the Crash franchise did, Check Six and Equinoxe got ahold of the series and made   Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly . Being the first non-Insomniac Spyro title, I'm sure all fans of the purple dragon will say it CLEARLY shows.  This game was rushed for the holiday season of 2002 and boy, is it obvious.  Many things were cut, so instead of 25 levels being in the game as planned, we got 9 (counting the final boss), and while Spyro's number 1 antagonist Gnasty Gnorc was originally supposed to team up with Ripto, Ripto himself barely even has that much screen time in the final game, let alone Gnasty Gnorc, who was cut entirely.  Apart from cut content, the present

FIGHT CLUB - REVIEW A BAD GAME DAY

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It's Review A Bad Game Day and, in honour of this most excellent event, I talk about something I probably shouldn't: Fight Club on the Playstation 2. Click below for all the sweet, SWEET reviews RABGD has to offer.