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I’ve spent more time than is healthy staring at storefronts, convincing myself restraint is a virtue. It is not. This week’s spread is the rare kind that justifies the lapse, stacked with games that respect your time, your intelligence, and your wallet in roughly that order.
A good sale is not about volume. It is about confidence. These are games I have played, finished, or at least bounced off hard enough to know exactly who they are for. If something is here, it earned the slot.
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This Day in Gaming 🎂
In retro news, I’ve baked a large America-shaped birthday cake for Cruis’n USA, an early N64 arcade racer that’s turned 28. This was uncomplicated wannabe 3D Outrun stuff. Just select one of seven muscle cars and then race against time through the checkpoints of 14 different courses. Simple. Fun.
For me, Cruisn’ was only really memorable for its rockin’ soundtrack, some decent 2P split racing, and a bunch of censorship decisions enforced by Nintendo. Seems they weren’t fans of the ability to roadkill wildlife, including a bikini-clad pornstar handing over trophies (a shirt was Photoshopped in), and they also ditched this weird secret ending with Bill and Hillary Clinton
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