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+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Desert Strike

"Doesn't do anything (obviously) that a weedy Mega Drive couldn't do"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #92 - Desert Strike (90%, Issue 4)

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Super Play Top 100: #92 - Desert Strike (90%, Issue 4)

A helicopter, a desert, and the tyranny of good intentions

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

Jan 15, 2026

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Parodius

"I did find the game ever so slightly boring and predictable"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #93 - Parodius (86%, Issue 5)

Dec 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #93 - Parodius (86%, Issue 5)

When the joke is better than the genre

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

Nov 12, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - The Lost Vikings

“The main problem is frustration”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #94 - The Lost Vikings (84%, Issue 8)

Oct 23, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #94 - The Lost Vikings (84%, Issue 8)

“There’s nothing here that couldn’t be done on a lesser machine like the Mega Drive or Amiga”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

Oct 10, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Donkey Kong Country

“Above anything else it is necessary to point out that you must own Donkey Kong Country”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #95 - Donkey Kong Country (90%, Issue 27)

Sep 17, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #95 - Donkey Kong Country (90%, Issue 27)

"It can't be the greatest platform game ever partly because of those Silicon Graphics-rendered visuals"

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Spike McFang

Aug 16, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Spike McFang

“if you've made it this far I suggest that you've more than a passing interest in the genre"

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #96 - Spike McFang (82%, Issue 24)

Aug 5, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #96 - Spike McFang (82%, Issue 24)

This vampire fights with a hat and cape — And somehow, it slaps

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Unirally

Jul 21, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Unirally

“Our faces wrinkled in dismay when we first saw this effort”

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+4

Super Play Top 100: #97 - Unirally (85%, Issue 29)

Jul 7, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #97 - Unirally (85%, Issue 29)

The bizarre, beautiful, lawsuit-riddled tale of sentient unicycles

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Hebereke's Popoitto

Jun 23, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Hebereke's Popoitto

Over its lifetime, Super Play reviewed more Super Nintendo games than any other magazine in the United Kingdom - 596 to be precise - so picking a sixth of them, let alone the order of merit, would never be an easy task.

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100: #98 - Hebereke’s Popoitto (86%, Issue 39)

Jun 9, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #98 - Hebereke’s Popoitto (86%, Issue 39)

The puzzle game you never knew you needed (or could pronounce)

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Samurai Shodown

May 23, 2025

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2 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Samurai Shodown

Over its lifetime, Super Play reviewed more Super Nintendo games than any other magazine in the United Kingdom - 596 to be precise - so picking a sixth of them, let alone the order of merit, would never be an easy task.

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Cool Spot

May 11, 2025

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1 min read

Super Play Top 100 Review Redux - Cool Spot

How did Cool Spot fare across the critical landscape in the 1990s?

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100: #99 - Samurai Shodown (84%, Issue 28)

May 5, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #99 - Samurai Shodown (84%, Issue 28)

Feudal Japan, in 16-Bit grainy goodness!

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Manga

+8

Super Play: The Magazine That Inspired Millennial Love for the SNES and Everything Japanese

Apr 28, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play: The Magazine That Inspired Millennial Love for the SNES and Everything Japanese

And what about those covers too, woof

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

Super Play

+5

Super Play Top 100: #100 - Cool Spot (82%, Issue 14)

Apr 7, 2025

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3 min read

Super Play Top 100: #100 - Cool Spot (82%, Issue 14)

The soft drink mascot who jumped his way into our hearts (and marketing departments)

Kevin Kissane
Kevin Kissane

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