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* TakeThat: There are some delicious ones sprinkled throughout the articles at various celebrities and games, such as this one in the review for ''Deer Hunter'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor:
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* TakeThat: There are some delicious ones sprinkled throughout the articles at various celebrities and games, such as this one in the review for ''Deer Hunter'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor:Platform/GameBoyColor:
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** The UsefulNotes/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
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** The UsefulNotes/SuperNES Platform/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
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* ''VideoGame/FZero''''VideoGame/FZero1990''
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'''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 VGJunk]]''' is a blog about video games classic and obscure hosted on Website/{{Blogger}}. It was started in 2010 by a snarky and self-deprecating British gamer. The blog is usually updated once a week with an article detailing a playthrough of an old or classic game, or an article spotlighting tropes, character archetypes, or music remixes in games.
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'''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 VGJunk]]''' is a blog about video games classic and obscure hosted on Website/{{Blogger}}. It was started in 2010 by a snarky and self-deprecating British gamer. The Until its end in 2019, the blog is usually updated once a week with an article detailing a playthrough of an old or classic game, or an article spotlighting tropes, character archetypes, or music remixes in games.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Parodied in the article [[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/5-terrible-ideas-for-mature-gaming.html?m=1 5 Terrible Ideas for "Mature" Gaming Reboots]].
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* TotallyRadical: Some of the games reviewed on the blog feature this, on account of being made in the 80s and 90s. VG[=Junk=] himself sometimes invokes it to parody the trope, sometimes out of affection, sometimes not.
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* DeathByIrony: In ''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/scare-bear-commodore-64.html?m=1 Scare Bear]]'', one of the obstacles that the titular bear faces is a lethal honey pot.
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* Letters2Numbers: "Slaves 2 Meat", the second album of [=VGJunk=]'s band Flesh Hammer in the review of ''Popstar Maker''.
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* Letters2Numbers: "Slaves 2 Meat", the second album of [=VGJunk=]'s band Flesh Hammer in the review of ''Popstar Maker''.''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2012/01/popstar-maker-ps1.html Popstar Maker]]''.
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* ''VideoGame/RoadRash''
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: VG[=Junk=] tries to find some good in most of the games he reviews, but it is harder with some games than with others. An example of this trope is invoked in the review for ''Barney Bear Meets Santa Claus'', where he declares that the coloring book is the best activity in an admittedly meager lineup of mini games and activities.
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* TemptingFate: VG[=Junk=] sometimes does this for humor when he gets in an uncontrollable or difficult situation, or to tease that he found a game that is unlikely to be good in the first place (licensed dreck, for instance) to be of poor quality.
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* Letters2Numbers: "Slaves 2 Meat", the second album of [=VGJunk=]'s band Flesh Hammer in the review of ''Popstar Maker''.
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** ''VideoGame/MegaMan4''
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* AWinnerIsYou: The UsefulNotes/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
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* AWinnerIsYou: Several games, befitting their retro and/or arcade nature.
** The UsefulNotes/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
** The UsefulNotes/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: A ghost in ''Mansion of Hidden Souls'' is described as bearing an accent like Dick Van Dyke's terrible Cockney accent and a bad Australian accent at the same time.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the review for ''Mad Gear'', a {{Creator/Capcom}} arcade game from the late eighties. The game took place in the future year of 2011. When was the review published? November 2010.
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* RunningGag: The author's tendency to introduce games as highly specific "[X]-em-ups", such as "shinobi-em-up" ''Charlie Ninja''.
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* AWinnerIsYou: The UsefulNotes/SuperNES game based on ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'' has an underwhelming ending: "Jobe has been defeated. Game completed."
-->"You're right, incredibly underwhelming ending sequence, I should just forget about what's going on and just accept that ''The Lawnmower Man'' is over."
-->"You're right, incredibly underwhelming ending sequence, I should just forget about what's going on and just accept that ''The Lawnmower Man'' is over."
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* HurricaneOfPuns: ''Knight Games'' is so boring that [=VGJunk=] is reduced to this when he gets to the level where two knights fight with axes.
-->"I'm gonna axe this knight some difficult questions, I've got an axe to grind, he should just axe-ept his inevitable defeat, etcetera."
-->"I'm gonna axe this knight some difficult questions, I've got an axe to grind, he should just axe-ept his inevitable defeat, etcetera."
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'''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 VGJunk]]''' is a blog about video games classic and obscure hosted on {{Website/Blogger}}. It was started in 2010 by a snarky and self-deprecating British gamer. The blog is usually updated once a week with an article detailing a playthrough of an old or classic game, or an article spotlighting tropes, character archetypes, or music remixes in games.
The blog also has a {{Website/Tumblr}} [[http://vgjunk.tumblr.com/ viewable here]].
The blog also has a {{Website/Tumblr}} [[http://vgjunk.tumblr.com/ viewable here]].
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'''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 VGJunk]]''' is a blog about video games classic and obscure hosted on {{Website/Blogger}}.Website/{{Blogger}}. It was started in 2010 by a snarky and self-deprecating British gamer. The blog is usually updated once a week with an article detailing a playthrough of an old or classic game, or an article spotlighting tropes, character archetypes, or music remixes in games.
The blog also has a{{Website/Tumblr}} Website/{{Tumblr}} viewable [[http://vgjunk.tumblr.com/ viewable here]].
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!!Games reviewed by VGJunk include:
* ''{{VideoGame/Abadox}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Abadox}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''
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!!Games reviewed by VGJunk Blog/VGJunk include:
*''{{VideoGame/Abadox}}''
''VideoGame/{{Abadox}}''
*''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''''VideoGame/{{Blood}}''
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* AuthorAppeal: The author admits to liking beat-em-ups, such as ''FinalFight'' a great deal.
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* AuthorAppeal: The author admits to liking beat-em-ups, [[BeatEmUp beat 'em ups]] such as ''FinalFight'' ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' a great deal.
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** ''Ghouls 'nGoblins''
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** ''[=GhoulsNGhosts=]''
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!!Games reviewed by VGJunk include:
* ''{{VideoGame/Abadox}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''
* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil''
* ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}''
* ''VideoGame/TheChaosEngine''
* ''VideoGame/ComixZone''
* ''VideoGame/FZero''
* ''VideoGame/FinalFight''
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins''
** ''[=GhoulsNGhosts=]''
* ''VideoGame/GunSmoke''
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''
* ''VideoGame/PunchOut''
* ''{{VideoGame/Splatterhouse}}''
** ''Splatterhouse 2''
* ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors''
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* ''{{VideoGame/Abadox}}''
* ''{{VideoGame/Blood}}''
* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil''
* ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}''
* ''VideoGame/TheChaosEngine''
* ''VideoGame/ComixZone''
* ''VideoGame/FZero''
* ''VideoGame/FinalFight''
* ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins''
** ''[=GhoulsNGhosts=]''
* ''VideoGame/GunSmoke''
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan3''
* ''VideoGame/PunchOut''
* ''{{VideoGame/Splatterhouse}}''
** ''Splatterhouse 2''
* ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors''
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'''[[http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 VGJunk]]''' is a blog about video games classic and obscure hosted on {{Website/Blogger}}. It was started in 2010 by a snarky and self-deprecating British gamer. The blog is usually updated once a week with an article detailing a playthrough of an old or classic game, or an article spotlighting tropes, character archetypes, or music remixes in games.
The blog also has a {{Website/Tumblr}} [[http://vgjunk.tumblr.com/ viewable here]].
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* AuthorAppeal: The author admits to liking beat-em-ups, such as ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' a great deal.
** He also adores Halloween and monsters associated with the season, such as ghosts and reanimated skeletons.
* HalloweenEpisode: Every October, [=VGJunk=] covers horror-themed games.
* TakeThat: There are some delicious ones sprinkled throughout the articles at various celebrities and games, such as this one in the review for ''Deer Hunter'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor:
-->"I'm playing as a monumentally slow, convulsing, gun-wielding dullard, and if it wasn't fun in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' then it's not going to be fun here."
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The blog also has a {{Website/Tumblr}} [[http://vgjunk.tumblr.com/ viewable here]].
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!!Tropes
* AuthorAppeal: The author admits to liking beat-em-ups, such as ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' a great deal.
** He also adores Halloween and monsters associated with the season, such as ghosts and reanimated skeletons.
* HalloweenEpisode: Every October, [=VGJunk=] covers horror-themed games.
* TakeThat: There are some delicious ones sprinkled throughout the articles at various celebrities and games, such as this one in the review for ''Deer Hunter'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor:
-->"I'm playing as a monumentally slow, convulsing, gun-wielding dullard, and if it wasn't fun in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' then it's not going to be fun here."
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