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As with previous installments, the games don't have to be native, you just have to be able to play them on Linux by whatever means - native, compatibility-layers, engine-replacements, emulation, browsers, whatever.
2024 was an emulation-heavy year for me, and these were my favourites;
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Bomberman Max: Blue Champion (GBC)
A fun portable installment in the long-running franchise, which shakes up the formula by having different clear-conditions for each stage, and by adding Pokemon-style collectible creatures called Charaboms. It's more Bomberman, what else could I want?
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Doraemon - Nobita to 3tsu no Seireiseki (N64)
This 1997 N64 3D-platformer sees the famous earless robot cat from the future, Doraemon, travelling with his friends to an enchanted land in order to save a kingdom of fairies from certain doom. It captures the look, feel, and charm of the long-running manga and anime series perfectly.
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McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure (MD)
A platformer based on the McDonaldland advertising mascots, where Ronald McDonald goes on an adventure to put together a treasure-map and find out where it leads. McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure is a hidden gem that's thoughtfully-designed and a lot of fun.
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Orebody: Binder's Tale (NES/Proton)
A modern NES game sold in emulator-wrapped form, I picked up Orebody: Binder's Tale in Steam's Dinos vs. Robots Fest earlier in the year. On first glance, it appears to resemble Capcom's Mega Man series of platform-games, but it's much less forgiving than those! It's not insurmountable, though, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
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Zero Wing (MD)
A home conversion of the original arcade game, this Mega Drive title added the now-famous "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US." intro. It's a solid side-scrolling shoot-'em-up, with the interesting feature of being able to hold onto enemy ships to use them as a shield or throw them at other enemies. If you enjoy the genre, Zero Wing is well worth checking out.
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All games listed in alphabetical order......
Since most are sports games theres not much to really say about them...... I just think they are the games that represent that sport the best that Ive played this year........
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Aconcagua (2000 Sony) - Sony PlayStation - Adventure
A really neat point and click adventure game that most people have never heard off..... It was released only in Japan and only recently had a fully fan translated English patch released...... Really good game and the puzzles arnt to hard either.....
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Blitz: The League (2005 Midway) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Football)
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Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (2003 Tecmo) - Microsoft Xbox - Sports (Beach Volleyball)
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Madden NFL 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo Gamecube - Sports (Football)
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Major League Baseball 2K6 (2006 2K Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Baseball)
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MLB Power Pros 2008 (2008 2K Sports) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Baseball)
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I wondered what happened to BlackBloodRum……..
My Summer Car (2016 Amistech Games) - Steam - Simulation
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NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona (2002 Infogrames) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Racing)
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NBA Live 2003 (2002 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Basketball)
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NFL Blitz (1998 Midway) - Nintendo 64 - Sports (Football)
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NHL Hitz 2003 (2002 Midway) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Hockey)
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Rumble Roses (2005 Konami) - Sony PlayStation 2 - Sports (Wrestling)
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Shane Warne Cricket '99 (1998 Codemasters) - Sony PlayStaion - Sports (Cricket)
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Spider-Pig...... Spider-Pig..... Does whatever a Spider-Pig does........
Spider-Man (2000 Activision) - Nintendo 64 - Action
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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 (2003 EA Sports) - Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Golf)
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000 Activision) - Sega Dreamcast - Sports (Skateboarding)
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World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 Final Evolution (2003 Konami) Nintendo GameCube - Sports (Soccer)
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00:03-00:50 WRC Generations
Best Rally game out there currently. Well if we don't count Richard Burns Rally.
Lots of Countries and Stages. Pretty good physics and simulation. Only problem is Awful sound design.
00:50-01:50 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Super immersive Open World game. With Compass and Visibility markers off its a blast to play. Lots of fun sidemissions also where you have to use your braincells and don't just run blindly from point to point.
Decent AI that flanks you, ambushes or hides in cover when things go bad. ~90 hours in currently
01:50-02:49 Red Dead Redemption 2
Played it earlier in the year. At first i didn't really like the story, but it started to get interesting after the prologue in few hours. Still havent finished it or anything. played about ~30 hours so far. Definitely will return to it when other games run out.
02:49-03:55 Warhammer Return of Reckoning
Well yea. What can i say. Still hooked to that oldschool MMORPG. Great RvR battles and lots of new content added by the team also.
Spoiler, click me
03:55-04:48 Warhammer 40K: Speed Freeks
Super fun vehicle combat PvP game with Orkz. Free to play. Currently it has very small playerbase as the developers don't advertise this game during early access. They are working on polishing and adding new stuff before the full release.
04:48-05:55 Green Hell
Pretty hardcore survival game. Immersive though. Playing with a friend. lost in the jungle, always hungry.
05:55-07:05 GTA Vice City Definitive Edition
Since the latest patches it's been really good. If you dont mind the plastic faces, then its pretty much the classic game now with modern graphics. Nostalgia for me. THe best story in GTA games imo. Gameplay and car physics is not as good as in GTA IV though.
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For next year i'm waiting for the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Hopefully it delivers and i can immerse myself into that world again. Heroes of Might and Magic: Old Era might be good also, but since its Ubisoft published i don't have super high hopes.
Lets see what happens in 2025!
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Kidding!
I've mostly played older emulated games like NFS MW and the re-released Red Dead Redemption, etc.
Other than that Baldurs Gate 3, Skald, the 'game' of setting up dosbox games to play and then not playing them that much, and will probably round the year out with sone Dungeons of Dredmore and Caves of Qud.