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The 16-bit Games Mega Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

The Back Page · November 21, 2025

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01:25:45 - 01:26:04

or a PC, I could go home and play June two and not feel, you know, sometimes he played the Amiga equivalent of a popular game you played, uh, I don't know, Zool and tried to convince yourself it was as good as Sonic the Hedgehog. But with June two, like you were getting the real deal. ...

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... I covered it on, on the blog, um, and it still holds up really well. I'm not a massive RTS guy, but I played command and conquer like everyone else. And I got my Amiga in 96. So like when command and conquer was big and I didn't have it and I didn't have a PlayStation or a PC, I could go home and play June two and not feel, you know, sometimes he played the Amiga equivalent of a popular game you played, uh, I don't know, Zool and tried to convince yourself it was as good as Sonic the Hedgehog. But with June two, like you were getting the real deal. Like it, it, it created the genre and, you know, remains really, um, really vital because of that. Yeah. I think it's a good pick. Yeah. It feels like it's, I wanted to pick something that was more in my wheelhouse. Like I was looking at Turrican and I just, I just couldn't make a convincing case for ...

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