1UP. com users gave it an 8. 7 out of 10, and the GameSpot community gave the Mario-Duck Hunt package a 9. 1 out of 10.

1UP. com listed him as the seventh best dog in video games, stating that even though he is annoying, he is ballsy enough to laugh at someone with a loaded rifle.

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Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com expressed his disagreement with the game's status as an " unfairly forgotten masterpiece " among its substantial Internet following.

1UP. com ranked the Game 3rd in its " Top Ten Cult Classics.

When naming its top five Mario Kart tracks of all time in 2008, 1UP. com named Battle Mode Course 4 at number three and Rainbow Road – along with its subsequent versions in the series – at number one.

1UP. com have credited the use of Mode 7 with giving the game graphics which at the time of release were considered to be " breathtaking ".

Games UK's list of the hundred greatest games of all time which praises the appealing characters and power ups and 1UP. com's " Essential 50 ", a list of the fifty most important games ever made.

Response to the karting games released since Super Mario Kart has been mixed, with GameSpot describing them as tending to be bad while 1UP. com notes that countless developers have tried to improve upon the Mario Kart formula without success.

Twilight Princess was named Game of the Year by X-Play, Game Trailers, 1UP, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Spacey Awards, Game Informer, GameSpy, Nintendo Power, IGN, and many other websites.

While 1UP. com notes that the game's " color-matching action is more engrossing than Mario Bros .' turtle-punching platform hopping ", the reviewer strongly questions whether this re-release is worth its sale price by itself when a version of Dr. Mario was included in another Game Boy Advance game, WarioWare, Inc .: Mega Microgames !.

Some of the more popular sites include ( but are not limited to ) IGN, GameSpot, Kotaku, 1UP. com, GamesRadar, Machinima, GameTrailers, and G4.

* E3 2009 coverage: 1UP, E3coverage. com, G4, Gamespot, IGN, Joystiq, UGO E3. net

1UP. com's Chris Baker called the Chao feature in Sega Superstars " ultimately worthless ... but some might find it amusing.

Tim Jones of IGN found Metroid II a refreshing departure from the norm, and praised its replay value, while 1UP. com's Jeremy Parish felt that the game's visuals were bland and monotonous, noting that the music was not up to par with what the series is known for.

1UP. com's Kat Bailey commented that the game helped establish the series as a prominent and commercially successful video game franchise.

Numerous video game journalists and enthusiasts including Thomas, Craig Skistimas of ScrewAttack, GameSpot editors Christian Nutt and Justin Speer, and 1UP. com's Jeremy Parish, refer to the fourth installment as a turning point for the quality of titles in the Mega Man series.

1UP. com's 2007 game awards, which ran in the March 2008 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, included Persona 3, given the award for " Most controversial game that created no controversy ".

1UP. com's James Mielke, who scored it an " A -", said the quality and clarity of the CG visuals was " genuinely amazing.

1UP. com's Jeremy Parish painted Mega Man 5 as " a painfully phoned-in episode lacking not only innovation, but pretty much all the polish and balance that made the earlier games so enjoyable ".

Blaziken has received positive reception, 1UP. com's Michael Vreeland described Blaziken as an " interesting combination fire / fighting powerhouse ".

In contrast, 1UP. com's Jeremy Parish felt the game did not offer enough new content to warrant a purchase.

1UP. com's Che Chou also praised the multiplayer, but observed that " constantly roll-dodging to avoid enemy fire at close range combined with the exceptionally slow movement speed of your character ... can occasionally be highly frustrating for beginners.

1UP. com's Michael Vreeland compared Aerodactyl to the Pokémon Archen due to its similar combination of Rock and Flying which he wrote is considered " infamous " due to " the ever-annoying Aerodactyl ".

1UP. com's Jeremy Parish agreed with Clements, arguing that Zack's story contrasted with other RPG plots, calling it " the heart of the game.

Only the multiplayer Siege mode and a single-player demo were available but they were enough to get 1UP. com's award for best action game at E3.

It won both 1UP. com's and GameSpy's " Best RPG of E3 2005 " award, ahead of runner-up Kingdom Hearts II.

1UP. com's Jeremy Parish commented that he would rather have nothing at all on the Virtual Console in its debut week than Urban Champion.

1UP. com's Patrick Klepek criticized Nintendo for releasing only this and Baseball in one week, calling both poor games.

In 2009, 1UP. com editor Bob Mackey reviewed the NES game in 1UP. com's official Retro Gaming Blog.

1UP. com's review, written two weeks after the game's release, stated " But the sad truth is that NWN2 shipped in a pretty messy state, and even after a couple patches ( as of this writing ), the biggest problems remain.

" 1UP. com's Jeremy Parish called Fawful a " jabbering lunatic whose broken English made Superstar Saga so hilarious ".

1UP. com's Richard Li wrote that Farfetch'd was a " funny looking bird with a even funnier looking Celery attack weapon " as well as a Pokémon that is " completely average in stats ".

1UP. com's review noted that " if you can beat it on normal difficulty, then consider yourself a true gamer ," and that " it may turn off some with its difficulty ".

" 1UP. com's Nadia Oxford attributed this change to Capcom's belief that American children would be more interested in a game with the latter title.

" 1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish stated that Bowser makes the game, describing him as more interesting than Bowser's Inside Story predecessor's partners, the baby forms of Mario and Luigi.

" Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com assured readers that " even with its shortcomings, it's still one of the most value-packed classic compilations available for any system -- as long as you like Sonic.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com was particularly critical of the game.

" Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com stated that the gameplay in Yoshi was " not enough to justify the asking price 500 Nintendo Points | points ," though he later stated that, compared to the " uninspired " Yoshi's Cookie, Yoshi was " decent and actually had some relationship to the Mario series.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com referred to Metal Gear Solid as " basically a high-spec remake of Metal Gear 2.

" Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com notes that " Metal Gear Solid 2 is a game built on misinformation " and that it " was simply too avant-garde — too clever — for its own good.

1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish shared the sentiment, stating " the fact that his schemes ultimately boil down to creating eight themed robots with a fatal weakness to one another's powers casts his ' genius ' descriptor into doubt.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com bemoaned the fact that Gravemind was never explicitly stated to be the Flood leader in either Halo 2 or Halo 3 and was hardly seen in the third installment.

In a 2007 retrospective of the Mega Man series, Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com ranked Mega Man Legends 2 as " Worth it!

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com complained that the link between Gravemind and the Flood was never explicitly stated in either Halo 2 or Halo 3 and was hardly seen in the last game.

1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish used the final battle against Giygas as an example of how EarthBound inverts gamers ' expectations, due to the fact that the player characters employ prayer as opposed to their strongest attacks.

While he has been regarded as one of the best Mario villains by GameDaily, he has been decried by several editors for being a troublesome enemy, including 1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish and G4TV editor Andrew Pfister.

In his retrospective of Super Mario Bros. 2, 1UP. com editor Jeremy Parish commented that after " being harrassed endlessly by that jackass Lakitu, it was a relief to be able to hop onto Pidgit's magic carpet and swipe it right out from under his feet.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP. com wrote that Shin Megami Tensei: Persona " is a perfect example of how to remake a great game -- graphics notwithstanding -- and this release makes a brilliant game feel fresh and relevant again.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP complained that the game's puzzles were extremely unoriginal, with the comment, " the devices and gimmicks used to obstruct progress are so hoary that archaeologists have unearthed ancient clay tablets inscribed with Trace Memory puzzle solutions.

Jeremy Parish of 1UP found the game's two-player co-operative mode more enjoyable than its single-player, and described the graphics and sound as " oddly primitive ".