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

In Japan, the genre's beginning can be traced to Bokosuka Wars ( 1983 ), an early strategy RPG ( or " simulation RPG "); the game revolves around the player leading an army across a battlefield against enemy forces in real-time while recruiting / spawning soldiers along the way, for which it is considered by Ray Barnholt of 1UP. com to be an early prototype real-time strategy game.

" 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.

1UP. com listed him as the most " Gracelessly Aging Character ", citing the fact that the original Donkey Kong from the arcade game eventually became Cranky Kong.

In 2010, 1UP. com ranked Shenmue at # 2 in its list of " 15 Games Ahead of Their Time ," citing its " ambition and scope ," various " forward-thinking " mechanics such as real-time weather effects, " day and night cycles, and massive playable environments ," its quick-time event mechanic, and for giving players a " living " world to explore, concluding that it " was ahead of its time in nearly every aspect of its design.

The game is counted by 1UP. com as one of the first games to have brought a series of 2D games into full 3D.

1UP. com attributed this decline to Nintendo's use of cartridges and the design of the Nintendo 64 controller, which were reportedly implemented by Shigeru Miyamoto for Super Mario 64.

" 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.

In individual ratings, IGN scored The Legend of Zelda with an 8 out of 10, GamePro a 4. 5 out of 5, Nintendo Power a 4. 5 out of 5, and 1UP. com an A.

Rowan Kaiser of 1UP. com, who placed the game 53rd on " The 60 Most Influential Games of All Time ", pointed out that the game " paved the way for the later popularity of Halo, Call of Duty, and more ".

1UP. com gave it a D rank, criticizing its lack of improvements and touchy controls.

" According to 1UP. com, Metal Gear Solids cinematic style continues to influence modern action games such as Call of Duty.

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka stated in an interview with video game publication 1UP. com that Chao were incorporated into Sonic Adventure " so that new players would be forced to go out, explore the action sections, and find Flickies and things.

It was also listed as the 19th most important video game of all time by 1UP. com.

* Rebel With a Cause: Traveling through the mind of Tim Schafer at 1UP. com ( 2006 )

EGM Live * was a podcast done every Monday by the editors ( usually four at a time ) of EGM on 1UP. com, usually moderated by managing editor Jennifer Tsao or reviews editor Greg Ford.

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.

1UP. com editor Justin Haywald agreed, stating that while it made single player modes difficult, the game was meant to be played with friends.

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.

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

A 1UP editor pulled the review from the site and officially retracted it from the print version of the January 2007 issue of Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, explaining that " we felt that this particular review of Neverwinter Nights 2 did a disservice to fans of the RPG genre.

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

" Similarly, a 1UP. com editor wrote that the game is " mostly-unknown ( there's not even a single video of it on YouTube )" and that it " deserves a little more coverage, if only to acknowledge its existence ".

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

In regards to this, an 1UP. com editor commented that " when it comes to mining the show for content, Bartman Meets Radioactive Man is really reaching.

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

" Mega Man IV was one of only two Game Boy titles recommended by 1UP. com editor Jeremy Parrish, who felt it was much more polished than the three preceding games.

1UP. com editor Andrew Pfister stated that while everyone was expecting to hate what he describes as an " angsty teen ", this is " tempered by the presence of Balthier and Basch ", two fellow characters.