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 * also had a weekly trivia contest, which featured a randomly selected 1UP. com member who answered their question.

* 1UP. com ' 2010 list of Best Fatalities in Video Games featured Dairou's MK: D Fatality and, ironically, the censored Fatalities of MK vs. DC (" Included not so much for the gore, but as a reminder that Mortal Kombat went from Dairou ’ s rib-ripping to censoring a headshot in half a decade ").

Garnett Lee created a second " iteration " of 1UP Yours, called Listen UP, that featured a similar, but slightly more tight-focused, format to the original 1UP Yours, which ran from January 2009-October 2009, ending with Lee's departure to work with GameFly.

In 2011, 1UP. com featured the series in the article " The Top Ten Times Mortal Kombat Went Wrong ", calling it " a terrible, one-liner-packed train wreck of a kids ' show.

In 2011, 1UP. com featured the Malibu comics in the article " The Top Ten Times Mortal Kombat Went Wrong ", calling it to be suffering from " sloppy artwork, a truly baffling sense of human anatomy, and strange lapses in continuity ".

In 2009, 1UP. com featured Dark Corners of the Earth on the list of top five game worlds " where insanity is the entire point ".

The video gaming website 1UP. com composed a list of the " Top 5 ' Late to the Party ' Games " showing selected titles that " prove a gaming platform's untapped potential " and were one of the last games released for their respective console.

" 1UP. com took a humorous approach to Sephiroth's several appearances after apparent deaths and in other games, ranking him third in their " They Is Risen " feature, which covered the ten most notorious video game resurrections.

In their hands-on, 1UP. com anticipated being able to play Super Mario Bros. 3 again, showing excitement for the new levels and abilities.

In 2003, EGM created their current website, 1UP. com, and the gamespot. com brand was shunted to the CNET Networks.

1UP. com praised Ruby & Sapphire, noting that while they were not as interested in the Pokémon series, Ruby & Sapphire was one of their most anticipated games of the summer.

1UP. com praised the " epic feel " built up by the Combine and their harsh rule of City 17 in Half-Life 2, stating that this created " a world governed by newspeak, decorated with urban decay, and lacking any hope ".

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.

1UP. com's Nadia Oxford ellaborated, " Mega Man often has to fight with his enemies in such close quarters, he might as well hold their hands and try his luck at a friendship.