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Obscure, unpopular and illogical, none of them were ever going to make a good game.

Warlock | SNES/Mega Drive | Acclaim | 1995

Warlock was a late ‘80s horror movie starring Julian Sands (You know, that guy who got cocooned in Arachnaphobia. No? Oh well). It received middling reviews and didn’t make a spectacular amount of money. Someone at LJN (Yes, them again) must have bloody loved it though, because in 1995, six years after its release, we got SNES and Mega Drive games based upon it.

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