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Gallery: Horror Arcade Flyers (Festival of Dread Special)

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Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering‘s month-long celebration of all things kooky, spooky, and altogether ooky. It’s been a while since we’ve done one of our “Cheeky Gaming Ads” galleries, and while Halloween doesn’t quite lend itself to the same level of “cheeky-ness”, we thought it would be fun to gaze at a few horror-themed arcade game

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Retro Game Review: “Alien Syndrome” (NES, Festival of Dread Special)

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Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things inhuman and otherworldly. Halloween is mostly known for ghouls, goblins, and the like, but aliens are sometimes wrapped up in the festivities due to their often frightening portrayal in pop culture and – you know – their propensity for probing. If any representation of space aliens

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