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In a time of legend gone, when video video games have been nonetheless rising from the primordial mists and magic nonetheless flowed via all issues, there have been video games of final energy. These video games didn’t concern themselves with Italian plumbers or unhappy surrogate dads, however with fierce warriors who shirtlessly strode into battle, their muscle tissues on wonderful show, to chop down their foes with swords and show themselves the strongest and manliest of all. I converse, in fact, of barbarians. And although, in latest many years, video games centered solely on the heroic exploits of barbarians have been few and much between, we now discover ourselves within the midst of a mini-renaissance of barbarian video games! To cite the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian, “That’s good. That’s good.” – Carolyn Petit Learn Extra