Alucard explores Dracula's castle, then the castle upside down; the other half of Metroidvania.
Eight robot masters in any order; the NES difficulty and the Dr Wily theme.
The 1986 original: a gold cartridge, no map and "it's dangerous to go alone".
Yoshi, the cape and 96 exits on the SNES; the launch title that still plays perfectly.
The raccoon suit, the world map and the airships; the best NES game.
Ryu, Chun-Li and the hadouken; the fighting game that filled arcades in 1991.
Dual fighters and the captured ship; the shoot-em-up perfected.
Jumpman climbs girders to save Pauline; Mario's first appearance, 1981.
A cel-shaded Hyrule drowned under a sea, sailed island to island.
The SNES Hyrule with a Dark World mirror; the template every 2D Zelda follows.
Michelangelo's New Sacristy, where Night and Day lie unfinished over the Medici tombs.
Eighteen storeys cut into volcanic rock, deep enough to hide twenty thousand people and their cattle.
The Blue Hole, freediving on the Bedouin beach and Mount Sinai at sunrise an hour away.
The Red Sea resort coast: dive boats to the Giftun islands and dolphins in the morning.
The Ras Mohammed reefs and the Thistlegorm wreck, at the tip of the Sinai.
The food capital of Bolivia, the biggest Christ statue in South America and the La Cancha market.
The Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca, a Moorish basilica and boats to the Isla del Sol.
The gateway to the salt flat, the train cemetery and three-day jeep trips to the coloured lagoons.
A living Inca town with its original street grid and terraces, the train station for Machu Picchu.
The sea of seven colours, a Caribbean island closer to Nicaragua with Raizal English Creole culture.
The oldest city in Colombia, the beaches of Tayrona park and the trek to the Lost City.
The mouth of the Amazon: the Ver-o-Peso market, acai bowls at their source and the Cirio procession.
A hilltop colonial town of churches and artists, with the giant puppets of its Carnival.
Niemeyer's Pampulha church, the bar capital of Brazil and the Inhotim art park nearby.
Bamboo rafting on the Rio Grande, the Blue Lagoon and the jerk pits of Boston Bay.
Climb Dunn's River Falls and swim the Blue Hole, with Bob Marley's birthplace in the hills.
A French-Dominican beach town on the Samana peninsula, humpback whales from January to March.
The only cable car in the Caribbean, up to a Christ statue, and the amber museum.
Wooden Caribbean houses on stilts, starfish beach and the boats to the Bocas del Toro islands.
Afro-Caribbean reggae, coconut rice and the Salsa Brava wave on the Caribbean coast.
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