Night Striker

Night Striker

Developer: Aisystem Tokyo    Publisher: Taito    Release: 05/28/93    Genre: Shooter Anyone who was around in the 80s has bought more than one video game based off of screenshots, a magazine or ad. My interest in Night Striker was peaked due to...
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Steel Empire

Steel Empire

Developer: Hot-B     Publisher: Flying Edge     Released: 1992     Genre: Shooter As much as I loved shooters growing up they did become over saturated with releases in a very short period. The Genesis, Turbo Grafx-16 and the arcade saw an innumera...
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Wonder Boy in Monster World

Wonder Boy in Monster World

Developer: Westone    Publisher: Sega    Release: 1991    Genre: Action RPG The Wonder Boy games started out as slightly unique platformers at the genre’s beginning but it wouldn’t be long before the series would explore other genres.  Wonder Boy...
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Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse

Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse

Developer: Sega    Publisher: Sega    Release: 11/26/90   Genre: Platformer Capcom usually gets the majority of the praise when the discussing Disney licensed titles. And rightfully so I might add. At a time where LJN and Ocean basically treated any lic...
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Target Earth

Target Earth

Developer: Masaya    Publisher: Dreamworks    Release: 1990   Genre: Action The NES library covered pretty much all genres but conspicuously absent were games starring giant robots. No, Probotector does not count. If you explore the Famicom library you ...
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Joe & Mac

Joe & Mac

Developer: Eden Entertainment    Release: Takara    Release: 1994    Genre: Platformer I loved that weird period in the early 90s where caveman platformers were an actual thing. Bonk’s Adventure, Chuck Rock, Prehistorik Man, the Humans, I loved all of....
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King Colossus: Tougi Ou

King Colossus: Tougi Ou

Developer: Sega    Publisher: Sega    Release: 06/26/92    Genre: Action RPG While it is a fact that the Genesis is missing the breadth and depth of the SNES’s RPG library I must say that Sega did a pretty good job overall of...
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