Iron Commando
Developer: Arcade Zone Publisher: Poppo Release: 02/10/95 Genre: Beat em up I have mentioned that the beat em up genre was over saturated in the early 90s. Trust me it is true. But despite the glut of...
Category: Snes
Street Racer
Developer: Vivid Image Publisher: Ubi Soft Release: 94 Genre: Racing Super Mario Kart was the bestselling racing game of its generation. At just under 9 million copies sold it was also one of the bestselling SNES games of all time....
Captain America & the Avengers SNES
Developer: Realtime Associates Publisher: Mindscape Release: 1993 Genre: Beat em up Let’s be completely honest for a moment: Captain America & the Avengers was an average at best arcade game. For its time it was one of...
Stunt Race FX
Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Release: 10/10/94 Genre: Racing When Star Fox released it made a big splash. 3d was still relatively new on consoles and it was a good shooter in spite of its technical faults. Stunt Race FX...
Kūsō Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy
Developer: Amble Publisher: Bandai Release: 06/28/96 Genre: Action RPG Anime licensed games in Japan back in the 16-bit era were usually fighting games or generic platformers. When you need to get a game out as quickly as...
Aero the Acrobat
Developer: Iguana Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 10/12/93 Genre: Platformer Sunsoft were a powerhouse on the NES and one of its best developers. They made that hardware sing like few others and are one of the reasons why the NES...
Super Ninja Kun
Developer: Jaleco Publisher: Jaleco Release: 08/05/94 Genre: Platformer Jaleco was always a mid-sized publisher who never quite reached the level of Capcom or Konami. They published a wide variety of titles but their most well known in the...
Arcana
Developer: HAL Publisher: HAL Release: 05/92 Genre: RPG While I am a fan of nearly every form of RPG first person dungeon crawlers were my kryptonite. Maybe it was the disconnect from not seeing my party during my numerous...
Super Bomberman 3
Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/28/95 Genre: Action Hudson Soft was on a roll with the Super Bomberman series. Where the first game was a solid first attempt its sequel did an excellent job of shoring up its...
Crystal Beans from Dungeon Explorer
Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 10/27/95 Genre: Action Multi-platform games are a staple of the industry. After Nintendo’s stronghold on third parties was broken a significant portion of games during the 16-bit era hit both...