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August 14, 2023 No Responses

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

Developer: Capcom Publisher: NEC Release: 06/12/93 Genre: Fighting Once Street Fighter II hit the SNES the floodgates were open. Arcade games previously thought impossible for home release were ported to the 16-bit consoles en masse. While the Sega Genesis...

July 24, 2023 No Responses

Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys

Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 12/22/93 Genre: Action RPG I think it is safe to say Ys III is the most divisive entry in the series. The switch from overhead action to side-scrolling platforming was...

July 18, 2023 No Responses

Ys III: Wanderer’s from Ys (Turbo Grafx-16)

Developer: Alfa System Publisher: NEC Release: 11/91 Genre: Action RPG Even though many hate Zelda II I loved it. Back then there were no expectations placed on video games so we accepted that a sequel could be completely different...

July 14, 2023 No Responses

Ys Book I & II

Developer: Alfa System Publisher: NEC Release: 1990 Genre: Action RPG I looked forward to playing Ys Book I & II for many years. Ever since it received a perfect 10 in Electronic Gaming Monthly it seemed liked the...

June 12, 2023 No Responses

The Dynastic Hero

Developer: AlfaSystem Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 1993 Genre: Action RPG One day, one day I will untangle the messy history and lineage of the Wonder Boy series. Wonder Boy in Monster World was one of my favorite early...

May 24, 2023 No Responses

Final Soldier

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 07/05/91 Genre: Shooter I never liked the Star Soldier games on the NES. With far superior competition in the form of Zanac, Life Force, and Gun-Nac they were simply too...

April 10, 2023 No Responses

Fushigi no Yume no Alice

Developer: Face Publisher: Face Release: 12/07/90 Genre: Platformer Platforming fans had a rough go of it on the Turbo Grafx. While SNES and Genesis owners were spoiled for choice in the US the pickings were slim for...

March 24, 2023 No Responses

Double Dragon 2 – the Revenge

Developer: Kid Co. Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Beat em up My initial exposure to Double Dragon 2 was the brilliant NES version which was essentially a remake. I did not play the arcade game until...

March 15, 2023 No Responses

L-Dis

Developer: Dual Publisher: Masaya Release: 04/05/91 Genre: Shooter In the land of video games sometimes you have to something absurd to stand out. The PC Engine has more shooters than you can possibly imagine. To be fair...

February 13, 2023 No Responses

Star Parodier

Developer: Kaneki, Inster State Co. Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/24/92 Genre: Shooter Apparently every long running shooter series has to poke fun at itself at some point. Konami pioneered the art of parody with Parodius which to this...

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