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July 30, 2018 No Responses

Conquest of the Crystal Palace

Developer: Quest Publisher: Asmik Released: 11/90 Genre: Action Conquest of the Crystal Palace was a random rental from Blockbuster Video. Not because I had heard of it before but because I thought the box art looked cool. While normally that...

July 9, 2018 No Responses

Fester’s Quest

Developer: Sunsoft Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 10/89 Genre: Action I was never particularly fond of Fester’s Quest growing up. While most of us were stupid kids willing to play anything in front of us during the 80s that began to change...

July 4, 2018 No Responses

Arrow Flash

Developer: I.T.L. Publisher: Renovation Release: 1990 Genre: Shooter By the mid-90s the US market was overrun with shooters. If you owned a Turbo Grafx, Genesis or Neo Geo you had more choices than you knew what to...

June 25, 2018 No Responses

8 Eyes

Developer: Thinking Rabbit Publisher: Taxan Release: 01/90 Genre: Platformer I really wanted to play 8 Eyes when I was young. All I had to go on were a few scant screenshots in my comic books. But that was...

June 11, 2018 No Responses

Street Fighter 2010

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Released: September 1990 Genre: Action A year before I had ever heard of Street Fighter I played Street Fighter 2010. It seemed like a fairly innocuous release at the time and I thought nothing of i...

April 25, 2018 one Response

Cross Wiber

Developer: FACE Publisher: Sankindo Released: 12/21/90 Genre: Action Cyber Cross was not a good game. It was the kind of generic pap you get not long after a system launch and was mediocre in every way. It was doubly embarrassing...

April 23, 2018 No Responses

Low G Man

Developer: KID Publisher: Taxan Release: 09/90 Genre: Action We live in an era where we can find footage of new video games at the touch of a button. Not only that many games have betas open to nearly everyone....

January 28, 2018 2 Responses

Bad Dudes

Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Release: 07/90 Genre: Beat em up Part of what I enjoy the most about writing this blog is revisiting games that I remember fondly. For the most part the games that were great...

December 27, 2017 No Responses

Crack Down

Developer: Hot-B Publisher: Sage’s Creation Release: 1991 Genre: Action Over the years what I’ve come to appreciate most about the Genesis library is its large range of arcade ports. More specifically Sega arcade ports. I do not think ...

November 8, 2017 one Response

Ninja Gaiden II – the Dark Sword of Chaos

Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Release: 05/90 Genre: Action As much as it frustrates me Ninja Gaiden is still one of my favorite NES games ever. I would not have dumped hundreds of hours mastering it just to reach its...

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