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October 16, 2024 No Responses

Ghost in the Shell

Developer: Exact Publisher: THQ Release: 12/02/97 Genre: Action During the late 90s as anime began to rise in popularity Ghost in the Shell was one of the biggest animated films of 1995 with ridiculous production values and a theatrical...

April 22, 2024 No Responses

Rabbit

Developer: Aorn Publisher: EA Victor Release: 06/27/97 Genre: Fighting The Sega Saturn is host to a wider variety of games than most people realize. This of course is a consequence of the system failing everywhere but Japan....

October 25, 2023 No Responses

Time Crisis

Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Release: 11/12/97 Genre: Rail Shooter I have always enjoyed the yin and yang between Namco and Sega. When Sega created Virtua Fighter Tekken was not far behind. Once Virtua Cop was a hit Time Crisis...

October 23, 2023 No Responses

Bulk Slash

Developer: CAProduction Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 07/11/97 Genre: Action Because of its early demise the Saturn never truly had a chance to show gamers what it could really do in the West. Most of the 3d titles gamers...

September 8, 2023 No Responses

Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero

Developer: Masaya Publisher: NCS Release: 03/20/97 Genre: Action Masaya’s Shubibinman series had the potential to be the PC Engine’s Mega Man, a kick ass run and gun series full of action and robots. To a degree they were exactly that...

August 21, 2023 No Responses

Bubble Symphony

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Publisher: 11/27/97 Genre: Platformer Watching arcades disappear around the mid-90s was a sad sight. Not only because it was a place to meet fellow gamers before the internet became big but also because there we...

April 21, 2023 No Responses

Multi Racing Championship

Developer: Genki Publisher: Ocean Release: 07/18/97 Genre: Racing Those of us who lived through the Nintendo 64’s first year came to know its release schedule intimately. For most of that initial year only one or two games were...

April 17, 2023 No Responses

G Vector

Developer: Soft Office Publisher: Soft Office Release: 10/16/97 Genre: Shooter For many Virtua Fighter was the star of the Sega Saturn launch. It is easy to see why; it was the first major fighting game in 3d...

October 19, 2022 No Responses

RayStorm

Developer: Taito Publisher: Working Designs Release: 09/97 Genre: Shooter Sega’s surprise Saturn launch in the US meant new releases was slow in the early months. Galactic Attack was an early bright spot in that period and managed to stand...

February 18, 2022 No Responses

Doom 64

Developer: Midway Publisher: Midway Release: 04/04/97 Genre: Action In the mid-90s Doom was an institution unto itself. It was not the very first fps but it popularized the genre to the point Doom clone became a phrase. And just...

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