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September 17, 2018 3 Responses

Ninja Gaiden III: the Ancient Ship of Doom

Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Release: 08/91 Genre: Action Back in the day it wasn’t uncommon for games to undergo significant changes when coming to different markets. Sometimes these were bug fixes or additions to gameplay. More often than not...

September 14, 2018 No Responses

Super Star Wars

Developer: Sculptured Software Publisher: JVC Release: 06/01/92 Genre: Action For as popular as the Star Wars license remained after the films left theaters it did not have an easy go of it in video games. The late 80s and...

September 10, 2018 No Responses

Jackie Chan’s Action Kung-Fu

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 12/90 Genre: Action For all of Jackie Chan’s success in film his video game “career” has been less than stellar. Over the last few decades there have been close to twenty...

September 5, 2018 No Responses

Alisia Dragoon

Developer: Game Arts Publisher: Sega Release: 1992 Genre: Action 1992 was a fantastic year for Sega and the Genesis. Fresh off the break out success of Sonic the Hedgehog their development teams cranked out hit after hit. Third parties also.....

September 3, 2018 No Responses

Frankenstein – the Monster Returns

Developer: Tose Publisher: Bandai Release: 1990 Genre: Action I have spent a lot of time making fun of Acclaim and LJN (and rightfully so) but there are a few other publishers who deserve the same level of derision....

August 31, 2018 No Responses

The Firemen

Developer: Human Entertainment Publisher: Human Entertainment Release: 1994 Genre: Action Today we have thousands of games released a year on Steam alone. Yet even with that deluge of content games about firefighting are still rare. Sega gave us....

August 29, 2018 No Responses

Final Zone II

Developer: Renovation Publisher: NEC Release: 1990 Genre: Action As I delve into the PC Engine CD library I have a newfound appreciation for the system. I was not able to own one back in the day; at $399...

August 27, 2018 No Responses

Fist of the North Star

Developer: Shouei Publisher: Taxan Release: 04/89 Genre: Action I discovered Fist of the North Star at a far too young age. My family had bought a random issue of the Viz single-issue release and the violence and casual nudity blew...

August 24, 2018 No Responses

Super Bomberman

Developer: Produce Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 09/93 Genre: Action I was not a fan of Bomberman initially. The title sounded exotic and I pictured, I don’t know, Bomb Man from Mega Man in an action platformer. Instead I...

August 20, 2018 No Responses

Gremlins 2: the New Batch

Developer: Sunsoft Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 10/90 Genre: Action After a string of bad games such as Superman, Back to the Future, and my personal biggest regret, Marvel’s X-Men I learned to avoid any game based on a popular license....

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