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September 22, 2023 No Responses

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 the...

September 18, 2023 No Responses

Adventure Island III

Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 09/92 Genre: Platformer Adventure Island II and especially Super Adventure Island went a long way toward making me a fan of the series. Both games were not big revelations for the series but...

September 15, 2023 No Responses

Ane-San

Developer: NEC Avenue Publisher: NEC Avenue Release: 02/24/95 Genre: Action Delinquents and beat ‘em ups go together like peanut butter and jelly. In Japan it is the go to when you want to pound some faces in...

September 13, 2023 No Responses

Dinosaurs for Hire

Developer: Sega Interactive Publisher: Sega Release: 10/93 Genre: Action Dinosaurs for Hire? In the land of media this is far from the strangest idea out there. After all we have Biker Mice from Mars and Turtles that are...

September 11, 2023 No Responses

Saiyuuki World

Developer: Westone Publisher: Jaleco Release: 11/11/88 Genre: Platformer I was not a fan of Wonder Boy, both in the arcade and on the Master System. I did not like it when it was ported to the NES as...

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...

September 6, 2023 No Responses

Risky Woods

Developer: Electronic Arts Publisher: Electronic Arts Release: 1992 Genre: Action My interest in the titles Electronic Arts releases waxes and wanes. I am not much of a sports game fan so most of their output does not interest...

August 30, 2023 No Responses

Vampire Night

Developer: Wow Entertainment Publisher: Namco Release: 11/13/01 Genre: Action In the mid to late 90s Sega and Namco went back and forth creating arcade hits to compete with each other. When Sega made Virtua Fighter Tekken was not far...

August 28, 2023 No Responses

Mars Matrix

Developer: Takumi Publisher: Capcom Release: 04/30/01 Genre: Shooter In my nascent bullet hell days many years ago many swore by Mars Matrix as one of the best games in the genre. As someone who still only occasionally dips their toes...

August 25, 2023 No Responses

Donald Duck: Goin’ Quackers

Developer: Ubi Soft Publisher: Ubi Soft Release: 12/20/00 Genre: Platformer Many parties would touch the Disney license over the years. And to be completely honest for the most part it was treated right. While we (rightfully) give props to...

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