Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible

Konami were one of the few NES publishers whose output I would buy sight unseen.  I even bought their sports games and I’m not even into the genre.  That being said their later output flew under my radar as my...
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A Boy & His Blob

A Boy & His Blob

Developer: Imagineering    Publisher: Absolute Entertainment    Release: 01/90    Genre: Action The NES library has its highs and lows. Many genres that are still around today were created on that little gray box. But it was also home to shovelware...
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Demon’s Crest

Demon’s Crest

Developer: Capcom    Publisher: Capcom    Release: 11/94    Genre: Action In spite of their crushing difficulty I love the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series. But the series does have a deep, dark, secret. The best games in the series have nothing to do...
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Kick Master

Kick Master

Developer: KID      Publisher: Taito      Released: 1992      Genre: Action Toward the end of the NES’ life cycle when everyone else had moved on Taito levelled up. I liked Power Blade as much as the next man but before that they were...
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Uninvited

Uninvited

Developer: Kemco    Publisher: Kemco    Release: 1991    Genre: Adventure The NES had a surprisingly decently library of point and click adventure games. But even with that in mind Uninvited is rarely mentioned. That could be due to its late release......
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Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

I have to credit the MacVenture series of NES ports as the titles that made me a fan of point and click adventures.  While I read Nintendo Power’s coverage of Maniac Mansion it didn’t grab me.  But Shadowgate seemed incredibly...
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The Firemen

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....
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Cybernator

Cybernator

Developer: Masaya    Publisher: Konami    Release: 04/04/93    Genre: Action Target Earth was an early Genesis title that left an impression on any who played it. It was mostly negative as the brutal difficulty was immediately off putting. But behind t...
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Illusion of Gaia

Illusion of Gaia

Developer: Quintet    Publisher: Nintendo    Released: 09/01/94    Genre: Action RPG I really enjoyed Soul Blazer back when I played it in 1993. It had an interesting structure compared to the typical action RPGs of the time and was enjoyable because ...
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Shadowgate

Shadowgate

Developer: Icom Simulations    Publisher: Kemco     Released: 1989     Genre: Adventure My fascination with point and click adventure games started at a young age.  I remember browsing the Electronic Boutique catalogs and reading the descriptions o...
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