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October 7, 2020 No Responses

Heavy Unit

Developer: Toho Publisher: Kaneko Released: 12/26/90 Genre: Shooter It is amazing just how many shooters were released for the Genesis early on. It shouldn’t come as a surprise; the system’s fast processor made porting the latest arcade titles...

September 16, 2020 No Responses

Road Avenger

Developer: Data East Publisher: Renovation Released: 1992 Genre: Action Laserdisc arcade games were always fascinating to watch. The gorgeous animation and sheer spectacle on display were unlike anything else at the time and seemed a gen...

August 26, 2020 one Response

Atomic Robo-Kid

Developer: UPL Co., Ltd. Publisher: Treco Released: 1990 Genre: Shooter I enjoy a good shooter. Since the Atari 2600 days the genre has been one of my favorites. Up until bullet hell took over I still enjoyed...

August 21, 2020 one Response

Space Harrier

Developer: NEC Publisher: NEC Released: 1990 Genre: Action Space Harrier was insanely popular in the arcade in the 80s. It is easy to see why, with its fancy Super Scaler tech and art direction. While it was...

August 19, 2020 No Responses

Air Buster

Developer: Kaneko Publisher: Kaneko Released: 1991 Genre: Shooter Aero Blasters is one of my favorite Turbo Grafx-16 games. At a time where I had few games for the system it was a bright spot. It would be...

August 17, 2020 No Responses

Blades of Steel

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 1988 Genre: Sports Believe it or not Blades of Steel was my introduction to Hockey. Growing up Hockey was not really shown on local television like the NFL or NBA so it always seemed...

August 10, 2020 No Responses

Gyruss

Gyruss was a favorite of mine in the arcade back in the 80s. After playing the likes of Gradius and Space Invaders it was a nice change of pace in terms of its viewpoint and mechanics. Of course the younger...

August 3, 2020 one Response

Operation Wolf

Developer: Taito Publisher:Taito Released: 1989 Genre: Action I’ve never been the biggest fan of light gun games. I was not enamored with Duck Hunt when the NES launched and outside of Gum Shoe found the NES Zapper useless. I respec...

July 20, 2020 one Response

Die Hard Arcade

Developer: Sega AM1 Publisher: Sega Released: March 1997 Genre: Action The advent of 3d brought many innovations to existing genres. Some like the 2d platformer even evolved, one could even say for the better. But in the march of progre...

July 3, 2020 one Response

1941: Counter Attack

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Hudson Soft Released: 08/23/91 Genre: Shooter I like Capcom’s 19XX series of shooters but can freely admit they did not have the best start. 1942 was decent for its time if a bit simple. Most...

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