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August 10, 2020 No Responses

Gyruss

Developer: Konami Publisher: Ultra Games Release: 02/89 Genre: Shooter 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...

August 3, 2020 2 Responses

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...

April 24, 2020 2 Responses

1942

Developer: Micronics Publisher: Capcom Released: 1986 Genre: Shooter Capcom are one of the few third parties that have long lasting hits in nearly every genre. For platformers you have Mega Man. For fighting games you have Street Fighte...

April 15, 2020 No Responses

Burning Force

Developer: Nova Publisher: Namco Released: 11/90 Genre: Rail Shooter Space Harrier made a big splash in the arcade with its fancy scaling graphics and riveting gameplay. Yet it did not spawn as many imitators as you would expect,...

April 6, 2020 3 Responses

Tiger Heli

Developer: Micronics Publisher: Acclaim Released: 1987 Genre: Shooter One day I will learn why so many NES publishers turned to Micronics to develop Nintendo ports of their arcade games. You would think after seeing the sorry state of t...

March 27, 2020 one Response

Aero Fighters

Developer: Video System Publisher: McO’River Release: 11/94 Genre: Shooter Aero Fighters is a thoroughly solid game, let’s get that out of the way. It is also a game that is easy to forget. At a time when shooters were a...

March 18, 2020 No Responses

Midnight Resistance

Developer: Data East Publisher: Sega Released: 1991 Genre: Action The Genesis would eventually gain the reputation of being the system for fast paced action games, from Gunstar Heroes to Lightening Force. But early in its life the picki...

March 13, 2020 2 Responses

Super Buster Bros.

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Released: 10/31/92 Genre: Action Sometimes I am my own worst enemy. By the time the 16-bit era was in full swing I had begun to develop my own tastes. I knew the genres I was into...

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