The Legend of Kage
Growing up in the 80s I had an appreciation for old Kung-Fu flicks and ninja movies thanks to my older brothers. Yes, the English dubs and lip sync were bad but I didn’t care. Seeing one man fight off an...
Tag: arcade
Gunforce
Developer: Bits Studio Publisher: Irem Release: 11/92 Genre: Action I loved Contra III. It is one of my favorite action games of all time and blew my mind back in 1992. But you can only replay a game...
Cadash
Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Released: 1992 Genre: Action In this day and age most arcade games consist of fighting odds, sit down cabinet racing games and the occasional rail shooter. Typically you’ll only find these in Dave &...
Track & Field
If I had to trace my love of the occasional mini game collection it would probably come from Winter Games on the Commodore 64. The limited animation looked goofy as hell but if you could nail a triple somersault in...
After Burner II
Developer: Dempa Publisher: Sega Release: 09/90 Genre: Action Sega’s Super Scaler arcade games were some of the best looking games on the market for a very long time. The simulated 3-d looked better than the majority of the...
Salamander
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/06/91 Genre: Shooter Life Force, alongside Gradius, was one of the defining shooters of my childhood. It was one of the first vertical (yes, I know it switches) shooters I had ever played which...
Captain Silver
Developer: Jorudan Publisher: Tokuma Shoten Release: 12/16/88 Genre: Action Captain Silver is a game that I probably saw in some old magazine I have long since forgotten. While it was originally released in the arcade I never...
Vigilante
Developer: Irem Publisher: NEC Release: 1989 Genre: Beat em up Irem’s Kung-Fu had a tremendous impact on me growing up. The NES port available at the system’s launch taught me a lot about game design without me realizing it....
Phelios
Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Release: 10/90 Genre: Shooter In the course of reviewing games for this website it is interesting to revisit games I was once fond of. Phelios is not a particularly noteworthy title and not even one...
Charge ‘N Blast
Developer: SIMS Publisher: Xicat Interactive Release: 02/07/01 Genre: Action I have to say, even though the Dreamcast flame was short lived it burned brightly. In the three-year period the system had any relevancy in the US it managed to cove...