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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 21, 2023 No Responses

Bubble Symphony

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Publisher: 11/27/97 Genre: Platformer Watching arcades disappear around the mid-90s was a sad sight. Not only because it was a place to meet fellow gamers before the internet became big but also because there we...

August 14, 2023 No Responses

Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

Developer: Capcom Publisher: NEC Release: 06/12/93 Genre: Fighting Once Street Fighter II hit the SNES the floodgates were open. Arcade games previously thought impossible for home release were ported to the 16-bit consoles en masse. While the S...

June 26, 2023 No Responses

Dolphin Blue

Developer: Sammy Publisher: Sammy Release: 2003 Genre: Action Dolphin Blue is a 2.5D Metal Slug, let’s get that out of the way right now. The game takes obvious “inspiration” from SNK’s classic run and gun series and does not...

June 23, 2023 No Responses

Off Road Challenge

Developer: Avalanche Publisher: Midway Release: 06/30/98 Genre: Racing When the 3d revolution hit racing games were one of the genres that benefited the most. To this day they continue to be showcases for new hardware and this was...

June 19, 2023 No Responses

Golden Axe: the Duel

Developer: Sega AM1 Publisher: Sega Release: 06/27/96 Genre: Fighting Once the Saturn was released the expectation was that we would receive 32-bit updates to all of Sega’s intellectual properties. Streets of Rage, Vectorman……Sonic. Oh how na...

June 5, 2023 No Responses

Thunder & Lightning

Developer: Visco Publisher: Romstar Release: 12/90 Genre: Action Breakout is a video game classic. Like Tetris the formula is simple yet addicting and has endured for decades. To this day there are still clones of Breakout being released....

May 31, 2023 No Responses

Time Gal

Developer: Wolf Team Publisher: Renovation Release: 1993 Genre: FMV To this day I question why Sega of America focused their marketing of the Sega CD around FMV games so heavily. The system was woefully inadequate at presenting those...

May 17, 2023 No Responses

New Zealand Story

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 11/12/92 Genre: Action I was a latecomer to New Zealand Story. Despite the massive number of ports I avoided the game for no other reason that I could. But once I gave the...

April 24, 2023 No Responses

Dynamite Cop

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release: 11/02/99 Genre: Beat em up With every passing generation it seems we leave certain genres behind. Shooters were all the rage in the late 80s and early 90s. But with the PlayStation and Saturn...

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