Outrunners
Developer: Sega CS3 Publisher: Data East Release: 06/14/94 Genre: Racing Outrun is one of the most beloved racing games of the 80s. From its style to its music the game was a first class effort all around....
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Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
Developer: Beam Software Publisher: Data East Release: 02/90 Genre: Action Dash Galaxy is a game that would normally suck me in based on its cover art alone. As a huge fan of comic books the box art...
Vapor Trail
Developer: Data East Publisher: Renovation Release: 1991 Genre: Shooter The Genesis, alongside the Turbo Grafx-16 and Sega Saturn, has one of the greatest shooter libraries of all time. The result is that it is easy to get lost...
Atomic Runner
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Release: 1992 Genre: Action Who knew Data East would be so far ahead of the curve in 1988? These days the various mobile app stores are flooded with endless runners, platformers in which...
High Seas Havoc
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Released: 1993 Genre: Platformer It is always fun to look back on the mascot platformers of bygone days to see which animals were exploited for corporate gain. We had bats, opossums, bobcats, and.....
Congo’s Caper
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Released: 1993 Genre: Platformer For me Joe & Mac was one of the highlights of the early SNES period. Although it was vastly different from the arcade game I still enjoyed it nonetheless,...
Dashin’ Desperadoes
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Released: 1993 Genre: Action During the heyday of the mascot platformer Data East were curiously left out. The closest they came were Will and Rick, the stars of Dashin’ Desperadoes and Neo Ge...
Two Crude Dudes
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Released: 1992 Genre: Beat ’em up I have always questioned the nostalgia for Bad Dudes. Even when it was released for the NES I knew it was not a particularly good game....
Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics
Developer: Data East Publisher: Data East Released: 1994 Genre: Action I loved Joe & Mac in the arcade and all of its console incarnations. I even like the NES version for what it is, although it was a few years...
