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April 14, 2023 No Responses

Terranigma

Developer: Quintet Publisher: Nintendo Release: 12/19/96 Genre: Action RPG One of the great injustices of the 16-bit era is that Terranigma did not release in the US. It is understandable; as a late 1995 release any localization would take...

April 10, 2023 No Responses

Fushigi no Yume no Alice

Developer: Face Publisher: Face Release: 12/07/90 Genre: Platformer Platforming fans had a rough go of it on the Turbo Grafx. While SNES and Genesis owners were spoiled for choice in the US the pickings were slim for...

April 7, 2023 No Responses

Ai Senshi Nicol

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 04/24/87 Genre: Action Looking back there were surprisingly few top down action games on the NES. For a system that more or less covered every base this one niche is a bit lacking. The ones...

March 27, 2023 No Responses

Halley Wars

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 01/14/89 Genre: Shooter Even as early as the late 80s the shooter genre began to hit a rut. The biggest titles in the genre such as Gradius and R-Type cast a large...

March 24, 2023 No Responses

Double Dragon 2 – the Revenge

Developer: Kid Co. Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Beat em up My initial exposure to Double Dragon 2 was the brilliant NES version which was essentially a remake. I did not play the arcade game until...

March 17, 2023 No Responses

Edono Kiba

Developer: Riot Publisher: Micro World Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Action Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi made me a fan of ninja action games. While Sega received the lion’s share of attention thanks to the quality of the Genesis Shinobi...

March 15, 2023 No Responses

L-Dis

Developer: Dual Publisher: Masaya Release: 04/05/91 Genre: Shooter In the land of video games sometimes you have to something absurd to stand out. The PC Engine has more shooters than you can possibly imagine. To be fair...

February 20, 2023 No Responses

Tryrush Deppy

Developer: System Supply N-Tech Publisher: Nihon Create Release: 11/22/96 Genre: Platformer The Saturn was built to be a 2d powerhouse. But sadly it released at a time when the industry was moving to 3d. That meant we...

February 13, 2023 No Responses

Star Parodier

Developer: Kaneki, Inster State Co. Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/24/92 Genre: Shooter Apparently every long running shooter series has to poke fun at itself at some point. Konami pioneered the art of parody with Parodius which to this...

February 10, 2023 No Responses

Ripple Island

Developer: Tokai Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 01/23/88 Genre: Adventure Kemco’s NES ports of the MacVenture point and click games sparked my love of adventure games. But while the pickings were slim for the NES in the West in Japan...

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