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June 17, 2024 No Responses

Spelunker II: Yūsha e no Chōsen

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Irem Release: 09/18/87 Genre: Action Spelunker is one of the most frustrating and annoying NES games of all time. I am ashamed to say I spent far more hours playing it than I...

November 27, 2023 No Responses

Youkai Yashiki

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 10/23/87 Genre: Action The Famicom Disk System is a fascinating piece of hardware from a historical perspective. In Japan for a while there it completely overtook the Famicom and nearly all releases...

November 15, 2023 No Responses

Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 12/18/92 Genre: Shooter I liked Image Fight. There were a number of arcade games that received both NES and PC Engine ports and while NEC’s version was always better both were respectable. Image Fight.....

December 23, 2022 No Responses

DinoCity

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 09/92 Genre: Platformer DinoCity is an easy game to write off. The box art distills the 90s perfectly and, while being inoffensive, gives the impression of a kid’s game that will offer no real...

February 28, 2022 No Responses

Sqoon

Developer: Home Data Corp. Publisher: Irem Release: 09/87 Genre: Shooter I never played Sqoon growing up. I never saw it at Blockbuster, none of my friends had it, and I never saw any reason to seek it out....

December 10, 2021 No Responses

Rocky Rodent

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 09/93 Genre: Platformer Of all the companies to jump on the mascot platformer craze one of the last I would expect is Irem. The house that R-Type built had a rich arcade lineage they...

November 1, 2021 No Responses

Spartan X 2

Developer: Tamtex Publisher: Irem Released: 09/27/91 Genre: Action Kung-Fu was one of my first NES games. I’m pretty sure I am not alone in that either. As an early adopter it was slim pickings for the first...

August 11, 2021 No Responses

Kung Fu

Developer: Irem Publisher: Nintendo Released: October 1985 Genre: Beat ’em up When I look back on my video game career I count myself fortunate to have been born in time for the NES launch. Although I played the Atari 2600...

May 28, 2021 No Responses

In the Hunt

Developer: Xing/SMS Publisher: Kokopeli Released: 1996 Genre: Shooter The late 80s and early 90s saw shooters of all kinds. From your standard space shooter to the occasional medieval fantasy romp like Elemental Master, the genre covered ne...

March 24, 2021 No Responses

R-Type Delta

Developer: Irem Publisher: Agetec Released: July 31, 1999 Genre: Shooter I loved the shooter genre from the 8 to 16-bit era. But around the time the PlayStation and Saturn were released the genre started to lose me. Not because of...

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