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February 13, 2019 No Responses

Rocket Knight Adventures

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 08/05/93 Genre: Platformer When Konami first began publishing Genesis titles the initial batch was not that impressive. Sunset Riders was a compromised port and the Hyperstone Heist couldn’t decide if it wanted to be...

February 6, 2019 one Response

Parodius

Developer: Konami Publisher: Palcom Release: 1992 Genre: Shooter I am incredibly jealous of Europe with this one. I did not become aware of the Parodius series until the 16-bit era, when magazines began featuring import coverage. The SNES ver...

January 18, 2019 3 Responses

Batman Returns

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 02/26/93 Genre: Beat em up With the astronomical costs of video game development these days you do not see many licensed titles anymore. But back in the day publishers would run their entire busine...

December 31, 2018 4 Responses

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...

December 21, 2018 one Response

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...

December 10, 2018 No Responses

Monster in my Pocket

You can be forgiven if you have never heard of Monster in my Pocket. Long before Pokemon dominated the world these little plastic figures enjoyed tremendous popularity with action figures, a comic book series, and trading cards and yes, even...

November 7, 2018 No Responses

Akumajou Special-Boku Dracula Kun

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 10/12/90 Genre: Platformer For as prolific as Konami were in the US there were still a legion of titles they left behind in Japan. What makes this even more surprising is that they even created...

October 24, 2018 2 Responses

Sunset Riders

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/92 Genre: Action There were a good number of run and gun action games for the Genesis. Many of them are in the running for greatest action game of all time. A lot of...

October 15, 2018 2 Responses

Double Dribble

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 09/87 Genre: Sports I’m sure like many Double Dribble was one of the first Basketball games they every played. I am sure I might have played some random B-ball title on the Atari 2600...

August 17, 2018 No Responses

Cybernator

Developer: Masaya Publisher: Konami Release: 04/04/93 Genre: Action Target Earth was an early Genesis title that left an impression on any who played it. It was mostly negative as the brutal difficulty was immediately off putting. But behind t...

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