New Ghostbusters II
Developer: HAL Publisher: HAL Release: 12/26/90 Genre: Action The Ghostbusters license did not have a good go of it on the NES. The first game is one of the worst games of all time. I truly cannot state...
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Tiny Toon Adventures
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/91 Genre: Action Even though the SNES and Genesis were both on the market by 1991 publishers were still keen to take advantage of the massive NES audience. While most of the popular IP were...
Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron
Developer: AIM Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 1995 Genre: Action 1995 was both a banner year for the 16-bit era and also one of the reasons why the new 32-bit platforms were needed. There were many classic titles...
Cyborg 009
Developer: Riot Publisher: Telenet Release: 07/30/93 Genre: Action We are currently living in an anime license game renaissance as for the most part the titles are good. Now granted most of the time they are Musou style...
Wacky Races
Developer: Infogrames Publisher: Infogrames Release: 2000 Genre: Racing It is pretty surprising that during the Dreamcast’s short life it built up a respectable library of kart racers. After the insane success of Mario Kart 64 the development c...
ExoSquad
Developer: Novotrade Publisher: Playmates Release: 1995 Genre: Action ExoSquad was a cartoon I initially ignored in its first run. When the choice is ExoSquad or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the green guys win almost every time. But syndicated r...
Ghostbusters
Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Released: Genre: Action The Ghostbusters license did not have a good go of it in America. While the original computer version of David Crane’s title was a legitimately good game most of the subsequent ports w...
TaleSpin
Developer: Radiance Software Publisher: NEC Released: 1991 Genre: Platformer One of the most perplexing things about the Turbo Grafx-16 library is NEC’s choice of titles they localized. While they brought over gems like Ys Book I & II...
Spot Goes to Hollywood
Developer: Eurocom Publisher: Virgin Interactive Release: 11/95 Genre: Action Cool Spot was one of the biggest unexpected surprises of the 16-bit era. By that point almost everyone understood most licensed games were trash and the cynical take...
Disney’s Ariel the Little Mermaid
Developer: Blue Sky Software Publisher: Sega Released: 1992 Genre: Action As much as we associate Capcom with the Disney license Sega has as much of an illustrious history with the House of the Mouse as well. Many of...