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June 26, 2019 No Responses

Star Fox Assault

Developer: Namco Publisher: Nintendo Released: 02/14/05 Genre: Rail Shooter Star Fox Assault should have been one of the easiest home runs possible. Star Fox 64 remains one of the best rail shooters of all time. And with Namco and the...

June 19, 2019 one Response

Klonoa – Door to Phantomile

During the 8 and 16-bit era I’ll admit I did not think too much of Namco. Not that they weren’t putting out good games, but compared to Capcom and Konami they were low on my priority list. All that changed...

April 8, 2019 No Responses

Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Namco Release: 07/31/89 Genre: Action While it may seem quaint now Splatterhouse was a significant landmark in the arcades. Its gore and Friday the 13th inspired protagonist were unheard of at the time and ensur...

December 5, 2018 No Responses

Phelios

Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Release: 10/90 Genre: Shooter In the course of reviewing games for this website it is interesting to revisit games I was once fond of. Phelios is not a particularly noteworthy title and not even one...

August 13, 2018 No Responses

Dragon Spirit – the New Legend

Developer: Namco Publisher: Bandai Released: 1990 Genre: Shooter I’ve always liked Dragon Spirit more than most shooters. It was one of the few arcade games I ever came close to finishing before the inevitable home port which probabl...

September 20, 2017 No Responses

Splatterhouse 2

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Namco Release: 08/03/92 Genre: Beat em up It’s funny to look back at the original Splatterhouse. It was gory for its time and caused a bit of a stir. Yet kids like me...

July 5, 2017 No Responses

Rolling Thunder 2

Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Release: 1991 Genre: Action My first exposure to Rolling Thunder came from the Tengen NES port on one of those weird black cartridge. I did not know what to make of it at first as...

June 26, 2017 No Responses

Final Blaster

Developer: Aisystem Tokyo Publisher: Namco Release: 09/28/90 Genre: Shooter Namco were one of the few third parties to support the Turbo Grafx-16 with a variety of software. Final Lap Twin and Dragon Spirit are two great games but I’m...

May 5, 2017 No Responses

Dream Master

Developer: Prism Zone Publisher: Namco Released: 09/22/1992 Genre: RPG In Japan there were far too many Dragon Quest clones for the Famicom. I don’t mean games that were inspired by it; I mean titles that aside from slightly different...

April 26, 2017 one Response

Splatterhouse

Developer: Namco Publisher: NEC Release: 1990 Genre: Beat em up Ah the innocent gaming years of the 80s. While everyone was busy pumping out bright and cheery platformers Namco said screw that and took inspiration from the horror...

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