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February 25, 2022 No Responses

Wario World

Developer: Treasure Publisher: Nintendo Release: 06/23/03 Genre: Action It truly is amazing to see just how far Wario has come as a character. Who would have guessed that the supposed one off villain in Super Mario Land 2 would become...

January 31, 2022 No Responses

Cocoron

Developer: Takeru Publisher: Sur de Wave Release: 05/03/91 Genre: Action Cocoron is the type of game I would have appreciated later in the NES’ life. By the end of its run the NES library was overrun by licensed...

January 26, 2022 No Responses

Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair

Developer: Westone Publisher: Sega Release: 1991 Genre: Action As much as I find the Wonder Boy lineage and naming scheme confusing as hell I have always appreciated the series ability to change at the drop of a dime. Wonder...

January 12, 2022 No Responses

Pac-Land

Developer: Namco Publisher: NEC Release: 01/90 Genre: Action Pac-Man has led an interesting life as a video game character. Common sense would say Namco should have created a direct sequel with another set of mazes to follow up such a...

January 7, 2022 No Responses

DoReMi Fantasy: Milon’s DokiDoki Adventure

Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 03/22/96 Genre: Platformer Milon’s Secret Castle is one of the worst NES games of all time. It tried many different things and failed at nearly all of them to create an inscrutable...

December 24, 2021 No Responses

Chameleon Twist 2

Developer: Japan Supply System Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 04/14/99 Genre: Platformer In the early days of the 3d platformer there were many interesting experiments. Titles like Gex: Enter the Gecko successfully translated the 2d gameplay to ...

December 17, 2021 No Responses

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble!

Developer: Rare Publisher: Nintendo Released: 11/1/1996 Genre: Platformer Donkey Kong Country 3 is an odd release. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island and Donkey Kong Country 2 were a fitting swan song for the SNES before the Nintendo 64 wo...

December 13, 2021 No Responses

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...

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...

December 6, 2021 No Responses

Wai Wai World

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 01/14/88 Genre: Action Captain N might have been a cheesy cartoon and not very good (I still love it) but it did show cool a crossover between video game characters could be. While Capcom...

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