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September 20, 2023 No Responses

Parodius Da!

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 02/21/92 Genre: Shooter It is incredible that even in this day and age Parodius remains one of the best shooter series most have never heard of. With as many ports the first arcade...

May 24, 2023 No Responses

Final Soldier

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 07/05/91 Genre: Shooter I never liked the Star Soldier games on the NES. With far superior competition in the form of Zanac, Life Force, and Gun-Nac they were simply too...

April 26, 2023 No Responses

Gradius V

Developer: Treasure Publisher: Konami Release: 09/14/04 Genre: Shooter For a while in the mid-2000s it looked like Gradius was sent to the graveyard where once popular intellectual properties reside. Aside from the solid Gradius Galaxies ther...

April 17, 2023 No Responses

G Vector

Developer: Soft Office Publisher: Soft Office Release: 10/16/97 Genre: Shooter For many Virtua Fighter was the star of the Sega Saturn launch. It is easy to see why; it was the first major fighting game in 3d...

March 27, 2023 No Responses

Halley Wars

Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 01/14/89 Genre: Shooter Even as early as the late 80s the shooter genre began to hit a rut. The biggest titles in the genre such as Gradius and R-Type cast a large...

March 8, 2023 No Responses

Lords of Thunder Sega CD

Developer: Red/Hudson Soft Publisher: Sega Release: 03/28/95 Genre: Shooter The PC Engine and Sega Genesis share a lot of games, especially shooters. As most of these titles were arcade ports they usually hit both platforms as they...

February 13, 2023 No Responses

Star Parodier

Developer: Kaneki, Inster State Co. Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/24/92 Genre: Shooter Apparently every long running shooter series has to poke fun at itself at some point. Konami pioneered the art of parody with Parodius which to this...

January 18, 2023 No Responses

W Ring – the Double Ring

Developer: Naxat Soft Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 09/28/90 Genre: Shooter Video games have always fallen through the cracks. These days the number of games that release daily borders on insanity and it is impossible to keep up....

December 21, 2022 No Responses

Vapor Trail

Developer: Data East Publisher: Renovation Release: 1991 Genre: Shooter The Genesis, alongside the Turbo Grafx-16 and Sega Saturn, has one of the greatest shooter libraries of all time. The result is that it is easy to get lost...

November 30, 2022 No Responses

Rayxanber III

Developer: Data West Publisher: Data West Released: 06/06/92 Genre: Shooter My anticipation for Rayxanber II was only matched by the crushing disappointment I felt once I played it and found out it was a bad game. So bad in...

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