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April 27, 2020 No Responses

Guerilla War

Developer: SNK Publisher: SNK Released:1989 Genre: Action SNK had a strange fascination with war games in the 80s. From Ikari Warriors to P.O.W. and Iron Tank the theme was pretty consistent. More than likely they were simply leveraging their...

April 24, 2020 2 Responses

1942

Developer: Micronics Publisher: Capcom Released: 1986 Genre: Shooter Capcom are one of the few third parties that have long lasting hits in nearly every genre. For platformers you have Mega Man. For fighting games you have Street Fighte...

April 17, 2020 No Responses

Flying Hero: Bugyuru no Daibouken

Developer: Sting Publisher: Sofel Released: 12/18/92 Genre: Shooter I love to be surprised by video games every now and then. The problem is as a thirty-nine year old man I am pretty set in what genres and games I like....

April 15, 2020 No Responses

Burning Force

Developer: Nova Publisher: Namco Released: 11/90 Genre: Rail Shooter Space Harrier made a big splash in the arcade with its fancy scaling graphics and riveting gameplay. Yet it did not spawn as many imitators as you would expect,...

April 10, 2020 one Response

Blazeon

Developer: A.I. Co, Ltd Publisher: Atlus Released: 1992 Genre: Shooter The SNES saw its fair share of arcade ports initially. A lot of these titles ranged in quality. You had your classics like Turtles in Time and mediocre games like...

April 6, 2020 2 Responses

Tiger Heli

Developer: Micronics Publisher: Acclaim Released: 1987 Genre: Shooter One day I will learn why so many NES publishers turned to Micronics to develop Nintendo ports of their arcade games. You would think after seeing the sorry state of t...

March 27, 2020 one Response

Aero Fighters

Developer: Video System Publisher: McO’River Release: 11/94 Genre: Shooter Aero Fighters is a thoroughly solid game, let’s get that out of the way. It is also a game that is easy to forget. At a time when shooters were a...

March 18, 2020 No Responses

Midnight Resistance

Developer: Data East Publisher: Sega Released: 1991 Genre: Action The Genesis would eventually gain the reputation of being the system for fast paced action games, from Gunstar Heroes to Lightening Force. But early in its life the picki...

March 16, 2020 3 Responses

Predator

Developer: Pack-In-Video Publisher: Activision Released: 1989 Genre: Action We make fun of Acclaim and LJN for their history of terrible licensed games because they deserve it. But in my opinion Activision deserves their share of derisi...

March 9, 2020 No Responses

Section Z

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Released: 1987 Genre: Shooter As I revisit the games of my childhood I am often surprised how well certain games have held up. Obviously the Legend of Zelda still holds up today but lesser known title...

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