Ikaruga

Ikaruga

Developer: Treasure     Publisher: Atari     Released: 04/14/03     Genre: Shooter I’ve always admired developer Treasure’s ability to inject new mechanics into well-worn genres. Guardian Heroes was the natural evolution of the beat em up with its branching paths and multiple endings. Silhouette...
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Seirei Senshi Spriggan

Seirei Senshi Spriggan

Developer: Compile    Publishr: Naxat Soft    Released: 07/19/91    Genre: Shooter In the US the Turbo Grafx-16 had a limited library. While it had a few titles in every genre no one could deny that it had an abundance...
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Super Smash T.V.

Super Smash T.V.

Smash T.V. was a phenomenon in the arcade and next to Street Fighter 2 and Turtles in Time is the game I probably poured the most quarters into.  It’s easy to see why: the Running Man was a popular movie...
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Over Horizon

Over Horizon

Developer: Pixel    Publisher: Hot B    Release: 1991   Genre: Shooter Its funny to look back on the Nintendo shooter library. Despite the system’s slow processor it built up quite an excellent library within the genre. Of course, a large part...
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Rayxanber II

Rayxanber II

Developer: Data West    Publisher: Data West    Release: 06/07/91    Genre: Shooter I have played many difficult games in my time as a gamer. But few have ever made me as angry as Rayxanber II. I can appreciate a decent challenge...
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Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors

Developer: Micronics    Publisher: SNK    Release: 05/87    Genre: Action Sometimes I miss the big dumb action movie phase of the 1980s. I will fully admit that most of those films were not good upon closer inspection. But they were at least...
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Eliminate Down

Eliminate Down

Developer: Aprinet    Publisher: Soft Vision    Release: 06/25/93    Genre: Shooter The video game industry is littered with the bodies of failed developers and publishers. As generations change and game development becomes more complex it is only nat...
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Wild Guns

Wild Guns

Developer: Natsume     Publisher: Natsume     Released: July 1995     Genre: Action I like Harvest Moon as much as the next man but I remember a different Natsume. At one point in time Natsume put out action games that competed with the likes...
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Bio-Hazard Battle

Bio-Hazard Battle

Developer: Sega    Publisher: Sega    Release: 12/92    Genre: Shooter When you tally it up it really is incredible just how many shooters there are for the Genesis. If you count the few import only shooters there are close to 80 altogether...
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Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius

Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 12/15/95    Genre: Shooter The Parodius games have always been the secret best series you’ve never heard of. That is mostly due to their minimal presence in the US. While the arcade games received e...
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