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December 21, 2018 one Response

Salamander

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/06/91 Genre: Shooter Life Force, alongside Gradius, was one of the defining shooters of my childhood. It was one of the first vertical (yes, I know it switches) shooters I had ever played which...

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...

November 28, 2018 No Responses

Dragon Blaze

Developer: Psikyo Publisher: 505 Games Release: 06/23/06 Genre: Shooter Ah yes, bullet hell, my eternal nemesis. I have been a shooter fan my entire life. At one point I even prided myself at being pretty good at...

November 23, 2018 one Response

Star Fox 64

Developer: Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo Released: 06/30/97 Genre: Rail Shooter The early months of the N64 convinced me to never buy a new console near launch ever again. The release schedule wasn’t just bad, it was dire. Wh...

November 14, 2018 No Responses

Override

Developer: Sting Publisher: Data East Release: 01/08/91 Genre: Shooter Data East and shooters are not three words that go together. While they developed a plethora of awesome top down shooters the traditional shmup from their stable was rare....

October 31, 2018 2 Responses

Blazing Lazers

Developer: Compile Publisher: NEC Release: 11/89 Genre: Shooter I was not impressed by the Turbo Grafx initially. It did not help that I got the system in 1992, when the price had dropped to $50. By then the SNES...

October 17, 2018 No Responses

Space Harrier II

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release: 08/14/89 Genre: Rail Shooter When the Sega Genesis launched it came out of left field for me. There were not many video game publications at the time and aside from Nintendo Power I read few...

October 10, 2018 No Responses

Coryoon

Developer: Naxat Soft Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 11/29/91 Genre: Shooter Of the many, many shooters available for the Turbo Grafx-16 Air Zonk is one of my favorites. The combination of insane production values and great mechanics still ra...

October 5, 2018 No Responses

S.C.A.T.

I’ve seen my share of ridiculous video game titles but this one is probably the most tragic. Although S.C.A.T. is an acronym and more than likely flew over the heads of 80s youth someone had to have known what it...

September 21, 2018 No Responses

Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie

Developer: Winky Soft Pubisher: Zamuse Released: 10/29/93 Genre: Shooter For as much as I lament the inability of the various Macross series to come to the US it is an even bigger shame that the game’s suffer the same...

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