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January 25, 2019 No Responses

Aero Blasters

Developer: Inter State Publisher: NEC Release: 01/91 Genre: Shooter Aero Blasters was one of the first Turbo Grafx-16 games I ever played. After the disappointment of Keith Courage it helped to give me a favorable impression of...

December 26, 2018 3 Responses

After Burner II

Developer: Dempa Publisher: Sega Release: 09/90 Genre: Action Sega’s Super Scaler arcade games were some of the best looking games on the market for a very long time. The simulated 3-d looked better than the majority of the...

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...

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