Gradius

Gradius

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 12/86    Genre: Shooter I am pretty sure Gradius was one of my first shooters outside of the Atari 2600. That statement applies to a legion of gamers as well. There were plenty of multiplayer...
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Parodius – Non Sense Fantasy

Parodius – Non Sense Fantasy

Developer: Konami     Publisher: Konami     Released: 07/03/92     Genre: Shooter I will forever remain jealous of European gamers for receiving the majority of the Parodius series. As a parody of the otherwise serious Gradius games Parodius could ...
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Gate of Thunder

Gate of Thunder

Developer: Red     Publisher: Hudson     Released: 10/10/92     Genre: Shooter I distinctly remember thinking TTI and NEC could turn things around for the Turbo Grafx with the Turbo Duo. As an owner of the system for a brief period I genuinely...
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Fuzzical Fighter

Fuzzical Fighter

Developer: Make Software     Publisher: Sigma Enterprises     Released: May 17, 1991     Genre: Shooter I loved the Guardian Legend when I got it for Christmas as a surprise gift in 1990.  There was nothing else like it and I loved both...
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Download

Download

Developer: AlfaSystem    Publisher: NEC Avenue    Release: 06/22/90    Genre: Shooter I love surprises like this. Much like the Saturn to truly get the most out of the Turbo Grafx-16 you’ll have to explore its Japanese library. There are a wide rang...
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Night Striker

Night Striker

Developer: Aisystem Tokyo    Publisher: Taito    Release: 05/28/93    Genre: Shooter Anyone who was around in the 80s has bought more than one video game based off of screenshots, a magazine or ad. My interest in Night Striker was peaked due to...
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Steel Empire

Steel Empire

Developer: Hot-B     Publisher: Flying Edge     Released: 1992     Genre: Shooter As much as I loved shooters growing up they did become over saturated with releases in a very short period. The Genesis, Turbo Grafx-16 and the arcade saw an innumera...
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Axelay

Axelay

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Released: 09/92    Genre: Shooter I think it safe to say that the shooting genre had a rough start on the SNES. Don’t get me wrong there were many great games in that initial batch. However you...
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Air Zonk

Air Zonk

Developer: Red Company   Publisher: Hudson Soft   Released: 1992   Genre: Shooter There were plenty of successful mascot platformers during the 16-bit age. The true sign of success came when the character would branch out into other genres.  Mario would...
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Target Earth

Target Earth

Developer: Masaya    Publisher: Dreamworks    Release: 1990   Genre: Action The NES library covered pretty much all genres but conspicuously absent were games starring giant robots. No, Probotector does not count. If you explore the Famicom library you ...
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