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 a preview in Diehard Gamefan. It looked incredibly cool...
Developer: Natsume Publisher: Tomy Released: July 17, 1992 Genre: Platformer Capcom, Konami, and to a lesser extent Sunsoft are revered for putting out legendary NES titles. Their reputations are wholly deserved as some of the fondest N...
Exile is one of the Turbo CD games I wanted to play the most. Why I became so obsessed with it is a bit of a mystery. But if I had to guess it would probably be the cool screenshots...
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...
Capcom were pioneers on the NES, able to balance their output with between arcade conversions and original titles. Even their “ports” to the NES tended to become completely original games, often vastly superior to the arcade brethren. This was ...
Developer: Banpresto Publisher: Banpresto Released: 03/27/92 Genre: Beat em up I both love and hate the Great Battle Cyber. This late era Famicom release had everything going for it, from graphics to engaging gameplay. But it completely...
Developer: Technos Japan Publisher: Technos Japan Released: June 28, 1991 Genre: RPG Sugoro Quest is the type of game that would definitely have been one of my favorites back in the day. While my friends wouldn’t give awesome...
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: September 1992 Genre: Shooter Platform: SNES I think it safe to say that the shooting genre did not get off to a great start on the SNES. Don’t get me wrong there were ma...
The Wonder Boy games started out as slightly unique platformers at the genre’s beginning but it wouldn’t be long before the series would explore other genres. Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair was a weird shooter/platformer hybrid that wasn’t successful...
Blaster Master is a game I didn’t think highly of initially. That more than likely has to do with the terrible Worlds of Power novelization I read beforehand. Talk about coloring your expectations. But after about ten minutes I began...