Aero the Acrobat

Aero the Acrobat

Developer: Iguana    Publisher: Sunsoft    Release: 10/12/93   Genre: Platformer Sunsoft were a powerhouse on the NES and one of its best developers. They made that hardware sing like few others and are one of the reasons why the NES...
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Super Ninja Kun

Super Ninja Kun

Developer: Jaleco   Publisher: Jaleco    Release: 08/05/94   Genre: Platformer Jaleco was always a mid-sized publisher who never quite reached the level of Capcom or Konami. They published a wide variety of titles but their most well known in the...
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Arcana

Arcana

Developer: HAL    Publisher: HAL    Release: 05/92   Genre: RPG While I am a fan of nearly every form of RPG first person dungeon crawlers were my kryptonite. Maybe it was the disconnect from not seeing my party during my numerous...
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Super Bomberman 3

Super Bomberman 3

Developer: Hudson Soft   Publisher: Hudson Soft   Release: 04/28/95  Genre: Action Hudson Soft was on a roll with the Super Bomberman series. Where the first game was a solid first attempt its sequel did an excellent job of shoring up its...
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Crystal Beans from Dungeon Explorer

Crystal Beans from Dungeon Explorer

Developer: Hudson Soft   Publisher: Hudson Soft    Release: 10/27/95   Genre: Action Multi-platform games are a staple of the industry. After Nintendo’s stronghold on third parties was broken a significant portion of games during the 16-bit era hit both...
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Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero

Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero

Developer: Masaya  Publisher: NCS  Release: 03/20/97  Genre: Action Masaya’s Shubibinman series had the potential to be the PC Engine’s Mega Man, a kick ass run and gun series full of action and robots. To a degree they were exactly that...
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Pop‘n Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventures

Pop‘n Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventures

sDeveloper: Konami   Publisher: Konami   Release: 01/07/94  Genre: Action It is not fair. Konami brought many of their Japanese shooters and platformers to Europe but not the US and I am still jealous to this day. Many of these are some...
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Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand

Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand

Developer: Falcom    Publisher: Falcom    Release: 12/29/95   Genre: Action RPG Ys V remains a mystery to long term fans of of Ys and action RPGs in general. Nearly every game in the series is officially available on PC to go...
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Ys IV: Mask of the Sun

Ys IV: Mask of the Sun

Developer: Tonkin House    Publisher: Tonkin House    Release: 11/19/93   Genre: Action RPG Ys IV was an interesting project. Falcom tried to remedy the issues fans had with Ys III by making it a side scrolling action game a la Zelda...
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Ys III: Wanderer’s from Ys (SNES)

Ys III: Wanderer’s from Ys (SNES)

Developer: Advance Communication    Publisher: American Sammy    Release: 01/92   Genre: Action RPG Every long running franchise seems to have that one odd duck. Whether the designers want to something new or realized what they originally created simply ...
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