Outrunners

Outrunners

Developer: Sega CS3    Publisher: Data East    Release: 06/14/94   Genre: Racing Outrun is one of the most beloved racing games of the 80s. From its style to its music the game was a first class effort all around....
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Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum

Developer: Beam Software    Publisher: Data East   Release: 02/90   Genre: Action Dash Galaxy is a game that would normally suck me in based on its cover art alone. As a huge fan of comic books the box art...
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Vapor Trail

Vapor Trail

Developer: Data East    Publisher: Renovation    Release: 1991   Genre: Shooter The Genesis, alongside the Turbo Grafx-16 and Sega Saturn, has one of the greatest shooter libraries of all time. The result is that it is easy to get lost...
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Atomic Runner

Atomic Runner

Developer: Data East    Publisher: Data East    Release: 1992   Genre: Action Who knew Data East would be so far ahead of the curve in 1988? These days the various mobile app stores are flooded with endless runners, platformers in which...
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High Seas Havoc

High Seas Havoc

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1993    Genre: Platformer It is always fun to look back on the mascot platformers of bygone days to see which animals were exploited for corporate gain. We had bats, opossums, bobcats, and.....
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Congo’s Caper

Congo’s Caper

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1993     Genre: Platformer For me Joe & Mac was one of the highlights of the early SNES period. Although it was vastly different from the arcade game I still enjoyed it nonetheless,...
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Dashin’ Desperadoes

Dashin’ Desperadoes

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1993     Genre: Action During the heyday of the mascot platformer Data East were curiously left out. The closest they came were Will and Rick, the stars of Dashin’ Desperadoes and Neo Ge...
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Two Crude Dudes

Two Crude Dudes

Developer: Data East    Publisher: Data East     Released: 1992    Genre: Beat ’em up I have always questioned the nostalgia for Bad Dudes. Even when it was released for the NES I knew it was not a particularly good game....
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Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics

Joe & Mac 2: Lost in the Tropics

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1994     Genre: Action I loved Joe & Mac in the arcade and all of its console incarnations. I even like the NES version for what it is, although it was a few years...
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Sengoku

Sengoku

Developer:SNK     Publisher: Data East     Released: September 22, 1993     Genre: Beat em up I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in an area with multiple Neo Geo MVS units.  If I saw a Neo Geo game in a magazine chances...
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