Youkai Yashiki

Youkai Yashiki

Developer: Irem   Publisher: Irem   Release: 10/23/87   Genre: Action The Famicom Disk System is a fascinating piece of hardware from a historical perspective. In Japan for a while there it completely overtook the Famicom and nearly all releases...
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Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker

Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker

Developer: Irem    Publisher: Irem    Release: 12/18/92   Genre: Shooter I liked Image Fight. There were a number of arcade games that received both NES and PC Engine ports and while NEC’s version was always better both were respectable. Image Fight.....
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DinoCity

DinoCity

Developer: Irem    Publisher: Irem    Release: 09/92   Genre: Platformer DinoCity is an easy game to write off. The box art distills the 90s perfectly and, while being inoffensive, gives the impression of a kid’s game that will offer no real...
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Sqoon

Sqoon

Developer: Home Data Corp.    Publisher: Irem    Release: 09/87    Genre: Shooter I never played Sqoon growing up. I never saw it at Blockbuster, none of my friends had it, and I never saw any reason to seek it out....
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Rocky Rodent

Rocky Rodent

Developer: Irem     Publisher: Irem     Release: 09/1993     Genre: Platformer Of all the companies to jump on the mascot platformer craze one of the last I would expect is Irem. The house that R-Type built had a rich arcade lineage they...
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Spartan X 2

Spartan X 2

Developer: Tamtex    Publisher: Irem    Released: September 27, 1991    Genre: Action Kung-Fu was one of my first NES games. I’m pretty sure I am not alone in that either. As an early adopter it was slim pickings for...
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Kung Fu

Kung Fu

Developer: Irem     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: October 1985     Genre: Beat ’em up When I look back on my video game career I count myself fortunate to have been born in time for the NES launch. Although I played the Atari 2600...
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In the Hunt

In the Hunt

Developer: Xing/SMS    Publisher: Kokopeli     Released: 1996     Genre: Shooter The late 80s and early 90s saw shooters of all kinds. From your standard space shooter to the occasional medieval fantasy romp like Elemental Master, the genre covered ne...
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R-Type Delta

R-Type Delta

Developer: Irem     Publisher: Agetec     Released: July 31, 1999     Genre: Shooter I loved the shooter genre from the 8 to 16-bit era. But around the time the PlayStation and Saturn were released the genre started to lose me. Not because of...
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R-Types

R-Types

Developer: Irem     Publisher: ASCII Entertainment     Released: February 28, 1998     Genre: Shooter R-Type is one of the seminal shooters of the 80s and its influence is up there with Gradius in my opinion. As with any popular arcade game of the....
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