Tag: Konami

Developer: Konami     Publisher: Ultra     Released: September 1990     Released: Action Konami picked up some very obscure and strange licenses toward the end of their NES run.  Bucky O’Hare might have been an obscure comic book and cartoon but...

There are few games that have frustrated me as much as Track & Field II.  I absolutely adored the original Track & Field despite its simplicity because it was easy to pick up and play.  At its core it was...

The Parodius games have always been the secret best series you’ve never heard of.  That is mostly due to their minimal presence in the US.  While the arcade games received excellent SNES ports Konami blessed the system with an exclusive...

Developer: Konami     Publisher: Konami     Released: August 11, 1987    Genre: Action I’ve been fascinated by the Famicom Disk System ever since I learned of its existence years after the fact. It was nice to learn what the expansion on the...

Developer: Konami     Publisher: Konami     Released: August 15, 1992    Genre: Beat ’em up I can easily say that Turtles in Time is one of the games I have spent the most time with.  Honestly the amount of hours I’ve spent...

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 08/05/93   Genre: Platformer When Konami first began publishing Genesis titles the initial batch was not that impressive. Sunset Riders was a compromised port and the Hyperstone Heist couldn’t decide ...

I’m incredibly jealous of Europe with this one.  I did not become aware of the Parodius series until the 16-bit era, when magazines began featuring import coverage.  The SNES version of Parodius is truly excellent and probably the closest to...

With the astronomical costs of video game development these days you don’t see many licensed titles anymore.  But back in the day publishers ran their entire business around tie-ins.  When done properly you got some of the best games of...

If I had to trace my love of the occasional mini game collection it would probably come from Winter Games on the Commodore 64.  The limited animation looked goofy as hell but if you could nail a triple somersault in...