G Vector
Developer: Soft Office Publisher: Soft Office Release: 10/16/97 Genre: Shooter For many Virtua Fighter was the star of the Sega Saturn launch. It is easy to see why; it was the first major fighting game in 3d...
Tag: shooter
Halley Wars
Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 01/14/89 Genre: Shooter Even as early as the late 80s the shooter genre began to hit a rut. The biggest titles in the genre such as Gradius and R-Type cast a large...
Edono Kiba
Developer: Riot Publisher: Micro World Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Action Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi made me a fan of ninja action games. While Sega received the lion’s share of attention thanks to the quality of the Genesis Shinobi...
L-Dis
Developer: Dual Publisher: Masaya Release: 04/05/91 Genre: Shooter In the land of video games sometimes you have to something absurd to stand out. The PC Engine has more shooters than you can possibly imagine. To be fair...
Lords of Thunder Sega CD
aDeveloper: Red/Hudson Soft Publisher: Sega Release: 03/28/95 Genre: Shooter The PC Engine and Sega Genesis share a lot of games, especially shooters. As most of these titles were arcade ports they usually hit both platforms as they...
Gunbird 2
Developer: Psikyo Publisher: Capcom Release: 2000 Genre: Shooter There were many, many classic shooters released for the PlayStation and Saturn in Japan. Unfortunately most never left the country as the genre was on the wane in the West...
Star Parodier
Developer: Kaneki, Inster State Co. Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/24/92 Genre: Shooter Apparently every long running shooter series has to poke fun at itself at some point. Konami pioneered the art of parody with Parodius which to this...
W Ring – the Double Ring
Developer: Naxat Soft Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 09/28/90 Genre: Shooter Video games have always fallen through the cracks. These days the number of games that release daily borders on insanity and it is impossible to keep up....
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...
Rayxanber III
Developer: Data West Publisher: Data West Released: 06/06/92 Genre: Shooter My anticipation for Rayxanber II was only matched by the crushing disappointment I felt once I played it and found out it was a bad game. So bad in...