Month: September 2018

I know I wasn’t the only one disappointed by the SNES release of Final Fight.  As one of the biggest arcade games of all time many were itching for a home port.  And while it certainly looked the part the...

Wizards & Warriors was a curious game.  Even as a child I recognized its faults almost immediately.  It featured some of the most intense platforming at the time but everything surrounding it was a hot mess.  Yet in spite of...

Developer: Winky Soft    Pubisher: Zamuse    Released: Oct 29, 1993    Genre: Shooter For as much as I lament the inability of the various Macross series to come to the US it is an even bigger shame that the game’s suffer...

The Sega Genesis diverse lineup of shooters is both a blessing and a curse.  On the one hand there are some truly awful games in there as you would expect.  But on the other some of the most brilliant games...

Developer: Tecmo    Publisher: Tecmo    Release: 08/91   Genre: Action Back in the day it wasn’t uncommon for games to undergo significant changes when coming to different markets. Sometimes these were bug fixes or additions to gameplay. More often th...

For as popular as the Star Wars license remained after the films left theaters it did not have an easy go of it in video games.  The late 80s and early 90s would see a number of subpar games, the...

For as much as we revere Sega for their creative and original output their arcade releases were just as brilliant.  I would even say that they were pioneers of arcade gaming.  Their rich arcade history lead to many a Genesis...

For all of Jackie Chan’s success in film his video game “career” has been less than stellar.  Over the last few decades there have been close to twenty games starring the martial arts master.  But sadly the majority of them...

Sinistron is a weird one.  Although it was released two years after the Turbo Grafx debuted in America it still bore the look of an early release.  That’s not a knock on the game necessarily but I do think if...