Month: February 2019

Capcom were the undisputed master of the 2d fighting game.  But with 3d they were years behind their contemporaries at Sega and Namco.  There stabs at the genre were at times interesting, like Rival Schools.  But the rest were mostly...

Developer: Nintendo EAD     Publisher: Nintendo     Released: February 12, 1997     Genre: Racing The Nintendo 64’s early months were rough.  After a record setting Christmas the reality of the system’s anemic release schedule hit early adopte...

Developer: Eurocom     Publisher: Disney Interactive     Released: July 1, 1997     Genre: Platform Disney’s Hercules is an anomaly. It’s hard to believe now but once upon a time some of the brightest creators in the video game industry dev...

Developer: Team Andromeda     Publisher: Sega     Released: 1996     Genre: Rail Shooter The early launch of the Saturn was devastating not just for retailers but also for gamers.  Fans were left with few options as most games weren’t ready unti...

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 ...

Image Fight was a shooter that I did not have a high opinion of.  My only prior exposure to the game came from the lackluster NES port which sadly lacked what made it great.  The PC Engine version of Image...

DuckTales is a legendary game and one of the greatest games of all time.  At a time when licensed games were routinely horrible Capcom showed that if you handled it with care a license could be used to create a...

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...