Month: January 2021

Developer: KCEJ     Publisher: Konami     Released: March 27, 2001     Genre: Action As the successor to the PS One the PlayStation 2 hit the market like a rocket. There was literally no scenario in which the system could possibly fail, which...

Developer: Atlus     Publisher: Sega     Released: April 26, 2000    Genre: Action For many years the first person view was only used for shooters and adventure games. It is easy to see why: games like Doom and Quake with their twitch...

Developer: Midway    Publisher: Nintendo     Released: October 31, 1996    Genre: Racing The wait for the Nintendo 64 was completely unbearable for me back when it was first announced. I love the SNES and the thought of a 64-bit version of...

Developer: Nazca     Publisher: SNK    Released: August 7, 1997     Genre: Action The early years of the Neo Geo saw a fairly diverse lineup of arcade titles that covered most genres. When combined with the system’s horsepower SNK’s games looked.....

Developer: Success     Publisher: Success     Released: 1997    Genre Shooter Ah, Cotton, I admire your dedication to destroying my wallet. Cotton, alongside Parodius and Twinbee, is one of the best series of shooters that no one knows in the West. F...

Developer: Kemco     Publisher: Kemco     Released: 1994     Genre: Action RPG I’m sure Drakkhen was the first RPG many played on the SNES. Unfortunately as ambitious as it was it was not a good game. I will give the developers credit; heavily...

Developer: Epicenter Interactive     Publisher: Readysoft     Released: 1993     Genre: FMV The Sega CD will go down in history as one of the biggest missed opportunities of all time. Aside from its use of CD and the massive storage that it brought...

Developer: Naxat Soft    Publisher: Naxat Soft    Released: April 28, 1994     Genre: Action While the Turbo Grafx-16 suffered from a dearth of action games in the West in Japan it had a robust library in the genre, especially with...

Developer: Zoom     Publisher: Kemco     Released: 1992     Genre: Shooter Whenever Phalanx is brought up in conversation it is always in regard to its box art.  And that’s with good reason.  It is no exaggeration to say that it has one...