Castle Shikigami 2

Castle Shikigami 2

Developer: AlfaSystem Co.    Publisher: XS Games    Release: 11/17/04    Genre: Shooter Here is a fun fact: the PlayStation 2 has one of the greatest shooter libraries of all time. By virtue of the system being more powerful than...
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Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage

Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage

Developer: Yuke’s    Publisher: Eidos    Release: 03/15/00    Genre: Action The Dreamcast was supposed to be the comeback story for Sega. For the most part they did everything right, from hardware and ease of development to repairing developer rela...
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Star Wars: Episode 1: Racer

Star Wars: Episode 1: Racer

Developer: Lucas Arts    Publisher: Lucas Arts    Release: 05/18/99    Genre: Racing When the prequel trilogy was announced I was overjoyed. Not only because it meant new Star Wars movies but also new games to go with them. The...
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Zanac x Zanac

Zanac x Zanac

Developer: Compile    Publisher: Compile    Release: 11/29/01    Genre: Shooter I credit Gradius and Zanac for my love of the shooter genre. While I like Asteroids I was never a fan of score chasing. Those two titles not only...
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Hang-On GP

Hang-On GP

Developer: Genki   Publisher: Sega    Release: 01/96   Genre: Racing Ah, Hang-On. Hang-On was one of the first Sega Master System games I ever played. Of course that is because it was packed in with the system but I digress. It...
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Samurai Shodown (SNES)

Samurai Shodown (SNES)

Developer: Monolith Corp.    Publisher: Takara    Release: 1994    Genre: Fighting Of all of all SNK’s innumerable fighting game series Samurai Shodown might be my favorite. As one of the first weapons based fighting games the visceral combat was...
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Comix Zone

Comix Zone

Developer: Sega Technical Institute   Publisher: Sega    Release: 1995    Genre: Beat em up By the end of the 16-bit era the side scrolling beat em up was starting to get stale. Despite the presence of monsters in the arcade...
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Veigues Tactical Gladiator

Veigues Tactical Gladiator

Developer: Bits Laboratory    Publisher: NEC   Release: 1990   Genre: Action This one. I always knew there was something off about Veigues: Tactical Gladiators. The back of the box is a flawed method of determining a game’s quality. I bought The...
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Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Developer: Lizardcube    Publisher: Sega    Release: 08/29/25    Genre: Action                                            Also on: Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series It...
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Casino Kid 2

Casino Kid 2

Developer: Sofel    Publisher: Sofel    Release: 04/93    Genre: Gambling Something strange happened near the end of the NES life. For some reason publishers decided now was the time to flood the market with gambling games. Between Blackjack, Caesar’s....
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