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April 28, 2017 one Response

Golden Axe

The Sega Genesis and Turbo Grafx-16 launches were pretty significant events in the gaming industry. For the first time we were experiencing a hardware transition and all that entails. While excitement was high we would eventually learn that most launch...

April 19, 2017 2 Responses

Streets of Rage

With Final Fight setting the arcade on fire naturally most were anxious for a home port. Unfortunately for Sega owners the SNES would receive the exclusive for a number of years. Not one to let their fans down Sega would...

April 5, 2017 No Responses

Granada

Developer: Wolf Team Publisher: Renovation Release: 1990 Genre: Shooter I have never been much of a fan of tank based games. My dislike probably stems from playing Jackal in coop with a scrub and if you have ever been in...

March 22, 2017 No Responses

ESWAT: City Under Siege

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release: 10/90 Genre: Action I really liked ESWAT in the arcade but unfortunately never had the chance to play it much because of distance. So when news of a Sega Genesis version of the game...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Valis III (Genesis)

For the brave gamers who decided to take a chance with Valis the first few games were a lesson in mediocrity. I won’t deny that there is a certain charm to those games but they were also average in every...

March 10, 2017 No Responses

Syd of Valis

Developer: I.S.C. Co. Publisher: Renovation Release: 1992 Genre: Action In Japan the super deformed art style is actually a thing. I’ll admit that its actually kind of “cute” to see otherwise serious characters like Solid Snake or Ryu...

March 6, 2017 one Response

Valis – the Fantasm Soldier

Developer: Telenet Publisher: Renovation Released: August 15, 1991 Genre: Action I really miss Renovation Software. They never really had a breakout hit in the 90s but they brought out a wide variety of titles. Some were good, some...

March 1, 2017 No Responses

Wings of Wor

Now here’s one you don’t hear about too often. In the Sega Genesis’s library shooters starring angels of destruction can be counted on one hand with extra fingers. You would think that would be enough to give Wings of Wor...

February 15, 2017 No Responses

Devastator

In America the Sega CD is often looked back on as a wasteland full of terrible FMV games and licensed junk. That is true to an extent but when you dig deeper it has an alright library of diverse games. ...

February 8, 2017 No Responses

Twinkle Tale

The Cotton series of shooters are an incredible bunch that practically no one has ever heard of because only one single release came to the US. And that game is one of the rarest and most expensive retro games of...

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