King of Dragons
The King of Dragons is an interesting game. It was released not long after Final Fight blew the doors off the genre and a legion of imitators followed. It tried to do more with its mechanics than most of those...
Category: Snes
Hook
Developer: Ukiyotei Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Released: 1992 Genre: Platformer Movie licensed video games were on average absolutely dreadful during the 8 and 16-bit era. Sure you could blame this on the films publishers chose to create...
Run Saber
Developer: Hori Electric Co. Publisher: Atlus Release: 06/08/93 Genre: Action Early on in the Super Nintendo’s life Capcom blessed the system with many arcade ports such as U.N. Squadron, Final Fight, and Super Buster Brothers. All great ti...
Parodius – Non Sense Fantasy
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 1992 Genre: Shooter I will forever remain jealous of European gamers for receiving the majority of the Parodius series. As a parody of the otherwise serious Gradius games Parodius could have...
Super Mario Rpg
Developer: Square Enix Publisher: Nintendo Release: 05/13/96 Genre: RPG The concept of a Super Mario RPG doesn’t seem strange now considering the Paper Mario series is a modern day staple. But at one point even suggesting such a thing...
Rockman & Forte
It is hard to believe but for a while there Capcom were hesitant to release certain Mega Man titles in the US. This was mostly due to the long lead times of cartridge manufacturing and being left with large volumes...
Mega Man 7
If you thought the wait for Mega Man X was bad the continuation of the original series was even worse. By the time Mega Man 7 was released Mega Man X3 was a few months away. While the gameplay was...
Final Fight
Final Fight is one of the most popular arcade games of all time. In terms of its relevance it did for beat em ups what Street Fighter did for fighting games. It wasn’t the first in its genre but it...
Mickey no Tokyo Disneyland Daibouken
Developer: Graphic Research Company Publisher: Tomy Released: 12/16/94 Genre: Action Here in the West the Disney license one publisher would handle their titles per platform. Initially Sega did a fine job churning out gold for their systems with Virg...
King of Demons (Majyuuou)
Developer: KSS Publisher: KSS Released: 08/25/95 Genre: Action While we are familiar with Japanese publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Square Enix over the decades there have been many companies that have flirted with game’s publishing tha...