Tag: 1989

Developer: Taito     Publisher:Taito     Released: 1989     Genre: Action I’ve never been the biggest fan of light gun games. I was not enamored with Duck Hunt when the NES launched and outside of Gum Shoe found the NES Zapper useless.  I respec...

Developer: Atlus     Publisher: NEC     Released: September 1989    Genre: Action RPG The Turbo Grafx-16 released right when my love affair with RPGs began.  Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, and Phantasy Star all came out within the same time frame a...

Developer: Hudson     Publisher: NEC    Released: October 1989     Genre: Beat ’em up China Warrior is a piss poor game and one of the worst in the Turbo Grafx-16 library.  But you would not know that based on its marketing. When the...

Developer: Capcom     Publisher: Capcom     Released: 1989     Genre: Action RPG Capcom was one of the most prolific NES developers.  Next to Konami, Sunsoft and Nintendo they also probably have the highest hit ratio in terms of their releases.  A...

Developer: Hudson Soft     Publisher: Taxan     Released: 1989     Genre: Shooter The Star Soldier series was once an institution in Japan, with yearly installments to complement their shooting caravan competition.  The fact that most of the games we...

Developer: T & E Soft     Publisher: FCI     Released: June 1989     Genre: Action RPG Hydlide is one of the worst games of all time; I’m going to put that out there now.  Everyone who has played it knows this.  But it...

Developer: SNK     Publisher: SNK     Released:1989     Genre: Action SNK had a strange fascination with war games in the 80s.  From Ikari Warriors to P.O.W. and Iron Tank the theme was pretty consistent.  More than likely they were simply leverag...

Developer: Pack-In-Video     Publisher: Activision     Released: 1989     Genre: Action We make fun of Acclaim and LJN for their history of terrible licensed games because they deserve it.  But in my opinion Activision deserves their share of deri...

How?  How do you mess up Altered Beast?  Somehow they found a way with the PC Engine version.  By now everyone agrees that Altered Beast was not a good game.  The best thing Sega ever did with it was pack...