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April 9, 2018 one Response

Metal Storm

Developer: Tamtex Publisher: Irem Released: 1991 Genre: Action Today when a new game is announced there are innumerable websites that report it, with screenshots and trailers. But back in the day we were not so lucky. Outside of seeing TV...

April 4, 2018 4 Responses

Strider (Sega)

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release: 11/90 Genre: Action I loved arcade games growing up but learned to accept that the NES couldn’t recreate most of my favorite titles perfectly. I like Double Dragon II and TMNT II but...

January 12, 2018 No Responses

Cyber Cross

Developer: ITL Co. Publisher: Face Release: 06/23/89 Genre: Action The Turbo Grafx-16 library was woefully inadequate in many genres. It had its share of platformers and my god did It have shooters. But side scrolling beat ‘em...

January 1, 2018 4 Responses

The Magic of Scheherazade

Developer: Culture Brain Publisher: Culture Brain Released: 1989 Genre: RPG I never knew what to make of Culture Brain. Where Capcom and Konami had signature brands everyone associated them with as well as arcade ports Culture Brain were just...

December 6, 2017 6 Responses

Altered Beast

Developer: Team Shinobi Publisher: Sega Release: 08/14/89 Genre: Beat em up Once upon a time new video game systems came with two controllers and a game. That is a pretty foreign concept to the younger gamers out there...

November 10, 2017 3 Responses

Cosmic Epsilon

Developer: Home Data Corp Publisher: Asmik Release: 11/24/89 Genre: Rail Shooter I have to admit to being a bit jealous of the Famicom library at times. Make no mistake, the NES had a fantastic library overall, full of classics that...

November 6, 2017 2 Responses

P.O.W.: Prisoners of War

Developer: SNK Publisher: SNK Release: 09/89 Genre: Beat em up I’ve never really given it much thought but SNK really seemed to love military action games in the 80s. It should not be that surprising considering that particular decade...

September 18, 2017 No Responses

Super Dodge Ball

Developer: Technos Publisher: CSG Imagesoft Release: 06/89 Genre: Sports I never got to play Dodge Ball in school. As a child of the 80s every TV show and cartoon depicted this vicious sport as a rite of passage for the...

August 30, 2017 3 Responses

Ghouls ‘N Ghosts

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Release: 09/89 Genre: Platformer Ghosts ‘N Goblins was among the first NES games I got to play. Back before I developed a sense of taste in video games I was too young to...

August 28, 2017 2 Responses

Gradius II

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 12/16/88 Genre: Shooter I am sure there are millions like myself who just assumed that Konami’s Life Force was the sequel to Gradius. Both shared similar ships and near identical power-up systems ...

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