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December 2, 2016 No Responses

Super Off Road – The Baja

Developer: Software Creations Publisher: Tradewest Released: 09/93 Genre: Racing Out of all the genres that were active during the 16-bit era racing games are perhaps the hardest to revisit. Polygons finally allowed developers to create the kinds...

November 30, 2016 No Responses

Night Striker

Anyone who was around in the 80s has bought more than one video game based off of screenshots, a magazine or ad. My interest in Night Striker was peaked due to a preview in Diehard Gamefan. It looked incredibly cool...

October 28, 2016 No Responses

Air Zonk

Developer: Red Company Publisher: Hudson Soft Released: 1992 Genre: Shooter There were plenty of successful mascot platformers during the 16-bit age. The true sign of success came when the character would branch out into other genres. Mario wou...

October 25, 2016 3 Responses

Pop’n Twinbee

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 03/26/93 Genre: Shooter I’ve played my fair share of shooters of all stripes. Bullet hell, cute em ups, rail shooters, the list goes on and on. I’ve adapted to some weird mechanics but I...

October 22, 2016 No Responses

Mystic Formula

The Turbo Grafx-16 is a haven for shooters of nearly all stripes be it horizontal or vertical. Unfortunately if you are a top down shooter fan the pickings are slim. Bloody Wolf is usually the go to but after that...

October 21, 2016 one Response

Joe & Mac

I loved that weird period in the early 90s where caveman platformers were an actual thing. Bonk’s Adventure, Chuck Rock, Prehistorik Man, the Humans, I loved all of them. Except Chuck Rock. Because Chuck Rock sucks and I’ll fight anyone.....

October 21, 2016 No Responses

7th Saga

Developer: Produce Co. Publisher: Enix Released: August 3, 1993 Genre: RPG Platform: SNES It was common practice back in the day to make difficulty adjustments when localizing games for western markets. Games were made a b...

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