Tag: 1993

Developer: Core Design    Publisher: Virgin    Release: 06/93    Genre: Action In the 16-bit era Amiga ports to home consoles were common. Since the Amiga was not as popular in the US I am sure for most this was our only...

Developer: Irem     Publisher: Irem     Release: 09/1993     Genre: Platformer Of all the companies to jump on the mascot platformer craze one of the last I would expect is Irem. The house that R-Type built had a rich arcade lineage they...

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1993    Genre: Platformer It is always fun to look back on the mascot platformers of bygone days to see which animals were exploited for corporate gain. We had bats, opossums, bobcats, and.....

Developer: The Sales Curve    Publisher: Vik Tokai    Released: 1993    Genre: Action Contra III is one of my favorite action games of all time. For an early SNES title it held up brilliantly throughout that generation and remains...

Developer: HAL Labs    Publisher: Nintendo    Released 1993    Genre: Platformer Kirby’s Dream Land was a seminal title for the Gameboy and made the character an instant star. His next outing would surprisingly come to the NES in its twilight years,...

Developer: Taito     Publisher: Taito     Released: 1993    genre: Platformer I will admit to being pleasantly surprised by Taito’s various licensed Hanna Barbara titles. These fairly innocuous licenses would normally be farmed out to a bottom of t...

Developer: Yutaka    Publisher: Yutaka    Released: 01/25/1993    Genre: Action In the US Nintendo gained a reputation for being kiddy at a time when Sega were pushing the envelope.  It’s a reputation they gladly paraded around back in the...

Developer: Data East     Publisher: Data East     Released: 1993     Genre: Platformer For me Joe & Mac was one of the highlights of the early SNES period. Although it was vastly different from the arcade game I still enjoyed it nonetheless,...

Developer: Hudson Soft    Publisher: TTI     Released: 1993     Genre: Action RPG If you were a RPG fan and owned a Turbo Grafx-16 the pickings were slim. While its PC Engine counterpart had a healthy role playing library unless you had...