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December 22, 2025 No Responses

Doki Doki Yuuenchi

Developer: KID Publisher: VAP Release: 08/09/91 Genre: Action In the mid-90s there was an odd surge of 2d platformers featuring soccer. I suppose if cavemen and witches can have their day than football deserves its turn too....

December 19, 2025 No Responses

Genji Tsūshin Agedama

Developer: Red Company Publisher: NEC Release: 12/13/91 Genre: Action I have lamented the lack of platformers for the Turbo Grafx-16 many times. At a time when the mascot platformer and action games reigned supreme the system was severely...

December 15, 2025 No Responses

Balloon Fight

Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release: 06/86 Genre: Action I am not usually one to chase high scores. Even in the heyday of the arcade it was rarely my thing. It takes a truly exceptional game for me...

December 12, 2025 No Responses

Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Developer: Tribute Games Publisher: Dotemu Release: 12/01/25 Genre: Beat em up Also on: Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series The Avengers...

December 10, 2025 No Responses

Disney’s Beauty & the Beast: Roar of the Beast

Developer: Software Creations Publisher: Sunsoft Release: 1993 Genre: Action The excellent Disney game renaissance that started with Capcom on the NES continued into the 16-bit era and was even better. Even more surprising was the number of...

December 8, 2025 No Responses

Silent Assault

Developer: Joy Van Publisher: Color Dreams Release: 1990 Genre: Action Contra is one of my favorite NES games of all time. Even though I am not much of a multiplayer gamer these days when I was young...

November 24, 2025 No Responses

Sword of the Berserk: Guts’ Rage

Developer: Yuke’s Publisher: Eidos Release: 03/15/00 Genre: Action The Dreamcast was supposed to be the comeback story for Sega. For the most part they did everything right, from hardware and ease of development to repairing developer rela...

November 14, 2025 No Responses

Samurai Shodown (SNES)

Developer: Monolith Corp. Publisher: Takara Release: 1994 Genre: Fighting Of all of all SNK’s innumerable fighting game series Samurai Shodown might be my favorite. As one of the first weapons based fighting games the visceral combat was...

November 12, 2025 No Responses

Comix Zone

Developer: Sega Technical Institute Publisher: Sega Release: 1995 Genre: Beat em up By the end of the 16-bit era the side scrolling beat em up was starting to get stale. Despite the presence of monsters in the arcade...

November 10, 2025 No Responses

Veigues Tactical Gladiator

Developer: Bits Laboratory Publisher: NEC Release: 1990 Genre: Action This one. I always knew there was something off about Veigues: Tactical Gladiators. The back of the box is a flawed method of determining a game’s quality. I bought The...

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