Tag: adventure

Seirei Gari
August 11, 2025 No Responses

Seirei Gari

Developer: Hudson Soft    Publisher: Hudson Soft    Release: 12/08/89    Genre: Adventure One of my biggest regrets with the NES library is that point and click adventure games were sparse. Back in the 80s the genre was still largely...
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Policenauts
June 18, 2025 No Responses

Policenauts

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 01/19/96    Genre: Adventure This one has been a long time coming. Snatcher is my favorite Sega CD game of all time and one that I hope gets a re-release someday. But Policenauts...
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Bubblegum Crash: Knight Sabers 2034
June 9, 2025 one Response

Bubblegum Crash: Knight Sabers 2034

Developer: Naxat Soft    Publisher: Spiel    Release: 12/06/91   Genre: Visual Novel It has been interesting exploring the PC Engine library. While we received lots of shooters and awful platform games in the West Japan received games in all genres...
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Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective
July 8, 2024 No Responses

Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective

Developer: Icom    Publisher: Icom   Release: 1991   Genre: FMV I remember the promise that FMV had back when CDs were first introduced to video games. We were young and dumb and thought we would be controlling our cartoons. Instead...
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Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
September 4, 2023 No Responses

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom

Developer: Hudson Soft   Publisher: Hudson Soft    Release: 02/08/91   Genre: Adventure Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is one of the strangest NES games. As the system gained popularity worldwide it is natural that publishers would try and localize....
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The Dynastic Hero
June 12, 2023 No Responses

The Dynastic Hero

Developer: AlfaSystem    Publisher: Hudson Soft    Release: 1993   Genre: Action RPG One day, one day I will untangle the messy history and lineage of the Wonder Boy series. Wonder Boy in Monster World was one of my favorite early...
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Ravenlok
June 9, 2023 No Responses

Ravenlok

Developer: Cococucumber   Publisher: Cococucumber   Release: 05/04/23   Genre: Action RPG The indie game movement has done wonders in bringing under served genres to the forefront. I love the Legend of Zelda but for the longest time there were not...
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Ripple Island
February 10, 2023 No Responses

Ripple Island

Developer: Tokai    Publisher: Sunsoft    Release: 01/23/88   Genre: Adventure Kemco’s NES ports of the MacVenture point and click games sparked my love of adventure games. But while the pickings were slim for the NES in the West in Japan...
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Star Tropics
November 7, 2022 No Responses

Star Tropics

Developer: Nintendo    Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 12/90   Genre: Adventure Among all of Nintendo’s intellectual properties Star Tropics is one of the least popular. As a late NES title it released when all eyes were on the imminent SNES release. ...
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Legacy of the Wizard
July 18, 2022 No Responses

Legacy of the Wizard

Developer: Falcom    Publisher: Broderbund    Release: 04/89   Genre: Action Like many I looked forward to Birthdays and Christmas for potential new video games. I was a little more fortunate in that I had older brothers who bought games year round...
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