Air Buster
Developer: Kaneko Publisher: Kaneko Released: 1991 Genre: Shooter Aero Blasters is one of my favorite Turbo Grafx-16 games. At a time where I had few games for the system it was a bright spot. It would be...
Tag: arcade
Blades of Steel
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 1988 Genre: Sports Believe it or not Blades of Steel was my introduction to Hockey. Growing up Hockey was not really shown on local television like the NFL or NBA so it always seemed...
Gyruss
Developer: Konami Publisher: Ultra Games Release: 02/89 Genre: Shooter Gyruss was a favorite of mine in the arcade back in the 80s. After playing the likes of Gradius and Space Invaders it was a nice change of pace in...
Operation Wolf
Developer: Taito Publisher:Taito Released: 1989 Genre: Action I’ve never been the biggest fan of light gun games. I was not enamored with Duck Hunt when the NES launched and outside of Gum Shoe found the NES Zapper useless. I respec...
Die Hard Arcade
Developer: Sega AM1 Publisher: Sega Released: March 1997 Genre: Action The advent of 3d brought many innovations to existing genres. Some like the 2d platformer even evolved, one could even say for the better. But in the march of progre...
1941: Counter Attack
Developer: Capcom Publisher: Hudson Soft Released: 08/23/91 Genre: Shooter I like Capcom’s 19XX series of shooters but can freely admit they did not have the best start. 1942 was decent for its time if a bit simple. Most...
1942
Developer: Micronics Publisher: Capcom Released: 1986 Genre: Shooter Capcom are one of the few third parties that have long lasting hits in nearly every genre. For platformers you have Mega Man. For fighting games you have Street Fighte...
Burning Force
Developer: Nova Publisher: Namco Released: 11/90 Genre: Rail Shooter Space Harrier made a big splash in the arcade with its fancy scaling graphics and riveting gameplay. Yet it did not spawn as many imitators as you would expect,...
Tiger Heli
Developer: Micronics Publisher: Acclaim Released: 1987 Genre: Shooter One day I will learn why so many NES publishers turned to Micronics to develop Nintendo ports of their arcade games. You would think after seeing the sorry state of t...
Aero Fighters
Developer: Video System Publisher: McO’River Release: 11/94 Genre: Shooter Aero Fighters is a thoroughly solid game, let’s get that out of the way. It is also a game that is easy to forget. At a time when shooters were a...