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January 12, 2026 No Responses

Chiki Chiki Boys (PC Engine)

Developer: Flight-Plan Publisher: NEC Avenue Release: 07/15/94 Genre: Action Never judge a book by its cover. For a long time I avoided Chiki Chiki Boys on the Genesis. I thought the name was stupid and the generic box art did...

December 24, 2025 No Responses

Wani Wani World

Developer: Kaneko Publisher: Kaneko Release: 01/31/92 Genre: Action The Sega Genesis’ popularity in the West is a bit of an anomaly. Because the platform was so successful in Europe and especially the US publishers were constantly on...

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...

November 19, 2025 No Responses

Zanac x Zanac

Developer: Compile Publisher: Compile Release: 11/29/01 Genre: Shooter I credit Gradius and Zanac for my love of the shooter genre. While I like Asteroids I was never a fan of score chasing. Those two titles not only...

October 20, 2025 No Responses

Attack Animal Gakuen

Developer: Scitron & Art Publisher: Pony Canyon Release: 12/26/87 Genre: Action I was not a Sega Master System owner growing up. I was fortunate to have friends with one and had the chance to occasionally swap systems. While I...

October 15, 2025 No Responses

Die Hard (TG-16)

Developer: Pack-in-Video Publisher: NIhon Bussan Release: 1990 Genre: Action You can write volumes about how badly the Die Hard license has been handled within the video game space. The NES game meant well but they botched the execution...

October 10, 2025 No Responses

Kōuryū no Mimi

Developer: Vap Inc. Publisher: Vap Inc. Release: 12/22/95 Genre: Beat em up One element of licensed video games from Japan that I lament is that there are scores of titles based on manga and anime that never...

September 8, 2025 No Responses

Gekisha Boy

Developer: Tomcat System Publisher: Irem Release: 10/02/92 Genre: Action Among the PC Engine’s many shooters, action games, and oddities, Gekisha Boy might be one of the strangest. Instead of blasting aliens or saving princesses, you are a nerv...

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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