Night Striker
Anyone who was around in the 80s has bought more than one video game based off of screenshots, a magazine or ad. My interest in Night Striker was peaked due to a preview in Diehard Gamefan. It looked incredibly cool...
Tag: import
Mitsume ga Tooru
Developer: Natsume Publisher: Tomy Released: July 17, 1992 Genre: Platformer Capcom, Konami, and to a lesser extent Sunsoft are revered for putting out legendary NES titles. Their reputations are wholly deserved as some of the fondest N...
The Great Battle II – Last Fighter Twin
Developer: Banpresto Publisher: Banpresto Released: 03/27/92 Genre: Beat em up I both love and hate the Great Battle Cyber. This late era Famicom release had everything going for it, from graphics to engaging gameplay. But it completely...
Sugoro Quest
Developer: Technos Japan Publisher: Technos Japan Released: June 28, 1991 Genre: RPG Sugoro Quest is the type of game that would definitely have been one of my favorites back in the day. While my friends wouldn’t give awesome...
Magical Pop’n
Developer: Pack-In-Video Publisher: Polestar Co. Released: 03/10/95 Genre: Action As I plumb the import libraries of these old consoles I am continually astounded at the sheer number of hidden gems most have never heard of. You’ll hear plenty ab...
Pop’n Twinbee
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 03/26/93 Genre: Shooter I’ve played my fair share of shooters of all stripes. Bullet hell, cute em ups, rail shooters, the list goes on and on. I’ve adapted to some weird mechanics but I...
Mystic Formula
The Turbo Grafx-16 is a haven for shooters of nearly all stripes be it horizontal or vertical. Unfortunately if you are a top down shooter fan the pickings are slim. Bloody Wolf is usually the go to but after that...
Tetrastar the Fighter
Developer: Home Data Corp. Publisher: Taito Released: 1991 Genre: Shooter Platform: NES I can admit to being insanely jealous that Sega Master System owners had a somewhat decent version of Space Harrier. I loved that ...
King Colossus: Tougi Ou
While it’s a fact that the Genesis is missing the breadth and depth of the SNES’s RPG library I must say that Sega did a pretty good job overall of at least providing awesome games in the genre for their...