G Vector
Developer: Soft Office Publisher: Soft Office Release: 10/16/97 Genre: Shooter For many Virtua Fighter was the star of the Sega Saturn launch. It is easy to see why; it was the first major fighting game in 3d...
Tag: import
Terranigma
Developer: Quintet Publisher: Nintendo Release: 12/19/96 Genre: Action RPG One of the great injustices of the 16-bit era is that Terranigma did not release in the US. It is understandable; as a late 1995 release any localization would take...
Fushigi no Yume no Alice
Developer: Face Publisher: Face Release: 12/07/90 Genre: Platformer Platforming fans had a rough go of it on the Turbo Grafx. While SNES and Genesis owners were spoiled for choice in the US the pickings were slim for...
Ai Senshi Nicol
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 04/24/87 Genre: Action Looking back there were surprisingly few top down action games on the NES. For a system that more or less covered every base this one niche is a bit lacking. The ones...
Halley Wars
Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Release: 01/14/89 Genre: Shooter Even as early as the late 80s the shooter genre began to hit a rut. The biggest titles in the genre such as Gradius and R-Type cast a large...
Double Dragon 2 – the Revenge
Developer: Kid Co. Publisher: Naxat Soft Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Beat em up My initial exposure to Double Dragon 2 was the brilliant NES version which was essentially a remake. I did not play the arcade game until...
Edono Kiba
Developer: Riot Publisher: Micro World Release: 03/12/93 Genre: Action Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi made me a fan of ninja action games. While Sega received the lion’s share of attention thanks to the quality of the Genesis Shinobi...
L-Dis
Developer: Dual Publisher: Masaya Release: 04/05/91 Genre: Shooter In the land of video games sometimes you have to something absurd to stand out. The PC Engine has more shooters than you can possibly imagine. To be fair...
Tryrush Deppy
Developer: System Supply N-Tech Publisher: Nihon Create Release: 11/22/96 Genre: Platformer The Saturn was built to be a 2d powerhouse. But sadly it released at a time when the industry was moving to 3d. That meant we...
Star Parodier
Developer: Kaneki, Inster State Co. Publisher: Hudson Soft Release: 04/24/92 Genre: Shooter Apparently every long running shooter series has to poke fun at itself at some point. Konami pioneered the art of parody with Parodius which to this...