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October 13, 2025 No Responses

Image Fight (NES)

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 07/90 Genre: Shooter R-Type was sorely missed on the NES. As the undisputed king of the console market you would expect one of the most popular arcade games of the day to hit...

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...

June 17, 2024 No Responses

Spelunker II: Yūsha e no Chōsen

Developer: Now Production Publisher: Irem Release: 09/18/87 Genre: Action Spelunker is one of the most frustrating and annoying NES games of all time. I am ashamed to say I spent far more hours playing it than I...

November 27, 2023 No Responses

Youkai Yashiki

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 10/23/87 Genre: Action The Famicom Disk System is a fascinating piece of hardware from a historical perspective. In Japan for a while there it completely overtook the Famicom and nearly all releases...

November 15, 2023 No Responses

Image Fight II: Operation Deepstriker

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 12/18/92 Genre: Shooter I liked Image Fight. There were a number of arcade games that received both NES and PC Engine ports and while NEC’s version was always better both were respectable. Image Fight.....

December 23, 2022 No Responses

DinoCity

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 09/92 Genre: Platformer DinoCity is an easy game to write off. The box art distills the 90s perfectly and, while being inoffensive, gives the impression of a kid’s game that will offer no real...

February 28, 2022 No Responses

Sqoon

Developer: Home Data Corp. Publisher: Irem Release: 09/87 Genre: Shooter I never played Sqoon growing up. I never saw it at Blockbuster, none of my friends had it, and I never saw any reason to seek it out....

December 10, 2021 No Responses

Rocky Rodent

Developer: Irem Publisher: Irem Release: 09/93 Genre: Platformer Of all the companies to jump on the mascot platformer craze one of the last I would expect is Irem. The house that R-Type built had a rich arcade lineage they...

November 1, 2021 No Responses

Spartan X 2

Developer: Tamtex Publisher: Irem Released: 09/27/91 Genre: Action Kung-Fu was one of my first NES games. I’m pretty sure I am not alone in that either. As an early adopter it was slim pickings for the first...

August 11, 2021 No Responses

Kung Fu

Developer: Irem Publisher: Nintendo Released: October 1985 Genre: Beat ’em up When I look back on my video game career I count myself fortunate to have been born in time for the NES launch. Although I played the Atari 2600...

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