Tag: Jaleco

These days the name Earth Defense Force conjures up images of hordes of insects in janky environments with a suspect frame rate.  But before the bug blasting series was conceived Earth Defense Force was an arcade game in the early...

In spite of how generic it was I still kind of liked Rival Turf.  It was as blatant a Final Fight clone as possible but it still had charm.  I don’t like it enough to recommend it to anyone, mind...

….Someone out there is probably way too proud of that title to this day.  Offensive title aside Whomp ‘Em is a game that I actively avoided for no good reason.  Maybe it was the goofy name, maybe it was the...

Developer: Natsume     Publisher: Jaleco     Released: 1991     Genre: Action One of the biggest regrets from my childhood is that I moved on from the NES earlier than I should have.  With Genesis hitting its stride and the SNES on the market...

Once Final Fight hit big the beat em up genre truly exploded in popularity.  Nearly every publisher at some point or another tried their hand at the genre, often with mixed results.  Jaleco was one such publisher.  Throughout their history...

Developer: Jaleco    Publisher: Jaleco    Released: November 1994    Genre: Action The firefighting sub-genre of action games might be underrepresented but man are there some real gems out there.  The Ignition Factor was a low key release in 1994 but...

Developer: Jaleco     Publisher: Jaleco     Released: 1993     Genre: Action There are games that fly under the radar for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes they get lost in the hype of more anticipated titles.  The publisher might have done a terr...

I remember picking up the box for Astyanax in Woolworth wondering how to pronounce the title, let alone what it was.  If that was the marketing department’s intent it definitely worked on me.  Odd name aside the screenshots on the...