Tag: platformer

I remember Night Creatures from first issue of Gamepro.  Their review gave it average scores across the board and briefly listed its many faults.  I also remember thinking they were crazy; how could this game that looked so cool be...

Capcom usually gets the majority of the praise when the discussing Disney licensed titles.  And rightfully so I might add.  At a time where LJN and Ocean basically treated any license they bought like garbage Capcom showed that if you...

Developer: Marionette    Publisher: FCI    Release: 11/88    Genre: Action There are not many games I have hated within a few minutes of picking up the controller. Dr. Chaos is one of them. I will give it credit for being ambitious. For...

Developer: Masaya    Publisher: Dreamworks    Release: 1990   Genre: Action The NES library covered pretty much all genres but conspicuously absent were games starring giant robots. No, Probotector does not count. If you explore the Famicom library you ...

Developer: Capcom     Publisher: Capcom     Released: December 1988     Genre: Action To anyone who had the misfortune of playing the original Bionic Commando arcade game, I’m sorry.  While the germ of a good idea was there but sloppy execution w...

I loved that weird period in the early 90s where caveman platformers were an actual thing.  Bonk’s Adventure, Chuck Rock, Prehistorik Man, the Humans, I loved all of them.  Except Chuck Rock.  Because Chuck Rock sucks and I’ll fight anyone.....