Kidō Keisatsu Patlabor: 98-Shiki Kidō Seyo!

Kidō Keisatsu Patlabor: 98-Shiki Kidō Seyo!

Developer: Advance Communication Company   Publisher: MA-BA Corp    Release: 10/23/92    Genre: RPG For the most part the anime licensed game bubble usually spanned a few genres during the 8 and 16-bit era. You had your generic platformer, side-scrolling...
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Custom Robo

Custom Robo

Developer: Noise, Inc.    Publisher: Nintendo    Release: 12/08/99    Genre: Action/RPG The Nintendo 64 was not kind to fans of Japanese RPGs. The genre finally hit the mass market thanks to Final Fantasy 7 and a veritable mountain of...
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Suikoden II

Suikoden II

Developer: Konami    Publisher: Konami    Release: 09/29/99    Genre: RPG From the moment I read import coverage of the first Suikoden I knew I would love the game. RPGs had not become widespread on the PlayStation yet and when...
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Lady Sword

Lady Sword

Developer: Games Express   Publisher: GNN    Release: 07/13/92   Genre: RPG Back in the day unlicensed video games were rarely seen or heard. Usually hailing from China or Korea they were most often terrible in every respect and the...
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Monstania

Monstania

Developer: Amcuss, Bits Laboratory   Publisher: Pack-in-Video    Release: 09/27/96   Genre: Strategy RPG Tactical RPGs were not common during the 16-bit era. While we all have fond memories of Shining Force and if you are hardcore Ogre Battle the...
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

Developer: Natsume    Publisher: FCI    Release: 01/91    Genre: Action-Adventure The Dragonlance series of novels were my first fantasy series growing up. While some kids were fortunate enough to read the Lord of the Rings the adventures of Tanis and.....
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Flying Warriors

Flying Warriors

Developer: Culture Brain    Publisher: Culture Brain    Release: 02/91   Genre: Action If at first you don’t succeed try again. Flying Dragon was an attempt at distilling a karate movie in 8-bit video game form. It succeeded in some areas but...
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Super Ninja Boy

Super Ninja Boy

Developer: Culture Brain    Publisher: Culture Brain    Release: 04/93   Genre: Action RPG I was late getting around to Little Ninja Bros. on the NES. It was a game I always meant to get around to but never did. But despite...
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Famicom Jump – Hero Retsuden

Famicom Jump – Hero Retsuden

Developer: Tose   Publisher: Bandai   Release: 02/15/89   Genre: RPG Weekly Shonen Jump is an institution in Japan. Although there are dozens of manga anthologies in Japan even to this day it still remains the most popular. Their list...
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Arcana

Arcana

Developer: HAL    Publisher: HAL    Release: 05/92   Genre: RPG While I am a fan of nearly every form of RPG first person dungeon crawlers were my kryptonite. Maybe it was the disconnect from not seeing my party during my numerous...
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