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Developer: Cream    Publisher: Asmik    Released: December 1991     Genre: Shooter There is something to be said about trusting your gut.  During a time where most gamers relied on the back of the box to decide their gaming purchases that still...

Developer: Hudson Soft     Publisher: Taxan     Released: 1989     Genre: Shooter The Star Soldier series was once an institution in Japan, with yearly installments to complement their shooting caravan competition.  The fact that most of the games we...

Developer: Konami     Publisher: Konami     Released: 1987     Genre: Shooter It can’t be stated just how creatively on fire Konami were with their NES shooters.  Gradius revolutionized the genre and influenced legions of shooters to come.  It w...

Developer: Taito     Publisher: Taito     Released: 1991     Genre: Shooter Darius never particularly wowed me, even with its impressive triple screen playing field.  That isn’t to say I thought it was bad; it simply didn’t stand out during th...

Developer: Micronics     Publisher: Capcom     Released: 1986     Genre: Shooter Capcom are one of the few third parties that have created long lasting hits in nearly every genre.  For platformers you have Mega Man.  For fighting games you have S...

Developer: Sting     Publisher: Sofel     Released: 1992     Genre: Shooter I love to be surprised by video games every now and then.  The problem is as a thirty-nine year old man I am pretty set in what genres and games I like. ...

Developer: A.I. Co, Ltd     Publisher: Atlus     Released: 1992     Genre: Shooter The SNES saw its fair share of arcade ports initially.  A lot of these titles ranged in quality.  You had your classics like Turtles in Time and mediocre games lik...

Developer: Micronics     Publisher: Acclaim     Released: 1987     Genre: Shooter One day I will learn why so many NES publishers turned to Micronics to develop Nintendo ports of their arcade games. You would think after seeing the sorry state of t...

Aero Fighters is a thoroughly solid game, let’s get that out of the way.  It is also a game that is easy to forget.  At a time when shooters were a dime a dozen it did not exactly stand out. ...