Night Striker
Anyone who was around in the 80s has bought more than one video game based off of screenshots, a magazine or ad. My interest in Night Striker was peaked due to a preview in Diehard Gamefan. It looked incredibly cool...
Tag: shooter
Steel Empire
Developer: Hot-B Publisher: Flying Edge Released: 1992 Genre: Shooter As much as I loved shooters growing up they did become over saturated with releases in a very short period. The Genesis, Turbo Grafx-16 and the arcade saw an innumera...
Axelay
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: September 1992 Genre: Shooter Platform: SNES I think it safe to say that the shooting genre did not get off to a great start on the SNES. Don’t get me wrong there were ma...
Air Zonk
Developer: Red Company Publisher: Hudson Soft Released: 1992 Genre: Shooter There were plenty of successful mascot platformers during the 16-bit age. The true sign of success came when the character would branch out into other genres. Mario wou...
Target Earth
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 ...
Pop’n Twinbee
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Released: 03/26/93 Genre: Shooter I’ve played my fair share of shooters of all stripes. Bullet hell, cute em ups, rail shooters, the list goes on and on. I’ve adapted to some weird mechanics but I...
Mystic Formula
The Turbo Grafx-16 is a haven for shooters of nearly all stripes be it horizontal or vertical. Unfortunately if you are a top down shooter fan the pickings are slim. Bloody Wolf is usually the go to but after that...
Tetrastar the Fighter
Developer: Home Data Corp. Publisher: Taito Released: 1991 Genre: Shooter Platform: NES I can admit to being insanely jealous that Sega Master System owners had a somewhat decent version of Space Harrier. I loved that ...