Year: 2012

January 10, 2012

Undying

(Renowned horror author and director Clive Barker – probably most famous for the Hellraiser franchise – has this interesting affinity towards video …

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January 9, 2012

Deep Blue

Pack-In-Video published this game! Pack-In-Video is a publisher you’ve probably never heard of, though if you played video games in …

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January 9, 2012

Pray for Death

The PC was never really known for its selection of fighting games, and there’s a few reasons for that. For …

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January 8, 2012

Dragon Wang

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Dragon Wang / Kung Fu Kid

The SG-1000 was Sega’s first attempt at a home console, but it was an ill-fated project. Already technologically outdated upon …

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January 8, 2012

Flicky

Conceived by Yoji Ishii (who later created Fantasy Zone before being promoted away from hands-on design and working as a producer on …

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January 8, 2012

Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Prinny

Prinny expected a lot of players, and for better or worse, they supported it. It was a resounding success both in …

Review

January 8, 2012

Ibara

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Ibara

Intro Tsuneki Ikeda is known for defining the bullet hell shmup genre foundations, with Batsugun and DoDonPachi due to their screen filling bullet patterns …

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January 8, 2012

Mister Mosquito

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Mr Mosquito

The PlayStation 2 era was a time when the Japanese games industry was at its height in terms of creativity, …

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January 8, 2012

Jackie Chan’s Action Kung Fu

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Jackie Chan

By the end of the ’80s, there was one undisputed king in the world of video games, and that was …

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January 5, 2012

Trap Gunner

Assigning a genre to the PlayStation game Trap Gunner is no easy task, but it can best be described as …