Year: 2014

January 10, 2014

Mario & Wario

The mouse controller for the Super Nintendo is seen as synonymous with Mario Paint. This is pretty much a given as …

January 9, 2014

1988 and 1989 were very strange years for video games. For whatever reason, this period saw an odd rise in …

January 9, 2014

Bubble Bobble was one of Taito’s biggest hits since Space Invaders, spawning a high number of imitators trying to match its basic …

January 9, 2014

When the popular second party developer HAL Laboratory is mentioned, many different topics probably spring to mind. The company most …

January 8, 2014

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Balloon Fight

NEED: GAME AND WATCH IMAGE Nintendo is well-regarded as an innovator within the industry. Almost every franchise they made has …

January 8, 2014

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Streets of Rage

There were several attempts to create a 3D Streets of Rage (including one by Ancient, who worked on Streets of …

January 6, 2014

Many tropes of the shoot-em-up genre are thoroughly established and easy to identify, so it is not common to see …

January 3, 2014

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Dragon Knight

The story starts in a distant future, in another dimension. Lucifon, one of the great four generals of the demon …

January 1, 2014

Desert Breaker is an overhead run-and-gun, a sort of game which often falls into the genre of vertical shoot-em-ups. However, …