Year: 2015

January 25, 2015

Donkey Kong Country

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong. The name alone has a particular resonance far beyond gaming culture. Before there were “gamers”, at least as …

Review

January 22, 2015

Dark Half

Superficially workmanlike, Dark Half is actually one of the more unusual and challenging RPGs available on the Super Famicom. It’s …

Review

January 22, 2015

Ordyne

Namco is known for a number of shooters – Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Phelios – which are mostly vertically-oriented. Ordyne is a break from these, a side-scrolling …

Review

January 17, 2015

Ninja Gaiden II (NES)

This entry is part 3 of 16 in the series Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos takes place shortly after the events of the first game. Ryu has defeated …

Review

January 15, 2015

Brandish

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Brandish

Brandish is a series of overhead dungeon crawlers from Falcom. Like most of their games, it began on Japanese PCs, though …

Review

January 11, 2015

Metal Morph

Origin Systems is a company that made video game history not only with its seminal Ultima franchise, but also with their long-lived …

Review

January 10, 2015

Hoccer

It was hard to accurately replicate sports games in the early eighties. For a game as simple as table tennis, Pong was …

Review

January 10, 2015

Adventures of Lomax, The

This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Lemmings

The lemmings have starred in numerous games, on tons of consoles and computer platforms. They’ve had a reasonably smooth transition …

Review

January 9, 2015

Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen

Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen is a follow-up to Bandai’s equally awful Ougon Densetsu, released less than a year after the …

Review

January 9, 2015

Moai-kun

In what perhaps seems like a strange choice for a game, Moai-kun is par for the norm from Konami. The game is …