Year: 2016

Balloon Kid

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

A simple port of Balloon Fight would’ve sufficed for Nintendo’s dot matrix portable. Its arcadey roots serves well for on-the-go action, just

Hyper Iria

Ever since the late days of the Atari 2600, video game adaptations of non-video game properties have firmly entrenched themselves

Kat’s Run

Anybody familiar with racing games in the early to mid 90s can tell you just energetic and creative the scene

Puyo Puyo Sun

This entry is part 4 of 11 in the series Puyo Puyo

The pun in this title focuses on the word “SUN”. The plot revolves around the sun – Satan (voiced by

Megablast

Taito’s arcade shooter Megablast is entirely unrelated to the European computer/SMS shooter Xenon 2: Megablast. At first glance, it looks a lot like

Motoko-chan no Wonder Kitchen

From the very moment you boot up the game, it’s clear what Motoko-Chan no Wonder Kitchen is. Its visual style is a

Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness

Up even into the 2000s, people were still trying to make the Myst formula work for them. A ton of adventure game

Pig Newton

The least likely sources can sometimes make for the least likely video games. Ever hear of Wild West: Cowboys of Moo

Puyo Puyo Tsuu

This entry is part 3 of 11 in the series Puyo Puyo

From this point onward, Compile started using puns with the numbering in the titles: Tsuu is the phonetic Japanese pronunciation

Puyo Puyo (Introduction)

This entry is part 1 of 11 in the series Puyo Puyo

You can’t really bring up a block stacking puzzle game without Tetris; if you show a game with blocks to

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