Year: 2016

September 3, 2016

Space Ace (SNES)

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Space Ace

Those among us who take an interest in bad games are more than likely familiar with the NES adaption of Dragon’s …

September 1, 2016

Described as a “grim fairy tale board game”, Armello is set in a fantasy kingdom of anthropomorphic animals, all divided into various …

August 29, 2016

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Tenchi wo Kurau

A year after Sun L’s Game Boy version, Capcom developed a third Tenchi wo Kurau RPG, this time for the Super Famicom. …

August 26, 2016

In 2012, Mike Bithell released Thomas Was Alone, an unexpected indie hit that has gone on to sell over one million …

August 25, 2016

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Croc

Croc is a standard 3D platform-game with quite a turbulent history. The developers of the game, Argonaut Software, may ring a …

August 25, 2016

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Croc

Croc 2 begins with Croc finding a letter from what appears to be his lost parents. Although he cannot read he …

August 23, 2016

In the wide world of video games there are many self-referential entries, that is, games featuring other games, about developing games, …

August 21, 2016

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Terra Cresta

The video game industry went through sudden, profound changes in the mid 1990s. Many game companies, blindsided by the shift …

August 17, 2016

It may be a clichéd phrase, but from the 80s to the mid-90s, anyone could be a protagonist and do …

August 17, 2016

After Data Age bombed with their chance of a Journey game on the Atari 2600, Bally Midway decided to make …