
Seirei Gari
In the late 80s, Hudson Soft started making adventure games such as Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (one of …

Erika to Satoru no Yume Bouken
In between the action and role-playing games that they produced during their early years, Atlus of Megami Tensei fame dabbled …

Sanma no Meitantei
Sanma no Meitantei (or “Great Detective Sanma”) is an interesting footnote in the history of early Japanese adventure games. It’s …

Ripple Island
Before they became known for their classic action games like Blaster Master, Batman and Journey to Silius, Sunsoft made many …

Ardy Lightfoot
The 90s was awash with mascot platformers, most of which soon faded into obscurity. Although it may be easy to …

Santa Claus Jr. Advance
Released just over a year later for the still recent Game Boy Advance, Santa Claus Jr. Advance is quite different …

Santa Claus Junior
German developer NEON Software is perhaps best known for their PS2 cult title Legend of Kay, but they were also …

Daze Before Christmas
In the early 90s, Norwegian developer Funcom made their trade with licensed platformers based on animated films (Disney’s Pocahontas, A …