Kitty on Your Lap
It’s common to see games take on reputations more concerned with the idea the game represents than with its actual …
Steamgear Mash
In mainstream video game discourse, the mid-90s are often seen as an awkward growing period for the medium. The introduction …
Night Raid
Although shooters have been a fixture in video games since almost their inception, the bullet hell shooter didn’t exist until …
Keith Courage in Alpha Zones
Keith Courage in Alpha Zones is primarily remembered as one of the first games released on the TurboGrafx-16 (it was even …
8-bit Bayonetta
For as minor as it is, 8-bit Bayonetta has a habit of intersecting with histories that are marginally more significant …
Bayonetta: Bloody Fate
It’s not all that hard to figure out why Platinum Games thought the first follow-up to Bayonetta should be a …
Bayonetta 2
The situation PlatinumGames faced while making Bayonetta 2 was completely different from the one they faced making the first Bayonetta. …
Mamono Hunter Yohko
One of the most pleasant surprises one has playing video games is encountering a game that’s unaware of its own …
America Daitouryou Senkyo
Despite rarely being recognized as such, the 1988 presidential election was one of the more influential elections of the modern …
Onyanko Town
Micronics, the company behind Onyanko Town, wasn’t known for their original games. They were a creative-for-hire company like TOSE or …
