All posts by Bobinator

Gaiapolis

Gaiapolis is definitely the most original of Konami’s arcade brawlers. In fact, it takes so many liberties with the genre, much

Shark Attack

Back in the early ’80s, digitized speech was a pretty snazzy thing. That is, if you could understand it. You

Dragonstomper

If you ask RPG fans what the original console RPG was, odds are most will tell you it was 1986’s Dragon

Chiller

Exidy were one of the first names in the arcade business, having been around since the mid-70s, putting them in

Rampart

More than any other form of gaming, arcade games tend to stick to trends. Ever since Space Invaders, arcade developers always

Smash TV

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Smash TV / Total Carnage

For about as long as video games have been a thing, there have been attempts to take older video games

Bloodstorm

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Time Killers / Bloodstorm

Two years after Time Killers went as quickly as it came in the arcades, Strata would release another fighting game. It’s an

Time Killers

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Time Killers / Bloodstorm

It’s almost always the case that when a particular idea is popular, people will try to copy it. So it

Law of the West

Ah, the dialogue tree. From Monkey Island to Mass Effect, it’s a simple tool that’s given players a lot more control over what

Wiz ‘n’ Liz

The Amiga is a home computer not many people in the States know about, because it was only ever particularly

Trog!

There have been countless times when a game has been scrapped entirely because it just didn’t work. Maybe nobody could

Brain Dead 13

Interactive movies have been around since near the dawn of gaming. Games like Dragon’s Lair and Space Acemixed Don Bluth’s excellent animation skills

Drac’s Night Out

Ah, Dracula. As a public domain figure, he’s been in an uncountable number of games. We’ve had him whipped more

Grinch, The

If you ask someone who celebrates Christmas, they’ll probably tell you that one of their brightest memories of the holidays

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