Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru
Despite its technical limitations, the Game Boy did get its fair share of great action/adventure games. Of course, the first …
Okage: Shadow King
by Iwant – August 12, 2012 Okage: Shadow King (Boku to Maou in Japan, officially translated to “Me and …
ParanoiaScape
In every family there’s a weird child. You know, the kind who smokes strange stuff and draws dead birds sketches …
Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge
We rarely hear about games that were developed outside of the major games-producing regions of Japan, North America and Europe. South …
Hourai Gakuen no Bouken!
There tons upon tons of unlocalized JRPGs on the Super Famicom. Hourai Gakuen no Bouken! Tenkousei Scramble, the only game developed …
Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima
The new possibilities offered by Nintendo’s 16-bit system made a lot of developers enthusiastic to create innovative games. Quite a …
Yoshiro Kimura
Photo by Daniel Feit from Wired.com: Inside Japan’s Indie Games Fest, Where Crazy Is Mandatory Q: You love travelling and have …
Pyongyang Racer
There is nothing that decaying communist dictatorships love like tourism. The Republic of Cuba is a striking example of this …
Gaball Screen
Licensed games will always leave gamers skeptical. After all, why trust what is essentially a marketing process? That’s especially true …
Alice: An Interactive Museum
Synergy is a rather unique publisher in the history of computer games. During the first half of the ’90s, this …
Ihatovo Monogatari
The phenomenon known as “I” is a blue light coming from a temporary, organic alternative current lamp (a synthesis of …
Gunple: Gunman’s Proof
The Super Famicom has seen the release of a lot of unexpected games. The old limits of the Famicom were …
Book of Watermarks, The
We are such stuff As dreams are made on, – William Shakespeare’s The Tempest It’s not a secret that adventure …
The Life of Shigesato Itoi
The year is 1948. Maebashi, a small town in Japan. This is where Shigesato Itoi was born, on November 10, …
