Gain Ground
People love to lament about how unoriginal the gaming landscape is, and how everything is a clone of a clone. …
Shinobi III
Widely regarded as the best in the series, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master takes everything that made The …
Altered Beast
Altered Beast – or Jyuuouki (“Chronicles of the Beast King“ in Japan) – is something of a Sega classic, owing …
Week of Garfield, A
Licensed games have a reputation to be terrible, especially licensed Famicom games, and A Week of Garfield is no exception. It …
Lone Ranger, The
In the later days of the NES, Konami developed a number of licensed games specifically for the American market. Some …
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
A drastic departure from the original, Wonder Boy in Monster Land thrusts our hero into a medieval world, and replaces …
Wonder Boy
Created by a development house named Escape (later renamed Westone Bit Entertainment), Wonder Boy was one of Sega’s mascot games …
Fantasy Zone II DX
The fact that Sega designed Fantasy Zone II for the Master System rather than the System 16 board was quite …
Fantasy Zone
Sega’s Fantasy Zone, designed by Yuji Ishii (Flicky, Teddy Boy, Spatter), released in 1986 for the Sega System 16 board, …
Fantasy Zone II
Fantasy Zone II was designed specifically for the 8-bit Master System, and shakes up the formula in a few ways …
Alex Kidd: High Tech World
Sega obviously has no shame in plugging its own products. The plot of Alex Kidd: High Tech World is to …
Alex Kidd BMX Trial
Released between Miracle World and the Master System version of The Lost Stars, Alex Kidd BMX Trial is the only …
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
After so many departures, Alex’s first (and only) Genesis outing goes back to its roots, with gameplay similar to Miracle …
