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Cave Noire

For a long time, Rogue-style games were solely concentrated on personal computers. In 1993, Chunsoft tinkered with the formula a

Time Twist

The Famicom Disk System housed a number of adventure games, several of which were published by Nintendo themselves. Amongst more

Last Survivor

Most gamers know id Software’s Doom, released in 1993, as the game that popularized the multiplayer first person shooter, but

Phantom Brave

Nippon Ichi’s Disgaea was an international success, an SRPG with an inviting sense of humor, deep mechanics, and plenty of

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

“Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44

Hagane

Hagane (pronounced the Japanese way – HA-GA-NAY – it means “steel”) is a SNES game that doesn’t feel like a

System Shock 2

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series System Shock

After the destruction of Citadel Station at the end of System Shock, Trioptimum was dismantled, and a world order established

Severed

The elevator pitch for Drinkbox Studios’ Severed is basically “Dungeon Master meets Fruit Ninja“; that is to say, a classic

Dino Rex

The release of Capcom’s Street Fighter II in 1991 caused the arcade scene to be flooded with a huge number

Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru

Shinrei Jusatsushi Taroumaru, also translated as “Psychic Killer Taromaru” or “Spiritual Assassin Taromaru”, or any combination of those words, has

Dreamweb

DreamWeb, a dark, cyberpunk adventure, just might be the most depressing game ever made. As a down-on-his-luck ex-bartender named Ryan,

Circuit’s Edge

Circuit’s Edge is an interesting adventure/RPG hybrid published by Activision under their Infocom label, and developed by Westwood Studios. Based

Mystic Riders

Irem was typically known for dark shoot-em-ups, ranging from the biomechanical Giger-esque designs of R-Type and X-Multiply, the dark fantasy

Nazo no Murasamejou

It’s easily apparently that the number of Japanese Famicom titles outnumbers the American/European release by some huge number. And yet,

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