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Nichibutsu Arcade Classics 2: Heiankyo Alien

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Heiankyo Alien

Five years the franchise remained dormant until Nichibutsu published Nichibutsu Arcade Classics 2: Heiankyo Alien for Super Famicom. Released exclusively in Japan,

Xanadu

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Dragon Slayer

Xanadu is one of the most important Japanese RPGs developed. According to Falcom’s website, it sold more than 400,000 copies and

Umihara Kawase

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Umihara Kawase

Umihara Kawase is a strange little game series about a girl and her fishing pole. It’s a puzzle platformer revolved

Gradius Galaxies

This entry is part 13 of 17 in the series Gradius

Gradius Galaxies was developed by Mobile 21, a joint venture between Nintendo and Konami which focused on portable games. It’s

Gun-Nac

Gun-Nac was released in 1990, around the same time as MUSHA. The title is a combination of “Zanac” and “Gunhed“.

Kingdom O’ Magic

SCI’s Kingdom O’ Magic is about as close as anyone got to a Monty Python skit in video game form. Oh, sure, they were

Cowboy Kid

Konami’s Ganbare Goemon series was a remarkably goofy, incredibly prolific series involving two funny little guys rampaging around feudal Japan and beating

KickMaster

This game is featured in our NES Cult Classics book! Please check it out! In a grim fantasy setting, the kingdom

Gigantic Army

Gigantic Army is such a gigantic love letter to Cybernator it might as well be a long lost sequel. It almost doesn’t show

Martial Champion

Fighting games in the nineties were as common as pennies in a mall fountain. Street Fighter II had been so influential and

Do Dutch Wives Dream of Electric Eels? (Dark Age of JRPGs)

Most computer RPGs in the early days (and even in the modern era) are based around some fantasy or swords

Quarth

Quarth is a fun little shooter / puzzle hybrid from Konami. You control a small ship at the bottom of

Cloud Master

For the most part, there is little remarkable about Chuuka Taisen, which translates to “Great Wizard of the Middle Kingdom”,

Desert Breaker

Desert Breaker is an overhead run-and-gun, a sort of game which often falls into the genre of vertical shoot-em-ups. However,

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