
Isolated Warrior
This game is featured in our new NES Cult Classics book! Please check it out! Isometric video games were all …

Atlantis no Nazo
During the mid/later years of the NES, Sunsoft was known for creating a number of quality titles, starting with Blaster …

Demon’s World
Toaplan was best known for their vertical shoot-em-ups in the vein of Fire Shark and Batsugun, but they were capable …

Over Horizon
Hot-B was one of those really odd game companies that never really hit the big time. You could say they …

Strider (2014)
Strider was basically dead again after the release of Strider 2, and it took more than a decade for Hiryu …

Journey to Silius
Sunsoft is one of many underappreciated developers who rose to prominence during the reign of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Somewhere …

Panic Restaurant
Panic Restaurant is one of the many late NES releases to fall between the cracks, and it is unfortunate that it …

China Warrior
China Warrior is about Bruce Lee fighting his way through armies of Gregorian monks and sentient rocks and twigs. No, your …

Little Samson
While the NES was on its way out in 1991 thanks to the advent of the SNES, games were still …

Mission: Impossible (NES)
Americans are practically required by law to have at least heard of Mission: Impossible at some point in their lives. …

64th Street: A Detective Story
Beat-em-ups are not a particularly varied genre by nature, but when you have a premise as blunt as “beat up …

Magician Lord
SNK’s Neo Geo hardware was most notable for its many fighting games ever since the inception of Fatal Fury in later 1991. …

Super Locomotive
Japan is a country that loves its trains, with mass transit serving as the primary method for most citizens to …

Sword Master
Many developers clamored to release games on the ailing NES when they knew that the next generation was coming in …

Castle of Dragon
Sword-and-sorcery fantasy is perhaps the basest you can get for video game inspiration. You know, games with dragons, wizards, barbarians, …

Bio Force Ape
Some Japanese companies just never get a big break and remain veiled in obscurity, even by history. But who the …

Strider (NES)
The NES version of Strider was developed simultaneously with the more famous arcade version, but it’s a huge departure from …