Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Hotline Miami was such an explosive hit that propelled Cactus and Dennis Wedin to an unprecedented height of fame. While …
Chimera Beast
Good ol’ Jaleco. While not quite as famous as other quirky developers and publishing companies like Taito and Data East, …
Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
Taito deserves their proper juice for their role in evolving the shoot-em-up genre. Even to this day, their most widely …
Survival Arts
The early nineties were a bizarre time in arcades worldwide. One-on-one fighting games reigned in the public eye thanks to Street …
RayCrisis: Series Termination
The Ray- series has a morbidly fascinating backstory to it, light and understated though it may be. Granted, RayStorm did not get really grim …
Toki no Senshi – Chrono Soldier
The mid-eighties saw the inception of a genre known as run-and-guns, which were popularized by the likes of Capcom’s Commando and SNK’s Ikari …
Dark Tower
Bubble Bobble was one of Taito’s biggest hits since Space Invaders, spawning a high number of imitators trying to match its basic …
Legendary Wings
Though Capcom put out a number of arcade shoot-em-ups in the mid-80s, Legendary Wings is one of the titles that doesn’t …
4-D Warriors
There are many different sub-genres of shoot-em-ups that it’s tough to classify them all by their shared tropes, but nearly …
Dungeon Magic
Taito was a company which understood the concept of innovation. Sadly, they seemed as conscious of the dying popularity of …
Battle K-Road
While Psikyo was primarily heralded as a company who made solid and/or quirky shoot-em-up games, they tried their hand at …
Daraku Tenshi
When Psikyo decided they wanted to make another fighting game, they wisely decided to not connect it in any way …
