Category: Dark Age of JRPGs
Riglas (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Most RPGs of the 80s utilized an overhead view or a first person perspective, while a select few (such as …
Weird 2 (Dark Age of JRPGs)
I thought a game named Weird 2 would be an interesting game to cover for this column…but nope! It’s actually …
Mugen no Shinzou (Dark Age of JRPGs)
I promised we’d meet XTal Soft again soon, didn’t I? Mugen no Shinzou (“Heart of Fantasy”) is actually their first RPG and …
Courageous Perseus (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Courageous Perseus (カレイジアスペルセウス) – PC-88, FM-7, X1, MSX (1984) Hey, this is the first game in this series where I actually …
Danchizuma no Yuuwaku (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Japan being Japan, you knew it was only a matter of time until the first “erotic” game would show …
Panorama Toh (Dark Age of JRPGs)
If you thought Dragon Slayer was Falcom’s first RPG, you guessed wrong. Well, admittedly it’s a bit of a stretch …
Some More Games We Cannot Play (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Greetings! The above is actually the cover for Dragon and Princess, which we already wrote about, but we couldn’t find …
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 …
Dragon & Princess, The (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Most traditional histories of role-playing games in Japan open somewhere along these lines: “In the beginning when Enix created the …
Some Games We Cannot Play (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Alright, before we can go on with the regular program, here is one issue that we need to deal with …
Seiken Densetsu (Dark Age of JRPGs)
No, this has nothing to do with Square’s popular Mana series, despite the identical Japanese title. This one was actually …
Dungeon (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Koei’s final RPG for 1983 follows the classic Ultima formula closer than any of the other games shown thus far. …
Ken to Mahou / Sword & Sorcery (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Last week I didn’t get to do another entry unfortunately (although I technically didn’t announce this as a weekly …
