Category: Feature
Revengers of Vengeance
Revengers of Vengeance may not come up in conversation often, but when it does, it’s usually because of its title. …
Love and Destroy
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign …
The Tale of Oeilvert – Final Fantasy’s Forgotten Heroine
One of the big appeals of Final Fantasy IX was the way it appealed to the nostalgia of longtime series …
Captain Rainbow
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Captain Rainbow …
Emerald Dragon
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Primordial Pauline: How Did Mario’s First Girlfriend Get Her Name?
The story of how Mario got his name is fairly well known – in the original Japanese arcade release of Donkey …
Hybrid Front, The
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Star Cruiser
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Asuka 120% Final Burning Fest
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Digan no Maseki
Digan no Maseki (1988) Developer: Artec Platform: PC-88, PC-98, MSX2 Digan no Maseki (“The Magic Stone of Digan”) is a …
Germs: Nerawareta Machi
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. If you …
Super Star
You know what’s kind of amazing about China? How little the country seems to care about copyright law. This game …
Jon Ritman (Interview)
Aside from a “making of” feature in Retro Gamer issue 130, there wasn’t a lot of information available on Monster …
Soma Bringer
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book. Soma Bringer (2008) Developer: Monolith Soft Platform: DS Monolith …
Tower of Archeos, The
So the ultra-hard dungeon crawling rogue-like genre is overdone. How do you breathe life into it? French developer Benjamin Soulé’s …
Huuma Mina: The Game
Remember that weird puzzle game that retold Cinderella with more torture and murder? Same dev made another game before it, …
