Category: Feature
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 …
Sonic’s Schoolhouse
It might not be entirely fair to single out an educational game for this sort of article. It’s entirely fair, …
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 …
Horror Zombies from the Crypt
Horror Zombies from the Crypt – ah, if that title doesn’t spell exquisite home entertainment of the highest order. You know …
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 …
Gokuu Densetsu: Magic Beast Warriors
Mortal Kombat had a huge influence on practically every fighting game developed in America. In the mid-90s, the market was flooded …
Dragon & Princess, The (Dark Age of JRPGs)
The Dragon & Princess ドラゴンアンドプリンセス – PC-88, FM-7 (December 1982) When people think of Koei nowadays, the first association …
Yoshiro Kimura
Photo by Daniel Feit from Wired.com: Inside Japan’s Indie Games Fest, Where Crazy Is Mandatory Q: You love travelling and have …
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. …
Dear Esther
When approached as a game, Dear Esther is bundled frustration. A game all wandering around an abandoned island sounds like a great …
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 column …
Franko: The Crazy Revenge
In the early 90s, the success of games like Final Fight, Golden Axe and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the …
Home: a unique horror adventure
The protagonist of Home is a nameless guy who wakes up in an unknown house with a wounded leg. Just in the …
Edge Grinder
Edge Grinder is a game were you grind along edges. Well, technically it’s a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up, with lots of alien …
Pyongyang Racer
There is nothing that decaying communist dictatorships love like tourism. The Republic of Cuba is a striking example of this …
Don’t Buy This: Five of the Worst Games Ever
Released in the UK on the 1st of April 1985, costing £2.50 and coming on audio cassette tape, Don’t Buy This is …
Operation Body Count
The first thing we see is “Operation Body Count” rendered in bloody text, accompanied by an unnerving broadcast about a …
