Category: Review

August 17, 2017

After Burner

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series After Burner

Sega’s After Burner, an aerial combat game released in 1987, ditches complexity in favor of straightforward action. Prior to this, …

August 17, 2017

Lords of Thunder (called Winds of Thunder in Japan) was published by Hudson in 1993 for the PC Engine/TurboDuo, in …

August 17, 2017

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Spriggan

After their dalliance with the Sega Genesis with MUSHA, Compile returned to the PC Engine with their next shooter, Seirei …

August 17, 2017

While shoot-em-ups were king in the late ‘80s, the popularity of Street Fighter II caused a shift towards fighting games. …

August 17, 2017

Japanese game developer Vanillaware has a long standing reputation for absolutely gorgeous 2D visuals, with titles including Odin Sphere, Muramasa: …

August 16, 2017

Galaxy Force is the ultimate culmination of Sega’s “super scaler“ series, developed for their System Y board in 1988. While …

August 16, 2017

LizSoft’s Fortune Summoners feels like a long lost 16-bit action-RPG. Published and localized into English by Carpe Fulgar, the same company that …

August 16, 2017

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Dragon Slayer

Romancia, a side scrolling action adventure initially released in 1986, is the third of Falcom’s Dragon Slayer line, which were all designed …

August 16, 2017

Most of the shooter competition games of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s used a similar template – a score …

August 15, 2017

This entry is part 2 of 16 in the series Ys

The third Ys game takes a cue from Zelda II and flings the series in a side scrolling perspective. As a result, many fans …