Category: Review

Legions of Ashworld

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Lords of Midnight

Legions of Ashworld is a Lords of Midnight clone created by Jure Rogelj, the man behind the graphics of The Midnight Engine and the more

Midnight/MU

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Lords of Midnight

The Warhorns are sounded! Arise, Arise! Now for brave deeds and brave hearts… Sometime around 2002, programmer Jean-Yves Rouffiac attempted

Lords of Midnight: The Citadel

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series Lords of Midnight

For the Moonprince, for Midnight and the Free! Years after Shareth was defeated, Luxor – now an old man –

Dead or Alive Paradise

This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Dead or Alive

You’d think it would be rather embarrassing to play a game like Dead or Alive Xtreme in public, but nonetheless Tecmo eventually

Jelly Boy 2

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Jerry Boy

In 1994 Game Freak decided to expand upon its earlier slime platformer, taking the same mechanics with an entirely new

Smart Ball

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Jerry Boy

Game Freak’s ambitious initial title was followed up by a much more standard platformer. Funny enough, it was also one

Donkey Kong Country

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Donkey Kong Country

Donkey Kong. The name alone has a particular resonance far beyond gaming culture. Before there were “gamers”, at least as

Dark Half

Superficially workmanlike, Dark Half is actually one of the more unusual and challenging RPGs available on the Super Famicom. It’s

Ordyne

Namco is known for a number of shooters – Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Phelios – which are mostly vertically-oriented. Ordyne is a break from these, a side-scrolling

Ninja Gaiden II (NES)

This entry is part 3 of 16 in the series Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos takes place shortly after the events of the first game. Ryu has defeated

Brandish

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Brandish

Brandish is a series of overhead dungeon crawlers from Falcom. Like most of their games, it began on Japanese PCs,

Metal Morph

Origin Systems is a company that made video game history not only with its seminal Ultima franchise, but also with their long-lived

Hoccer

It was hard to accurately replicate sports games in the early eighties. For a game as simple as table tennis, Pong was

Adventures of Lomax, The

This entry is part 4 of 12 in the series Lemmings

The lemmings have starred in numerous games, on tons of consoles and computer platforms. They’ve had a reasonably smooth transition

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