Category: Review
BloodRayne 2
After the success of BloodRayne, it didn’t take long for TRI and Majesco to deliver a sequel. Rayne in the meantime …
Katawa Shoujo
The medium of “visual novel” is, curiously, a primarily Japanese thing. Perhaps it’s due to there not being very many …
Nichibutsu Arcade Classics 2: Heiankyo Alien
Five years the franchise remained dormant until Nichibutsu published Nichibutsu Arcade Classics 2: Heiankyo Alien for Super Famicom. Released exclusively in Japan, …
Heiankyo Alien (Game Boy)
On January 14th 1990, Meldac/Live Planning, the company who published Mercenary Force for Game Boy and Zombie Nation for NES, released a Game …
Heiankyo Alien
The golden age of arcade gaming introduced a lot of new ideas to the gaming landscape. Seminal games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man were …
Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
Taito deserves their proper juice for their role in evolving the shoot-em-up genre. Even to this day, their most widely …
Destiny of an Emperor
Before Final Fantasy VII made Japanese RPGs the talk of the town, only a fraction of them made it to American shores. …
Tenchi wo Kurau (Introduction)
Years before the Breath of Fire series solidified Capcom’s RPG pedigree, the company was mostly remembered for their action games. Titles like Bionic …
Survival Arts
The early nineties were a bizarre time in arcades worldwide. One-on-one fighting games reigned in the public eye thanks to Street …
Dinosaurs for Hire
Video game adaptations of comic books have been a staple since the inception of games, and will continue so as …
Primal Rage
Everyone knows Street Fighter II and the flood of clones and rip-offs that came in after, some of which eventually developed into …
Hourai Gakuen no Bouken!
There tons upon tons of unlocalized JRPGs on the Super Famicom. Hourai Gakuen no Bouken! Tenkousei Scramble, the only game developed …
Night Trap
Shot in 16 days in 1987 and created by a former Atari programmer, Night Trap would become a by-word for “sick”, used …
