Waku Waku 7
After stumbling a bit with Galaxy Fight, their previous fighting games, Sunsoft got its act together with Waku Waku 7. …
Hyper Duel
To the gaming world at large, the now defunct Japanese videog ame software developer Technosoft is by far best known …
Power Blade / Power Blazer
There are well over a thousand video games released on the Famicom, and only a fraction of them were ever …
Record of Rozen War: ALiBAT
The anime series Rozen Maiden focuses mostly on a bunch of doll sisters obsessed with one-upping each other. They have weapons, they …
Klonoa 2: Lunatea’s Veil
Klonoa’s PS2 outing introduces fully polygonal characters and gorgeous cel shaded graphics. The original game looked pretty decent on the …
Sengoku Blade
Sengoku Ace proved to be popular enough in the arcades to warrant a fairly big sequel. While Sengoku Ace exuded a lot of …
Sengoku Cannon
Although Psikyo more or less collapsed around 2001, some of its members went on to form X-Nauts (pronounced “Cross-Nauts”), who …
Makai Kingdom
Nippon Ichi’s Makai Kingdom combines bits and pieces from Disgaea and Phantom Brave, and tosses them in the blender to create another excellent, if …
Gungrave: Overdose
It seems that Gungrave was just popular enough to warrant a sequel, but not popular enough for that sequel to retail at …
Fire Emblem (Introduction)
Fire Emblem is the “original” console strategy RPG, a genre that was previously bound only to computers. Designed by Intelligent Systems, …
Zillion II: The Tri-Formation
Zillion II (simply called Tri-Formation in Japan) is a massive departure from the original SMS game. Instead of being an daring, open-ended adventure …
Skies of Arcadia
The year 2000 brought to the late, lamented Dreamcast one of the most majestic and simple RPGs to grace the …
OutRun Europa
OutRun Europa was licensed by Sega to US Gold and developed by Probe, the same folks behind the computer ports …
Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
WII SCREENS There have been many great video game events all throughout the annals of time. 1986: Rygar saves Argool. …
Rygar (NES)
When the hero of Argool made his debut on the NES, it was an entirely different venue from the arcade …
