Bionic Commando (NES)
The original arcade Bionic Commando had a stellar concept, but the game just wasn’t very good, nor was it particularly …
Mega Man (DOS)
1990 saw the beginning of the Commander Keen and the Monkey Island franchises on the PC, and even some decent run-‘n-gun platformers like Dangerous Dave and Rick …
Spanish For Everyone!
It’s hard to imagine now, but in 2007 the cell phone wasn’t our most versatile tool. The iPhone would debut …
Mega Man 3 (DOS)
That subtitle is a little too fitting. Skipping over number 2 in naming, the second DOS Mega Man continues the badly coded …
Hugo II: Whodunit?
Hugo II starts shortly after the events of the first game, with Hugo and Penelope deciding to take a vacation in …
Hugo’s House Of Horrors
Back in the early ’90s, the concept of shareware on PCs was about just as popular as the concept of …
Time Gate: Knight’s Chase
Time Gate is a real oddball to the series: Neither really a spin-off nor a rip-off, the game known as Le Secret …
Awesome Possum… Kicks Dr. Machino’s Butt
Awesome Possum was Tengen’s entry in the then burgeoning bandwagon of mascot platform games that really, really wanted to be …
Streets of Rage
Capcom revolutionized the fledgling beat-em-up genre in 1989 with Final Fight, their first brawler of many. Sega, quick to capitalize …
Alone in the Dark 3
“Back to the basics” might be the best way to describe the final opus of the original trilogy: more puzzles, …
