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Battletoads (Game Boy)

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Battletoads

Rare would not be up to the task of porting the original Battletoads to the Game Boy right away, but they did

Battletoads (Arcade)

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Battletoads

Taking one final stab at bringing the Battletoads to a wider audience, Rare teamed up with Electronic Arts to produce

Salamander / Life Force

This entry is part 14 of 17 in the series Gradius

Salamander was released a year after the original Gradius, and two years before Gradius II. It isn’t quite a sequel,

Biomechanical Toy

Biomechanical Toy is a run-and-gun arcade game developed by a company from Spain known as Zeus Software. They created a handful

Crime Fighters

By 1989, Konami had come upon major success with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade machine, a good-looking, fast-paced brawler based on

Vendetta

The original Crime Fighters was never an especially well-loved game, both during its time in the arcades and its second

Dodonpachi

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Dodonpachi

  Shinu Ga Yoi (Dying Is Good) Donpachi was a hit in arcades, and people felt that Cave were picking up

Battle Realms

It’s easy to put a name on famous game designers when they worked on action, platform or adventure games. But

Bucky O’Hare (NES)

Rather than porting the arcade beat-em-up, Konami’s NES version of Bucky O’Hare is a completely different game. A side-scroller that

Lost Kingdoms II

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Lost Kingdoms

NEEDS PICS, ALSO, CREDIT AUTHORby Nilson Carroll – August 12, 2016 Lost Kingdoms II drops the arcade/mission style-RPG rhythm for a more relaxed

Neon Genesis Evangelion

If you asked an anime fan what the best anime from the 1990s was, you’d probably get Cowboy Bebop as your answer.

Madou King Granzort

One of a small group of games exclusive to NEC’s ill-fated SuperGrafx system, Madou King Granzort is probably best left untouched. While

Parodius Da!

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Parodius

Arriving on the scene after Gradius III, Parodius Da! was first released in the arcade (its subtitle means “From Myth

Tattoo Assassins

Besides their Tokyo-based division that handled their console and arcade games, Data East also had a pretty respectable pinball division

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