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Q*Bert

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Q*Bert

Most millennials probably know Q*bert as one of the frustrated forgotten characters in Wreck-It Ralph, and that is actually kind of

Jump Ultimate Stars

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Jump Super / Ultimate Stars

The most prominent feature of Jump Ultimate Stars is the inclusion of new series and characters. The playable cast is nearly doubled.

Gokuu Densetsu: Magic Beast Warriors

Mortal Kombat had a huge influence on practically every fighting game developed in America. In the mid-90s, the market was flooded

Steel Gunner

Namco has produced some of the most well known arcade light gun games ever made, including the Time Crisis and Point Blank series. But

4-D Warriors

There are many different sub-genres of shoot-em-ups that it’s tough to classify them all by their shared tropes, but nearly

Jump Super Stars

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Jump Super / Ultimate Stars

A good licensed game has to fulfill two separate objectives: it needs to be a good game and it needs

Hopper Robo

Whenever a new game concept hit it big during the infant days of video games in the late 70s and

Dungeon Magic

Taito was a company which understood the concept of innovation. Sadly, they seemed as conscious of the dying popularity of

Spatter

“Spatter” sounds like a rather nasty occurrence, but it appears to be the name of the eponymous protagonist, a cute

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Caution – Certain scenes in this game could be immensely shocking to an unwarned public. Or not! maybe… Communities centered

Battle K-Road

While Psikyo was primarily heralded as a company who made solid and/or quirky shoot-em-up games, they tried their hand at

Daraku Tenshi

When Psikyo decided they wanted to make another fighting game, they wisely decided to not connect it in any way

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

When the first Star Wars movie opened in theaters in 1977, it had a tremendous impact on pop culture in

S.P.Y. – Special Project Y

In a few ways, Konami’s arcade game S.P.Y. feels like sort of a spiritual sequel to Bayou Billy, in that it’s basically a

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