Osu!! Karate Bu
You’ve probably already heard this all a million times before: Street Fighter II hits the arcades in early 1991 and lights the …
Hoshi wo Miru Hito
We’d all like to believe that video games are made by brilliant computer programmers and artists, who work under completely …
Chaos Seed
Japanese console RPGs tend to blend together after awhile. There are really only three permutations of the genre, and it’s …
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Nippon Ichi’s Rhapsody was a bit of an anomaly when it was released in America in 2000. As much as …
Granstream Saga, The
Shortly after Terranigma, Quintet and Enix went their separate ways. This was a quite common occurrence during this transitional period from …
King of Fighters 2006, The
KOF Maximum Impact 2 (known as The King of Fighters 2006 in the US due to bizarre marketing reasons) remains …
Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms
Sega entered into a devil’s pact with THQ regarding their Game Boy Advance games. A few of their classic properties …
Project Altered Beast
Around 2003, Sega started re-imagining many of their old arcade games using 3D graphics, and publishing them on the PS2. …
Samurai Shodown V Special
In 2004, Yuki Enterprises released Samurai Shodown V Special, an upgrade that addresses many of the issues with the original version. …
Jikkyou Power Pro Wrestling ’96: Max Voltage
After the immense success of Human Entertainment’s Fire Pro series of wrestling games in Japan, there was a flood of wrestlers for …