Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
In the late ’90s, the adventure game genre was dying. LucasArts’ fantastic Grim Fandango had more or less flopped, Sierra’s latest entries …
Beast Within, The: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery picks up roughly a year after the end of the first game. Gabriel has …
Psycho-Nics Oscar
Ever wonder how the Gradius power-up bar would work outside of a side-scrolling shooter? Konami eventually stuck it in the …
Last Action Hero
Released in the summer of 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero opened to tepid reception, both critically and commercially. Simultaneously inhabiting a …
Cladun: This is an RPG!
Cladun: This is an RPG! is a unique game that lies in an interstice of retro sensibilities and modern complexity. After …
Ninja Baseball Bat Man
by Jeff “Kamatacci” Browning – June 16, 2007 The early 90s was a great time for America’s favorite pastime: the …
Shadow Hearts
If there’s one thing the video game community can always be relied on to do, it’s second-guessing itself, often in …
Flame Zapper Kotsujin
For the most part, NEC’s PC-9801 platform was largely known for strategy games, RPGs and visual novels. While there are …
Baruusa No Fukushuu
Zainsoft isn’t exactly a company that’s recognized very much. While they published a number of action and RPGs in the …