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StarTropics
Nintendo’s StarTropics follows the adventures of Mike Jones as he arrives on C-Island to visit his Uncle Steve, a famous …
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Black Belt
Fist of the North Star (Hokuto no Ken) is a manga (and anime) features the manliest man in existence, a dude …
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King of Fighters NeoWave, The
The King of Fighters NeoWave marked SNKP’s departure from the Neo Geo after more than a decade. The team needed …
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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 …
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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 …
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Chaos Seed
Japanese console RPGs tend to blend together after awhile. There are really only three permutations of the genre, and it’s …
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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 …