Lunar: Dragon Song
For a number of years, between 1997 and 2003, the Lunar series was caught in legal limbo. The issues began …
Magical School Lunar
The most popular console RPGs often received portable counterparts, games that purported to offer similar (but different) experiences in spite …
Lunar: The Silver Star
The early days of the CD-ROM marked an exciting time for role-playing games, especially on consoles. While they sought to …
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Lunar: Eternal Blue takes place 1000 years after the original, after most of the original heroes have long passed on. …
Wulverblade
About two thousand years ago, the Roman empire made some attempts to conquer the island of Great Britain. Wulverblade, an …
Love and Destroy
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign …
Cleopatra no Mahou
Cleopatra no Mahou (“The Magic Treasure of Cleopatra”) is an adventure-RPG hybrid from Square. You control a young man named …
The Tale of Oeilvert – Final Fantasy’s Forgotten Heroine
One of the big appeals of Final Fantasy IX was the way it appealed to the nostalgia of longtime series …
Captain Rainbow
This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. Captain Rainbow …
Aztec Adventure
Sega’s Aztec Adventure is an unusual game, even for the company. It stars a young boy named Nino, who’s on …
Aladdin (SMS/GG)
Sega and Virgin’s Aladdin for the Genesis was ported to several platforms, including, weirdly, to the Game Boy and Nintendo …
Aladdin (Sega / Virgin)
While the SNES version of Aladdin was handled by Capcom, the Genesis version was programmed by Virgin Games, in collaboration …
HG101 Presents: Japanese Video Game Obscurities book now live on Kickstarter!
The Kickstarter for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book has reached its goal! Thanks everyone for your support! Please keep your …
