Midnight Resistance
Data East’s Midnight Resistance is something of a spiritual successor to Heavy Barrel. It reuses the same rotating joystick to …
Almana no Kiseki
Almana no Kiseki is a sidescrolling action game that takes part of the action of Castlevania and combines it with …
Last Express, The
The Last Express might be one of the most fascinating games ever made. Developed by a studio called Smoking Car …
Thimbleweed Park
Ron Gilbert is one of the legends of adventure game design, having been one of the major driving forces behind …
KGB / Conspiracy: Starring Donald Sutherland
Cryo’s KGB is a unique time capsule. Published in 1992 and taking place shortly before the collapse of the Soviet …
Ys V: Ushinawareta Suna no Miyako Kefin
After farming out two separate version of Ys IV, Falcom finally decided to enter console development for themselves with the fifth Ys title, …
Lord Monarch
Dune 2, released in 1992 by Westwood Studios, is largely credited as being the progenitor of the real-time strategy genre. Of …
King of Fighters ’99, The
The King of Fighters ’99 starts the NESTS storyline, a plot of an evil organization who seeks to clone the …
After Burner
Sega’s After Burner, an aerial combat game released in 1987, ditches complexity in favor of straightforward action. Prior to this, …
Seirei Senshi Spriggan
After their dalliance with the Sega Genesis with MUSHA, Compile returned to the PC Engine with their next shooter, Seirei …
Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire
While shoot-em-ups were king in the late ‘80s, the popularity of Street Fighter II caused a shift towards fighting games. …
Galaxy Force
Galaxy Force is the ultimate culmination of Sega’s “super scaler“ series, developed for their System Y board in 1988. While …
Fortune Summoners
LizSoft’s Fortune Summoners feels like a long lost 16-bit action-RPG. Published and localized into English by Carpe Fulgar, the same company that …
