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Midnight/MU

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Lords of Midnight

The Warhorns are sounded! Arise, Arise! Now for brave deeds and brave hearts… Sometime around 2002, programmer Jean-Yves Rouffiac attempted

Ordyne

Namco is known for a number of shooters – Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Phelios – which are mostly vertically-oriented. Ordyne is a break from these, a side-scrolling

Brandish

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Brandish

Brandish is a series of overhead dungeon crawlers from Falcom. Like most of their games, it began on Japanese PCs,

TwinBee

This entry is part 1 of 9 in the series Twinbee

  TwinBee is one of Konami’s most popular shooter series. There’s no doubt about the game’s immense popularity. However, those

Detana!! TwinBee

This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Twinbee

Detana!! TwinBee is the game that defines the series. The idea behind TwinBee had always been an anime themed shooter.

Stinger

This entry is part 2 of 9 in the series Twinbee

Moero TwinBee: Cinnamon Hakushi wo Sukue! (“Burn, TwinBee: Rescue Dr. Cinnamon!”) – was originally released on the Famicom Disk System.

Batman: The Video Game (Genesis)

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Batman

Sunsoft’s third Batman game unfortunately is the worse than its predecessors. This Sega Genesis title looks nice in screenshots, and has an underrated soundtrack almost

Running Battle

It shouldn’t be too difficult to goof up the basic premise of a beat-em-up when the basic premise is just

Scramble / Super Cobra

One of the earliest known side-scrolling shooters, Scramble is credited in Gradius Generations for the GBA as the progenitor of

Rolling Thunder 3

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder 3 is the first (and only) console exclusive title of the series, and some changes were made from

Rolling Thunder 2

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder 2 takes the series out of the 60s and into the modern era, with a style that more

Rolling Thunder

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Rolling Thunder

Namco circa 1986 had some pretty nice arcade games under it belt, the most popular being Pac-Man and its variations,

Wolfenstein RPG

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Wolfenstein

Here’s a look at the somewhat lighter side of Wolfenstein. A spiritual sequel to id Software’s previous Doom RPG and Orcs & Elves, this

Gyruss

Gyruss, one of Konami’s more popular games in the early 80s, is a “tube shooter” similar to Atari’s Tempest, although

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