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Future Wars

Founded in 1988, French development studio Delphine International gained worldwide recognition through their two cinematic action games, Out of This World and Flashback.

Super Monkey Daibouken

“Nagai tabi ga hajimaru…” (“The long journey begins…”) proclaims the opening text of Super Monkey Daibouken. And boy, are they

Cruise for a Corpse

Delphine’s third and final adventure game is a murder mystery, one heavily inspired by the works of Agatha Christie. The

VM Japan

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Vantage Master

VM Japan, subtitled “Vantage Master – Mystic Far East”, is the first (and currently only) true sequel to Vantage Master. The

Blackstone Chronicles

You’d be forgiven for mistaking Blackstone Chronicles as a rip-off of The 7th Guest. After all, they’re both solitary journeys into abandoned estates

7th Dragon 2020

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series 7th Dragon

7th Dragon 2020 is a fairly significant departure from its predecessor – it changes the setting from a generic fantasy world

Valis X

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Valis

In 2004, Telenet came into ownership of the Japanese adult game download portal bb5.jp, and presumably to make the most

Corpse Killer

Corpse Killer is another largely insufferable FMV game from the creative Digital Pictures team, who were nothing if not prolific.

7th Dragon

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series 7th Dragon

Although the first person dungeon crawler was an immensely popular genre in the 80s, with titles like Wizardry, The Bard’s Tale, and Might

Otomedius Excellent

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Otomedius

Otomedius wasn’t exactly a fan favorite when it came out, but it must’ve done well enough for Konami to justify a

Otomedius

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Otomedius

From a thematic standpoint, the shooter landscape of the early 21st century has varied greatly from the years before it.

Dragon Spirit

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Dragon Spirit

Developed by Namco in 1987 and published overseas by Atari, Dragon Spirit is essentially an updated version of their classic overhead shooter Xevious,

Dragon Saber

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Dragon Spirit

Released two years later, Dragon Saber: After Story of Dragon Spirit improves on nearly every aspect of the original. The setting has

Simon the Sorcerer 3D

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Simon the Sorcerer

After Simon the Sorcerer II, Adventure Soft took a break with The Feeble Files, another humorous adventure game, this time focusing on

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