Ninja-kun: Ashura no Shou
The arcade sequel takes the gameplay of Ninja-kun and greatly expands on it. Although there are still many stages where you simply …
Syd of Valis
Valis SD is a weird release. It’s essentially Valis II, but it’s one of these Japanese games where they like to draw …
Obscure Video Game Controversies – Hard Hat Mack
Hard Hat Mack is an 8-bit computer game from Electronic Arts. It’s clearly inspired by Donkey Kong, in that it …
Emerald City Confidential
The Wizard of Oz has been a gold mine for alternate interpretations. Beyond the world famous 1939 film, there have been …
Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars
In 2001, a group of German fans who called themselves MindFactory began work on their own Broken Sword game. Between then and …
Inherit the Earth: The Quest for the Orb
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, designed by The Dreamers Guild and published by New World Computing, tells the …
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Flight of the Amazon Queen so desperately wants to be a LucasArts game. Largely designed by two guys out of Brisbane, …
Kizuna Encounter
Savage Reign probably didn’t exactly set the arcade charts on fire. But SNK apparently had enough faith in the game to …
Broken Sword: The Angel of Death
By 2006, Revolution Software had been reduced solely to Charles Cecil, but that didn’t stop him from hiring up a …
Salamander 2
Salamander 2 was released in the wide gap between Gradius III (1989) and Gradius Gaiden (1997). The graphics are a …
Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
One would think the life of a patent lawyer would be boring – what with being cooped up in an …
Savage Reign
Fūun-Ken… A completely new art of fighting combined boomerang and karate art…. And this is how the attract sequence to Savage …
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, was released just a year after the original. The graphics and engine are more …
