Aliens (Konami Arcade)
The Alien movies were a huge inspiration for Konami’s Contra, so it would only make sense that they’d eventually pick …
Devastators
The 3D over-the-shoulder corridor sections were definitely the weakest part of the original Contra – so much so that Super …
Bangai-O Spirits
Nearly ten years after the original, Treasure released Bangai-O Spirits for the Nintendo DS. Like most of Treasure’s previous sequels, it’s not …
Blood-over-
What if Devil May Cry were a 2D side scroller? That’s the question that Blood-over- tries to answer, to varying degrees of success. Of …
Bonk’s Adventure: Arcade Version
The arcade version of Bonk is dubbed Kyukyoku! PC Genjin, or “Ultimate! PC Genjin,” and was developed by Kaneko rather than any of …
Assault Suits Valken 2
If Masaya saw Front Mission: Gun Hazard as a ripoff of Assault Suits Valken, well, this game, developed by TamTam (who did some …
Assault Suits Leynos 2
Assault Suit Leynos 2, released for the Saturn in 1997, combines the basic gameplay and level structure of the first Leynos with …
Super Genjin 2
After the somewhat mediocre Bonk 3 and Super Bonk, this Super Famicom sequel is more like it. Super Genjin 2 – only …
Super Bonk
By 1994, the TurboGrafx-16 had been long dead in America, and it was clear that the Super Famicom was the …
Tex Murphy: Overseer
The fifth Tex Murphy adventure, Tex Murphy: Overseer (the only installment to actually feature our hero’s name in the title) isn’t quite a whole …
Rambo: First Blood Part II (SMS)
Games often had different licenses between territories, based on whatever the publisher could get ahold of. This particular game is …