Category: Review
Silverload
“Devils in the bodies of men!” warns a weary frontiersman by the campfire, in Jason Wilson’s wild west horror set …
Sindbad Mystery
Maze games essentially died after the eighties, but while they were going strong, every company made at least one to …
Shadow of Memories
Time Travel in Video Games Time travel stories hold an universal appeal to mankind. Be it simple visits as a …
Segata Sanshiro Shinken Yuugi
While the Sega Saturn proved unpopular among contemporary American players, the system garnered far more love in Japan. Now a …
Seven Cities of Gold, The
Danielle Berry (Dan Bunten at the time of the game’s development) was one of the most notable home computer game …
Severance: Blade of Darkness
How many video games developed in Spain can you name? Probably the Commandos series by Pyro Software. If you are …
Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo
The late ’80s and early ’90s was a time filled to the brim with mutated anthropomorphized creatures either fighting for …
Satan’s Hollow
Arguably the game to kickstart the trend of coin-operated stand-up arcade cabinets was Taito’s Space Invaders, the forefather of shoot-em-ups …
Tranquilizer Gun
Sega’s Tranquilizer Gun (in Japan consistently misspelled with an extra “l”), developed for the Sega VIC Dual hardware, has a …
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The Riddle of Master Lu
Believe it or not, Robert Ripley’s columns about strange and bizarre historical facts (or fictions) were, at one point, read …
Roller Aces
It’s unfortunate that there’s not much to say about Kaneko as a company, but they were just too obscure and …
Return of the Phantom
MicroProse’s adventure games weren’t exactly known for their originality. Dragonsphere owed a huge debt to King’s Quest, and Rex Nebular …