Category: Review
Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp
In the early 1990s, with the FMV game suddenly in vogue again thanks to the CD-ROM, Bluth and his team …
Lightning Swords / Ken-Go
In the intro to Ken-Go (no connection to the later Lightweight-developed series), a fleeing woman collapses in front of a …
Fairyland Story, The
Anyone with an average knowledge of video games is well aware of what Bubble Bobble is, and give it much …
West of Loathing
In 2003, Zack Johnson and his Asymmetric Productions launched the single greatest MMO ever created and ever will be – …
Hana Taaka Daka!?
The PC Engine was a great hardware for shoot-em-ups as it could handle fast gameplay and high amount of simultaneous …
Wing Commander: Armada
By 1994, momentum was building in the Wing Commander brand. While Academy gave fans the mission creator they always wanted, …
Wing Commander: Privateer
With Wing Commander: Academy, Origin had seen the value in developing smaller games with existing technology in order to recoup the …
Wing Commander: Academy
The prolonged development time and high costs of Strike Commander made Origin realize they should stop focusing exclusively on …
Papers, Please
Papers, Please is many things. Papers, Please is one of the first games to come up in any discussion about …
Crime City
Crime City is basically Taito’s take on side-scrolling action games like Namco’s Rolling Thunder and Sega’s Shinobi. The goal, per …
Solomon’s Key (Spinoffs / Ripoffs)
Zipang (ジパング ) – PC Engine (1990) For some unfathomable reason, the 1990 Japanese fantasy samurai film Jipangu/Zipang spawned not …
