Heiankyo Alien (Game Boy)
On January 14th 1990, Meldac/Live Planning, the company who published Mercenary Force for Game Boy and Zombie Nation for NES, released a Game …
Heiankyo Alien
The golden age of arcade gaming introduced a lot of new ideas to the gaming landscape. Seminal games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man were …
Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
Taito deserves their proper juice for their role in evolving the shoot-em-up genre. Even to this day, their most widely …
Flintstones, The: Bedrock Bowling
The original PlayStation was aging fast as the new millennium passed. The system was slowly doomed to become a dumping …
Hooters Road Trip
A great many things could be said about the Hooters franchise, hardly any of them good. For those readers who …
Destiny of an Emperor
Before Final Fantasy VII made Japanese RPGs the talk of the town, only a fraction of them made it to American shores. …
Tenchi wo Kurau (Introduction)
Years before the Breath of Fire series solidified Capcom’s RPG pedigree, the company was mostly remembered for their action games. Titles like Bionic …
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1
The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers: Volume 1 – by John Szczepaniak The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers …
Danchizuma no Yuuwaku (Dark Age of JRPGs)
Japan being Japan, you knew it was only a matter of time until the first “erotic” game would show up …
Panorama Toh (Dark Age of JRPGs)
If you thought Dragon Slayer was Falcom’s first RPG, you guessed wrong. Well, admittedly it’s a bit of a stretch …
Sonic’s Schoolhouse
It might not be entirely fair to single out an educational game for this sort of article. It’s entirely fair, …
Survival Arts
The early nineties were a bizarre time in arcades worldwide. One-on-one fighting games reigned in the public eye thanks to Street …
Dinosaurs for Hire
Video game adaptations of comic books have been a staple since the inception of games, and will continue so as …
