Beast Within, The: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery picks up roughly a year after the end of the first game. Gabriel has …
Psycho-Nics Oscar
Ever wonder how the Gradius power-up bar would work outside of a side-scrolling shooter? Konami eventually stuck it in the …
Last Action Hero
Released in the summer of 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Action Hero opened to tepid reception, both critically and commercially. Simultaneously inhabiting a …
Cladun: This is an RPG!
Cladun: This is an RPG! is a unique game that lies in an interstice of retro sensibilities and modern complexity. After …
Ninja Baseball Bat Man
by Jeff “Kamatacci” Browning – June 16, 2007 The early 90s was a great time for America’s favorite pastime: the …
Shadow Hearts
If there’s one thing the video game community can always be relied on to do, it’s second-guessing itself, often in …
Flame Zapper Kotsujin
For the most part, NEC’s PC-9801 platform was largely known for strategy games, RPGs and visual novels. While there are …
Baruusa No Fukushuu
Zainsoft isn’t exactly a company that’s recognized very much. While they published a number of action and RPGs in the …
KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A
The Maximum Impact series was designed for the console audience, but SNK realized that most fighting game fans don’t play …
Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage
Samurai Shodown‘s third (and for a long time final) foray into the third dimension is also subtitled Warriors Rage, but it …
Samurai Shodown 64: Warriors Rage
The sequel to the first 3D Samurai Shodown title hit arcades a year later. The villain Yuga is once again the antagonist, …
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
After the purchase of Infocom by Activision, text adventure development slowed to a crawl before dying completely. Legend Entertainment picked …
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
One of Infocom’s most popular text adventures, Leather Goddesses of Phobos (often shortened as LGOP) began as a joke title that eventually morphed …
