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Bonk’s Adventure
750 days agoIn the great pantheon of console mascots everyone remembers Mario, Sonic, and Crash Bandicoot. Those are the most obvious,…
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Golden Axe: the Duel
Posted on May 10, 2013 | No CommentsSure why not? Everyone else was doing it. Golden Axe: the Duel is another in the long line of franchises that ditched their original genre and took to the streets... -
Side Arms
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsBeing a Turbo Grafx-16 owner was a lonely existence, speaking from personal experience. I knew only two people that actually owned one, meaning whenever I had finished the games I... -
the Punisher (Genesis)
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsI remember the Punisher arcade game as a bad ass beat em up that fully captured the essence of the character’s brutal war on crime. It was one of the... -
Grind Stormer
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsDuring the 16-bit era the shmup seemed to reach the height of its popularity in the west, with releases seemingly every week. But as with all things its moment in... -
Arcus Odyssey
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No CommentsHow many of you played the original Gauntlet in the arcade? There was something compelling about exploring a horde of dungeons with a couple of friends using traditional fantasy archetypes. ... -
Zombie Revenge
Posted on December 24, 2012 | No CommentsIn the mass exodus to 3d one genre that was oddly left behind was the side scrolling beat em up. Once as prolific as the shmup outside of a few... -
Kid Niki – Radical Ninja
Posted on December 7, 2012 | No CommentsI remember Christmas of 1990. Opening the gifts and seeing two NES carts: Rad Racer and Kid Niki. Rad Racer was awesome for what it is but it was that... -
Gyruss
Posted on October 24, 2012 | No CommentsI remember playing Gyruss in the arcade back in the mid-80s and liking it well enough. Of course I didn’t have enough money to complete it back then so the... -
Galaxy Force 2
Posted on October 19, 2012 | No CommentsUgh, some games simply weren’t meant to be ported. I can certainly see Sega’s reasoning; at the time they needed anything they could get to stop the impending Nintendo juggernaut. ... -
E-Swat
Posted on October 3, 2012 | No CommentsAs much as I liked E-Swat in the arcade I have to admit, its resemblance to a poor man’s Robocop is undeniable. You have an armored police officer protected a...