The modern day cover based shooters that the gaming public has fallen in love with all owe a debt to Namco’s Rolling Thunder. Gears of War, Resident Evil, and hell even Call of Duty to an extent, all share similar gameplay aesthetics, eschewing straight run and gun action for a more tactical approach to combat. […]Rolling Thunder
The modern day cover based shooters that the gaming public has fallen in love with all owe a debt to Namco’s Rolling Thunder. Gears of War, Resident Evil, and hell even Call of Duty to an extent, all share similar gameplay aesthetics, eschewing straight run and gun action for a more tactical approach to combat. […]
Home console sequels to established arcade games were usually disastrous for any number of reasons. Back in the day arcade cabinets usually housed technology a generation or two removed from what we were playing at home and usually featured dazzling graphics and sound in addition to polished gameplay. But there are those few exceptions that […]
My first experience with the Rolling Thunder series came with the unlicensed port of the first game on the NES. That black cartridge was weird as hell but the game itself was even stranger, with hooded enemies that looked like members of the Ku Klux Klan. While it wasn’t the greatest game in the world […]
