Metal Black
Taito's classic shooter is soaked in atmosphere, with one of the best introduction stages in the genre. (And some really damn cool explosions.)
2014-12-02 02:21:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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November 2014 Patreon supported
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2014-12-01 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChristine Love Games: Analogue: A Hate Story / Hate Plus
The third (and final) part of our week long special concludes with a look at the two Hate games, where you explore the logs of a long lost South Korean colonization spaceship.
2014-11-29 19:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostYour Weekly Kusoge: Ring Cycle
A messy Action RPG based on Wagner's epic opera The Ring of the Nibelung and probably late British designer legend Mike Singleton's worst game ever.
2014-11-27 06:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostChristine Love Games: Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
The followup to Digital: A Love Story is a radically different title, a very meta visual novel about a high school English teacher helping his students in their personal lives.
2014-11-27 06:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostChristine Love Games - Digital: A Love Story
We'll be covering Christine Love's visual novel games all this week. First up: the retro BBS scouring Digital: A Love Story.
2014-11-25 02:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostChimera Beast
A recently unearthed Jaleco arcade shooter, which is essentially a cosmic horror story where you play as a Lovecraftian atrocity instead of fighting against it.
2014-11-24 02:02:17 +0000 UTC View PostChatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament
A fighting game in the style of Karate Champ, directed by man behind Strider.
2014-11-22 15:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post500-Word Indies: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
A stunningly beautiful mystery adventure, which tries some new ideas in pairing a narrative experience with gameplay.
2014-11-22 05:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Chu and the Drunkard Hu
Color Dreams, an unlicensed NES publisher/developer, was the mark of anti-quality, thanks to games like this, an import from Asian publisher Sachen.
2014-11-22 05:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe NewZealand Story
Play as Tiki the kiwi in this cutesy (and oddly frustrating) platformer classic from Taito.
2014-11-18 05:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostSpinal Breakers
Wage a war throughout history against zombie robot-infested countries in this Cabal-clone from Video System.
2014-11-15 17:58:48 +0000 UTC View PostYour Weekly Kusoge - Where's Waldo
A game based off the Where's Waldo series of books is a terrible idea, but that didn't stop a bunch of folks from trying. Here's one of the worst!
2014-11-14 03:48:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ninja Kids
Four goofy looking ninja kids band together to fight The Satan in this comical beat-em-up from Taito.
2014-11-14 03:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostLifeless Planet
An explorational 3D platformer on a seemingly abandoned alien world.
2014-11-12 05:18:47 +0000 UTC View PostKing of Dragon Pass
Rule the Dragon Pass in this unique choose your own adventure/turn based strategy hybrid from the late 90s
2014-11-12 05:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostWizardry in Japan
We conclude our Wizardry coverage (for now) with a brief overview of all those Japanese games, a closer look at the ill-fated (at least in English speaking territories) MMO installment, and a few odds and ends on mobile phones and other media.
2014-11-12 05:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostKabuki Z
Slice through the Japanese underworld in this violent arcade game from Taito/Kaneko.
2014-11-12 05:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostMartial Champion
Konami tries their hand at a Street Fighter II clone, with decidedly average results.
2014-11-07 03:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostYour Weekly Kusoge: Hana no Star Kaidou
Control a duo of aspiring musicians as they bumble around town, beat up fans, and stumble into pits in this reprehensible Famicom game.
2014-11-06 14:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostWizardry 8
Sir-Techs final contribution to the Wizardry franchise, before it would go Japan only for a long time. Also featuring a few games that are not Wizardry 8, but easily could have been in an alternate universe...
2014-11-05 04:50:56 +0000 UTC View PostSentient
The first (and only) social space station survival simulation adventure, an incredibly ambitious title that collapses upon its own weight.
2014-11-05 04:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostNosferatu
A triple feature of three very different horror games - a British microcomputer isometric adventure, a Super Famicom cinematic platformer and a 21st century first person shooter - all united by one name.
2014-11-01 16:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostPorky Pig's Haunted Holiday
Porky Pig may be one of the more underappreciated Looney Tunes characters, but some time around Halloween 1995, he got his very own SNES platformer for the spooky occasion.
2014-11-01 16:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2014 Patreon supported
Thank you so much for the support this month!
2014-11-01 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostCarnEvil
Ridiculously over the top lightgun shooter about an evil carnival.
2014-10-30 02:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostGremlines 2 (NES/GB)
A NES top-down action game and a Game Boy platformer starring the little monsters. (And yes, we're aware the films are actually set on Christmas - look forward for more Gremlin goodness around that time!)
2014-10-30 02:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blackwell Series
Halloween is about to rear its delightfully ugly head again, so until the 31st, we're gonna have a lot of content about spooky games for you. We're starting out mildly, with Dave Gilbert's recently completed point-and-click adventure cycle starring New York ghost counselor / paranormal investigator Rosa Blackwell and her ghost companion from the '20s, Joey Mallone.
2014-10-30 02:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostYumimi Mix
Game Arts' cutesy Mega CD visual novel tells the incredulous story of interdimensional horse lovers.
2014-10-30 02:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostYour Weekly Kusoge - Cyberdillo
Live out your fantasies as a cybernetic armadillo in this insane, nightmarish FPS.
2014-10-23 04:12:46 +0000 UTC View Post