One of Konami's earliest beat-'em-ups, which still hadn't quite settled down on the formula and also dabbles in a number of other genres. It's not a licensed title this time, but it really wants to be James Bond.
2015-03-02 03:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
And here's some beat-'em-up not-quite-as-goodness by Konami! X-Men is still an alright game, but not quite up to the standard of the company's other licensed titles of the time, and mostly confused kids by not adopting the look of the contemporaneous cartoon show.
2015-03-01 17:22:41 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2015-03-01 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A retro throwback to DOS-era sidescrollers, complete with PC speaker-type sound effects.
2015-02-26 14:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ninjas! Clowns! They go together terribly in this wretched arcade beat-em-up from Strata.
2015-02-25 21:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Another gang busting beat-'em-up by Konami, this is often lumped in with the Crime Fighters series on those grounds (as did our old article), but it is actually very distinct from the other two.
2015-02-24 04:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the course of the next few weeks, we're going to completely replace most of our coverage on classic Konami beat-'em-ups with newly written standalone articles, starting with this pair of overly stereotypical '80s/'90s street gang brawlers.
2015-02-24 04:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Brain Lord, an excellent (and sadly overlooked) action-RPG developed by the same team as 7th Saga and Mystic Ark.
2015-02-22 04:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We've expanded our big genre overview with four more titles that are not necessarily great, but historically interesting: Chop Suey, Knight Games, Nekketsu Judo and Panza Kick Boxing. Not entirely new but previously unannounced at this space is the coverage for the early IBM PC title Bushido.
2015-02-22 01:30:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This attempt at a dating sim, featuring very embrassed looking models, is about the worst you could hope for.
2015-02-19 02:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the early Turbografx-16 CD-ROMs, this Telenet run-and-gun can't quite measure up to the best, but it's still pretty fun. Plus the English voice acting is famously laughable.
2015-02-16 16:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Explore the depths of hell in this action-adventure with some high quality animation.
2015-02-16 03:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We updated our article on Konami's 108-character RPG series with coverage for the Japan-exclusive PSP title, with some additional smaller text updates in between.
2015-02-14 04:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This pseudo follow-up to Keith Courage in Alpha Zones completely fails to show off the improved technology of the Supergrafx console.
2015-02-13 02:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Two early 2.5D platformers that tried to combine traditional gameplay with polygonal visuals, that's mostly remembered now for the creepy jester protagonist.
2015-02-11 01:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
There were a number of Neon Genesis Evangelion games, but most of them were adventure games or weird "raise Rei Ayanami as your daughter" sims. This is the one "action" game based on the anime...though it's still not terribly good.
2015-02-07 04:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Experience four levels of sea life being flung at you from the right side of the screen forever in this extremely poor Turbografx-16 shooter.
2015-02-05 04:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post
What began as a clone of ASCII based dungeon hack RPG Rogue eventually spawned into an addictive classic.
2015-02-02 16:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2015-02-01 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWARNING: Due to the subject matter, this is the most NSFW article on the site ever. Only browse in a safe environment and in a situation where you're comfortable with seeing exploitative erotic content. One of the formative works of Japanese erotic gaming, this series of RPGs proved that ero software could actually be backed up by a proper game.
2015-02-01 02:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt's another shlocky NES Schwarzenegger tie-in, which doesn't even seem to be able to remember which movie it's supposed to imitate.
2015-02-01 02:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis one has been in our article pipeline for years, but finally we managed to wrap it up with the latest remake, which was released for the Xbox 360 exclusively in Japan. Back in its time, this early Sega title was one of their first big hits, and apparently tremendously popular in Japan and Europe, judging by the many clones on various computer platforms.
2015-02-01 02:35:41 +0000 UTC View PostApologies, I was away for the week, so the Patreon page wasn't updated, through the site was! The updates for this week are incoming now! Some of the earliest games starring the greatest monster of them all. To be continued some time in the future...
2015-02-01 02:35:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Absurdly violent arcade beat-'em-up where you can summon a tiger, a giant and a dragon to ride on and take out huge enemies as a tiny knight, made by Tecmo (who would have guessed?) shortly after the original Ninja Gaiden.
2015-01-26 03:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Control both an evil overlord and the hero sent to kill him in this darkly innovative Super Famicom RPG from Westone/Enix.
2015-01-23 05:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The paperback, Kindle, and PDF copies of the Unofficial Guide to Konami Shooters are now available for sale! Table of contents and more info here: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kshooterbook/kshooterbook.htm The data is still filtering through Amazon, so the paperback and Kindle copies are not yet linked. Once they are, you should be able to purchase a Kindle copy for .99 cents if you've pu...
2015-01-21 20:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Silent Dragon Jan 20, 2015 This slightly-above-average beat-em-up from the developers of Double Dragon 3 is just weird enough to be worth checking out.
2015-01-21 04:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kshooterbook/kshooterbook.htmBarring any super last minute hiccups, The Unofficial Guide to Konami Shooters has been completed! The paperbacks still need to be approved by the printer before they can be put on sale, so it will be about a day or two until they can be ordered. In the meantime, please enjoy these digital copies! PDF: 2015-01-19 20:40:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A resource management sim for the PC/Amiga where you control an immoral, corrupt bureaucrat who orders assassinations, spreads disinformation and works with only the interest of his political party in mind.
2015-01-19 20:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since our Ninja Gaiden article has been up-to-date, but now we can finally give you our view of Ninja Gaiden 3 and Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. Not much good news, unfortunately. Also new is coverage of some mobile ports and spin-offs, as well as smaller text tweaks and additional screenshots throughout.
2015-01-17 22:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post