tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87236256595395917722012-01-27T17:01:51.649ZJonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-49814552155690341342012-01-27T16:36:00.006Z2012-01-27T17:01:51.659Z

It might seem strange to review a compilation, but this isn't a compilation of previously released games, the games on here were made specifically for a compilation. Not this compilation, though. Three of the games were originally part of two Japan-only releases called Kuni-chan no Game Tengoku Volume 1 & 2. The other game, Penalty Shootout was made especially for this cartridge, which appears to

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The story of me and Lock n Chase is a short, pointless and boring one. This summer, while I was subjected to only a mobile broadband dongle with very limited bandwidth, I noticed somewhere that the entire ROMset for the Atari 2600 took up only 5MB. Seeing this as good value for bandwidth, I downloaded it, and put it onto my GP2X to play while watching repeats of Everybody Hates Chris and 60s

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I've been meaning to review this for well over a year now, but for some reason, I'm only just now getting round to it. Now that I've built it up like that, I'm sure you'll all be disappointed at how this isn't a classic masterpiece of games writing. Waah.Obviously, it's a spin-off of the well known Choro Q series of racing games/ talking car RPGs (CaRPGs?), and it's about military aircraft in

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Okay, so this review is going to be terrible filler for a few reasons.Reason one: It had been a while since the last post, and unfortunately, I haven't really been playing anything obscure enough to be worth posting here.Reason two: There's no screenshots because all the screenshots I took of this game came out all corrupt and strange. This is especially a shame because the graphics were pretty

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-40262827043657227262011-12-28T19:34:00.003Z2011-12-28T19:37:50.417Z

This is an action-RPG, made by Gainax. Or at least, they were involved in it's development in some way. It's odd that Gainax's most famous series tend to be about mecha (Gunbuster, Gurren Lagann, Evangelion, etc.), but their games usually have fantasy settings with no mecha at all (Alisia Dragoon, the Princess Maker series, etc.). This game is no exception to that rule.The scneario is pretty cool

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-67426089139228602902011-12-23T21:19:00.002Z2011-12-23T21:22:09.172Z

The thing this game is most famous for is having nothing to do with stretchy pirates. It also has nothing to do with mansions either, so it all works out for the best in the end.You play as the manager of an apartment block who looks kind of like Gaz from Invader Zim, and you've got to keep all your tenants happy so they don't explode. You do this by strategically arranging their apartments. How

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-89840293384421630372011-12-17T02:21:00.005Z2011-12-17T02:43:31.084Z

As you may have gathered from the title, this is yet another unlicenced Chinese game. I don't like reviewing similar games after each other, but that whole world of unlicenced, mostly undocumented games interests me a lot.It's a beat em up, set, if my interpretations of the images in the intro are correct, in a post-apocalyptic world that has suffered the ravages of both nuclear war and the

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-30505997709470843382011-12-11T01:52:00.005Z2011-12-11T02:17:59.948Z

I really wanted this game to be good. I like pirate games, I like the Mega Drive, and I like shooting games.You can probably tell from the screenshots that it's a blatant rip-off of Super Fantasy Zone, with similar stages, a similar visual style and music that sounds like weird cover versions of the music from SFZ. Unlike Super Fantasy Zone, though, Adventurous Boy is terrible.It might lure you

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-87070656398325386772011-12-04T01:19:00.005Z2011-12-04T01:51:59.470Z

The first thing that I'm going to tell you about this game is that it has a nice 2D animated intro before the title screen, as well as nice 2D animated intros for each character in story mode. So I'm slightly biased towards it, as like all good-hearted people, I really like it when 32-bit era games have 2D animated videos in them.Anyway. The game's about one-on-one tank battles, in small brightly

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-85569206023648145972011-11-28T18:43:00.004Z2011-11-28T18:58:19.604Z

Remember at the end of the Dyna Brothers review, where I said I was worried that I was doing to many positive reviews? Well, this should help buck the trend a little!This game is terrible. It's an Arkanoid-like, starring Kirby as the ball, and has the player controlling two hamsters carrying a sheet to bounce him upwards with. The fact that this setup is kind of cute is probably the most positive

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-18672328360998850932011-11-18T00:52:00.004Z2011-11-18T01:05:07.784Z

Sorry it's been so long since the last post, I've been spending lots of time playing fare far too mainstream for this blog, like Dodonpachi Ressurection and Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, and so on. Both of those are really good, by the way.Anyway, when you first start playing Dragon Fighter, it seems pretty much like any other generic NES platform game: you're a sword guy in a frosty wasteland

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-58993573919587611732011-11-04T21:07:00.005Z2011-11-04T21:31:31.790Z

Judging by the title of this game, and the fact that it's a Simple 1500 budget release, you'd probably expect a bland, bare-bones target shooter, maybe like a less colourful version of Point Blank. Surprisingly, it's not like that at all: it has a plot, characters, and even an animated intro showing those characters getting aboard some kind of futuristic buggy thing! It also has some pretty cool

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-53335443620626384382011-10-28T01:24:00.004+01:002011-10-28T01:27:24.391+01:00

So, I've been having one of those dilemmas I sometimes have where I think the games I'm posting about aren't obscure enough. But I think this one is pretty unknown.It's a strategy game about breeding dinosaurs to kill aliens. You play as some kind of godlike figure, looking on from the sky. At the start of a stage, there's an egg-altar-thing on the field and also a UFO. You can make eggs for

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-7169622520973000342011-10-15T23:03:00.004+01:002011-10-15T23:18:59.037+01:00

So, this game is obviously based on the 1989 live action Batman movie (ie, the good one that isn't from the 60s). Although judging by what I've played of it, it's based on an alternate interpretation where batman is a grim, avenging janitor of the night. For example, the first set of stages has you walking around the streets of Gotham City picking up litter (though a more sensible person might

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-68495438737506848052011-10-11T18:55:00.004+01:002011-10-11T19:35:10.524+01:00

Firstly, this game doesn't have anything to do with Squaresoft's PS2 game Final Fantasy X, so I guess it can be assumed that the X in the title is the letter X and not the roman numeral. What does the letter X signify in this case? Nothing, it's a chinese pirate game, they aren't supposed to make sense.In this case, it's a beat em up, and to be fair to those crazy pirates, it does keep to a

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-47238558213094154242011-10-01T14:54:00.005+01:002011-10-01T15:12:32.778+01:00

So, this game is based on an early 90s kids' movie that no-one remembers: "Adventures in Dino City", which is about a couple of kids who get sucked into the world of a TV show. Though I'm sure I remember the movie just being called "Dinosaurs: The Movie" when I saw it. Strange.The game itself is a platform game, but going against the trend of licenced kids platform games on the SNES, it's

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-39756240412639990782011-09-22T21:05:00.004+01:002011-09-22T21:19:45.876+01:00

When you're looking through a big long list of ROMs you've never heard of, how do you pick out the ones you want to play? I picked this one because it had the same name as the wrestling gym/promotion founded by Ultimo Dragon, that eventually changed it's name into Dragon Gate. But obviously, this game has nothing to do with wrestling at all. It's a kung-fu themed puzzle game.It's pretty simple to

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-64775484917392327552011-09-18T12:53:00.003+01:002011-09-18T13:12:45.976+01:00

So, this is a beat em up based on a cartoon I've never seen. You get two characters to choose from, a warrior-looking boy and a priestess-looking girl, and they both actually play really differently, the boy being a traditional beat em up character, and the girl being able to slowly shoot balls of energy at the enemies. This review will mostly be about playing as the boy, though, as playing as

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-78878947279401665972011-09-15T12:20:00.001+01:002011-09-15T12:23:14.096+01:00

This game is an isometric shooter, set in a dystopian future city. What's odd about this dystopia is that although the world is run by an evil TV station, the game isn't set in a deadly futuristic game show.Arena came out fairly late in the Game Gear's life, and it shows in the graphics, which are of a much higher quality than you'd expect from the system. It's pretty fun, too. You run around the

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-59587042701320445662011-09-12T13:08:00.003+01:002011-09-12T13:23:06.781+01:00

With some of the games I've recently posted about, I feel like I've sold out a tiny bit, and that they weren't quite obscure enough to meet the original purpose of this blog. So now, I am reviewing a Russian Mega Drive bootleg.With a tiny bit of research, I learned that it is actually a hack of a homebrew game, also Russian, called Uwol: Quest for Money, which was itself a remake of an old

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-60947075904978752182011-09-09T22:50:00.004+01:002011-09-09T23:04:32.246+01:00

This will only be a short review, as this game is so awful, I couldn't bear to play it for very long. I don't even know why I'm bothering to write about it at all, even.It's a beat em up in which your character is accompanied by a panther. It must take a special kind of talent to turn this into such a terrible game.I'll start with the controls. It uses a control scheme that a fair few other

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It's time for yet another review that starts with a boring nostalgic ancedote. This game was one of the first games I ever emulated, way back when I was still at school, had no computer and my only resource for playing weird old Japanese games was the dreamcast's SNES emulator, DreamSNES.Obviously, it's a pinball game, and less obviously, it's a spin-off from the prolific Great Battle series of

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-10767906782537871552011-08-22T10:23:00.004+01:002011-08-22T10:28:14.647+01:00

Before I start, I should be clear: this isn't so much a review as it is a warning. I've played this game for more than anyone ever should, and you shouldn't make the same mistake. This nightmare all started many years ago, when I got my Game Boy. It was preowned, and came with a few games: the 32-in-1 cartridge that I previously mentioned, Super Mario Land 2, WWF Superstars 2 and this one. The

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-75294325607668354672011-08-17T14:27:00.004+01:002011-08-17T14:33:32.928+01:00

In case you haven't worked it out from the title, this game is a chinese bootleg. It's one of the high quality ones, though. There's a more well known one called The Lion King 2 as well, and amazingly, this isn't just the same game with a different title screen! It's a platform game, with a mix of graphics taken from the official Lion King game, a few from other games, such as Donkey Kong Country

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-15427259042978296372011-08-12T00:02:00.006+01:002011-08-13T13:49:34.014+01:00

Flame Zapper Kotsujin is an excellent game. I'm starting the review off with that statement, just because it's hard to know exactly where to start in singing this game's praises. The most obvious things when you start playing are the graphics and sound, both of which are of a very high quality. The graphics are excellently drawn, making good use of the PC98's high resolution, as well as using

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-54537399879050374652011-08-09T20:19:00.004+01:002011-08-09T20:24:20.679+01:00

I remember when the Mega CD first came out in Europe, this game was previewed a lot in magazines. I assume it got so much attention because of the prerendered CG graphics, and the fact that there wasn't anything else like it on the SEGA consoles at that time. Since then it seems to have been forgotten by history. I'd even forgotten about it until recently, when I played it for the first time.

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-87349617847256472252011-08-06T00:13:00.003+01:002011-08-06T00:17:41.928+01:00

Abalaburn has two main modes: story mode and arcade mode.I haven't played much of arcade mode, because it's pretty awful. Story mode I have played a lot of, though.It comprises a 3D roaming beat em up with some huge stages, lots of varied enemies and the occaisional bit of insanely painful platforming.Each stage basically involves you wandering around beating up monsters until you beat the one

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-69958492312015196042011-07-23T19:07:00.005+01:002011-07-23T19:15:06.662+01:00

Vagrant fighter FX is a homebrew fighting game from 1995. With that in mind, it's surprising how well it turned out.It seems to be pretty well balanced, and it has everything you'd expect from a fighter at the time: special and super moves, combos, etc. Even the ability to cancel normal attacks into specials is in there! It's obvious that the maker (or possibly makers) of this game really loved

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-31498390267969474002011-07-17T16:40:00.002+01:002011-07-17T16:43:54.775+01:00

The basic idea behind WWF Betrayal is a good one: have a bunch of wrestlers star in a beat em up. Unfortunately, it fails to live up to the potential of this idea.To start with, the premise itself is wasted, most likely due to apathy. There are four playable characters, and the three you don't pick you'll fight as bosses. But this doesn't mean the game has a Sonic Adventure-esque story where the

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-2922260796207138762011-07-05T23:12:00.005+01:002011-07-06T00:16:38.764+01:00

Just a small review, since it's been a while since I last posted, and I did say I'd try to post more often.It's surprising that it's taken this long for me to post about a game for one of the old Japanese computers, and there's actually a few games on the PC-98 and X68000 I intend to write about eventually.Anyway, this game is Runner's High. It's a racing game by Compile. You play as a girl

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-7584933621924469602011-06-12T16:08:00.001+01:002011-06-12T16:09:50.189+01:00

Although I'm trying to do a post every week now, there isn't one this week, because I lost most of my files to malware. Boooo.

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-88680751607521425602011-06-03T20:05:00.006+01:002011-06-03T20:37:54.217+01:00

I'm trying to post roughly one new review a week now. Have you noticed? I still don't get any comments, though. Waaah.I almost had nothing to post about this week, though, as I've spent a lot of it playing the very un-obscure GTA2 and WWE Smackdown Vs Raw 2011, as well as some games that I'm saving for future posts.Anyway, because of this, I'm posting about a game I've known about for years and

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-53851846253612800482011-05-29T02:39:00.005+01:002011-05-29T02:45:33.543+01:00

Look! Just when you least expect it, another review of a Japanese Playstation game!The last few reviews have been a bit too positive, and I've been putting this one off for months now, so I am reviewing Hakaioh: King of Crusher.The plot is that you are some Japanese guy. Nobody special, has a wife and a baby and an office job. One day while eating breakfast, you get bitten by an evil fly, and

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-78615678895840462942011-05-23T23:51:00.006+01:002011-05-24T00:19:54.273+01:00

Before the Fire Pro series came along in the early 1990s*, wrestling games were kind of awful. They'd be stiff, awkward affairs in which victory seemed to be down to luck as much as skill. I was surprised, then, to play this game and find out it's actually pretty great!It's based on (and starring) real-life wrestler Cutie Suzuki (information you may have already gleaned from the title), though

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-54305061403628793932011-05-06T14:55:00.005+01:002011-05-06T15:20:06.083+01:00

It's nice to play a unique game, that doesn't have anything else like it. Wicked is a unique game, as far as I know. Even now, 22 years after its release, there doesn't seem to be any copycats or clones.I should probably talk about it now, then.The intro tells the tale of some guy (that's you) who has undergone a painful ritual to become a firey star thing to battle evil. The battle against evil

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-67104599752910614792011-04-23T00:05:00.005+01:002011-04-23T00:28:16.092+01:00

I know i review a lot of playstation games on here, but that's mostly because there are tons and tons of interesting playstation games that are also really obscure! There are quite a few DS games I want to write about too, but I can't take screenshots of those. I might do it without screenshots eventually anyway, because there are a lot of really cool games for DS that hardly anyone knows about.

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-56846423075929986562011-04-12T22:57:00.004+01:002011-04-12T23:05:03.459+01:00

There are a lot of unlicenced fighting games. There was a fairly lengthy article/reviewround up of a bunch of NES ones on the old insertcredit site. As a subgenre, it doesn't havea great track record. With the exception on Kart Fighter on the NES, most of the ones I'veplayed have been practically unplayable. Top Fighter 2000 MK VIII shuns this long heldtradition, though, by actually being fairly

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-58481698760504363932011-04-09T00:59:00.004+01:002011-04-09T01:05:55.142+01:00

Just posting a funny curiosity: remember "Fatal Fantasy VII", the weird yaroze fangame thing? The opening menu for that is actually a nice little homage to the menu from this old Japanese demo disc for the real Final Fantasy VII!

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-84622376863188492262010-12-30T10:54:00.005Z2010-12-30T11:14:08.560Z

This game is quite the disappointment. When you start playing, and see the top down 3D graphics, and start beating a few guys up, it seems like a nice, fun game. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long to turn sour.As I mentioned, it's a top down beat em up with 3D graphics. #The four face buttons on the playstation controller are melee attacks (a single button that does a string of attacks, as is

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-38504985160212544772010-12-21T09:22:00.003Z2010-12-21T09:46:34.717Z

This is only going to be a shortish review, because there are Playstation games about which I intend to write, but I like to ensure a bit of variety by making sure that each new review is a different genre and system than the previous one. So the first update in months, and it's essentially filler. Woo.So! I recently started exploring the romset of the Famicom Disk System for the first time, and

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-82221129881924762552010-08-28T17:10:00.006+01:002010-12-31T00:39:33.245Z

This game is a bit of a curious oddity now, since it was made by Yukes, shortly before they made the first WWF Smackdown game for THQ. It doesn't have any licence, obviously, so, when faced with the chance to create any kind of colourful, outlandish characters the likes of wshich pro wrestling is famous for, Yukes chose to fill the roster with... lots of pale, balding men in underpants. And a

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-73694797026020643122010-07-28T17:50:00.004+01:002010-07-28T17:56:57.851+01:00

This is a maze game for the Amiga, presented like one of those deadly future gameshows thatr seemed to be so popular on that computer (there was this, the killing game show... I'm sure there were others too...)The most obvious thing to talk about with this game is the presentation, which is quite nice, despite the game having an obviously very small budget and probably being made by only a couple

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-60076096669025704772010-05-02T16:30:00.005+01:002010-05-02T16:51:01.241+01:00

Danan the Jungle Fighter isn't a very well known game. Most Master System games aren't that well known on the internet to begin with, but this is pretty obscure even among those.It's a platform game, but with a bit of dialogue here and there (not much by today's standards, but tons compared to most 8-bit games) and it has experience points and equipment. The plot is okay, better than most 8-bit

Jonnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01838220453077339756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8723625659539591772.post-44707796063988714752010-01-16T18:17:00.004Z2010-01-16T18:37:44.774Z

At first glance, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that Pacar is just a crap, lazy rip-off of Pac-Man, but with cars (the name is probably as close to "Pac-Car" as Sega could get without being sued). In reality, it's a pretty great rip-off of Pac-Man!The fact that the ghosts and... yellow thing have been replaced by cars isn't just an aesthetic change, it leads to the first, and probably

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I'll start with the most obvious thing to say about this show, that it inspired the gimmick of a great wrestler of the same name, who uses the cartoon's opening theme as his theme song to this day and who in turn later inspired a live action movie. That's pretty much why I wanted to watch this in the first place, having been a fan of the wrestler for a few years and all. If I'm honest, I wasn't

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According to Wikipedia, Hatris was created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1990. As well as being on PC Engine, it was also released on NES, Game Boy and in arcades. Like his most famous game, Tetris, Hatris was a falling stuff puzzle game, the "stuff" being hats of various styles, such as wizard hats, crowns, etc. At the bottom of the screen are six identical heads on to which the hats land. Stacking five

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Project: Horned Owl is a light gun shooter for Playstation released in 1995. It has mecha designs (and possibly character designs too?) by Masamune Shirow, and as such will probably light a little spark of nostalgia for cartoon nerds of a certain age, with it being slightly reminiscent of Dominion Tank Police.As you might have worked out from the first paragraph, in this game you play as cops in

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Panic Bomber World is a puzzle game starring Bomberman. It's of the "falling stuff" and "versus" sub-genres. It's pretty good.It's more complex than most games of this type. You do mainly play by matching up coloured Bomberman heads in rows of three, but that's where the genericity ends. When you match up rows of same-coloured heads, bombs spring up from the bottom of your pit. Every now and then

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Diet Go Go was released by Data East in 1992. It's a spiritual successor to Tumblepop. The plot apparently involves an evil scientist giving everyone free meat and cake. That bastard. Instead of vacuuming up enemies then shooting them like in Tumblepop, you inflate them with balls, then kick them around at other enemies. This works a lot better than Tumblepop's vacuuming which could sometimes

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If you've ever seen any western Master System boxart, you'll probably agree that it's probably the worst boxart in the world. Every box consisted of a white background with a grid of squares on it, and a tiny, crudely drawn picture of something from the game. Or sometimes, a tiny, crudely drawn picture of some random object. The strangest thing about this is that Japanese Master System boxart was

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Deadly Strike is an old fahioned beat em up. Much more old fashioned than other PS2 beat em ups like Godhand or Koei's Warriors series. You could say it's even more old fashioned than the later Streets of Rage and Final Fight games, since they have tons of moves and combos for each character, and each character in Deadly Strike has one regular melee combo, and a rubbish gun attack.It's far from

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There are lots and lots and lots of picross/nonogram/oekaki logic games in the world, and this one is the best of them. The reason for this bold claim? Because this is the only one to actually make a game using the puzzles. This was the first game of this type I ever played, which was a bad move, because every other one has seemed poorly thought out in comparision. The reason being that every

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This is a korean vetical shooter. It's not very good, though. I'm only posting about it because of it's obscurity.Here's an animated gif of the intro. I can't read korean, but going by the pictures it's obvious this game is about two midget spacemen on a flying viking ship going to space to fight a demonic PC.Here's a picture of the first boss. The boss fights look nicer than the rest of the game

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This is a bit of an oddity. It appears to be a demo for a Net Yaroze game. It's obviously a Final Fantasy VII fangame. That's pretty much all that I've been able to find out about it. Well there is one more thing: more than one person has told me that the text at the start of the video has something to do with "the world's toilet paper". Hmm.I won't bother commenting on how it plays, you can see

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This is a review of the Mega Drive game, "Shui Hu Feng Yun Zhuan", and as the ROM isn't yet widely available, it might even be the first ever English-language review of it. Exciting, eh?Anyway, as you might have guessed from the title, and the obscurity of the game, it's Chinese. I can't read any Chinese at all, so I can't tell you anything about the plot of this game, or even the names of its

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