SkyGunner – PS2Insider
A “review of a review” from 2002!
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Category: Retro Reports
Dynamite Cop!
Yippie Ki Yay, Mr. Falcon. We take a look at not quite Die Hard for the Dreamcast!
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Arcade Memories, Pt. 2: Time Killers
Wistfully reliving the blood-drenched arcade summers of my youth
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Arcade Memories, Pt. 1: Crime Fighters
Crime Fighters is really a game of its era – and that era is the latest of the late ’80s.
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Eye of the Beholder (Sega CD)
Eye of the Beholder Sega CD, 1994 Developer: Westwood Studios/FCI Publisher: Sega Like Ultima: Quest of the Avatar, Eye of the Beholder was one of those games I just couldn’t wrap my brain around as a young kid. Released in 1991 for DOS PCs and the Commodore Amiga, EOTB was an early first-person dungeon crawler which iterated ever-so-slightly […]
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Code Name: Viper – Part 2
Code Name: Viper Nintendo Entertainment System, 1990 Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Capcom Last time, we talked about the underrated gameplay of Capcom’s Code Name: Viper. Today, we’ll be talking about its inspirations, or perhaps more accurately, its source material. It would be diplomatic to say that Code Name: Viper was heavily inspired by Namco’s Rolling Thunder. […]
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Code Name: Viper – Part 1
Code Name: Viper Nintendo Entertainment System, 1990 Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Capcom As anyone who walked into an arcade between the years of 1989 and 2000 can tell you, winners don’t use drugs. This of, course, is why drug dealers make for fantastic video game adversaries. Today, franchises like Grand Theft Auto sell millions of copies […]
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Wizards & Warriors
Wizards & Warriors Nintendo Entertainment System, 1987 Developer: Rare Publisher: Acclaim Shortly after my family welcomed a NES into our home in 1988, I was desperate to complete a game. There was only one problem: at six-years-old, I had yet to actually develop any video game playing skill. My options were limited. I had tried […]
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Street Fighter II’ – PC Engine
Street Fighter II’ PC Engine – 1993 Developer – NEC Avenue Publisher – Capcom While I haven’t surrendered my tennis questing just yet, I’d like to take a moment to talk about one of my favorite console ports of all time, Street Fighter II’ Championship Edition for the PC Engine. While it’s outshone on nearly level by SNES version Street […]
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World Court Tennis – The Legend Begins
World Court Tennis TurboGrafx-16, 1989 Developer: Namco Publisher: NEC World Court Tennis is just like any other Tennis game from 1989, save for two notable exceptions. One: it lets you play as a cat man named Grans: Two: it has a quest mode. Seriously! A quest! There’s really no point in talking about any other mode, is […]
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