Originally a 1992 Japanese PC Engine exclusive before being finally gifted to the world in 2008 via the Wii's Virtual Console service (the same year it appeared on the PSP's now painfully expensive Soldier Collection) and again over a decade later as part of the PC Engine/CoreGrafx/TurboGrafx-16 Mini line up, Star Parodier is - yep, you've guessed it … Continue reading A PC Engine parody
There was a time when it felt like you couldn't move for arcade titles eager to scoot you from one allegedly real-world location to the next, each stage set against a backdrop showing a famous landmark or some focal point that suggests a tourist's idea of the region: Bomb Jack, City Connection, Street Fighter II... … Continue reading Pomping Pang Bros.
As someone who was introduced to the PC Engine via a string of Duos and vanilla PC Engines firmly attached to briefcase-like CD attachments (do have a quick look, they're beautiful things) - a world of CD-stored speech, stunning cutscenes, and Nineties anime tie-ins - I always thought HuCards were a bit disappointing. They were the basic … Continue reading A shining Super Star
As you may have already guessed from the photo above, the overly-named Bomberman: Panic Bomber is yet another spinoff of Hudson's evergreen Bomberman franchise - this time a puzzle game where little Bomber-heads fall from the top of the screen in L-shaped clusters of three, the aim being to line up a trio or more of the … Continue reading A bit of a dud
What do you get when Hudson Soft, the developers of the Nectaris (AKA: Military Madness) series, are given the keys to Intelligent Systems' Famicom/Super Famicom/Game Boy Wars? Exactly what you'd expect. There's your little cluster of buildings. There are the enemy's. Each side has to shoot and shell their way across the map, soldiers taking … Continue reading More of the same, please
Kuusou Kagaku Sekai Gulliver Boy (created by Oji Hiroi - of Sakura Taisen fame - and Toyoo Ashida, director of Vampire Hunter D and... you'll see) is Hudson Soft's RPG retelling of the TV series of the same name. Both the game (on PC Engine) and the show debuted in 1995, with this 1996 remaster … Continue reading Ninjas and pirates! NINJAS AND PIRATES!!
[You can blame the appearance of the adorable lilac border surrounding these images on my Galaxy Fraulein Yuna Collection UMD, which includes Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire as a semi-relevant bonus. I did consider cropping them to only show the game, but to do so after that pack bothered to make such a rare game officially … Continue reading Going out with a bang
I lazily assumed for the longest time that the FX suffix meant this was either some sort of remake of one of the original Yuna's or one of those nice but nothing of substance fan discs packed with illustrations and short movie clips at the sort of resolution that would struggle to fill a postage … Continue reading Yuna and Yuri’s FX-cellent adventure
Writing pure and unapologetic opinion pieces like this blog post is dead easy: I can always retreat behind the safety of my "BUT IT'S JUST WHAT I THINK" opinion-shield at the faintest whiff of legitimate criticism, I usually have me around if I need to ask myself something, and I never have to worry about … Continue reading I think, therefore I think. I think.
Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster 