Total Carnage
Two years after the release of the original Smash TV, Midway would put out a sequel. For whatever reason, however, …
Savage Warriors
Savage Warriors proclaimed itself as “The Bad Boy of Beat ’em Ups” on its box when it was released in …
Hyper Princess Pitch
Operation Carnage was never the most well known of DOS games, and even if you consider yourself a fan of the …
Space Ace (SNES)
Those among us who take an interest in bad games are more than likely familiar with the NES adaption of Dragon’s …
Primal Rage II
While it could never be as big as Mortal Kombat, Primal Rage managed to outdo just about every other MK competitor of the time. Perhaps …
Nitro Ball
If there’s anything Data East really excelled at, it was taking a fairly standard concept and adding in a new …
Man Enough
When it comes to games involving the pursuit of romance, it’s not often something that we of the Western hemisphere …
Guacamelee!
Metroidvanias can be difficult to keep fresh, especially given the many, many stabs at the genre people have made over …
Dashin’ Desperadoes
The same year as Spinmaster, Data East would release another game using the same characters. It’s kind of strange they …
Spinmaster
While they never reached the top tier of names like Konami or Capcom, you could generally count on Data East …
Pepenga Pengo
The 16-bit revival of Pengo is basically a Bomberman ripoff, and a pretty blatant one, at that. Just like Bomberman, you’ve got a single player …
X-Men (Arcade)
Not all of Konami’s games could be zingers, as Crime Fighters proved. Even their licensed beat-em-ups, which included such top acts like Teenage …
Simpsons, The (Arcade)
After a few early fumbles, Konami had finally come upon a formula that worked with the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja …