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February 4, 2011

Vimana

Vimana is one of Toaplan’s most unique shooters. The level design is particularly creative, along with a unique charge shot and …

Review
February 1, 2011

Fire Shark

Fire Shark is the vastly improved sequel to Flying Shark. The most common complaint of Flying Shark was that your plane was too weak …

Review
January 22, 2011

Blandia

In 1984, a Taito subsidiary called Allumer developed a game called Great Swordsman, one of the first one-on-one fighting games ever …

Review
December 21, 2010

Vasara

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Vasara

The Vasara games are two fairly unique manic shooters. They’re set in medieval Japan, but feature giant flying robots, much like Compile’s M.U.S.H.A. and Robo Aleste. …

Review
December 1, 2010

Escape From Hell

The old days of computer RPGs were mostly dominated by the fantasy genre, with titles such as Ultima, and Might and Magic being …

Review
November 8, 2010

Neugier

The Super Famicom was home to a number of excellent action-RPGs, amongst them Illusions of Gaia, Soul Blazer, Terranigma, Brain Lord, and many others. …

Review
November 3, 2010

Flame Zapper Kotsujin

For the most part, NEC’s PC-9801 platform was largely known for strategy games, RPGs and visual novels. While there are …

Review
September 21, 2010

Vasara 2

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Vasara

Visco’s follow up to Vasara was their last game and came out only a year later. It made a few changes to …

Review
January 8, 2010

Alantia

Alantia, developed by Cross Media Soft and published by Victor Musical Industries, is a rail shooter for the PC88VA and …

Review
December 12, 2009

Zero Wing

Zero Wing is one of Toaplan’s most well known games, at least in English speaking territories, mostly because of the “All …

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