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Kaze Kiri Ninja Action

Kaze Kiri is a surprisingly experimental game. You would probably expect a single-plane beat-em-up with a ninja theme to play

Sengoku Turb

This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign

The Three Great She-Devils of Square

Among the Japanese RPG fanbase, there’s a specific term for a set of female characters largely disliked by the audience:

Catacombs 3D

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Catacombs

Part Two: The 3-D Quadrilogy Catacomb 3-D: The Descent / Catacombs 3 – PC(1992) By the time the Catacomb series

Catacombs

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Catacombs

Part One: The 2-D Quadrilogy In the year 1990, programmer John Carmack was working at the offices of Softdisk, a

Holy Umbrella: Dondera no Mubou!

This entry was written for the Japanese Video Game Obscurities book, which is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter. The campaign

Top 47,858 Games of All Time Episode 94: Cave Story, 999

DIRECT DOWNLOAD Join the HG101 gang as they get tore up on red flowers then awake the next morning with

Lunar: Dragon Song

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Lunar

For a number of years, between 1997 and 2003, the Lunar series was caught in legal limbo. The issues began

Magical School Lunar

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Lunar

The most popular console RPGs often received portable counterparts, games that purported to offer similar (but different) experiences in spite

Lunar: The Silver Star

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Lunar

The early days of the CD-ROM marked an exciting time for role-playing games, especially on consoles. While they sought to

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