A Rpg streamlined in a few ways compared to other games of the era. There are no experience points or money to be earned from combat; the player’s party instead levels whenever an area’s boss is defeated, and items like consumables and equipment need to be found on the field by exploring. The player controls … Read more
The game’s story begins with Filena, a girl raised as a boy by her grandfather Zenna. Filena is raised as a boy because the Empire ruling the country forces girls into prostitution and turns boys into gladiators. After turning 16 Filena prepares to make her debut in the imperial coliseum, however before the battle she … Read more
Tokyo, 2050 AD. Terrorists are running wild in the streets, and only one armored police officer is fast enough to hunt them down. In Edo no Kiba you are always moving forward, either running or walking (or, in some levels, flying), although you can still move around the screen as in most belt-scrolling games. Your … Read more
A crow is chasing a worm named Jim while in outer space Psy-Crow is chasing a renegade ship. The ship’s captain has stolen an ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit and Queen Slug-for-a-Butt has ordered Psy-Crow to get it, since it can make her more beautiful than Princess-What’s-Her-Name. Psy-Crow blasts the captain and the suit falls to Planet Earth. Back … Read more
Upon its release in 1992, Earth Light was a bit of a novelty in the realm of turn-based war strategy games. In Earth Light, the entire arsenal of weapons and troops at your disposal were decidedly “cute” and cartoon-like in appearance (fittingly adorned, I should add, in wardrobes of powder-blue, canary-yellow, hot-pink, lime-green, and sugarplum-purple). … Read more
A turn-based strategy game from Hudson and a sequel to Earth Light. Its story focuses on a war between the Earth Federation Army and the Unification Forces Army, with the player taking on the role of the latter. Like its predecessor and the series’s inspiration Nectaris, the game uses a grid system comprised of hexagons. … Read more
Dynamic Stadium is a baseball game from Eleca/Electronics Application released exclusively for the Super Famicom. While adopting the same behind-the-batter perspective as Namco’s Famista series, Dynamic Stadium presents its athletes as comic book heroes rather than chibi figures, making them absurdly buff and frequently featuring action shots of them catching fly-balls and narrowly making it … Read more
Dynamaite: The Las Vegas is a 1994 Super Famicom gambling game set in Las Vegas that features a variety of different venues for gambling. They range from old favorites like roulette, poker, slot machines and blackjack to less common games like Daisyou and Ting-Tiro. The loose story of the game involves the protagonist, Mr. Dynamite, … Read more
Select your 4 adventurers and descend into the depths of the dungeon. Dungeon Master was a significant enhancement to the 3D dungeon crawl type of role-playing adventure game started by Wizardry and The Bard’s Tale. The addition of a mouse-based (real-time) combat and inventory system in Dungeon Master has been repeated by the Eye of … Read more
A top-down action RPG where the player is a brave hero attempting to quell the hordes of evil emerging from nearby dungeons. The game has a hub town that the player can restock at before moving to one of four dungeons that surrounds the city: a cave, a tower, a volcano and a mountaintop temple. … Read more