Retro Reviews
SNES Game Review 46: F-Zero
so here is a review of F-Zero well its more story about it than a review but you get reviews everywere …so instead step into this semi review, semi chunk of my life. I remember walking home from comprehensive school, must have been in one of my first years there. At home I had a …
SNES Game Review 45: Rival Turf!
When looking at Jaleco’s Rival Turf! (known as Rushing Beat in Japan), it’s important to understand something about it, something which you cant help but think is the entire reason for its existence and its release.I have already reviewed and talked about the SNES conversion of the arcade hit Final Fight. Now as you will …
SNES game review 44 Mortal Kombat
SNES Game review 44 Mortal Kombat My game today is Mortal Kombat the arcade fighting game developed and published by Midway (in 1992) It was subsequently released by Acclaim Entertainment for just about every home video game system that existed back then. It was a massive seller and was one of the few competitors for …
SNES Game Review 42: Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, or just Bubsy for short (Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibōken to our Japanese friends) is a platform video game released by Accolade in the early 1990s. The designer Michael Berlyn apparently came upon Sonic the Hedgehog and loved it so much that he began to play it for …
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Snes Game Review 41: Killer Instinct
I wasn’t really sure what I was going to review as my 41st SNES review…several games nearly made there way into the SNES to instead be pulled away at the last instant. I have tried to keep things as messed up as possible for reasons of variety and surprise, so I have jumped from games …
150 SNES games reviewed #35: UN Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a side-scrolling shooting game which came out in arcades in 1989. It was programmed by Capcom and released for use on their CPS arcade hardware. I won’t explain what this was but if you look back at my Final Fight review there is an explanation there. The game was released in Japan …
150 SNES games reviewed #34: Power Drive
When I buy retro games they tend to belong to one of three categories. They are games which I owned as a kid and want to get again because I have fond memories of them, games I remember friends owning and which I have fond memories of playing at their houses, or are games which …
150 SNES games reviewed #33: Battletoads in Battlemaniacs
If I was to say Rare in relation to games to most people then they would probably think about the Nintendo 64 and about Banjo-Kazooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007. To me though Rare are so much more than that. I can remember their NES games and I also remember even …
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150 SNES games reviewed #32: NBA All-Star Challenge
The game I am going to be talking about is NBA All-Star Challenge. It was developed by Beam Software and published by LJN (Acclaim in japan). It was released in Europe in 1993. Back when I was younger there was only one NBA game that ever got plugged into my SNES, and there was only …
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150 SNES games reviewed #31: Alien 3
Alien 3 was developed by Probe Entertainment and Eden Entertainment Software, published In North America, Europe, and Japan by Arena Entertainment, Acclaim Entertainment, LJN, and Virgin Interactive. It is half-based on the film Alien 3. I have to say half-based because it’s set on the prison planet from the film and Ripley is shaved bald, …