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Metal Black
Taito's classic shooter is soaked in atmosphere, with one of the best introduction stages in the genre. (And some really damn cool explosions.)
November 2014 Patreon supported
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Christine Love Games: Analogue: A Hate Story / Hate Plus
The third (and final) part of our week long special concludes with a look at the two Hate games, where you explore the logs of a long lost South Korean colonization spaceship.
Your Weekly Kusoge: Ring Cycle
A messy Action RPG based on Wagner's epic opera The Ring of the Nibelung and probably late British designer legend Mike Singleton's worst game ever.
Christine Love Games: Don't Take It Personally Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
The followup to Digital: A Love Story is a radically different title, a very meta visual novel about a high school English teacher helping his students in their personal lives.
Christine Love Games - Digital: A Love Story
We'll be covering Christine Love's visual novel games all this week. First up: the retro BBS scouring Digital: A Love Story.
Chimera Beast
A recently unearthed Jaleco arcade shooter, which is essentially a cosmic horror story where you play as a Lovecraftian atrocity instead of fighting against it.
Chatan Yarakuu Shanku - The Karate Tournament
A fighting game in the style of Karate Champ, directed by man behind Strider.
500-Word Indies: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
A stunningly beautiful mystery adventure, which tries some new ideas in pairing a narrative experience with gameplay.
Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu
Color Dreams, an unlicensed NES publisher/developer, was the mark of anti-quality, thanks to games like this, an import from Asian publisher Sachen.
The NewZealand Story
Play as Tiki the kiwi in this cutesy (and oddly frustrating) platformer classic from Taito.
Spinal Breakers
Wage a war throughout history against zombie robot-infested countries in this Cabal-clone from Video System.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Where's Waldo
A game based off the Where's Waldo series of books is a terrible idea, but that didn't stop a bunch of folks from trying. Here's one of the worst!
The Ninja Kids
Four goofy looking ninja kids band together to fight The Satan in this comical beat-em-up from Taito.
Lifeless Planet
An explorational 3D platformer on a seemingly abandoned alien world.
King of Dragon Pass
Rule the Dragon Pass in this unique choose your own adventure/turn based strategy hybrid from the late 90s
Wizardry in Japan
We conclude our Wizardry coverage (for now) with a brief overview of all those Japanese games, a closer look at the ill-fated (at least in English speaking territories) MMO installment, and a few odds and ends on mobile phones and other media.
Kabuki Z
Slice through the Japanese underworld in this violent arcade game from Taito/Kaneko.
Martial Champion
Konami tries their hand at a Street Fighter II clone, with decidedly average results.
Your Weekly Kusoge: Hana no Star Kaidou
Control a duo of aspiring musicians as they bumble around town, beat up fans, and stumble into pits in this reprehensible Famicom game.
Wizardry 8
Sir-Techs final contribution to the Wizardry franchise, before it would go Japan only for a long time. Also featuring a few games that are not Wizardry 8, but easily could have been in an alternate universe...
Sentient
The first (and only) social space station survival simulation adventure, an incredibly ambitious title that collapses upon its own weight.
Nosferatu
A triple feature of three very different horror games - a British microcomputer isometric adventure, a Super Famicom cinematic platformer and a 21st century first person shooter - all united by one name.
Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday
Porky Pig may be one of the more underappreciated Looney Tunes characters, but some time around Halloween 1995, he got his very own SNES platformer for the spooky occasion.
October 2014 Patreon supported
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CarnEvil
Ridiculously over the top lightgun shooter about an evil carnival.
Gremlines 2 (NES/GB)
A NES top-down action game and a Game Boy platformer starring the little monsters. (And yes, we're aware the films are actually set on Christmas - look forward for more Gremlin goodness around that time!)
The Blackwell Series
Halloween is about to rear its delightfully ugly head again, so until the 31st, we're gonna have a lot of content about spooky games for you. We're starting out mildly, with Dave Gilbert's recently completed point-and-click adventure cycle starring New York ghost counselor / paranormal investigator Rosa Blackwell and her ghost companion from the '20s, Joey Mallone.
Yumimi Mix
Game Arts' cutesy Mega CD visual novel tells the incredulous story of interdimensional horse lovers.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Cyberdillo
Live out your fantasies as a cybernetic armadillo in this insane, nightmarish FPS.
