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Burai Fighter
Rather excellent NES shoot-em-up from KID, who later developed Low-G-Man, the GI Joe games, and Kickmaster.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Musya
An SNES action game from Seta, Musya is the kind of game that has some talent and good ideas behind it, but is so much less than the sum of its parts
Go! Go! Nippon
Live the otaku dream as you join two sisters to explore Tokyo in this well meaning visual novel.
Xenogears
Square channels Evangelion in this mecha-themed sci-fi JRPG for the PS1.
Axiom Verge
Metroidvanias are common amongst the indie gaming scene, but few pay such loving homage to the 8 and 16-bit games of yore as Axiom Verge.
Where Time Stood Till
One of the most overlooked survival horror titles of all time, this adventure game, taking place on an island filled with dinosaurs, predates even Capcom's Sweet Home.
Book Reviews: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Collected Works and The 100 Greatest Console Video Games: 1977-1987
Reviews of two excellent coffee table books that were released last year. http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgbooks/vgbooks-mdcollectedworks.htm http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgbooks/vgbooks-100greats7787.htm
Always Sometimes Monsters
Developed in RPG Maker though not actually an RPG, this is a narrative heavy game about a bum trying to find their personal happiness.
Lone Survivor
An indie survival horror side-scroller with a unique low res look.
500 Word Indies - One Way Heroics
A tile-based, turn-based, procedurally generated online RPG, another entry in the increasingly crowded genre of Roguelikes, or better, Rogue-lites.
Liberal Crime Squad
The very idea of Liberal Crime Squad sounds like something out of a particularly offensive game of mad-libs (or maybe a usual game of Cards Against Humanity): a terrorist simulator made by the man behind Dwarf Fortress and based on an old PLATO game. It allows you to torture people, sell drugs and use cheesy pick-up lines to grant animals full citizenship and stop the conservatives from making Ron...
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Iji
An independently made retro Amiga-styled platformer in which a nanomachine-powered cyborg fights her way through a military base invaded by hostile aliens while trying to save the world.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
While an adventure game based off the famous 1989 live action/cartoon hybrid might sound innovative, LJN and Rare just didn't have the ability to turn it into something playable.
The 7th Saga
Produce's SNES RPG has a lot of really cool elements, though it's hurt by an unnecessarily high difficulty level.
Journey (The Band)
Like many pop culture icons during the early 1980s, rock band Journey was the subject of two video games - an Atari 2600 game and an arcade game.
Psycho Chaser
An overhead auto-scrolling run-and-gun from Sting for the PCE, with some great music and cool designs.
Metal Stoker
A fun HuCard PC Engine run-and-gun from Sankido and Face, where you cause destruction with a walking tank.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Orb 3D
One of the least sucky games from Hi-Tech Expressions includes 3D glasses to demonstrate the Pulfrich effect, but neglected to build a compelling game around it.
Skeleton Krew
Core's grimdark 90s run-and-gun isn't great, but it does have some great graphic design and some excellent music.
Bucky O'Hare
Another cartoon/toy franchise from the era of the TMNT craze concludes our renewed Konami beat-'em-up coverage, but we also added coverage of the NES game, which is a different beast entirely and was made by future Treasure people.
Your Weekly Kusoge - Pictionary
LJN tried to create a video game version of Pictionary, undone by the sketchy controls and minigames only very loosely connected to the core concept.
Chew Man Fu
A simple but fun action puzzle game for the Turbografx-16, fairly similar to Pengo.
DreadOut
Fatal Frame meets Southeast Asia in this hunt for creepy ghosts from Indonesian folklore. Take on the supernatural with your smartphone camera!
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Konami's oldest brawler for the NES that also features shooting and driving sequences and is totally not Crocodile Dundee.
Batman Returns (Konami beat-em-ups)
Continuing with our renewed Konami brawler coverage, we present you another licensed one, the tie-in to the weird Burton movie. (This only includes the games developed by Konami, not the Sega games and sublicensed computer titles.)
Your Weekly Kusoge - Metal Morph
Origin developed a number of legendary PC titles, but their console output was not so great, as evidenced by this lousy SNES side-scroller/rail-shooter hybrid.
Battletoads
Rare's answer to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles took the characters into a wide variety of genres, with an impressive amount of cartoonish abilities, but were often undermined by their extraordinary difficulty.
Gaiapolis
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gaiapolis/gaiapolis.htm
Metamorphic Force
Another Konami beat-'em-up, about a squad of fighters who transform into anthropomorphic animal warriors.
