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S.P.Y.: Special Project Y

One of Konami's earliest beat-'em-ups, which still hadn't quite settled down on the formula and also dabbles in a number of other genres. It's not a licensed title this time, but it really wants to be James Bond.

X-Men - Konami Beat-em-up

And here's some beat-'em-up not-quite-as-goodness by Konami! X-Men is still an alright game, but not quite up to the standard of the company's other licensed titles of the time, and mostly confused kids by not adopting the look of the contemporaneous cartoon show.

February 2015 Patreon supported

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500 Word Indies - Muri

A retro throwback to DOS-era sidescrollers, complete with PC speaker-type sound effects.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Ninja Clowns

Ninjas! Clowns! They go together terribly in this wretched arcade beat-em-up from Strata.

Violent Storm

Another gang busting beat-'em-up by Konami, this is often lumped in with the Crime Fighters series on those grounds (as did our old article), but it is actually very distinct from the other two.

Crime Fighters / Vendetta

Over the course of the next few weeks, we're going to completely replace most of our coverage on classic Konami beat-'em-ups with newly written standalone articles, starting with this pair of overly stereotypical '80s/'90s street gang brawlers.

Brain Lord

Brain Lord, an excellent (and sadly overlooked) action-RPG developed by the same team as 7th Saga and Mystic Ark.

Update: Pre-Street Fighter II Fighting Games

We've expanded our big genre overview with four more titles that are not necessarily great, but historically interesting: Chop Suey, Knight Games, Nekketsu Judo and Panza Kick Boxing. Not entirely new but previously unannounced at this space is the coverage for the early IBM PC title Bushido.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Man Enough

This attempt at a dating sim, featuring very embrassed looking models, is about the worst you could hope for.

Last Alert

One of the early Turbografx-16 CD-ROMs, this Telenet run-and-gun can't quite measure up to the best, but it's still pretty fun. Plus the English voice acting is famously laughable.

Litil Divil

Explore the depths of hell in this action-adventure with some high quality animation.

Suikoden

We updated our article on Konami's 108-character RPG series with coverage for the Japan-exclusive PSP title, with some additional smaller text updates in between.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Madou King Granzort

This pseudo follow-up to Keith Courage in Alpha Zones completely fails to show off the improved technology of the Supergrafx console.

Pandemonium!

Two early 2.5D platformers that tried to combine traditional gameplay with polygonal visuals, that's mostly remembered now for the creepy jester protagonist.

Neon Genesis Evangelion (N64)

There were a number of Neon Genesis Evangelion games, but most of them were adventure games or weird "raise Rei Ayanami as your daughter" sims. This is the one "action" game based on the anime...though it's still not terribly good.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Deep Blue

Experience four levels of sea life being flung at you from the right side of the screen forever in this extremely poor Turbografx-16 shooter.

Nethack

What began as a clone of ASCII based dungeon hack RPG Rogue eventually spawned into an addictive classic.

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Dragon Knight

WARNING: Due to the subject matter, this is the most NSFW article on the site ever. Only browse in a safe environment and in a situation where you're comfortable with seeing exploitative erotic content. One of the formative works of Japanese erotic gaming, this series of RPGs proved that ero software could actually be backed up by a proper game.

Your Weekly Kusoge - Total Recall

It's another shlocky NES Schwarzenegger tie-in, which doesn't even seem to be able to remember which movie it's supposed to imitate.

Pengo

This one has been in our article pipeline for years, but finally we managed to wrap it up with the latest remake, which was released for the Xbox 360 exclusively in Japan. Back in its time, this early Sega title was one of their first big hits, and apparently tremendously popular in Japan and Europe, judging by the many clones on various computer platforms.

Godzilla

Apologies, I was away for the week, so the Patreon page wasn't updated, through the site was! The updates for this week are incoming now! Some of the earliest games starring the greatest monster of them all. To be continued some time in the future...

Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang

Absurdly violent arcade beat-'em-up where you can summon a tiger, a giant and a dragon to ride on and take out huge enemies as a tiny knight, made by Tecmo (who would have guessed?) shortly after the original Ninja Gaiden.

Dark Half

Control both an evil overlord and the hero sent to kill him in this darkly innovative Super Famicom RPG from Westone/Enix.

The Unofficial Gude to Konami Shooters now available!

The paperback, Kindle, and PDF copies of the Unofficial Guide to Konami Shooters are now available for sale! Table of contents and more info here: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kshooterbook/kshooterbook.htm The data is still filtering through Amazon, so the paperback and Kindle copies are not yet linked. Once they are, you should be able to purchase a Kindle copy for .99 cents if you've p...

Silent Dragon

Silent Dragon Jan 20, 2015 This slightly-above-average beat-em-up from the developers of Double Dragon 3 is just weird enough to be worth checking out.

PDF available for The Unofficial Guide to Konami Shooters

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kshooterbook/kshooterbook.htmBarring any super last minute hiccups, The Unofficial Guide to Konami Shooters has been completed! The paperbacks still need to be approved by the printer before they can be put on sale, so it will be about a day or two until they can be ordered. In the meantime, please enjoy these digital copies! PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvmmo1n...

Floor 13

A resource management sim for the PC/Amiga where you control an immoral, corrupt bureaucrat who orders assassinations, spreads disinformation and works with only the interest of his political party in mind.

Ninja Gaiden (updated)

It's been a while since our Ninja Gaiden article has been up-to-date, but now we can finally give you our view of Ninja Gaiden 3 and Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. Not much good news, unfortunately. Also new is coverage of some mobile ports and spin-offs, as well as smaller text tweaks and additional screenshots throughout.