PLATFORMS
An alien entity known as Geegus threatens the Earth in the year 3091. As all of Earth’s forces have been defeated, a scientist uses his recently-built time machine to find the greatest fighters of different eras to compete against Geegus. World Heroes is a versus fighting game. It features a cast of characters from different countries … Continue reading “World Heroes”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Android, Arcade, Genesis, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, SNES, Wii, Windows Apps, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
The sun begins to dawn on Velua, a new day for the world and a new day for you, a freshly minted Battle Researcher of the global research society known as Lux Solis. It’s your first day and everything goes smoothly until a mysterious force attacks your latest workplace. Build up a squad of Coromon, … Continue reading “Coromon”
Year: 2022
Platforms: Android, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The future of the human race looks hopeless when maintenance drones accidentally replace the orbot leader’s head with a salvaged atomic bomb. All the orbots on Earth are immediately ordered, via television receivers, to stop cleaning up the planet and to start manufacturing weapons for an impending ambush of the returning humans. Only one orbot, … Continue reading “Vectorman”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Android, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Wii, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
The evil Dogurava, commander of an alien army known as the Gidans, is attacking the planet Borogo. The army uses five giant asteroids as fortresses for the invasion. After surviving an attack on an orbiting cargo barge, a lone pilot takes the only remaining fighter craft and embarks on a suicide mission: draw the Gidans’ … Continue reading “Truxton”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Android, Arcade, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, TurboGrafx-16, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
After Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter destroyed the evil Syndicate leader, Mr. X, the city became a peaceful place to live, and each one of them followed their own paths. One year later, after their reunion, Adam’s brother Sammy returned from school to find their apartment in a mess, and Adam nowhere to … Continue reading “Streets of Rage 2”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Android, Arcade, Game Gear, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, SEGA Master System, Wii, Windows, Xbox 360, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
Streets of Rage, Sega’s answer to Final Fight, follows the story of three young police officers (Adam Hunter, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding) in a city controlled by a criminal syndicate led by a “Mr. X” where crime is rampant, which leads the three heroes to make a pact to leave the force and topple … Continue reading “Streets of Rage”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Android, Arcade, Game Gear, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo 3DS, SEGA Master System, Wii, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
Prince Ali has found the magical Golden Armlet, which was used many years ago to defeat an evil wizard who wielded its counterpart, the Silver Armlet. The Prince has now to stop the evil sorcerer and save the island of Oasis. To do so, he will need his wits, skills ,and the powers of the … Continue reading “The Story of Thor: A Successor of the Light a.k.a. Beyond Oasis”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Android, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Wii, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
Space Harrier II follows (very closely) in the footsteps of its predecessor and involves you (a Space Harrier) going off to save “Fantasy Land”. This combined with the many flashing gaudy colors the game throws at you leads me to believe that it was born out of a bad acid trip. There are 13 stages … Continue reading “Space Harrier II”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Android, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, Wii, Windows, ZX Spectrum, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
In early feudal Japan, a man named Shiro Tokisada Amakusa preaches a heretic religion. Little does anyone know that Amakusa is really a servant of the evil Ambrosia, who had possessed and taken over Amakusa’s body, as Ambrosia wishes to shroud the world into eternal darkness. Now, the player must select from out of 12 … Continue reading “Samurai Showdown a.k.a. Samurai Spirits”
Year: 1993
Platforms: 3DO, Android, Arcade, FM Towns, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, Nintendo Switch, PSP, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, SEGA CD, SNES, Wii, Windows Apps, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
The evil tyrant Greedy has arisen to control a solar system full of sentient beings. He has corrupted the leaders of each world and thereby enslaved the entire populace. He has also sent his minions in the disguise of planet natives into the worlds to enforce his rule. A lush forest planet, the last planet … Continue reading “Ristar”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Android, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, Wii, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform