The Baseball Stars series set the early benchmark for quality baseball sports games, and introduced a number of features that have become standard in more current sports games, such as managerial control and player creation. Baseball Stars 2 built on this [...]
In the year 2248, the first recorded sign of extraterrestrial life was discovered coming from Mars. The signal emanated from the planet and from it an object travelled through space at light speed out of the Solar System. Earth scientists read the signal, [...]
The Slum… an area of town completely forgotten. No one could imagine the cruelness suffered by innocent people who were transformed into horrible mutant creatures by genetic experiments. They hovered everywhere and completely took control of the [...]
Magical Drop is played in a style and gameplay similar to Compile’s (now Sega’s) Puyo Puyo and Taito’s Puzzle Bobble franchises; a “stack” of random colored bubbles descend from the top, and a player is defeated when a bubble [...]
Two years have passed since the last King of Fighters tournament and nobody has seen Kyo Kusanagi or Iori Yagami since they defeated Orochi at the climax of the 1997 tournament, but out of the blue, new invitations are sent out to many characters, [...]
An adaptation of the Neo-Geo fighting game. 2-D scrolling one-on-one fighter with pseudo-3D aspects (that allows for players to “escape” holds, throws, and other attacks). Part of the incestuously-popular SNK fighting game pantheon…
Ninja Combat (ニンジャコンバット?) (“Ninjakonbatto”) is a 1990 side-scrolling beat ’em up video game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK. It was one of the launch titles for both the Neo Geo MVS (arcade) and AES (home) systems. It is [...]
Stones of power are given to some chosen fighters, who are being trained by a master to defeat the master’s darker tendencies of destroying humanity. The fighters do not necessarily get along even as the world heads toward peril.
