Streets of Rage or Bare Knuckle? Which is the better name I wonder? Both sound so manly. So dangerous… Luckily when they localised the third game for the western market, they made enough changes to at least in this instance affirm my preference on a much less shallow basis. Strangely, the…
Whenever a discussion about terrible Sega games is started, it’s never long before this game is mentioned by someone. Here you can see for yourself: this game is mentioned rather early and talked about more than any other seems to be. Why is that? The game really isn’t as terrible…
The video game industry has never had to pine for games starring giant robots. The mech market eventually peaked and began petering out with Steel Battalion and its monstrously amazing dual stick, forty-button controller. Slave Zero was released in 1999, at the height of popularity for walking tank games and…
I was saving this one but the demand for it was too much for me. This week’s Radvertisements is all about SEGATA SANSHIRO! Segata Sanshiro was a character created to promote the Sega Saturn. His name and appearance are a parody of Sugata Sanshiro, a legenedary Judo fighter from the…
In the weeks leading up to this installment of Underappreciated Games, each title that I’ve featured has been somehow unfairly shunned, ignored, or forgotten by a specific group of gamers, cruelly doomed to obscurity. With Toy Commander, the Goozex community was to blame. With Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter, the regular…
It’s Sunday evening, Sega-Addicts, so it’s time for forum news. Say, you better join the forums if you haven’t already. You’re going to want to after you hear about all the crazy stuff that’s been going on this week. Or hey, if you’re not excited by what you hear you…
There’s an odd obsession that comes with the mention of giant robots that allow for gratuitous amounts of mayhem to be wrought. Regardless of where you come from you’ll be aware of Gundams, Mobile Suits, Vertical Tanks, and of course, BattleMechs. Battletech was initially created back in the 1980s as…