Today's Document
RMH
Keni
Andulka
One Nice Bug Per Day
tumblr dot com
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
NASA
Sade Olutola
#extradirty
izzy's playlists!
🪼
Peter Solarz
styofa doing anything
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
Cosimo Galluzzi
if i look back, i am lost
roma★
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
seen from Thailand
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Greece
seen from Poland
seen from Germany
seen from Türkiye
seen from Mexico
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from United States
seen from France
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Canada
seen from Indonesia
@classic-games
Big Challenge! Dogfight Spirit
Developer: Jaleco Publisher: Jaleco Release: 10/21/88 Genre: Shooter The Famicom Disk System is interesting to explore in retrospect. As it was the primary source of Famicom software for a few years it built up quite a decent sized library. While many would later go on to be regular cartridge titles there remain a decent number of exclusives. Many of these are from genres that take…
Mottomo Abunai Deka
Developer: Micronics Publisher: Toei Release: 02/06/90 Genre: Action Run and gun action games are surprisingly few and far between on the NES, at least in the US. In Japan there is a greater deal of variety. The reason many of those games did not leave the country is because they are licensed. The sheer number of Gundam games will make your jaw drop for instance. One that caught my eye is…
Tengai
Developer: Psikyo Publisher: 505 Games Release: 03/06 Genre: Shooter I like the Sengoku series of shooters. Honestly though first game was a bog standard shooter despite its charming cast of characters and excellent Psikyo art direction. Sengoku Blade goes a long way toward giving the series an identity with killer graphics and gameplay. I will freely admit some of my interest in Sengoku…
Barunba
Developer: ZAP Publisher: Namco Release: 04/27/90 Genre: Shooter The Turbo Grafx-16 has its fair share of excellent arcade ports of classic shooters. But the original home console efforts were almost always the best of its lineup. Lords of Thunder and Sapphire are truly great games that I still find myself returning to today. But not every title is a winner. Barunba is a fairly generic…
Terra Cresta
Developer: Nihon Bussan Publisher: Vik Tokai Release: 03/90 Genre: Shooter There’s something to be said about a timely release. Video game design is always moving forward. A game that was groundbreaking one year is eclipsed the next. Vic Tokai’s Terra Cresta was a Famicom release in Japan in 1986, a year after its arcade debut. However it would not come to the states until 1990. Whatever…
Harley's Humongous Adventure
Developer: Visual Concepts Publisher: Hi-Tech Expressions Release: 02/93 Genre: Action Here is one that slipped through the cracks. Harley’s Humongous Adventure is the type of low key release that fills out the library of every successful platform. It occupies a strange middle ground: it lacks a cool hook or feature that would garner it attention and does not have the production values…
Kidō Keisatsu Patlabor: 98-Shiki Kidō Seyo!
Developer: Advance Communication Company Publisher: MA-BA Corp Release: 10/23/92 Genre: RPG For the most part the anime licensed game bubble usually spanned a few genres during the 8 and 16-bit era. You had your generic platformer, side-scrolling beat ‘em up, and if they were a little more ambitious maybe you would get a RPG. Adventure games however would not become more prominent until…
Magmax
Developer: Nihon Bussan Publisher: FCI Release: 10/88 Genre: Action I remember desperately wanting to play Magmax growing up. From the cover art it looked like an epic adventure of giant robots fighting three-headed metal dragons and shit and I wanted all parts of it. That is the power of good box art. Anyone who owned an Atari 2600 knows that feeling; they hired professionals to draw…
P-47 - the Freedom Fighter
Developer: Nihon Micom Kaihatsu Publisher: Aicom Release: 03/20/89 Genre: Shooter By this point I have played the vast majority of the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx-16’s shooter library. The system has one of the greatest libraries in the genre of all time with titles spanning every sub-genre you can imagine. Yet I still find new titles the more I keep digging. P-47 is a rather unassuming title…
Crossfire
Developer: A.I Co, Ltd. Publisher: Kyugo Release: 1991 Genre: Action In the early years of the Sega Genesis I would play anything. The excitement around new technology for most is enough to try every new game initially just to see something new. But a game has to be especially bad for me to give up on it before the end. Crossfire is one such game. On paper it is everything I was in to at…
Twinbee
Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release: 03/11/88 Genre: Shooter My opinion of the TwinBee series changed with Detana TwinBee on the Turbo Grafx. After hating Stinger I was ready to write off the series completely. But in reality Stinger was a weird one off that I am sure everyone would rather forget. After that great TG-16 game I would later discover Pop ‘n TwinBee, one of my…
The Terminator (SNES)
Developer: Gray Matter Inc Publisher: Mindscape Release: 04/93 Genre: Action There is absolutely no reason why the Terminator should not be an easy slam dunk. The 1984 film was incredible, full of high energy action and influential to this day. The Sega versions, while far from perfect, manage to nail the atmosphere and energy of the movie and are still good for a quick play through to…
Hanii in the Sky
Developer: Face Publisher: Face Release: 02/28/89 Genre: Shooter The PC Engine had no shortage of quirky shooters, chief among them Parodius and Twinbee. But Hanii in the Sky still manages to stand out because it looks so god damn weird. Seriously, the cover looks like an advertisement for condoms rather than a shooter. I have seen the box art and assorted screenshots of this game for…
Space Harrier (NES)
Developer: AM2 Publisher: Takara Release: 01/06/89 Genre: Rail Shooter I found it strange growing up to see black cartridges of Sega arcade games for the NES. I will admit there was something pretty cool about playing the “other” guys games on your platform of choice. Alien Syndrome is pretty good and Fantasy Zone was decent. It was not all gravy however; the less said about Shinobi the…
Cliffhanger
Developer: Malibu Interactive Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Release: 10/93 Genre: Beat em up Acclaim were the main arbiters of bad licensed video games but trust me they were not the only ones. Activision, THQ, and Hi-Tech Expressions were right behind them shitting up store shelves with some of the worst games on the planet. Sony Imagesoft’s lineup oddly enough was a mix of good licenses…
Marble Madness (Genesis)
Developer: Atari Publisher: Electronic Arts Release: 08/91 Genre: Puzzle Marble Madness was a ground breaking game when it released in 1984. With its unique perspective and controls everyone who saw it had to try it at least once. And as with any popular arcade game it was ported to a wide variety of systems, some that could handle it and many that could not. I do not think it is a stretch…
The Last Starfighter
Developer: Graftgold Publisher: Mindscape Release: 06/90 Genre: Shooter The Last Starfighter is a movie I am sure I saw at some point in my youth. But for the life of me I remember absolutely nothing about it. On its face it is everything a kid in the 80s dreamed of: a teenager who is good at video games is recruited by aliens to fight in an interstellar war after achieving a high score…