Konami’s original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game was a remarkable sight back in 1990. It’s competent as side-scrolling brawlers go...

The history of “professional gamers” is long and frequently hilarious, stretching from the days of high-scoring arcade champions up through ...

[Tape Test covers notable anime available in North America only through old VHS releases. This installment looks at Lily C.A.T. , released b...

The anime industry is not in a good place right now. Animators are still underpaid, studios haven’t scored an international hit in years, an...

Anime studios still value manga artist Masamune Shirow. No matter how much dreadful porn he draws, Shirow nonetheless contributes to all sor...

Satoshi Kon, one of the best directors in the anime field, died yesterday . I really wish this were a prank, but it's not. Kon visited N...

I recently had my Sega Saturn modded. I’m surprised I didn’t do it back in 1998, when anyone with a Saturn was soldering a switch into the c...

There’s a lot that I like about Vice: Project Doom , a late NES action-platformer from Aicom and American Sammy. I like that it mixes its si...

The mid-1990s weren't such a bad time to watch anime. Japanese cartoons didn’t fill an aisle at Best Buy or clog all corners of the Inte...

The Sega Genesis library boasts an estimated 47,000,000 shooters, and Compile’s M.U.S.H.A. is the best of them. It’s visually stunning even...

Irem and Tamtex’s Metal Storm is an often under-appreciated marvel from the NES era. It’s a solidly designed mecha-shooter at its base leve...

There’s a special procedure to follow whenever I mention Darkstalkers . First I have to explain that the series started out as Capcom’s seco...

Is Bio Force Ape the most popular NES game never released? I'd say so. It drifted into obscurity after Seta canceled it in 1991, yet th...

Sony’s Demo Demo PlayStation series is less than a footnote in the system’s history. They’re very similar to the Play Play demo discs that...

[Note: this entry charts a manga author's descent into creepy porn, so it contains images that may offend some workplaces.] Few author...

Cyberbots isn’t my favorite fighting game, but it’s my favorite obscure one. It’s a mid-1990s experiment by Capcom’s talented designers, pa...

In my days at Anime Insider, the magazine occasionally got letters from people trying to identify Japanese cartoons they’d seen long ago. Mo...

[This begins a semi-regular feature that examines anime available in North America only through old VHS releases. The first installment look...

Bounty Arms shouldn’t be anything special. It’s a PlayStation action title from Data West, an obscure software publisher that rarely made a...

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