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Ninja Gaiden (Arcade) on Virtual Console
Ninja Gaiden has an odd history. Unlike other familiar NES ports such as Contra (from Konami), which took the arcade game and expanded it, Ninja Gaiden is a radically different title on the home console. In fact, the genre isn’t even the same. Instead of a beautifully paced, smooth, and engaging platformer, Ninja Gaiden began life [...]
Continue reading...Week in Arcade: Puzzlegeddon, Alien Breed
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
A two-fer the week before the final shopping days of Christmas, and they’re good ones, making it difficult to hold back if you’re trying to conserve funds for gifts. Alien Breed Episode 1 Team 17’s remake of their obscure Amiga classic is a winner, at least in terms of gameplay. The darkness sets a mood, but also [...]
Continue reading...Tecmo/Koei Merger in Effect with Dynasty Warriors
Saturday, October 10, 2009
File this in the “that was fast” category. The newest version of Dynasty Warriors, titled Multi Raid, will include longtime Tecmo icon Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) who will now take part in the thousand-man skirmishes. He will be exclusive to the PS3 version. Likewise, Koei icons Sun Shang Xiang and Zhao Yun are soon to be [...]
Continue reading...Japanese Game Company Sales Stay in Japan
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
You would think with a flood of Dynasty Warriors games in the US market, that would mean sales are brisk here in the US of A. Not so according to Sony Japan Studios’ VP, Yasuhide Kobayashi. In fact, in the case of Koei, only a meager 8.2% of their sales come from the US. In the [...]
Continue reading...Koei Officially Owns Tecmo
Monday, December 29, 2008
So, say you had $207 million laying around (and really, who doesn’t?). What could you possibly do with that money? What’s that? Buy a major video game company. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, mostly because I just typed it. Aside from that, it turns out someone did have that idea, and that someone [...]
Continue reading...Tecmo Bowl DS Revealed in Screens, Video
Sunday, August 10, 2008
It’s been a while since gamers were able to throw 110 yard passes for a touchdown in video game football. Leave it to Tecmo Bowl to resurrect that style of play. The last time the franchise saw daylight was on the PlayStation in a mess of a game that barely resembled the title gamers know [...]
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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