twentiethcenturygamer    Welcome to , one heck of a strange time to start getting into Game Arts’ Lunar RPG series. This first installment from in particular is considered a quintessential cult classic. It was the second best selling game for Sega’s bit CD peripheral in Japan and went on to inspire no less than...

twentiethcenturygamer    Merry Compilemas Or is it You see, there’s a valid case to be made that ’s GG Aleste, despite being the long awaited continuation of Compile’s flagship shooter series after a tragic year gap, shouldn’t count as a true Compile release. If true, that should make it ineligible for my annual...

twentiethcenturygamer    I can’t emphasize enough how much I treasure the original Legend of Zelda. From the instant I laid hands on it back in , I was captivated. Before then, actually, since that tiny section of metallic gold cartridge gleaming through the window in the box technically made the first impression. I’ve...

twentiethcenturygamer    Oops Looks like someone decided to try deep frying their turkey this year. Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to another in my long line of inexplicable holiday ninja game reviews. Once again, I’m taking time out from the food and festivities to sing the praises of those shadowy assassins of medieval...

twentiethcenturygamer    A couple months back, I covered my first Sega CD game, Konami’s Snatcher. Snatcher is, somewhat infamously, the second most expensive Sega CD game in the North American collector’s market. Well, I figured for my encore, I may as well go even more extreme and tackle the single most expensive release...

twentiethcenturygamer    Japanese computer game development studio FairyTale ended neck deep in hot water. They were fresh off a scandal that began when police were made aware that a minor had purchased a copy of their erotic adventure game Saori: The House of Beautiful Girls. The fallout from this report culminated...

twentiethcenturygamer    After the slow paced, wordy Otogiris, what say we dip into our Halloween treat bag for something altogether lighter and sweeter The once almighty Konami was no stranger to off the wall parodies of their many popular action games. Most famous are their Parodius series of cute’ ’em up shooters,...

twentiethcenturygamer    The grimly glamorous Halloween season has arrived, and you know what that means: Another gathering of ghoulish games to gorge upon This year, I’ll be focusing on three Japanese exclusives that English speakers can now readily enjoy due to the miracle of fan translation. First up is Otogiris ...

twentiethcenturygamer    Back in the old days, game consoles tended to receive mostly exclusive titles, and unless you were the proverbial rich kid, you were usually expected to pick a platform and stick with it. During the height of the and bit console wars, roughly to , I was a hardcore Nintendo loyalist. I...

twentiethcenturygamer    The Ultima series, created by Richard Lord British Garriott, needs precious little introduction. While Dungeons Dragons inspired fantasy roleplaying video games such as Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood’s dnd spread like wildfire across university computer labs throughout the late s, it was...