Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster

It’s no secret that the Ace Combat series technically began with an arcade game, which then inspired the equally exciting PlayStation Air Combat that followed a few years later, its planes painted in eye-catching reds and lilacs.

Gunpey is more than a puzzle game: Much like the Game Boy had Tetris and the Game Gear had Columns, the WonderSwan had this as its flagship thing-matching, object-tidying game.

After running up 1000+ hours on PC alone it almost seems rude to not write a proper article on Larian’s generational masterpiece (marital mishaps aside), even though there must already be a billion articles out there singing its praises.

I remember playing this back when it was new, although all I can truly recall about that experience is it being a real pain in the arse to run and not having a good time with it.

It’s almost inevitable, isn’t it?

When it burst onto the scene in 1984, Hydlide really was like nothing else.

Knot in 3D.

Some Dungeons & Dragons games are complex tactical treasures.

You may have played this under its English name, Robotica, and may also recall the consistently middling to bad reviews it received at the time.

War is bad, but fighter planes are cool.

I love dungeon crawlers.

I haven’t actually checked, but I’m pretty sure there are as many different versions of Tetris as there are stars in the sky by now.

The period between the late ‘90s and the early ‘00s were an uncertain time for legendary RPG developer Falcom.

Gen is an unquestionably good and unfathomably energetic spiky-haired teen who finds himself warped to another world, and soon after this magical event—taken completely in his stride, because how else is a pure-hearted ’90s hero supposed to react—Gen-kais…

First impressions of Zangeki no Reginleiv are… let’s say not great.

Nobody would normally describe armoured vehicles stuffed with bullets as cuddly-cute, but it’s the only honest term for the tanks found within the Enix-published arena fighter Pop’n Tanks.

[I played the original Japanese release for this article, which is a touch different from the later international releases.

Point and click adventure Theropods had me at “dinosaurs”—of course I want to play an adventure game with dinosaurs—but I was also intrigued by its complete lack of not just general dialogue but also any and all text.

I’m sure Capcom’s PSP puzzler Airou de Puzzle will look familiar to some of you; and no, I’m not talking about the adorably stylised felynes borrowed from the pretty much purrfect cat-village experience MonHun Nikki either.

By winter 1996 I’d kind of had enough of Lemmings.

This FromSoftware UMD is an unusual thing.

What’s the best score a game can get?