Tag Archives: Compilation

If you have the cash, the EGRET II mini offers four times as many Taito memories, with a tighter focus on the seminal ones. But for collectors on a budget, Taito Milestones bundles the company’s ...

NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1 bundles ten of the retro portable’s titles. While the portability of the Switch offered a pleasing recreation of the original experiences, the proliferation of devices like the GPD Win 3 ...

The latest entry in SEGA’s Super Money Ball franchise celebrates the series twentieth anniversary, offering a greatest hits-style retrospective of rolling action. While the game’s encyclopedic approach is welcome, this party just isn’t quite as ...

Space Invaders Invincible Collection mostly lives up to the title, offering ten of the franchise’s most prominent entries, along with some underappreciated Taito gems. 32 years later, it’s all too easy to overlook Tomohiro Nishikado’s ...

NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1 bundles ten of the retro portable’s titles. While six have been available via a piecemeal approach, four others make their debut, creating a bit of a dilemma for those who ...

Hammerwatch: Heroic Bundle delivers two fiendishly fun twin-stick dungeon crawls for a frugal price. Hammerwatch Cooperative gaming is commonplace, thanks to games like 1985’s Gauntlet. Both the Atari arcade game and many of its home ...

Collectors might call them rarities, less fervent fans might call them filler, but there’s a bit of redundancy and at least one series omission in Taito’s latest compilation. But that shouldn’t stop shooter supporters from ...

Each of the two volumes of Namco Museum Archives offers a mix of arcade, NES-exclusive, and an original eight-bit ‘demake’. Many of the games are still great, but the museum’s interiors are a bit too ...

For many, SNK is probably best known for Neo Geo-based franchises like Metal Slug, Samurai Shodown, The King of Fighters, Art of Fighting, and Fatal Fury. But the company has a rich history that began ...

The Birth of a Giant The Atari VCS wasn’t the first cartridge-based console, but it undoubtedly popularized home gaming across the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the system’s miraculous fifteen-year life span, it sold ...