After a week’s respite, the Arcade Archives continue with Super Basketball, a 1984 Konami game with surprisingly good graphics (but average sound). This is a two-player turn-based game, so you don’t get to compete directly with anyone else. Of course, thanks to the Arcade Archives’ quality of life improvements, thereRead More →

Snatcher on the Segca Mega CD

Recalling Snatcher, the memorable Mega CD point-and-click advenure from 1994, itself an update of the earlier MSX 2 title. A point-and-click adventure. Of all the genres bleating at the margins, I always found this one to be at the furthest reaches of my understanding. Just pointing and clicking and thenRead More →

Another day, another abandoned game resurfaces. Cancelled back in 2000, Castlevania: Resurrection for Sega Dreamcast is a 3D platformer that originally introduced Victor Belmont into the series. It also features usual heroine Sonia Belmont. Considered lost forever, Castlevania: Resurrection was eventually replaced in the series by Castlevania: Circle of theRead More →