Month: October 2023

  • RoadBlasters (NES)

    RoadBlasters System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: Beam Software Publisher: Mindscape Genre: Driving Looks like another port of an Atari title brought to the NES with RoadBlasters. Your goal is to race through 50 rallies full of other vehicles, shooting gun turrets, and the occasional obstacles. You’re equipped with an unlimited supply of bullets…

  • Twin Cobra (NES)

    Twin Cobra System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: Micronics Publisher: American Sammy Genre: Shoot ‘em Up Oh god… another Micronics game is up, this time it’s Twin Cobra. There isn’t much of a story to this one. You’re piloting the greatest chopper in the world and you have to kill a bunch of bad…

  • Infiltrator (NES)

    Infiltrator System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: Eastridge Technology Publisher: Mindscape Genre: Flight Sim Our next title on the list is Infiltrator. If you’ve been watching my videos, you know the track record of PC games being released on the consoles. Poor. Chalk up another one on that list with Infiltrator. The manual starts…

  • A Boy and His Blob (NES)

    A Boy and His Blob System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: Imagineering Publisher: Absolute Entertainment Genre: Platformer David Crane takes top billing in A Boy and His Blob. There’s trouble on Blobonia and you and your pet blob, Blobert, need to find a way back to defeat the evil emperor. Blobert loves jellybeans and…

  • Top Gun: The Second Mission (NES)

    Top Gun: The Second Mission System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Genre: Flight Sim It’s the 90s, so it’s time for sequels, this time with Top Gun: The Second Mission. Konami let us down with the first game and the second isn’t any better. I’m actually extremely upset that this was…

  • Bases Loaded II: Second Season (NES)

    Bases Loaded II: Second Season System: NES Release Date: January 1990 Developer: TOSE Publisher: Jaleco Genre: Sports When loading up Bases Loaded II: Second Season, I thought this was the first sports game sequel we’ve run into, but then I looked at my list. Track & Field I and II started things out, then Hoops…