(AfroGamers.com) Koei—now Koei Tecmo following a 2009 merger—was one of those Japanese studios that were very busy during the 1990s. While better known for historical “Musou” slash ‘em ups such as Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, the developer really made its name off of several series of historical games. Some ...
(AfroGamers.com) This year is the 30th Anniversary of one of the greatest and most influential video games of all time and the name of that game is the critically acclaimed 1991 Tecmo Super Bowl for The NES. One of my earliest memories of the game was seeing my older brother ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let’s take a look at another retro title and ask some logical, critical questions about the Donkey Kong franchise. Yes, it’s another trip into stuff that doesn’t make sense with Nintendo! Actually, it made more sense than a lot of the Nintendo and Super Nintendo Super Mario games—once you ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nintendo is a developer/publisher that is known to really protect its franchises. I mean, they protect their franchises to the point that they would ax an anticipated live-action Netflix series for The Legend of Zelda. Nintendo’s Main and Subsidiary Developers Can Be Sluggish They’re also slow to move in ...
(AfroGamers.com) Super Mario Bros 3 ranks in my top five Super Mario games. When I first played it on the original Nintendo Entertainment System, it was like being teleported to another world. That’s an important thing to achieve in any video game. The player shouldn’t feel like they’re playing through ...
(AfroGamers.com) One of my favorite storylines in all of anime is the story of Ken and Ryu from the Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha series. This friendship/rivalry was best told in the anime than the video games. The Core of Ken and Ryu Canonically, Ken always felt that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Mortal Kombat is one of the most iconic game franchises of all time and one of the greatest fight game franchises of all time. It had its pros and cons story mode-wise and that’s what we’ll be getting into here. Not just MK but Street Fighter and King of ...
(AfroGamers.com) In 2016, I was playing a lot of Civilization 5 leading up to the release of the newest game, Civ 6. Of course, I was excited for the game. I have been playing Civ since the back end of the second game. Usually, it is not a game that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Double Dragon is an OG of beat ‘em up games. Developed by Technos, the first game dropped in 1987 and was supposed to be a sequel of the Kunio-kun franchise, one of my favorite beat ‘em up franchises of all time. Four years later, Rare developed Battletoads. Then someone ...
(AfroGamers.com) Roughly three years ago, our own Joe D wrote a tribute to the late Stan Lee in the form of his favorite Marvel games. Number three on that list was a favorite of mine: Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage. Spider-Man and Venom Team Up This game takes the 1993 ...