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Important Freeon-Leon News

This coming month looks to be a busy one for nerds of my stripe, what with Unicorn Overlord , Princess Peach: Showtime! , a new Contra , and...

Kid Fenris

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Ufouria: Bring Back Freeon-Leon

A look through this site reveals that I enjoy going on and on about minor concerns. Yet I assure you that this entry involves no trivial com...

Kid Fenris

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Vegas Dream, Analyzed

I mentioned my fascination with casino games a while ago. While they’re often cast aside as cheap distractions, many gambling-themed title...

Kid Fenris

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Five Notable Unused Enemies

I don’t hesitate to recommend The Cutting Room Floor for many purposes, from in-depth research to the casual offing of an hour or two. The s...

Kid Fenris

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Final Fantasy VI's Jump Scare

October usually brings up spooky things, but I’ll resist any discussion of Silent Hill, Clock Tower, Siren, Resident Evil, Power Piggs of th...

Kid Fenris

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NES Games We Hated

I try not to buy physical copies of games these days. It’s a promise easily kept thanks to old games being expensive and new games being jus...

Kid Fenris

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My Five Favorite Game Company Logos

Game companies may need a lot of things to survive in the industry, but in my book they need only one thing to be memorable: a good logo.…

Kid Fenris

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Little Things: Archon

I wonder why Archon: The Light and the Dark wasn’t a bigger deal. It was a success on home computers in the mid-1980s, of course, but it…

Kid Fenris

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El Viento Returns, Sorta

El Viento remains one of the most fascinating titles in the Sega Genesis library. Like many early 1990s games heavy on anime style and reso...

Kid Fenris

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Bounty Arms: Going Data West

Uh-oh. I haven’t written about Bounty Arm s in over a year! That’s perhaps understandable, since an unreleased PlayStation action game from ...

Kid Fenris

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Mechanized Attack: The Mystery of Maiko

Anyone who praises the innocence and honesty of children has never heard them discuss video games and invariably lie. This was especially co...

Kid Fenris

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News: Full-Motion-Video Classics Become the Next Great Game Adaptations

(Hollywood, California) No longer the beeps and bloops of Pac-Man, video games are growing up. Cable and streaming services, emboldened by H...

Kid Fenris

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Journey to the Center of Wurm

Those of cynical mindset could deem Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth a messy game, but they’d be wrong. At the very least it’s seve...

Kid Fenris

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Bunny Girls Interrupted

The Playboy bunny girl costume is an unavoidable fixture of sexist pop culture—and a persistent one in video games. Showing women in rabbit ...

Kid Fenris

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Notes for the Gravity Rush Movie

Gravity Rush is getting a movie, if you remember. It was announced four months ago, so that’s plenty of time for us to forget all…

Kid Fenris

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Super Mario Bros. 2: Pity Poor Pidgit

There’s a lot to enjoy in Super Mario Bros. 2. It took all things Mario from a revolutionary but straightforward action game to an endearing...

Kid Fenris

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Phantasy Star IV Disarmed

It recently came to light that Rieko “Phoenix Rie” Kodama passed away in May of this year. Kodama was a pioneer among women in the game indu...

Kid Fenris

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The Mystery of The Missing My Little Pony Music

I am always intrigued by deleted scenes, especially when they’re possibly lost to time. It ties into my fascination with unreleased media in...

Kid Fenris

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Old Games and New Questions

There I was the other night, playing Eco Fighter s on the new Capcom Arcade 2 nd Stadium collection. Eco Fighters is a creative and unfair...

Kid Fenris

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Journey Into Darkstalkers

I usually can tell immediately when I’ll like a game. It may take a little while to fully seep into place, but even then there's something t...

Kid Fenris

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Video Game Rental Stickers Tour: Part 2

I discussed my fascination with rental stickers a while ago, and I haven’t let go of it. As physical media grows scarcer and the last remain...

Kid Fenris

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Unlimited Continues and Limited Enjoyment

Cotton Fantasy arrived this month. It’s a cute, colorful, charming little shooter in all respects, and I said as much in my full review . I...

Kid Fenris

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Arcade of My Youth: Cap'n Bogey's Golf & Games

A woman knocked on our door one summer evening in 1992. She was circulating a petition against the planned construction of a huge arcade and...

Kid Fenris

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Valkyrie Elysium: The First Profile

Gosh, I really wish someone would make another Valkyrie Profile game. It's been over a year since Valkyrie Anatomia shut down, and that wa...

Kid Fenris

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Bounty Arms: The Hermie Hopperhead Connection

So what's new with Bounty Arms ? Nothing major, as you might expect when it comes to a PlayStation action game canceled back in 1995. Howeve...

Kid Fenris

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Little Things: Quarter Back Scramble

Lately I've grown interested in football games of the NES era, specifically those developed in Japan. At that point football (that'd be Amer...

Kid Fenris

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Clockwork Aquario: Emerging From The Depths

Clockwork Aquario is finally out. It's been a long wait, and I'm not just talking about the 28 years since the game went through some awkwa...

Kid Fenris

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Fuga: Melodies of Steel, Memories of the Middle Ground

Fuga: Melodies of Steel belongs to the endangered species of middleweight video games. Neither a lumbering blockbuster nor a small-scale in...

Kid Fenris

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Happy Gravity Rushoween

Regular visitors to this site might have noticed certain subtle hints that I like the Gravity Rush games. How much do I like them? Well, I ...

Kid Fenris

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A Dino Land Discovery

My last entry sunk deep into the history of Dino Land , a middleweight pinball-video game from Telenet Japan and Wolfteam. While it had li...

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Dino Land: Token Prehistoric Pinball

Telenet Japan has a good reputation if you know where to look. Aided by developer Wolfteam and its American publishing arm Renovation, Telen...

Kid Fenris

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Unsung Game Creators: Takeru, Part 2

The second half of Unsung Game Creators’ Takeru feature is now up! While the first part was modestly hopeful in chronicling the developer’s ...

Kid Fenris

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Metal Warriors: A Clinking, Clanking, Clandestine Classic

Metal Warriors walked a difficult path. Fresh off the cult favorite Zombies Ate My Neighbors , developers Dean Sharpe and Mike Ebert conceiv...

Kid Fenris

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Dynamite Düx and the Lost Sega Mascot

The history of Sega mascots is rather short for a company with such a voluminous catalog. Sega’s first attempts at company spokes-things app...

Kid Fenris

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Little Things: Totally Rad

  If anyone tells you that story doesn’t matter to a video game, you’ll find the perfect counterargument in an NES side-scroller called Tota...

Kid Fenris

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Might Have Been: World Beach Volley

[Might Have Been tracks the failures of promising games, characters, and companies. This installment looks at World Beach Volley , released ...

Kid Fenris

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Lufia and the Fortress of Doom's Grand Opening

I did not own Lufia and the Fortress of Doom as a kid, but my cousins did. Each summer they’d bring it along when the family gathered…

Kid Fenris

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Lost Anime: Metal Hazard Mugen

The anime industry was in chaos around 2007.  American publishers were ailing after years of releasing too many mediocre series in outdated ...

Kid Fenris

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Review: GG Aleste 3

Compile’s Aleste series stayed silent for much too long. It includes some of the best shooters ever made, but it drifted away in the 1990s t...

Kid Fenris

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Unsung Game Creators: Takeru

Well, this wasn’t the best year for Kid Fenris Dot Com. Besides the same obvious reasons that 2020 sucked for so many people, the site’s hos...

Kid Fenris

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Jaws: An NES Revenge Revisited

Last month I discussed and possibly even lionized Clockwork Aquario , the adorable arcade action game resurrected over two decades after We...

Kid Fenris

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The Return of Clockwork Aquario

When it came to unreleased video games, Clockwork Aquario was a relentless, blatant, and downright sadistic tease. It went through arcade l...

Kid Fenris

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Introducing Unsung Game Creators

I always like unearthing obscure things here. I don’t think I’m trying to show off to anyone; that would require this site to have readers. ...

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Valkyrie Anatomia: A Post-Mortem

Valkyrie Profile sequels have terrible luck. Consider Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmer ia, an inventive RPG promptly overshadowed by bigger RPG na...

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In Defense of NES Strider

One truly lost element of the game industry is the fascinating divide between arcade titles and their console descendants. Prior to the m...

Kid Fenris

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Final Fantasy VII Remake: The Shocking Truth

The recently landed Final Fantasy VII Remake is bold in its lack of scope. Rather than reimagining the whole of the original Final Fantasy ...

Kid Fenris

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Confession: My First Video Game Crush

Who was your first video-game crush? It’s okay to admit that you had one. The self-loathing nerd mindset, popular online some fifteen years ...

Kid Fenris

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Little Things: Casino Kid and Casino Games

I’ve recently come to appreciate casino video games. For a long time I considered them routine, disposable pieces of a game system’s librar...

Kid Fenris

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Overlooked Licenses of the NES Era

Just about anything could become a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System. By the early 1990s the NES dominated the console market, and e...

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Default Game of the Year: Blaster Master Zero II

It’s tradition to spend December summing up your favorite releases of the year, and that leaves me in a bind. This was a very busy year for ...

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