Tag: Konami

[Review] Tiny Toon Adventures


REVIEW # 00000000 01010001 Hey Buster! I’ve kidnapped Babs Bunny! Tiny Toon Adventures it’s a game that exploited the success of the TV show with the same name. It aired also in italy in the early 90s and I remember watching it everyday before they pulled the plug in favor of Animaniacs (which was fun as…

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[Happy Birthday!] Metal Gear


Hello old games lovers, After Super C, another franchise moved its first steps on the NES 30 years ago. We”re celebrating today the anniversary of Metal Gear, one of the first “stealth” games, relased today in 1988 on the NES. While most of us probably cut their own teeth on Metal Gear Solid on PS1,…

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[Happy Birthday!] Metal Gear


Hello old games lovers, Back in the late 90s when the PlayStation became the most popular console, I remember playing a lot with Metal Gear Solid, a great game that was quite a success back them. What I did not know was that that game was only one of the games of the Metal Gear…

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[Review] Castlevania


REVIEW # 00000000 00111010 My heart says… Despite being one of the most famous franchise of all time, I’m new to the Castlevania universe (shame on me), since I played the first time on my NES  Mini. However I tried to behave like it were 1986 and like I were a young boy playing it for…

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[Happy Birthday!] Contra


Hello old games lovers, Today we celebrate the Arcade release of Contra, by Konami that today turns 30. Contra is a game ported on various platforms and has the peculiarity to have different plots for japanese, north american and european versions. The common trait is that an accident has brough an alien life form on…

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[Coming of Age] Silent Hill


All hail to Silent Hill, that today will turn 18! This survival horror masterpiece follow the path of Resident Evil and, even if hasn’t the same charm, is always one of the best survival game I ever played. The foggy atmosphere (that strangely recalls my town one during the winter) was extremely catchy and it’s…

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[Happy Birthday!] Castlevania


Hello old game lovers, Today, or better on September 26th, 1986 (my flu took over my will of writing) has been released in Japan a game with a strange title, Akuma jō Dracula, widely known in the west as Castlevania, one of the most famous games of all time, first title of a never ending saga…

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[MAME Monday] Track & Field


If you remmber two weeks ago I told you Hyper Sports was the game I broke my fingers onto the most. In the MAME installe in the PC we had in that office there was also another keyboards-crusher game that we usually played A LOT and it was the “father” of Hyper Sports: Track &…

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