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Axelay was one of those titles that Sega simply did not have anything to compare. Konami apparently did not have faith in the series either as only the lone Super Nintendo game was released – no sequels like Gradius received. Such a shame because the idea and execution of Axelay was impressive. Surely this dual […]
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Axelay Gives Gamers Both Kinds of Shooters on Super Nintendo – September 14th, 1992 – Today in Video Game History
September 13th, 2016 
Carl Williams Back in the day scrolling shooters were a dime a dozen. To stand out from the crowd you had to have something unique in your shooter. Just being a side or horizontal scroll shooter was not enough anymore. Konami was, at this time, kicking butt with their other games – Castlevania IV, Contra III etc. […]
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Tags: Axelay, konami, mode 7, overhead, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, scrolling, shooter, side scrolling, snes, super nintendo 
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R-Type Deluxe In Development for Atari ST, Trumps Original
June 29th, 2015 Carl Williams The Atari ST, and Commodore Amiga, was quite the arcade to home gaming computer, even though it was trumped by the IBM platform. The 16-Bit computer was capable enough to provide quality ports of popular arcade titles such as R-Type. Now homebrew developers are working on improving on the official port that we received so […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: atari, atari st, Axelay, computer, deluxe, gaming, homebrew, r-type, shooter, side scrolling shooter, thunder force 1 Comment »
New Game- Revolver360 RE:Actor Brings 2D/3D Scrolling Shooting To Modern Gamers
September 17th, 2014 Carl Williams Anyone remember Philosoma on the originaly Playstation? The changing views with each level, the over the top graphics (for the time) were great. Well, Revolver360 RE:Actor has taken that style to a whole new level with a fully 3D game world but played from a 2D perspective. The video below illustrates this take on the […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2.5d, 3d, Axelay, carl williams, pc, Philosoma, Playsim-Games, playstation, psone, retro, retro gaming magazine, Revolver360 RE:Actor, rgm, scrolling shooter, thunder force, windows 2 Comments »
New Game: Twin Tiger Shark for Windows Released
July 29th, 2014 Carl Williams Retro gaming fans probably know the 16-Bit shooter world quite well with titles such as Raiden, Space Megaforce, the Thunder Force series, Axelay and many more. The old saying, they just don’t make them like that anymore comes to mind as I struggle to think of very many recent titles that hearken back to those […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 1941, arcade, Axelay, carl williams, indie retro news, Mikael Tillander, overhead scrolling shooter, raiden, retro, retro gaming magazine, rgm, shooter, Space Megaforce, thunder force, triverse, Twin Tiger Shark 1 Comment »
