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Developer: ExidyRelease Year: 1989Genre: Light Gun ShooterExidy became known throughout the late 1980's through their various light gun shooters. Although they all have very similar play, there is still a different experience to be had with each. As was the case when I tried Cheyenne...I now officially hate that game. I don't feel like explaining why.So, what is the case concerning this "who

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Oops! I didn't make a full week of posts in my week of coming back! I guess I'm still a little bit busy, getting used to college, but now I do believe that I'll be able to fit into my schedule writing these game reviews/descriptions. These reviews do take up a good amount of time, but said time has been getting less and less as I more quickly recognize the various aspects of each game. Oh, and I

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Developer: TecmoRelease Year: 1989Genre: Beat 'em UpSometimes, you're able to tell that a game is terrible just from a minute or two of playing it. You may try it for a little while after that, but no time will improve the title. Of course, as you might expect, Wild Fang (released in the U.S. as Tecmo Knight) is just like that.In a way similar to many beat 'em ups, Wild Fang only gives the story

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Developer: TaitoRelease Year: 1982Genre: action / shooterTaito is definitely most known for their pioneer game and what is the base of possibly the largest genre of the golden arcade age: Space Invaders. Of course, they made many other games after that hit, and most of them are still quite fun today. However, I'm really don't know whether to say Wild Western is like this.As could be guessed by

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Developer: Capcom/Lucasarts (mostly Capcom)Release Year: 1989Genre: action / platformerI probably don't have to explain to anyone reading this that games based on movies are usually terrible. However, there are some times where movies games can actually be good. Thankfully, Willow swings this way.Now, I've never seen this movie before, but from what I've gathered through this game and Wikipedia,

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I'm sorry for you all, and I'm sorry for myself, but I need another week to get this started up again. I didn't think college would be so hard to get used to when you are first starting. However, I do know that I will have a backlog, and I hope to goodness that I'll not have to do something like this for a while.Please forgive me.

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Yeah, I'm going get away from updating this blog for the next two weeks. Don't worry, though, I WILL be back, no matter what. Let me give you the reasons I'm doing this:1. College. I'm currently getting ready for my first year of higher learning, and I have realized that there's a lot of work to do to get ready. Classes start next week, but it's not just that. I'm making sure that my financial

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Well, another week down, this one full of surprises. I ran a day late for each game starting Wednesday, but the reason I didn't write anything that day wasn't my fault. I've been working with kids all week at our church's VBS-like camp, and on that day I was forced to do something else after coming home. Although, that activity was quite fun too.I'm really starting to like contributing to this

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Developer: IremRelease Year: 1984Genre: platformerFirst, we get a game like Dig Dug. Now, we get a game like Donkey Kong. How nice.Wily Tower, well, involves a tower, a tower in which you need to shut off the electricity. At least, that what it seems the game is about. You see, the five (large) floors of the tower have many switches that need to be turned off on the way to the top and before

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Developer: NichibutsuRelease Year: 1982Genre: action / mazeI wonder how many games there are that star household appliances? Well, as of the moment, I can only think of one, and that is this game. Believe it or not, you control a vacuum cleaner that can shoot out bubbles and quacks like a duck. What is up with that?This game is described best as a Dig Dug clone. See, your vacuum, along with your

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Developer: Seibu Kiahatsu Inc. (some with Taito license)Release Year: 1985Genre: action / platformerI'm quite good at tolerating games that aren't so great. I have liked several games that the mass majority of people have criticized. However, there's just times where a game is bad in a way that only frustrates you. That's Wiz for you.Alright, so the point of this game is to lead the wizard (who

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Developer: Mylstar (Gottelib)(Not) Release Year: 1984Genre: tube / arena shooterHey look, it's yet another prototype. This one is pretty much complete, so I think we are able to experience fully what the developers intended. Oh, and this time, I believe the game SHOULD have been released.I'd say that a good amount of the audience reading this has played Tempest. The same group has also probably

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Developer: MidwayRelease Year: 1980Genre: arena shooter (maze)It might be just me, but the main feeling that Wizard of Wor gives me is that it is "different," mostly in relation to other arcade games, both of its day and after. It also compels me to write this review in another way than the usual: rather than just go through the gameplay, I would like to explain what exactly makes this game "

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This week was pulled off somewhat bad, in my opinion. See, every single one of the reviews for the week was finished a day after they were supposed to. However, I am happy that I at least finished five reviews. I'm still working on getting this done more consistently, and hopefully the habit will pick up very soon.Anyway, on to the wrapup:Monday: You usually don't go shopping in shooters, but

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(There's no title screen for this game, so I only need one picture here.)Developer: AtariRelease Year: 1978Genre: action / shooterOh, wow, this game is really old. As old as Space Invaders, in fact. Of course, it was never actually released. I'm not sure if this game was even close to being finished, because in the state it's in Wolf Pack is very boring.Wolf Pack puts you at the periscope of a

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Developer: WestoneRelease Year: 1988Genre: horizontal shooter / platformerYou wouldn't think a developer would change the core gameplay of their series three times in three games, right? Well, that's just what the guys over at Westone did, making Wonder Boy III much different than the predecessors. In fact, it's probably the most unique game out of all of them.Wonder Boy III features another main

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Developer: Westone (formerly Escape)Release Year: 1987Genre: platformerThis game put me in a peculiar situation on whether to review it or not. See, at first I thought this game was released into US arcades, but thanks to the ever-useful Hardcore Gaming 101 (no, I'm not trying to plug the site) I found out that this was not true. However, for some reason the Master System port of this game WAS

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Developer: Escape (published by Sega)Release Year: 1986Genre: PlatformerToday, I have something different to give you. Instead of writing about the game in text, I have made a video review of the game. It's something different, and I'm thinking of doing it more than once in this blog. Hope you like it! Oh, and if you do, you might want to check my other videos out as well. That is, if you didn't

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Developer: Data EastRelease Year: 1987Genre: vertical shooterI had a choice on what to do for today's game: Wonder Momo or Wonder Planet. I really didn't want to review a Japanese-only game, and I knew Wonder Momo was released only in Japan, so I went with Wonder Planet. Also, I have heard of Wonder Momo, but not Wonder Planet, and I'd rather play games I've never played before when it comes to

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As you may be able to tell, I only have four games reviewed for this week. This is because I really haven't been feeling that well since Friday, and of course I STILL haven't made a backlog of reviews for time like this. However, this extra time does give me a chance to look a little bit more into the next game to be reviewed. I have started the review for it, but I'm afraid it's not ready, and I

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Developer: Amenip (Palcom Queen River)Release Year: 1981Genre: PlatformerWith the title of this game, I was hoping the hero you play as would be a woodpecker. Have you ever even heard of a woodpecker video game star before? I haven't. Sadly, I still don't, for the hero of this game is a mouse, an animal that HAS been used before. Instead, the evil villain is the woodpecker, so I guess the game is

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Developer: Arcadia SystemsRelease Date: 1987Genre: sports / dartsHey look, it's another game for the Arcadia system. Not only that, but it's just the game I would just LOVE to virtually play: darts!World Darts puts you into an eight-participant tournament to determine who is the best at the game of darts. The rule set used in the game is 501. For those that have not really played darts, in a game

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Developer: TaitoRelease Year: 1989Genre: racingHey look, it's a racing game! Racing is probably my favorite genre of gaming, so I'm always happy to try a new racer out, even if it might just be bad. What makes me curious about this title is that's it's from Taito. I only know of two other racers by Taito: Grand Champion, which is like Monaco GP, and Continental Circus, which is like Pole

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Developer: The Bitmap BrothersRelease Year: 1987 (1988 for arcade)Genre: Vertical ShooterThere is a good reason for me to NOT review this game, and that's that this is just an Amiga game. You see, the Arcadia system (developed by Arcadia Systems), is a similar concept to Nintendo's VS. Series, where they released NES games as arcade games. Just replace "NES" with "Amiga" and "Nintendo" with "

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Honestly, this week was very depressing. Although I had a little fun with two of the titles for the week, nothing really caught my eye. Of course, all the games were also sports games, which made the job a little worse for me. I feel like degrading every game of this week through the Wrapup, so here it goes:Monday: If you get pummeled in WWF Superstars, you won't be getting back up.Tuesday:

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Developer: CinematronicsRelease Year: 1985Genre: sports / baseballWhile I have never really been into wrestling, I can understand the appeal of the "sport." Soccer is, at least in my opinion, a fun game to play both in reality and virtually. But then, there's baseball, which to me is the most boring sport ever created. Watching it does not deliver much action, and trying to play it means sitting

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Developer: Leland Corp.Release Year: 1990Genre: sports / soccerThis soccer game is definitely more interesting than the last, and I'll be showing you how. Other than this, I don't have a neat introduction for you today.To start up this game, you need to put in a little personal info about yourself: your initials and your birthdate (which only goes up to 1984!), just like in Leland's more

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Developer: Melbourne House / NovotradeRelease Year: 1989Genre: sports / soccerWe've had quite a few bad games so far here on Mame A Day. But, honestly, I don't think any of them compare to this atrocity. Let me explain.World Trophy (not Cup) Soccer is, well, a soccer game. You start out by picking a country to play as. You only have four choices, all of which are European teams. Even then,

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Developer: SegaRelease Year: 1989Genre: fighting / wrestlingAt the end of my last review, I mention that there must be good wrestling games out there. Well, this one is not one of them. In fact, it's quite bad!This time around, you're part of a fictional league, and your character is a generic guy with blue pants. You have to fight several opponents until you get to the final boss, Titan Morgan.

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Developer: TechnosRelease Year: 1989Genre: fighting / wrestlingI'd like to note right now that I have pretty much never watched professional wrestling in my life. Thus, I have almost no knowledge of the "sport." Please keep that in mind.I'm just going to hit this one right from inserting a credit and going from there. But before that, I'd like to note that the attract mode for this game is quite

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For the first time, I have actually been able to complete all of the week's reviews on time! I'm quite happy about this, for it shows that I am developing the good habit of posting regularly. Hopefully this tread can continue.Also, thanks to the man that is running it, I have discovered another site that is reviewing MAME games. It's by Frankie1337 and is called Radical Rom Reviews. It's a little

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Developer: TechnosRelease Year: 1986Genre: run and gun / platformer / horizonal shooterWow, what an odd, yet creative, name for a game, at least the first version. I wonder why it was changed for the worse in the U.S. version, and also licensed to Taito.Anyway, there's not much of a plot to this game, but I'm alright with that. Some evil empire took over some planets, and now you're the only guy

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Developer: Bally MidwayRelease Year: 1987Genre: actionHey, look, there's shooting in this game! However, it's not at ships, and it's not upwards, and it's not from a top-down view. Yay!Possibly the first thing one might notice about this game is the fact that the screen is split into three sections, each for a different player. This was quite an innovation at the time (and yes, I do realize

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Developer: Namco (Published by Atari in the US)Release Year: 1982Genre: Vertical ShooterHey look, it's another shooter! However, at least this one is widely known. You know how we've been through many games with a ship that bombs and shoots forward? Well, here's the game that invented that idea!Xevious seems like just another shooter, but there's more to it than usual. For one, the story is

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Developer: Gaelco(Not) Release Year: 1990Genre: PuzzleHey, this game's not a shooter! It's also a prototype, which makes it even more interesting. Or, at least it should. Sadly, by playing the game I see the reason why it was not released.When I first tried the game, I thought it was a variation of Tetris. There were blocks made up of an white outline coming down from the top of the screen, and I

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(Note: I had to scale these screen shots to look correct, because the game uses an odd resolution of 192x512)Developer: UPLRelease Year: 1986Genre: Vertical ShooterYay, another shooter. XX Mission involves a plane sent on an endless voyage to destroy all the air, ground, and aquatic units it can. To do it, the plane is equipped to both shoot forward and bomb down, something that we have already

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Well, I had a little bit of a rough time this week, as seen by the fact that I made a post on Saturday instead of Friday. Ah well, I'll do my best to try to make sure it never happens again.Oh, and over the week, I was able to find the blog I got the idea for this from! It's at http://www.tombstoned.co.uk/words/. However, I now know that this blog is somewhat different than mine. This guy's goal

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Developer: Atari GamesRelease Year: 1987Genre: third person shooter (!)Do you remember the base levels in contra, where you used a forward perspective instead of a side one to destroy locks and enemies? Well, if you took that idea and expanded on it enough to make an entire new game out of it, you may get Xybots.Xybots' story is quite simple: a base on a planet has been overrun by robots (called

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Developer: DooyongRelease Date: 1990 (right on the cutoff!)Genre: PuzzleSorry to everyone for not posting anything yesterday. To make up for it, I'll be posting this review today and also be making another tomorrow. I hope that's all right. I just was quite busy yesterday, and various activities distracted me from reviewing. Thankfully, I have had enough time to at least play this game.Yam Yam (

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Developer: SegaRelease Year: 1983Genre: fixed shooterGames involving WWII shooters are numerous today, but even back in the Golden Age some games depicted those battles, albeit with less realism. Probably the most well known is 1942, which was quite a good game. Pretty much unknown is this game, Yamato...and it's really bad.For once, you actually get to be (I guess) the bad guys. You take control

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Developer: KonamiRelease Year: 1985Genre: FightingNow we're into the "Y" games, of which there are only three. The first, Yie Ar Kung Fu, is of a genre I usually don't like: fighting. However, after trying this game for a while I don't think of as being terrible. It's not great, but it's not bad.Anyway, in this game you take on the role of Oolong, who has to fight a lot of people to...um...win a

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Developer: Midway / BallyRelease Date: 1984Genre: action adventure / platformI'm not sure if this is true, but some of you may have noticed that I skipped Zwackery near the beginning of my blogging. This was because I thought I wouldn't be able to set up the controls correctly, but I found a way using both my mouse and keyboard. Thus, I'm going back to take a look at this game.The only real

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Wow, I've made it through my first full week of the blog. It's been tough to get myself to write every day, and I have already messed up once (Friday's entry was posted today), but I know that if I keep it up I'll form a habit out of it. I've already discovered a few new games, even good ones, and know that there's much more to explore. I also like showing you, the reader, what is good and

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Developer: Data EastRelease Date: 1984Genre: vertical shooterTime for another vertical shooter. However, it's not just in the air...In Zaviga you control a vehicle that has two modes of transportation: air and land.It can transform from plane to tank at a push of a button, although there's a delay indicated by the altitude meter. The tank moves slower than the plane, but the plane carries more

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Developer: SegaRelease Date: 1982Genre: Isometric ShooterZaxxon is a well-known game that a person basically either likes or hates. I'm one of the latter, and even when I tried it long ago as a kid I didn't like it.Zaxxon was definitely an innovative game. As far as I know, it was the first isometric shooter. Most shooters before Zaxxon played top down and only allowed the starring ship to move

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Developer: SegaRelease Year: 1982Genre: multidirectional / arena shooterEvery game so far seems to be a first in some way when it comes to my reviewing. This one has several: it's the first vector-based game I've looked at, and it's also the first made by Sega. I've never heard of it before, so when I first put a credit in, I jumped a little when I saw this:Apparently, various huge faces have

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Developer: ToaplanRelease Year: 1989Genre: Horizontal shooterToday, I had to skip a game I didn't want to skip, called Zeroize. When I tried to play this game that I've never heard of before, the graphics ended up becoming garbage.However, this does not mean that I am not ready for a review. Today, we are looking at one very well known game. Sadly, it's for the wrong reason. Zero Wing became very

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Developer: Data EastRelease Date: 1982Genre: Vertical ShooterThis review is going to be short. In fact, I'm pretty sure I can sum it up in five words:This game is not fun.Still, I should probably prove that point. Zoar is a vertical shooter that seems to try for innovation, but rather ends up having complicated controls for something very monotonous. The first sign for worrying, however, happens

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Developer: OrcaRelease Date: 1983Genre: vertical / multidirectional shooterI've never heard of this game before, or even the publisher. I'm not even sure that this game was released outside of Japan. I've only found one or two pieces of information for this game, so I'm guessing it wasn't widely released or known. Still, I decided to play it.Zodiack can basically be described as a run-of-the-mill

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Developer: TaitoRelease Year: 1982Genre:: Action / PlatformerSorry I'm a little late here. According to the blog, I published the last entry last Tuesday, although I remember doing it a little later. Sorry about the delay to the 0 people that have read this. I'll try my best to be on schedule from now on.Zoo Keeper is a game I first remember hearing about only recently, when G4 used to rerun the

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Developer: Cinematronics / AMSRelease Year: 1982Genre: Action / Maze(?)(Note: This game is also called Brix, but in MAME the main ROM is Zzyzzyxx while Brix is a clone.)What a strange title, both literally and in the game itself, to start off with. The games stars an eponymous main character, some sort of weird creature that somewhat looks like a frog with only hind legs wearing shoes. Of course,

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Hello there to anyone reading this.You may be wondering what exactly I'm doing here. Well, I remember almost a year ago finding a blog about arcade games in MAME. Someone played and reviewed a game every day, checking out the world record for each and seeing if it was possible for him or her to content it. Sadly, I have been unable to find this blog again.Because of this, I decided to start a

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