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Retro Game of the Day Archive - June 2023

rbx4 says:
Defender II is the more difficult and complex than its predecessor. This game was also released in systems such as the Atari 2600, but with weaker graphics in that case. The Defender series features a different look and feel from modern shooters, and that is part of its appeal. You control the scrolling ...

User Rating: 4.28/5.00

The Mighty Galvatron says:
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User Rating: 4.74/5.00

Kouta Koikawa says:
Castlevania is a real classic. A game that started a legendary franchise that continues to this day. There's just something really cool about the premise: A lone hero goes against great odds to exert his destiny as a descendant of a family sworn to defeat Dracula whenever he appears. The hero of ...

User Rating: 4.6/5.00

James says:
Get ready for intense tournament battles in this card-battling game that features characters from the Duel Masters animated series. Kaijudo Showdown challenges you to build a fighting deck from 300 Duel Masters cards, which you'll need defeat your enemies. As you duel various opponents, you'll improve ...

User Rating: 4.73/5.00

philonius says:
Think space invaders down psycadellic tunnels. Everything you kill makes you go faster to reach speeds that everything is a blur.

User Rating: 4.72/5.00

RAMSOFT3000/MICRORAM says:
MS-DOS 1.25 is one of the operating systems that was mainly used by rich people, businesses, and schools. This is required, unless you have windows 1.0-ME and not NT,  to play these games. But most of the games require ms-dos 5.0 - 6.22/7.10 to play. So you can look it up on google with the chance ...

User Rating: 4.4/5.00

Sagara says:
The player's objective in Alleyway is to destroy all breakable bricks in each stage using a ball and paddle while keeping the ball from falling into the pit below, similar to that of Breakout, or the famous Arkanoid.

User Rating: 4.68/5.00

Heybooger says:
Dracula: The Resurrection is a new story based on the characters from Bram Stoker's novel.  This a point-and-click adventure game. featuring cinematically complete cutscenes and a haunting musical score.

User Rating: 4.44/5.00

Wikipedia says:
Catrap is a puzzle game. The player manoeuvres the player, an anthropomorphic cat, to navigate a room while clearing obstacles and kicking monsters and ghosts off the screen. Once the player has knocked all of the enemies off the screen, he advances to the next level. Advancement can prove difficult ...

User Rating: 4.64/5.00

DeriLoko2 says:
Kid Icarus, known in Japan as Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami, is an action platform video game for the Famicom Disk System in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System in Europe and North America. The first entry in Nintendo's Kid Icarus series, it was published in Japan in December 1986, and in ...

User Rating: 4.7/5.00

James says:
  Evil Dr. Robotnik™ has invented a machine that turns good folks into rotten robots! In Mobius, the famous home of Sonic The Hedgehog™, village bean folk are being rounded up and thrown into the Doctor's dungeons, there to await their turn in the steamer!

User Rating: 4.59/5.00

xana says:
As a deadly mist called the "miasma" spreads across the land, you must guide a team of characters on a mission to save the world. Get ready to embark on a quest that has you hunting spirits, battling enemies, and ultimately opening the fabled Gate of Eternity. Effectively manage your characters and ...

User Rating: 4.73/5.00

iluspook says:
Smart Ball is a charming platformer that got lost among the crowd of terrific platformers on the Super Nintendo.  It involves moving a blue slime (the titular "smart ball") to the end of each stage in fine platforming fashion. There wasn't a lot to make it stand out from the sea of other platformers, ...

User Rating: 4.8/5.00

RPGnut says:
Mystaria (later released as Blazing Heroes) is a tactical RPG for the Sega Saturn. Yuo start with a small party, and add new members as the game progresses. This game is one of the few that allows all characters to use area attacks, instead of just spell users. There is also a unique defensive system, ...

User Rating: 4.73/5.00

hoyoho says:
Do you have what it takes to save an entire planet? The Rainbow team is once again called on to squelch terrorist operations in this follow-up to the original RAINBOW SIX. A seemingly unrelated series of terrorist acts begins to jell together as the Rainbow team uncovers more and more about the dark ...

User Rating: 4.61/5.00

cH1lla says:
Dragon's Lair... The hardest game ever created. Dragon's Lair for SNES, PC, and the DS are much easier. You start with a fixed amount of lifes, and you lose them extremely fast on the first stage alone! If you're really lucky you'll reach stage two, but I don't know anyone who made it through there! ...

User Rating: 3.74/5.00

DarkFire117 says:
4 Nin Shougi SNES. Category: Board. 4 Nin Shogi is a Miscellaneous game, developed and published by Pow, which was released in Japan in 1995.

User Rating: 3.83/5.00

Bloodblade07 says:
The Adventures of Dr. Fraken. It's a side-scroller with very depressing music. The plot of the game is that you, Dr. Franken, are trying to find your girlfriends body parts are scattered around the mansion. It;s fun to explore the mansion for a while, but after countless times of being in the ...

User Rating: 3.89/5.00

RedFlameFox says:
Metal Slug Complete (released internationally as Metal Slug Anthology) is a collection of the first 6 Metal Slug games of the series (including X). It's a good collection, the only problem is that the games are actually emulated and not ports, so loading times can be a bit annoying.

User Rating: 4.39/5.00

hal-9000 says:
A futuristic baseball game with one and two-player modes. Choose a league, then a team, and play ball at SNK Stadium. This game is good fun between friends, but beware: the CPU can be brutal on single player mode. While playing, you can press button 4 to bring up a menu, which lets you use money gained ...

User Rating: 4.5/5.00

austin94yoshi says:
Othello was a game released in 1993 on the Philips CD-I Produced by Codim Interactive and Published by Philips Interactive Media.

User Rating: 5/5.00

Bloodblade07 says:
Air Fortress is a shooting airplane kind of game, mixed with a side scrolling shooter game. Your guy is Hal. No not from The Space Odyssey. Hal from this game. He's the Space Federation's 'best man'. It's not to bad of a game. There are 8 air fortresses. Each on harder and more puzzling than the other. ...

User Rating: 4.27/5.00

Iamerror says:
A soldier must fight his way out of the jungle. An OK game, but maybe you should try Contra instead.

User Rating: 4.39/5.00

Aspire4535 says:
Stunts is a racing game developed by Broderbund Software. It's about racing with 1 opponent or racing against the clock around the track designed for stunts in mind. The graphics were nothing for nowadays. The graphics were quite good for the time this game released, but for now it's nothing compared ...

User Rating: 4.47/5.00

Dane2711 says:
Accele brid is a 3D shooter. You control a robot that race through a futuristic highway. There are different weapons to pick from. Robots that can transform into attack mode and defence mode. Shoot your way through the course and finish the game.

User Rating: 4.8/5.00

Iamerror says:
A Chinese port of Chrono Trigger for the nes. These games were reconfigured to be played on a nes cart. Chrono Trigger is a RPG about Chrono and his friends traveling through time to defeat Lavos.

User Rating: 4.66/5.00

austin94yoshi says:
Hentai fantasy RPG/Digital Comic MAKER: NEC AVENUE RELEASE DATE: 22 JULY 1994

User Rating: 4.52/5.00

TheGoofDaddy says:
This is a game very similar to Boxy Boy in that you have to push and pull colored orbs onto their resting places. In this game however you must avoid or destroy enemies as well. This is a great game for gamers of any skill level.

User Rating: 4.42/5.00

Mikey7522 says:
You pretty much need this bios if you want to emulate the PC Engine-CD. Especially games like Rondo of Blood which require a higher level CD bios.

User Rating: 4.15/5.00

austin94yoshi says:
Standard one-on-one beat 'em up in the Street Fighter vein, Advanced V.G. features a whole host of cute gals in short skirts. There aren't really any surprises in the gameplay, it also features 2 player versus and a story mode with a lengthy dose of nicely drawn visual scenes. Released July 22, 1994. ...

User Rating: 4.46/5.00