Showing posts with label Run'n'Gun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Run'n'Gun. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2017

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs - Kickstarter Alumni goes for greenlight and imminent release




Back in the '80s there were a plethora of Japanese anime kids TV shows translated for English markets and while there's still one knocking around my head that I can't for the life of me remember the name of, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs comes awfully close in look and feel... or maybe it's because they all did! Back in October '15, there was a successful kickstarter campaign to bring this

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Jail Break - Genre defining Konami shooter fixed for C64s






"Run and gun" games would come a long way in the year or two following the Arcade release of Jail Break by Konami. They would eventually perfect the format 1 year later with the release of Contra in the arcades, and 2 years later saw William's electronics release the excellent Narc, which caught controversy over it's "realistic" digitised sprites and ultra violent theme. However back in