Thought this looked cool but was otherwise unremarkable. Outdone by the sequel.

Bad. Move on.

More Kunio-kun that I cannot abide.

Has that high-quality Irem look but I remember it feeling really slow.

This Legend has been entirely forgotten by me.

The kind of FMV game I do not like.

The first cutscene was taking too long to load so I skipped it, and then the second cutscene loaded straight away and I was like oh, this is a porn game isn't it. Well, they made a pretty okay shmup when they probably could have gotten away with a lot less effort, so well done!

Bad. It's not worth it.

These polygonal entries don't ever really seem to have the oomph of their 2D counterparts, but it's still a good game and I had a big smile on my face when the one boss shifts into TFIV player form and Lightning Strikes Again starts playing.

Every ship just being a flying gun is incredible, but I didn't much like it beyond that, partner.

A cool idea, little puzzle game FPS. You could do worse for a free game.

Forgot I played this. Not very good.

Kudos for being weird but it's not particularly good.

Horrendous. Avoid.

More Gunvolt Burst. It's still easy, still fine to zip through if you have 20 minutes.

Don't remember much, other than it being pretty bland outside of the player character being a kabuki guy, which is cool and more games should do.

Not really a great shmup but the biggest love letter to super robot shows there ever was. This is a 2D horizontal shmup that comes on four discs because of the amount of video and music shoved in to make this as much a super robot anime as is possible. Nice!

It's fine. I don't like that title though.

I think this is the one where you can possess enemies? Not great but an interesting attempt.

It's Renegade again, so it's not really very good, but the Tim Follin soundtrack is hot fire.

Thought this might be cool but as soon as I saw the battle system I nope'd straight out. Not in the market for turn-based beatemups, sorry.

I'm not really sure who this is for.

Not good. I think the only notable thing about this to me is that Grifter isn't in it. Is he not this comic's only popular character?

Understandably similar to the sequel. Love that box art.

Backloggd tells me that I played this, so I must have. I must have!

When you're sufficiently powered up in this one, anything flying up close behind you gets annihilated by engine wash. I think more shmups should do this.

Weird not-very-good game that feels like it's some in-joke I'm not getting between steamers or something.

I've played all of 10 minutes of this so far, can't say anything.

Fairly standard beatemup but the Conan aesthetic is very strong here. Has that one great track that's in Taiko as well.

Played this for the first time after having it installed on like three separate PCs at this point. I'm not far enough in to say much about it.

Mechanically fine but the style just isn't my thing.

Not really that great but not terrible. Whenever Banpresto strays away from SRW into other genres it always seems to just be not quite as good as you want it to be.

The huge sprites and zooming and the cut-ins are all cool for the time but I don't remember it being very hot to play. Arabian Magic kind of wiped most of my memories of this away.

Another one where I think it's conceptually really cool but doesn't quite live up to it in play. Maybe I'll give it another shot at some point.

I'd probably be interested in checking out some of the later Gradius games, but this one didn't do much for me.

Sadly nowhere near as good as the original Revenge.

Played this after watching the absolute garbo movie. Not particularly good, not sure why you'd want to play it over any of the more famous PS2 racing games outside of being a really big Stallone fan.

Interesting in that it's an unlicensed game but otherwise not much going on here. I've just noticed the title font on here is in SSF4 Abuket font, fuck me. I thought we'd escaped that.

The bad kind of FMV game and also barely functional. The cheek of them to act like this is some unearthed classic of the genre.

Never let something like a license stop you from making the Gundam game you want. This is pretty cool but it's also a shooter where you're bumped back to a checkpoint whenever you die, which is infuriating when you're as bad as me.

I remember this being fairly basic but fun. A lot of these PC-Engine games have good music that is totally overpowered by loud, bad SFX.

The kind of TV show adaptation game we deserve more of - missions are presented like episodes of the show, you get the little title stings, the eyecatches, all of it (The Space Sheriff Spirits is also very good for this stuff). Gameplay-wise it's an otherwise unremarkable TPS but if you like VOTOMs you will probably get a kick out this for a while. You skate about, it does the noise. Mission accomplished.

Another Three Kingdoms one. That's all I've got.

An Elvis impersonator as a playable character is real nice but this game is otherwise not very good.

Just looked and felt low-rent, like a Flash game you would have played in the early 2000s. The whole ancient warriors fuck yeah thing isn't really for me either.

A Simple Series game, and boy, does it show. There's a character that's clearly just supposed to be Tetsuya Watari though, and that's good.

Don't remember anything about it, but I didn't finish it so I must not have liked it, which is disappointing for a game called Karate Blazers.

This is a Troll game. As in the little pencil toppers with the hair. That's all I remember about it.

Probably wouldn't have played this if it wasn't attached to an Amemiya movie. Very frustrating at points!

Obviously very funny to look at but it plays like ass.

The up/down/middle system of blocking and attacking is interesting enough for the time I guess, but this is too jank to really be fun.

Very weird e-mail themed shmup? Not really that great but worth a look for the unique theme.

Another forgotten Legend.

The essence of the arcade game. You're on a hoverboard, you punch stuff. It's good.

Weird. In order to jump across gaps, climb ladders, etc. you have to stand on little X marks and watch the animation play out like it's a film set or something. Pretty janky.

This, D.D. Crew and DJ Boy form an unholy triumvirate of terror.

Pretty standard shmup but with all kinds of weird cyberspace environments and enemies, it's really cool. The cutscenes where the main character enters cyberspace are the good stuff. The final boss of this game is Cyber-Hitler's skull, which has skeletal spider legs.

What came out in the West as Shatterhand. Movement is a bit weird but you punch everything, including bullets, and that is cool. Good music too!

A game you need a pencil and paper for. Or a pen. Just something that writes, really.

Looks and sounds pretty good but is just doodoo otherwise. It's embarrassing that stuff like this was getting released by this stage.

Why does THIS game look like this? Who put THEM up to it?

Not much to say about this one beyond flying cars being cool.

Gave up on this pretty quickly, just not very good.

You walk along a perfectly straight level and then you fight a boss. Way too long for how simplistic it is, but you do have way more moves than I would expect.

This has about as much relation to actual Double Dragon as the movie does. Total slop, don't even think about it.

Memory not found. I'll take your word for it.

Looks great, plays bad. Tale as old as time.

Not good!

Not ringing many bells. I think it was another digitised one?

I finished this one but am totally blanking on anything about it.

Not much to say about this. Not good.

Only got this partly working from what I remember. Whatever, it's Renegade, I didn't care.

Ultraman shmup where you play as a ship from one of the many Science Patrols, which makes sense. It has all the Ultra fanservice you could want but it's not very good beyond that.

I think the C64 might not be the best system for this genre.

Intensely ugly game.

I do not remember a single thing about this game.

Licensed game for an instant noodles brand. I would like this to be good but it's extremely basic.

Did not feel good at all to control, so I dropped it pretty early on.

A brawler that has a pretty extensive movelist for a two-button controller, but sadly this doesn't stop it being janky and dull.

This was utter guff and there was no reason for me to finish it, but here we are.

Another clunky SNES brawler. I remember being completely incensed that this has an obvious Metal Heroes ripoff name but does not share anything of the supreme Metal Heroes aesthetic.

Can't really remember it, just know I didn't finish it.

Well, this is no good. Solid remix of the main theme though.

Extremely short game apparently made for a game dev contest? Well, it's cool anyway!

Nothing like the PS2 game, but a lot like a whole bunch of garbage beatemups. Don't bother with it.

Another one I don't remember anything of. Sorry!

It's cool that an SD Go Nagai World game exists but that's all I can really say.

Got nothing. Gone.

Think this is the one that's really zoomed out and a lot the environment is destructible? Cool concept but it didn't feel very good to play.

Don't remember much of this beyond there being some long button combinations you had to do for specific sections.

Interesting idea, but that's all.

Not great. Interesting for its setting, I guess.

All I remember is that it was a mech game. I finished it, so it must have been decent!

For no reason I can discern the song It Came From Japan by the Von Bondies popped into my head, and I had to remember why I even know that song, and I remembered it's because it was in this game so I had to go play it. THPS it is not.

If I had a list of games I desperately wish would get translated, this is on it. An endearingly silly love letter to tokusatsu hero shows. When you create your hero you enter their name and it comes up as a big logo! Anything you put in! Wow!

A throwback to Renegade, so not something I really want to bother with.

Digitised guff.

Pretty bad, but I at least appreciate any game that has Hiroshi Hase in it.

Uses the Her Story framework to show us FMVs of I assume the developers and their mates filming in their grandparents' clothes. The video is endearingly amateurish but the actual playing had me eventually just getting lucky with random keywords more than following the threads to their conclusion. Maybe it's easier in French.

I think the release of this I played might have had a different title but that's the only thing I recall of it.