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A side-scrolling fighting game starring Rick and Allen, two private detectives on a case to retrieve a “Rich Man’s” kidnapped daughter, set in October, 1939. Captured with my shield. source

Ever hear of the arcade game Bal Cube? I stumbled into it accidentally playing with emulators back in the early 2000s. I never actually saw this arcade machine out in the wild. Have you? It’s one of my favorites after Arkanoid. source

Captured with my Nvidia shield. San Drad, California, has been overrun by the Aliens, and the cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa have been abandoned by their superiors and are cornered by a swarm of the Alien drones. Before they can be killed, a pair of the Predators …

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A unique beat em’ up released in the Arcades in 1999. Gaia Crusaders’ story involves the world being destroyed by demons in the year 20XX. Chosen warriors, the Gaia Crusaders, are sent in by an ancient spirit to destroy the demons and rebuild the world. There is a lot of …

My son and I played through this one. It was different that’s for sure. Dyna Gear: An Action Adventure On The Era Of Dinosaur is a 2D arcade platform game. The player can choose from two characters – Roger and Wolf. Gameplay is fast and simple – just run left …

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, released in Japan as Cadillacs Kyouryuu Shinseiki, is a 1993 arcade game by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat ’em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales.  Played by us casually on April 25th 2021. source

Spider-Man: The Video Game is a 1991 arcade video game developed by Sega based on the Marvel Comics comic book character Spider-Man. Played Casually by my son and I. source

Night Slashers was produced by Data East in 1993. Night Slashers is a 1993 side scrolling beat’em up arcade game in a world full of zombies, vampires, and other monsters. Player can choose a hero from 3 characters: Jake White – an American monster hunter with cybernetic arms; Christopher Pal, …

As much as I loved the first two, this game and it’s mechanics were terrible. THEY’RE BACK WITH MORE DOUBLE DRAGON MAGIC! Get the game that kids have been waiting for. It’s the newest adventure in non-stop action as Billy, jimmy and now Sonny travel to distant lands packed with …

Played by my son and I. A beat-em-up role-playing game that allows up to four players to choose one of the following adventurers: players are adventurers: a human fighter, a human Cleric, a female Elf warrior-mage and a Dwarven warrior. They travel from place to place performing heroic deeds and …

A beat’ em-up role-playing game, sequel to Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom, that allows up to four players to choose one of the following characters: an elf-mage/warrior, human-fighter, dwarf-fighter, human-cleric, human thief or a human mage. Shadow over Mystara has many game mechanics not commonly found in arcade games, …

Played by my son and I. METAL SLUG, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where it all began, returns on the Steam gaming platform! Play the original arcade version of METAL SLUG with its charismatic protagonist soldiers Marco & Tarma, maneuver …

General Morden, the antagonist from the first game is back once more with his army, bent on taking over the world. It is up to the Peregrine Falcon squad, who are now joined by two new characters: Eri Kasamoto and Fiolina Germi of the Sparrows Intelligence Unit, to save the …

Played by my son and I. The rebellion orchestrated by General Morden to bring about a new global regime is now ancient history, and order and peace has begun to return to the world. Morden, brought back into power, was attempting another coup d’état, but government forces got wind of …