Retro Gaming Australia

Like any big name film in the late 80s and early 90s, the Warren Beatty-led incarnation of Dick Tracy received multiple video game incarnations. This ad is for the NES one which is a totally different beast to the Sega published games, focusing more on being a gumshoe than gunning down gangsters.

Tail Concerto is a pretty neat action-adventure released by Atlus in 1999. You play as an anthropomorphised dog who pilots a mech in his struggle against a race of evil cat people. Tail Concerto was not a hit on release, but gradually developed a cult following – enough for a spiritual sequel, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter to be made for the DS.

Dragon Power is a great example of what used to happen to games based on anime licenses in a time before anime was popular in North America. It’s actually an adaptation of the second Dragon Ball game for the Famicom, with Goku replaced by a generic kung fu fighter. In France and Spain, where Dragon Ball was adapted well before it was in North America, Britain and Australia, the game was released intact.