Retro Gaming Australia

Air Combat is the first game in what came to be known as the Ace Combat series. It’s a bit rougher than its successors, and certainly more arcadey – given that it was an arcade game first!

Quantum Redshift was basically Microsoft’s attempt at taking on F-Zero and Wipeout. It’s pretty consistent in quality with the rest of Microsoft’s early non-Halo first party Xbox efforts.

Rampage is one of Midway’s best arcade games from the late 1980s. Its popularity resulted in it being a hot license when it came to producing home versions, which is why it’s on every console and computer format of the era. This particular ad is for the Atari 7800 version, which is not very good.

Three Dirty Dwarves is a game from Sega’s short lived SegaSoft division, a part of the company which developed original software for the PC and Saturn. It’s a pretty decent beat ’em up that tends to be overlooked.

Donkey Kong Land is basically what happened when Rare and Nintendo dragged Donkey Kong Country kicking and screaming onto the Game Boy. The first game features an entirely original set of levels, while the second and third games are more closely based on their SNES equivalents.

Thunder Blade was one of Sega’s early arcade ports. The game itself isn’t that good, but this ad is some freaky shit.

Silent Hill 2 is arguably the highlight of Konami’s psychological horror series. While the PC version wasn’t quite as well received as the PlayStation 2 version, it is miles ahead in quality of the recent HD Collection.

Yoshi’s Story is a game that is often unfairly criticised – while a good game on its own merits, it had the misfortune of being the sequel to Yoshi’s Island, one of Nintendo’s greatest platforming efforts.

Breath of Fire is the first in a series of five RPGs developed and published by Capcom. Players take control of a boy named Ryu, the last of a race who have the ability to transform into dragons. The difference in the way the characters are presented in the promotional material and packaging in comparison to the game should provide for some amusement.

Wolfenstein 3D for the Super Nintendo is often used as an example of Nintendo of America’s hardline approach to censorship in the early 1990s. All signs of blood and Nazi symbolism were removed, the attack dogs were changed into mutant rats, and Hitler’s moustache was neatly excised from his portrait. The port itself isn’t that bad, but few felt the need to play a hacked up version of the game.