Retro Gaming Australia

Kabuki Warriors is a fighting game which launched alongside the original Xbox in North America and is considered to be one of the all-time worst video games. To put it into perspective, Kabuki Warriors was the first game to ever score a 1/10 in Edge, a score which has only been awarded once more in the 11 years since.

From the bowels of the “Mascots with attitude” back catalogue comes Bubsy the Bobcat, Accolade’s big hope of the early 1990s. Bubsy’s first game Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind was a modest hit, but the underlying game just doesn’t cut it when compared to contemporaries such as Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Gradius: The Interstellar Assault (or Nemesis II: Return of the Hero) is the second Gradius game for the Game Boy. It may well be the only Gradius game that doesn’t have Moai heads. A colour version of the game can be found on Konami GB Collection Volume 3 for Japan and Volume 4 for Europe.

Mortal Kombat Gold is an upgraded port of Mortal Kombat 4 which launched alongside the Dreamcast in North America and PAL territories. The game brings back several popular MK characters that were missing from the vanilla release of 4 such as Baraka, Kitana, Cyrax and Kung Lao. However, the game was well and truly overlooked upon release due to the stellar debut of Soul Calibur on the same day.

Sydney 2000 is the official video game of the Games of the XXVII Olympiad. Like just about every other athletics game in existence, Sydney 2000 is a controller-destroying button masher with about 20 minutes of interesting content.

WCW/nWo Revenge is one of the best multiplayer games on the Nintendo 64, even though it was superceded by two sequels. It has the dubious honour of being the last good product to bear the WCW name, as everything else WCW touched after 1998 was complete shit.

Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey ’98 is an update of the popular Midway-developed hockey game, but unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to add a lot to the formula.

WWF In Your House is what happens when you mix the WWF and over the top fighting games. WWF In Your House a sequel to WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game, but was developed by long time WWF game developer Sculptured Software and published by Acclaim – Midway was not involved at all.

Desert Strike was a huge hit on the Mega Drive which resulted in EA taking it to every format under the sun. Gremlin Interactive published the PC version of Desert Strike, which was actually pretty lousy compared to the Mega Drive version.

T-MEK is an arcade tank game with a pretty elaborate cabinet setup. Unfortunately, the cabinet was most of the appeal of the game, as those who purchased the home versions of T-MEK found out. Then again, if you bought the 32X version of T-MEK, you’re sitting on a goldmine.