"Saturday morning nostalgia with modern game-feel".EA's Desert Strike series was one of '90s gaming's most popular franchises, and spanned a wide range of systems, including the Mega Drive, SNES, Game Boy and PS1.Sadly, since the launch of Nuclear Strike b …

Coming to Steam Early Access.Last year, we told you all about Pizza Bear Games' Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess, an exciting new Steam game inspired by the likes Desert Strike & Choplifter, which is scheduled to come to Steam at some point in the far …

The Atari 50 Anniversary Collection (review) is one of my highlights of the year. It shows how to do the classics right, putting proper effort into making compilations beyond shovelling a bunch of games onto a disc. Update: The new games include:WWI a …

Coming Soon!Back in the early 90s, Electronic Arts released Desert Strike for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, a gulf-war-inspired game that had players control an Apache helicopter and complete missions such as saving hostages and blowing up enemy weapons and …

Destroy It All, One Card at a Time Powered by the same type of sandbox gameplay made popular by Grand Theft Auto 3 and a story that creatively borrowed from national and world headlines, Lucas Arts and Pandemic Studios’ Mercenaries: Playground of Des …

To see three games form the same franchise released on a single console is now rare. It happened more frequently in the days of cartridge consoles, and was a sign of success for both the system and the franchise. Sequels to popular games are common, as are …

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The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive is known for its for shooters.  There are A LOT of shooters on the Genesis, so much so that I don't have the stamina nor inclination to write about them all. I should mention that I don't consider games like Contra Hard …