Wake up service from the past – Sleeping Gods Lie
Sleeping Gods Lie was released in 1989 by Empire, a large software company in the UK that would go on to be a prolific developer and publisher of PC games […]
Sleeping Gods Lie was released in 1989 by Empire, a large software company in the UK that would go on to be a prolific developer and publisher of PC games […]
Free Fall Associates was a third-party developer for a then-fledgling Electronic Arts who published their well-known and remembered classic, Archon, in 1983. Founded by husband and wife team, John Freeman and […]
Atari’s golden years may have been behind it by the time 1989 rolled around. Their focus had shifted towards their PC offerings and near the end of 1989, would come out […]
Arcade titan Namco is no stranger to shmups having titles such as Xevious, Galaga, Bosconian, and many more on their incredibly long resume. Their games were arcade staples feeding itchy […]
Castlevania III came out in 1989 in Japan and hit North America in 1990 (hitting Europe a little over two years later in 1992) and offered more than a return […]
It was 1989, a year of big changes in Europe with the fall of the Berlin Wall and what seemed to be a rolling end to Communism in Eastern Europe. […]
The idea of being able to magically control devices with every twitch has always been something of an engineering holy grail. For every Nintendo Wii, Xbox Kinect, and Playstation Move, […]
S.P.Y. Special Project Y had to share 1989 with two other Konami beat ’em ups: Crime Fighters and the green monster that overshadowed everything else, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It […]
On April 21st, 1989, Nintendo’s first hand held, the Game Boy, hit retail shelves and started a portable revolution that Gunpei Yokoi and his team might never have imagined. But […]
In the same year that Final Fight debuted, Capcom took a trip to China’s past by doing a little licensing of their own. Konami’s ‘toon based games would later get […]