Side Scrolling Games
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Power Instinct
The Power Instinct series is renowned for its more humorous take on fighting games, its music and its often-weird characters.
Silkworm
Players grab hold of the controls to perform aerial acrobatics with massive jet-powered helicopter gunships.
Gradius Gaiden
Gradius Gaiden is the first game in the series to feature two-player simultaneous play.
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The game features 2 players controlling the jet fighters simultaneously for battle across numerous levels. There are 3 types of jets varying from different classes of speeds and firepower.
Zanac
Zanac is a fast and a king of addictive shooting game. It features some special A.I. system - the difficulty of a game level is adapted to the player's skills.
P.O.W.: Prisoners of War
You are surrounded, captured and imprisoned in an enemy war camp.
Time Trax
Do you have the guts to step into the shoes of Fugitive Retrieval Officer, Darien Lambert? Travel from the future to today's criminal underworld in an attempt to capture some smart thugs from the 22nd Century. Of course, your weapons and fighting s..
X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse
The X-Men must rescue mutants from captivity in the Genosha island complex.
Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished
Those of you who are familiar with the Sega 8-Bit version of Y's won't be strangers to this game, but you'll also be very surprised!
Ninja Spirit
Many years ago, as written in the ancient scrolls, the Orient was ruled by a very powerful tong.
The Smurfs
Gargamel has just perfected a terrible plot to kidnap ALL the Smurfs. Four of them have disappeared already. You will have to brave the Angry Smurfs and Buzz flies before smurfing the mountain riding on a sledge, travel on the back of a stork and f..
Cotton
Cotton, the witch, loves the little fairy-like Willows.
D & D Tower Of Doom
After Capcom obtained the licensing agreement with TSR (the grandfather of role-playing games) Alex spent the next few years creating the first non-linear video RPG ever to hit the market!
Fighting Layer
Last month in News we told you that Arika, a company known for its 3D versions of Street Fighter was breaking apart from Capcom to produce their own games.
Two Crude
Ever since Double Dragon first appeared in rarcades, we've seen a constant flow of similar rgames try for our quarters.
Skeleton Warriors
In Skeleton Warriors, you play the part of a swordsman hero with magical powers.
X-Men Children Of The Atom
Once again Capcom churns out another fighting game. However, this time it's not Ryu or Ken but popular characters from the X-Men comic books!
Real Bout
Real Bout is the latest in the long line of SNK fighting games.
World Heroes Perfect
The global warriors have been summoned once again in another contest of sheer brutality.
G Darius
G-Darius is a graphical wonder, containing some of the best twitch shooting to come our way in a while. Hopefully a wise U.S. publisher will hop on this one ASAP.
Gunners Heaven
If you can't wait for a 32-Bit Gunstar Heroes, then grab this title for PS and rock on!
Castlevania 5
For some reason, one of the best things about all of the newfangled, high- tech game systems is anticipating the release of an updated version of your favorite old games.
Choaniki Great Brother
In case you missed it last month, we promised the "gaymers" out there a bit more coverage of Choaniki: Great Brother by Masaya.
Dragonheart
Although the summer creature feature Dragonheart only stars one dragon, this movie-based game has the player facing a whole horde of the scaly, winged reptiles.
R-Types
R-Types isn't an all-new shooter though; instead, it's a compilation disc containing the full arcade versions of the original R-Type and R-Type II.