#Gradius 2 pc engine review Pc#

Produce! is responsible for contributing to some big gaming IPs. There’s a VERY nice variety of weapons and options (options here are partners that you can merge with), but the bright, cartoony visuals make the bullets hard to see sometimes. Also, in Japan the game was littered with poo jokes, all of which are censored in this version. Too bad ZZZZZZZZonk is just a very bland quirk shmup instead of, you know, a platformer. While E and S and R and all the other letters you get automatically if you’re playing the bonus round in Wheel of Fortune are good little letters, Z is cutting class to smoke cigarettes and shoplift girly magazines from gas stations. Anyway, so they ‘tuded up Bonk, now named ZONK because “Z” is the most “hip” and “with-it” letter in the English language. I mean, it’s not like another company was a global phenomena riding the coattails of a fat Italian plumber. Needs to win IGC Seal of Approval: 20 of 54 The TurboGrafx-16 Mini is Chick-Approved!Īpparently NEC/Hudson decided the real reason their console wasn’t catching on in the United States (in Japan it out-paced the Genesis, there known as the Mega Drive, by a healthy margin) was because having a caveman mascot wasn’t going to appeal to hip 90s kids like Sega’s Sonic did. Ratings will be: None, Low, Medium, High, and Fluency or some combination of them. Included after every review for games from those Japanese platforms will be a rating of how much Japanese you need to know in order to enjoy the game.

#Gradius 2 pc engine review Pc#

The games for PC Engine, Super CD-ROM², and SuperGrafx are NOT translated into English. Over half the games are from the Japanese PC Engine library regardless of which region TG-16 Mini you purchase.

I’m going in alphabetical order based on the each game’s US name. For the TurboGrafx-16 Mini to receive the IGC Seal of Approval, it must go 20 for 52 ($5 per quality game).

A review copy was supplied for this feature.Įach game will receive a YES! or a NO! from me. Supplies could be limited for those who fail to pre-order. The TurboGrafx-16 Mini will ship May 22, 2020. This is the live scorecard for all 52 unique games in the TurboGrafx-16 Mini from Konami.