Articles by Peter Malek

Initially released in late 1995 on the Super Famicom, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is the seventh entry into the Ogre Battle series and was ported to the Saturn…

A September 1997 release, Silhouette Mirage is the second Treasure game to hit the Saturn. Set in the year 2xxx, the worldwide AI known as Edo malfunctions and splits everyone…

The first demo of Saturn Tomb Raider 2 is available now — grab it here! 1996 saw the release of the very first Tomb Raider, hitting the Saturn first, followed…

Released at the tail end of 1997, Takara and Red Company’s Arcana Strikes is a fusion of an overhead RPG and a card-battling game. You take the role of young…

Delisoba Deluxe was a giveaway to studio audiences (possibly, contestants) of the Japanese TBS game show Tokyo Friend Park 2. On the show, contestants engaged in various video mini games,…

The Wizardry series began way back in the early 1980s on Apple computers, being a formative attempt at bringing a Dungeons & Dragons-like experience to video games. The sixth and…

The fine folks at Japanese software house Altron Corp. were clearly into the good stuff, and in early 1998, they conjured up the absolutely bananas Jung Rhythm! Conceptually reminiscent of…

Remember that 1997 movie Face Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage literally swap faces[question_mark] It was done the year prior in DeathMask — an FMV adventure game converted to…

Grab your semi-automatics, your rocket propelled grenade launchers, and your trusty machetes — it’s time to “start something” on the mean streets of Logic Puzzle Rainbow Town! Logic puzzles, also…

A summer 1997 release in Japan, Aorn’s Rabbit is a 2D versus fighting game similar in feel to the Street Fighter 2 series. The visuals are very colorful and the…