Posts tagged famicom-disk-system 
Square's unreleased Aliens game for Famicom Disk System uncovered
Man, what is it about the Aliens franchise that makes its video game adaptations so easily cancelable? Long, long before Obsidian's Aliens RPG ended up on the cutting room floor, Square had its own unreleased entry into the franchise: A 1987 side-scrolling action game for the Famicom Disk System ...
Virtually Overlooked: Excitebike variants
Jerry "Tycho Brahe" Holkins and Mike "John Gabriel" Krahulik took the stage at the final round of the PAX 2008 Omegathon and introduced the climactic final game, which would decide which of two Omeganauts would win a trip to the Tokyo Game Show, cash, and a collection of customized, PAX-logo-emblazo...
Virtually Overlooked: All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.
Weird limited releases like All-Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. are exactly the kind of thing we imagined when Nintendo revealed the Virtual Console, and of course none of it has appeared. Since it's financially trivial and requires no real commitment of any kind to dump a game on the Virtual Consol...
Random imports to appear on Australian VC
The OFLC has rated two new games that are headed to the Australian Virtual Console in the near future, and they're spectacularly weird! Spectacularly weird in that both games were never released outside of Japan, and neither game is currently available or slated to be available on the Japanese VC....
