Tag Archives: Survival

No Escape, Megadrive/Genesis

No Escape was developed by Bits Corporation, and published by Psygnosis for the Megadrive and SNES, in 1994. It is based on the science fiction action film of the same name, starring Ray Liotta and Lance Henriksen.

You play as inmate J.T. Robbins (a highly-trained ex-Marine), trying to escape Absolom penal colony island.

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Postal: Brain Damaged, PC

Postal: Brain Damaged is a so-called “boomer shooter” (whatever that means), developed by HyperStrange, and first published in 2022. It’s a fast-moving, humorous and challenging First-Person Shooter with a Story Mode and a Survival Mode (but no multiplayer, that I could see).

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Soulcalibur IV, PlayStation 3

The fourth Soulcalibur game was once again developed by Project Soul for Namco. It was first released in 2008 for the PS3 and XBox 360, through Namco Bandai Games.

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Quake, Nintendo 64

id Software‘s formidable Quake was ported to the Nintendo 64 by Midway, and first published in 1996. And it is an excellent port of the classic First-Person Shooter.

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Quake, Sega Saturn

The Sega Saturn port of Quake was apparently the first official console port of id Software‘s classic 3D shooter. And, while it plays quite well, it looks kinda ugly.

Saturn Quake was developed by Lobotomy Software and published by Sega in 1997.

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The Deadly Tower of Monsters, PC

The Deadly Tower of Monsters is a third-person action game, released in 2016, where you must climb a series of large towers, to complete various tasks, all presented like a parody of old fantasy and science fiction films. You can play as either a man (Dick Starspeed) or a woman (Scarlet Nova), and you can even play as the robot sidekick (just called “Robot“) at certain points too.

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Carrion, PC

Carrion is a ‘reverse’ horror game, meaning that it puts you in the position of creating the horror, as a ‘monster’, killing humans. The humans, though, don’t seem like they’re up to much good, so MUST DIE AT YOUR HANDS… Or: your tentacles…

Carrion was developed by Phobia Game Studio and published by Devolver Digital, first releasing in July of 2020.

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Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, GameCube

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee on the GameCube was developed by Pipeworks Software and published by Infogrames, under their Atari label, in 2002. The GameCube and Xbox were the only consoles to get this game, although the handheld Game Boy Advance got a version too.

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Soulcalibur II, GameCube

The Soulcalibur series is a line of classic arcade fighting games, created by Namco and their dedicated development team, “Project Soul“. And this is a conversion of Soulcalibur II – from arcade to GameCube – first published in 2003.

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Soulcalibur, Dreamcast

The Dreamcast version of Soulcalibur is an enhanced port of the 1998 arcade game by Namco. It was released worldwide in 1999 and features “ten new characters” and enhanced new graphics.

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