The most difficult SNES games, like ActRaiser 2 and Super Mario Kart, were a true test of players' skills.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Rebooting the original Actraiser is not exactly a straightforward ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Arguably one of the finest games of the 90s was the original ...

Not speaking any Japanese, I was forced to wait until the North American edition of the game was released, at which point I promptly purchased a rather flimsy converter cartridge and booted it up on ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.

Actraiser combines 2D platforming action (Realm Acts) with a city-building simulation (Realm Management) in the ultimate battle between good and evil! Featuring the soundtrack that sent shockwaves ...

The newly announced SNES Classic Edition looks awesome, no doubt about it. Almost every one of its 21 games is a great choice. I won't hear otherwise. That said, there are some notable omissions.

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Quintet and Enix Software's ActRaiser certainly takes the "god game" genre literally. Blending strategy and platforming action, ActRaiser puts players in the shoes of God itself to expand cities and ...

The mobile arena is subject to a high volume of retro ports. Sometimes, when a console or arcade favorite of yesteryear goes wireless, the result can be quite satisfying, such as in recent cases of ...

ActRaiser's mix of action and civilization building is unique, but it's the masterful art direction and music composition that will win you over. ActRaiser was one of the first games to hit store ...