Game Reviews7.4/10
Why The Adventures of Batman & Robin’s Boss Fights Still Hold Up on Game Gear
A retro review of The Adventures of Batman & Robin on Game Gear: four levels, classic villains, unlimited batarangs, and a very forgiving nine lives.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Illusion of Gaia: Quintet’s Strange, Spare SNES RPG Holds Up
Illusion of Gaia, Quintet's 1993 SNES action RPG, sends Will through Incan ruins and Angkor Wat to stop a comet — a strange, spare classic that still holds up.
Game Reviews7.6/10
ActRaiser 2: A Winged God, a Battering Ram, and a Score of 7.6
ActRaiser 2 dropped the city-building sim for pure platforming. A review of Quintet's harder, stranger 1993 SNES sequel about a winged god with a sword.
Game Reviews8.4/10
SNES god game Actraiser mixes city-building with swordplay, and nothing since has copied the trick
ActRaiser on the SNES fused side-scrolling action with city-building simulation. A retrospective on Quintet's 1990 cult classic, its ending, and its legacy.
Game Reviews9.6/10
Tetris Attack Is the Best Puzzle Game on the Super NES, and It Is Not Really Tetris
Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon) is a 1995 SNES puzzle masterpiece with nothing to do with Tetris — and one of the best versus games on the console.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Super Street Fighter II Sticks the Landing on 16-Bit Hardware
Super Street Fighter II hit the SNES in 1994 as the most complete home version of Capcom's fighter, adding Cammy, Fei Long, T. Hawk and Dee Jay.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Super Punch-Out!! Referees a Faster, Meaner Rematch
Super Punch-Out!! hit the SNES on October 24, 1994. A look at its stance-based boxing, power meter, roster and why it feels colder than the NES classic.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Super Bomberman 2’s Odd Detours Are What Make It Worth Playing
Super Bomberman 2 (1994) review: the only Super Bomberman game with no two-player story mode, re-released in 2026. Score: 8.5/10.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Super Bomberman (1993): A Grid of 143 Squares, a 7.2/10 Foundation
Super Bomberman (1993) reviewed: the 143-square grid, chain reactions, Diamond City plot, and why it scores 7.2 of 10.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES: Faster, Meaner, and the Version That Made the Game Complete
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting turned a great SNES port into the definitive one. Thirty years on, it's still the Street Fighter II people mean.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Street Fighter II’s cast of fighters mattered more than its combo system
Street Fighter II hit arcades in 1991 and defined the fighting genre. A review of the SNES port, its six-button combat, cancel system, and 7.2 score.
Game Reviews6.6/10
Pilotwings: A Landmark Tech Demo With a Real Game Inside, and Not Quite Enough of One
Pilotwings launched the SNES with Mode 7 flight school thrills, but four vehicles and one scoring axis leave it a tech demo more than a game.