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IT’S NO JOKE
» PC ENGINE » 1992 » INTER STATE/KANEKO I could never claim to be Retro Gamer’s resident shoot-’em-up fanatic when I’ve got Darran as a colleague, but I do have a real fondness for the genre, which was cultivated as I savoured the Dreamcast’s later import releases. Unfortunately, my friends didn’t share that passion. They were certainly curious as to what a late Dreamcast release might look like, but ended up being repelled by the difficulty of games like Ikaruga and Border Down. I think it’s a long-term problem for the genre, with even superficially inviting games like Fantasy Zone often proving to be too much for many players to handle.