It’s been a while, but its time to circle back to the Sega Genesis. I have discussed before how I was a Nintendo kid, only had an SNES, yada yada yada, etc. etc. A lot of games I will eventually talk about here will be new to me, but old hat to anyone that grew up on Sega. Games like Vectorman, Comix Zone and Phantasy Star are “off the beaten path” for me, but many Genesis kids wouldn’t consider them so. I had certainly heard of them, even if I hadn’t played them. But this week, I am going to discuss a Sega Genesis game I had never heard of in my life. Released early in the system’s life cycle in 1990, E-Swat is a 2D side scroller that is somewhere between a run and gun game and a puzzle platformer. You play as a futuristic police officer named Duke Oda, who is a member of the City of Liberty (not Liberty City, that’s a different place) swat team facing off against a mysterious organization called E.Y.E. This organizatio...
Old school game reviews and discussion, from the unfamiliar and obscure to the classics you know and love.