This Month In Retro March 2023
Hello all and welcome to the first This Month in Retro of the year! I hope you all had a great switch of the years and have made a bunch of nice resolutions to play even more Retro games. I definitely should at least... given that I can drop all the other games that keep me away from retro goodness. Anyway, enough about me. This month was pretty uneventful in the game industry as a whole, so I'm moving on straight to the games with a short announcement as well.
Going forward, every This Month in Retro will be shorter than we've been used to for the last few issues. I noticed that I've been pushing myself a bit too hard with trying to talk about like what, 15, 20 games? Several of which I'm not even familiar with at all? As much as I would like to talk about every interesting game, I simply don't have the time to do so, given how long it takes to research and write these. Besides, I'm probably not wrong in assuming not everyone has the time to read about all these games either, so it's a win-win situation... probably! Don't worry though, I will still list the more interesting games that I won't be talking about just to give you an idea still of what this month was about.
As for this issue, I'll only be focusing on the western releases. The Japanese-exclusive side was too dry for me to have almost anything to talk about, with the only noteworthy releases being Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru for the Famicom, and Gaiflame and Atomic Robo-Kid Special for the TurboGrafx-16. As usual, I'll be covering the games with the critic and fan reception, as well as their legacy to this day, and a set if applicable. So without further ado, let's move on to the games!
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| Release dates | JP: September 3, 1987 |
| NA: January 15, 1990 | |
| Sales | ??? |
| Average score | N/A |
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 Boy and His Blob, A: Trouble on Blobolonia (NES)
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 Demon Sword (NES)
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 Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES)
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 RoadBlasters (NES)
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 Twin Cobra (NES)
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 Chessmaster, The (NES)
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 Infiltrator (NES)
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 Ganbare Goemon Gaiden: Kieta Ougon Kiseru (NES)
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 Rock 'n' Ball (NES)
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 Top Gun - The Second Mission (NES)
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| Release dates | JP: September 3, 1987 |
| NA: January 15, 1990 | |
| Sales | ??? |
| Average score | N/A |
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