Deep Cuts
Harmful Park: The Rarest Joke on the PlayStation
A Japan-only PS1 cute-em-up where two sisters take back a theme park with pie and ice cream. Sky Think System's only shooter, now one of the rarest PS1 games.
Deep Cuts / Shmups
Shmup Deep Cuts: The Shooters Everyone Skipped
The genre the West wrote off in the move to 3D kept thriving in Japan — the best of it hidden on import-only discs, arcade-only boards and cult releases. The map to the deep cuts.
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Gaia Seed: One Tiny Studio, One Wild Soundtrack
Techno Soleil made exactly one game — a Japan-only PS1 shooter with an ambient/chant/hip-hop score that has no business being this good.
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Thunder Force VI: How a Beloved Series Actually Died
Sega picked up the pieces after Technosoft folded and gave the legendary series a bitter final chapter the fanbase never forgave.