About this episode

Scott and Brian discuss the influential video game Gunstar Heroes and its impact on the gaming industry.

This week on Play Retro, Scott and Brian take aim at Gunstar Heroes (1993), which helped launch Treasure from the loins of Konami when former employees gave us this title with explosive run-and-gun action, massive bosses, and one of the most inventive weapon systems on the Sega Genesis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Johnson

Guest: Brian

Topics covered

• Gunstar Heroes
• video games
• run-and-gun action
• Treasure
• Sega Genesis
• game development

Keywords

• Gunstar Heroes
• Treasure
• Konami
• Sega Genesis
• run-and-gun
• video game history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Treasure, Konami

Books & works: Gunstar Heroes

Places: Sega Genesis

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