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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