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For years, Wisdom Tree Games has managed to successfully avoid becoming an official licensee for the platforms on which it develops. On both the NES and Genesis, it has released several titles that have had strong sales, giving the company a longevity not common to other unofficial developers. Company leader Brenda Huff recently spoke to Sega-16 about how Wisdom Tree has managed to endure and even carve out its own little corner of the market.
So you’ve played through Klax, and you’ve mastered Columns. So now, you’re probably wondering what Genesis puzzle games are left to play. Well, I’ll bet you’d be surprised to learn that Wisdom Tree’s Joshua & the Battle of Jericho is a worthy addition to the list of puzzlers worth picking up. Many people have either never seen or disregarded it, and that’s a shame.
Our last editorial on the best Genesis soundtracks garnered more than its fair share of controversy, so we decided to do another one! Everyone has their own ideas as to which are the best scores out there, so why not read the second installment of Legacy of the Z80 Sound Chip and see what we came up with?
During its run, the Genesis had several attempts at cashing in on the burgeoning first-person shooter genre. Everything from wholly original titles to such cash cows as Duke Nukem 3D somehow found their way onto the console. But was it too much too soon? Was the Genesis even capable of doing this modern genre the justice needed to make its games enjoyable and most of all, playable?
How a company could release a game as bad as Bible Adventures and still call themselves Christians is beyond me, but I’m sure they must have repented by now. Our full review has the whole story, but don’t worry. There is no penance required for reading it.