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there’s a new post up at the world’s greatest obscure videogames review blog, and today’s subject is the only comic output of videogame publisher electrobrain! go and read about it~!

‘Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D’

[MULTI] [USA] [MAGAZINE] [1994]

“I’m a stubborn gamer, so I refused to let Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D beat me, but it did. I couldn’t figure out if it was the bullet-sponge enemies, the stress-inducing countdown timer, or having to backtrack if I couldn’t find a key, but this game drove me mad. I thought it was maybe the nauseating reverse parallax scrolling that was doing it, so I searched out a pair of the 3D glasses that came with the game, thinking those would help. Nope, they just made things worse. Next time I decided to torture myself with this, I’ll remember to bring barf bags.” ~Mike Vito, Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the SNES Library

Japanese cover art for the 1994 SNES title developed by Argonaut Software:

Vortex / ヴォルテックス

Not sure on the artist for this Japanese cover, but likely done by one of the big Japanese mecha artist from the 90s

Vortex

The partnership between Nintendo and Argonaut ultimately created three games – X, Star Fox, and Stunt Race FX (with the fourth being the canceled Star Fox 2). However, in 1994, there was another SNES title, developed solely by Argonaut and published by Electro Brain, called Vortex. One look at it and you can see the relationship between their other games – it’s also fully 3D and uses the Super FX chip, though it features a transforming mecha rather than a spaceship or a race car. It tends to be forgotten when discussing 16-bit polygonal games, though for good reason.