IC Sunday Solvers: 6/25/2023

Across
7 - Ys publisher, often
8 - Glaring artifact, always optical and sometimes optional
10 - Wave Racer and later Animal Crosser
11 - Space Harrier + Green Hairier = PC88er *Answer = “Atlantia”
12 - Wander’s quarry
13 - Your guy, when you need turnips ASAP
15 - Bossa Nova-soundtracked digital marketplace
17 - Prolific solo developer of wrestling, prison, pop music, and Jesus Christ sims
20 - With Geddy Lee, Jaco Pastorius, and Mega Man
22 - Single-wheeled racer, in PAL terms
25 - Lufia II's Canine class, suited for combat
26 - Popular rendering API, now Vulkanized
27 - Engine for hits by Cactus, Fox, and others
28 - Rygar’s rhyming foe, and a faline hybrid
Down
1 - Scouser Lemmings-publishers
2 - Videogames are prohibited from depicting this org’s logo, per Geneva Convention
3 - “Julia Heartilly” in the fiction, with Faye Wong
4 - “Iso”-metric NES Warrior, differently-titled
5 - Dream Traveler of ambiguous genus
6 - KOTOR II's gray morals exemplar
9 - Lady Love’s surname, I think. We can ask to be sure
14 - Sometimes settled-for, in Madden
16 - Black Isle survivors and 6 down’s creators
18 - Zebes locale or cruel name for the acne-scarred
19 - Early Konami “maze game.” Also, A Guy Called Gerald, you could say
21 - Studio that took Duke 3D, and later went “3D” themselves
23 - Mountain namesake, later notebook-gouger
24 - Level or stage in LSD terms