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Golden Axe

• Fighting
• HackAndSlash

Golden Axe , which can be used to knock down enemies with a swipe of its tail.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• HackAndSlash
• Platform

Your initial goal is to rescue the fair maiden, April, but your ultimate objective is to battle through the streets and sewers of New York until you score a victory at the TECHNODROME, home of the evil Shredder and his Life Transformer Gun. Once a turtle is captured, he is out of action until you find...

Street Fighter II

• Fighting
• Platform

A sequel to Street Fighter, Street Fighter II improved upon the many concepts introduced in the first game, including the use of command-based special moves and a six-button configuration, while offering players a selection of multiple playable characters, each with their own unique fighting style and...

R-Type

• ScrollingShooter

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The game is made up of several sequential levels, with a boss enemy at the end of each. The player's spacecraft has, by default, a weak but rapid-firing main gun; and a more powerful gun called a wave cannon, which requires...

The NewZealand Story

• Platform
• Shooter

The NewZealand Story is a 1988 arcade game developed and published by Taito. The goal of each level is to safely get Tiki through the level, avoiding enemy fire and spikes, and rescue one of his kiwi friends at the end. The game features four main zones, each with four rounds, the fourth round featuring...

Critical Mass

Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.

The Hobbit

• adventure
• TextBased
• adventure
• TextBased

It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. Set in a time "Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men",The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving...

Evening Star

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade: The Action Game

• Platform

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game was released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games, based on the film of the same name. As in the movie, the player's quest is to find the Holy Grail. The review praised the graphics and sound, but found the fight sequences both too easy and too short, since all...

Crack Down

• Shooter

Crack Down is a run and gun arcade game originally released by Sega in 1989, and ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1990. The Mega Drive version of Crack Down was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in Japan on August 7, 2007 and in PAL regions on September 7, 2007. X from taking over the world,...

Leviathan

An isometric shooter, similar to Zaxxon.

Heartland

• Platform

Heartland is a canceled PSP FPS about about a Chinese invasion of the United States.

Gauntlet

The players, up to four at once in the arcade version, select among four playable fantasy-based characters; Thor the Warrior, Merlin the Wizard, Thyra the Valkyrie, or Questor the Elf. Each character has his or her own unique strength and weaknesses. For example, the Warrior is strongest in hand-to-hand...

Ghostbusters

• Arcade

Saboteur!

Shadow Dancer

• Arcade
• Platform

It is the second and the final arcade game in the Shinobi series, following the original Shinobi itself. Shadow Dancer was developed on the Sega System 18 motherboard hardware and its generally well received home versions were released for the Master System console and several home computer systems in...

Altered Beast

• HackAndSlash
• Platform

"Beast King's Chronicle") is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega. The game is set in Ancient Greece, and follows a centurion who is resurrected by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena, and to do so becomes able to turn into beasts such as the werewolf with the use...

Winter Games

• Sports

Winter Games was ported to the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and DOS computer platforms, and to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. The reviewers gave the game 3½...

Sorcery

• Platform

Lode Runner

• Platform
• Puzzle

It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. Smith of Renton, Washington, who at the time was an architecture student at the University of Washington. This prototype, called Kong, was written for a Prime Computer 550 minicomputer...

Ikari Warriors

• Arcade
• Shooter

The game was released at the time when there were many Commando clones on the market. The player characters in Ikari Warriors are Colonel Ralf and Second Lieutenant Clark of the later King of Fighters series battling through hordes of enemies. The player takes the role of commando-like warriors named...

SimCity

• Simulation
• Strategy

The game was first published in 1989 as SimCity, and it has spawned several different editions sold worldwide. The residential zones, in green, provide housing for SIMS; the commercial zones, in blue, provide shops and offices; and the industrial zones, in yellow, provide factories, laboratories and...

Ballblazer

• Sports

Ballblazer is a futurist sports game similar to basketball and soccer. Each side has a craft called a "rotofoil" controlled by either the human or computer. The computer has ten levels of difficulty. The main goal is to score points by firing or carrying the a floating ball into the opponent's...

Warhawk

• ShootEmUp
• Vertical

Warhawk is an action/simulation game built around a futuristic VTOL craft. The player maneuvers with 360 degrees of flight control through 6 unique levels. Take to the skies over desert and volcanic planets, through ancient castles and towers, and against massive airships in WarHawk. As a member of...