"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...
is a 1988 arcade racing game, released by Taito. The game was well received in the gaming industry, resulting in three arcade-based sequels being released: Special Criminal Investigation , Super Chase: Criminal Termination and Chase H.Q. Taito released versions of the game for the Family Computer , Game...
Critical Mass is an action puzzle game that takes traditional match 3 and brings it into the world of 3D.
Forgotten Worlds, originally titled Lost Worlds in Japan, is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated video game in 1988. The controls in the original coin-op version consists of an eight-way joystick for moving the character in the air while flying and a unique...
The peaceful and prosperous solar system Junos was located at the end of the Milky Way. Those who called its five planets home had no idea what was about to happen... Halcyon, ruler of the Fourth Empire, had Junos marked as its final target in the galactic massacre, and had sent the bulk of his attacking...
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...
This cancelled project would have accompanied Owen Macleod, a 2000-year-old swordsman, on a quest to kill another, more skilled immortal. The game was based on the film and TV series of the same name, and its story would have spanned several time-periods, from Ancient Rome to modern-day NYC.
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...
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...
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 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...
Solomon's Key is a puzzle game developed by Tecmo in 1986 for arcade release on custom hardware based on the Z80 chipset. The game is generally recognized as one of the most difficult games to appear on the NES. The object of the game is to advance through the 50 rooms of "Constellation Space"...
A call for help comes from deep in the universe. Fantasyland has been taken over by destructive forces. Quick on the scene is Space Harrierâ„¢ equipped with his laser, who must attempt to outwit and outmanoeuvre the hoards and prevent Fantasyland from being blown into oblivion!
The object of the game is to drive down roads in the technologically advanced "Interceptor" car and destroy various enemy vehicles with a variety of onboard weapons. Spy Hunter was also ported to various home computers and video game systems. Spy Hunter is a vertical scrolling action/driving...
Tau Ceti is a star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78% of the Sun's mass. Since December 2012, there has been evidence of possibly five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, with two of these being potentially in the habitable zone. Because of its debris...
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...