Budokan: The Martial Spirit is a computer and video game released by Electronic Arts in 1989 for various platforms. The player begins the game as an apprentice, and initially practices skills in four dojos, either Shadow Fighting or sparring with an instructor. The difficulty gradually increases, with...
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,...
Cyberball is an Atari Games arcade game of 7-man American football, using robotic avatars of different speeds, sizes, and skill sets set in the year 2022. Most often, the timely use of the defender's turbo, a short-term speed boost usable once per play, would determine whether the play resulted in a...
Hard Drivin' is a 3D arcade hit from Atari Games. You are in control of a high-performance sports car. Your objective is to race around the course as fast as possible and hit as many checkpoints as possible. If you hit a checkpoint you gain extra time to go farther. You will see traffic on the road both...
Mercs, originally released as SenjÅ no ÅŒkami II , is a 1990 top-down run and gun arcade game developed and published by Capcom for the arcades. The arcade version of the game had up to three players available for play. The controls consist of an eight-directional joystick and two buttons: a Normal...
Several video games based on the 1988 Michael Jackson film Moonwalker. U.S. Gold published various games for home computers, released in 1989, whilst Sega developed two similarly themed beat 'em up video games in 1990; one released for arcades and another released for the Mega Drive/Genesis and Master...
Pac-Mania is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987 . The player controls Pac-Man and attempts to eat all the pellets in a maze, while avoiding being caught by the ghosts who chase him around it. The most noticeable change was the view used in cabinet projection, an oblique...
[game]Super Hang-On[/game] is a motorcycle racing arcade game released by Sega, and the sequel to the acclaimed Hang-On. Asia is the second easiest and is similar in length to the course from the original Hang-On at ten stages long. Another version of the game was released for the Nintendo 3DS via the...
Super Monaco GP is a Formula One racing simulation video game released by Sega, originally as a Sega X Board arcade game in 1989, followed by ports for multiple video game consoles and home computers in the early 1990s. If he fails, the game ends . In the World Championship mode, the goal is to win a...
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...
He can breathe fire and drop bombs, as well as collect up to thirteen additional powers during his journey. The powerups that give the player extra heads may give him double or triple the firepower, but they also give him double or triple the exposure to enemy fire which, especially on the later stages,...
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...
The game utilizes fractal technology to create the craggy mountains of an alien planet, where the visilibility was drastically reduced by the dense atmosphere. The player controls a fictional "Valkyrie" space fighter[2] (converted for search and rescue duty) from a first-person view, attempting to land...
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...
The arcade version of Ninja Gaiden is a "belt-scrolling" beat-'em-up. The player controls a ninja whose mission to defeat an evil cult led by Bladedamus, a descendant of Nostradamus who seeks to fulfill his end of the world prophecies. Upon starting the game, the player is greeted by the phrase "NINJA...
Colourful game like a 2D Q*Bert. Run around the level, painting the background blocks as you go and avoiding enemies. There are many traps, sliding blocks, one-way blocks and teleports - also special items such as time-stop and extra firepower to zap the baddies with.
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...
Rogue Trooper is a science fiction strip in the British comic 2000 AD, created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons. It follows the adventures of Rogue, a "Genetic Infantryman", a genetically created, blue-skinned, manufactured super soldier and his three comrades' search for the Traitor General. His...
Allied victory The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II. American forces...