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Defender game
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Defender

Defender is an arcade video game developed released by Williams Electronics in 1980. A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis,...

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax game
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Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Ecole Software and French Bread and published by Sega. Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax is a two-dimensional fighting game, in which two players fight against each using both a playable fighter character and an assist character. A...

Die Hard Arcade game
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Die Hard Arcade

Released in 1996 for arcades, the game was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997 and the Playstation 2 in the Sega Ages line in 2006. The typical level structure is a number of minions the player must defeat in many rooms, followed by a boss. The Saturn version also includes a port of Sega's 1979 arcade...

Donkey Kong game
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Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong is a series of video games featuring the adventures of a gorilla character called Donkey Kong, conceived by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981. In 1994, the series was revived as the Donkey Kong Country series, featuring Donkey Kong and his clan as protagonists in their native jungle setting versus...

Dynamite Cop game
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Dynamite Cop

Dynamite Cop, known in Japan as Dynamite Deka 2 , is a 1998 beat 'em up video game published by Sega and initially released in arcades on Sega Model 2 hardware. The classic Sega arcade game Tranquilizer Gun is included as a bonus game on the Dreamcast version. Its main character, Delinger, makes a cameo...

Espgaluda II game
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Espgaluda II

Espgaluda II is a manic shooter originally released by CAVE in the arcades in 2005 as a sequel to Espgaluda. Instead of having to repeatedly tap the shot button for rapid fire, the feature is on by default. Another returning feature from the first game is the Guard Barrier, which absorbs enemy attacks...

F355 Challenge game
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F355 Challenge

It was developed by the AM2 division of Sega for the Sega Naomi Multiboard arcade system board under the direction of Yu Suzuki, and was later ported to the Dreamcast and Playstation 2 video game consoles under the names F355 Challenge: Passione Rossa and Ferrari F355 Challenge respectively for both...

Forgotten Worlds game
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Forgotten Worlds

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...

Galaxy Force II game
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Galaxy Force II

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...

Gauntlet game
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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...

Golden Axe game
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Golden Axe

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

Gunbird 2 game
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Gunbird 2

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Heavy Metal: Geomatrix game
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Heavy Metal: Geomatrix

Using similar perspective and control scheme to Capcom's Spawn: In the Demon's Hand, the game presents up to 4 players combats in large arenas in what is seen as a follow up to the basics of Capcom's Power Stone series, although more oriented to weapon fighting/shooting and a serious and dark cyberpunk...

Hydro Thunder game
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Hydro Thunder

Hydro Thunder is a speedboat racing sub-series game, originally an arcade game and later released for the Sega Dreamcast as a launch title in 1999. Also by boosting a player can knock other boats into the air, a feature described by the game as the Mighty Hull. The easy tracks are usually short and easy...

Ikaruga game
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Ikaruga

Bullets which are the same color as the player are absorbed while the other will kill the player. Ikaruga was ported to consoles first in Japan on the Dreamcast in 2002, and then worldwide on the GameCube in 2003. Many of the ships in the game are named after bird species. Switching the ship's polarity...

Lock 'N Chase game
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Lock 'N Chase

Lock 'n' Chase (ロツク・ン・チエイス) is a 1981 maze arcade game developed and published by Data East in Japan in 1981, and later published in North America by Taito. Lock 'n' Chase was Data East's response to Pac-Man. The game's main character is a thief....

Lode Runner game
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Lode Runner

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...

Mad Dog McCree game
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Mad Dog McCree

He tells the stranger that the mayor and his daughter have been kidnapped by a gang of outlaws led by the notorious "Mad Dog" McCree, and when the sheriff tried to stop them, they locked him up in the jail. The stranger defeats them and takes the jail keys from the barkeep who advises the player...

Mappy game
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Mappy

First introduced in 1983, it was distributed in the United States by Bally/Midway. The player guides Mappy the police mouse through the mansion of the cats called the Mewkies to retrieve stolen goods. If the player waits too long after this, the "Gosenzo" coin will drop onto the top-middle...

Maximum Force game
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Maximum Force

Maximum Force is a light gun shooter arcade game developed by Mesa Logic for Atari Games in 1997. Like its predecessor Area 51, Maximum Force is notable for its use of digitized video stored on an on-board hard disk, and the bizarrely contrasting unrealistic gibs into which every enemy blows apart when...

Metal Slug game
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Metal Slug

It is the first title in the Metal Slug series. The player must shoot constantly at a continual stream of enemies in order to reach the end of each level. In addition to shooting, the player can also perform melee attacks by using a knife. During the course of a level, the player also encounters POWs,...