Metal Gear is considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, it was also the first video game designed by Hideo Kojima, who also directed many of the later Metal Gear sequels. A heavily altered port was produced for the Famicom/NES (without Kojima's involvement). A remade version based on...
The first game in the series was published in 1985. The first release in the United States was Take the A-Train II, published in 1988 by the Seika Corporation under the title Railroad Empire. The US version was released in October 1992 on DOS and Amiga. Later, the Japanese version was re-released in...
Boulder Dash , is a video game released in 1985 by First Star Software for Atari 8-bit computers, there have been numerous versions and sequels in this series for numerous interactive platforms including: Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, ColecoVision, NES, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad...
City Connection is an arcade game developed and published in 1985. The object of the game is to drive through a series of cities, avoiding obstacles and painting every part of the roads. The main character in the game is a female driver, Clarice of a Honda City on a tour of all the sights and roads across...
Dark Castle is a 1986 computer game for the Macintosh published by Silicon Beach Software, later ported to various platforms, where it was published by Three-Sixty Pacific. Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as...
Might and Magic is a series of role-playing video games from New World Computing, which in 1996 became a subsidiary of The 3DO Company. In March 2013, Ubisoft confirmed that Limbic Entertainment is developing Might & Magic X Legacy with a release date said to be in early 2014. In the earlier games...
Ganbare Goemon , known as Goemon and Mystical Ninja internationally, is a video game series created and produced by Konami. Etsunobu Ebisu is the joint producer of the franchise. Games revolve around the main character, Goemon and his exploits. While the early games emphasized Goemon as a noble thief,...
It was ported on May 27, 1988, to the Famicom, and February 8, 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. In recent years the game has developed a small cult following through the use of NES emulators. Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom plays similarly to a text adventure, though...
Shanghai II is Activison's follow-up to their first tile matching game. Players try to remove Mah Jong tiles in pairs from a set pattern. Shanghai II has 8 different tile sets, 12 patterns based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and a layout editor for creating patterns. In addition to the standard...
Spy is a wordless comic strip published in Mad magazine. A metaphor for the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, and debuted in Mad #60, dated January 1961. He fled to the United States on May 1, 1960, three days before Fidel Castro's government nationalized...
This classic shooter, originally ported to the NES in August 1988, is a spin-off of the seminal Gradius series.
The objective of the game is to build, sustain, and command an army of troops to capture Gao Qiu before the Jurchen invasion in January 1127. When a player defeats an enemy army, they have the option of recruiting, imprisoning, exiling, or executing the captured enemy troops. what [he] was supposed to...
La historia principal, común a todas las versiones, está ambientada en el Japón medieval. Trata sobre un ninja llamado Kage que se ve obligado a rescatar a la princesa Kirihime, quien ha sido raptada por seres mÃsticos o demonios. A lo largo del juego el personaje principal tendrá que...
The object is to knock each ball into a pocket using a cue ball. The Japanese Lunar Ball version often appears on Famicom clone systems and pirated multi-game cartridges, such as the Power Player Super Joy III. Lunar Pool is played in boards of different shapes, wherein the player has to shoot the cue...
DRIVE, PASS, SHOOT, SCORE! Now you can slam dunk like the pros!Magic Johnson's Fast Break is slammin' jammin' basketball action. Play against the computer or an opponent. Up to four players can play simultaneously. Head for the hoop and slam dunk the ball! The better you get the better your salary gets!...