The second compilation of levels from Irem's Lode Runner Arcade series. Developed for the Famicom Disk System, it was never released outside of Japan. Gameplay consists of collecting all the gold of a level and then exiting. Be sure to avoid enemies while doing so, and team up with a friend to experience the co-op levels
Daisuke Kusano is the son of an archaeologist who disappeared while searching for the Tears of Isis, artifacts once owned by Cleopatra. During the man's excavation for the Tears, demons appeared and abducted him. The boy soon learns that he must find the Tears in order to save his father.
2:20 AM.
15th April, 1912
The greatest ocean liner in history just sank into the Atlantic.
The R.M.S. Titanic.
YOU'VE got a reputation for succeeding where others have failed.
That's why YOU have been selected to head the Titanic: Recovery Mission. Every previous effort to raise the lost legend has come up empty, but your skills, financial connections, and leadership abilities make YOU the logical choice.
The Director General of Space Science Agency Dr. Venom was exiled to Planet Sard for a failed coup d'état. In the year 6665, he escapes and invades Planet Nemesis and the seven planets it controls with the help of Bacterion. The Nemesis High Council sends James Burton, ex-pilot of the Vic Viper, to pilot Metalion and attack Dr. Venom and the Bacterion invaders.
The Famicom port follows the same basic story, but instead of a series of separate stages, all of Vecanti is now one big, interconnected world. The gameplay differs considerably from the other versions, being more akin to a side-scrolling action role-playing game. It is a more difficult game due to its larger maze-style levels with multiple paths, and a lack of a password or save feature.
"I shall take my revenge on the peaceful St. Eastern high school" - an anonymous letter arrived at the school. The principal asks the new teacher to investigate the source of the letter. At the same time transfer students are being forced to drop out one by one because of bullying...
Spelunker II: Yuusha he no Chousen is a Japan-exclusive action video game released for the Family Computer in 1987. An unofficial translation to English was made as a ROM hack.
Despite being titled as a sequel to Spelunker, Spelunker II: Yūsha e no Chōsen features vastly different gameplay. There was a separate arcade sequel, titled Spelunker II: 23 no Kagi, which features similar gameplay to the first Spelunker game as well. The two Spelunker II games are separate entries in the series and are not related.
Penguin Land, known as Doki Doki Penguin Land Uchū Daibōken (どきどきペンギンランド宇宙大冒険? lit. "Thump Thump Penguin Land: Great Outer Space Adventure") in Japan, is a Sega Master System game and the second game in the Doki Doki Penguin Land series. In this game you play as a penguin going through a puzzle platformer stage and try to guide your egg around the polar bears, rocks and other hazards to the end of the stage. The game has a total of 50 stages and a level editor which can save up to 15 additional levels. The level editor data is stored on the game's battery back-up RAM.
A shoot 'em up game in the Laydock series that fits in perfectly between Laydock (Laydock 1) and Laydock 2. It's again a game that can be played by two players though a single player game is also a possibility. If played by two players they can cooperate by docking the jets together, docked side-by-side or end-to-end for greater fire and fighting power. When docked one player is the pilot and the other is the weapons officer.
The Pro Yakyuu: Pennant Race (ザ・プロ野球 ペナントレース) is a Sega Master System baseball game developed by Whiteboard and published by Sega. Exclusively released in Japan in 1987, the game is an evolution of the developer's earlier title Great Baseball, and is now played from a bird's-eye perspective.
Each level takes place in a void with two dimensional cities appearing as they are being built by "worker cells". The worker cells are indestructible but the bricks dropped by them can be temporarily destroyed using the ship's weapon. The goal of the game is to collect enough star cells contained inside the cities to get to the next level.
By collecting enough star cells within a strict time limit (displayed in the lower score table) it is possible to skip the remaining levels in current star system and pass on to the next, allowing skilled players to advance the game quicker.
The game was well received, gaining a score of 92% in the well-known computer games magazine Zzap!64.
This is an adventure game based on a TV show about a retired governor and his retainers going around solving problems in Edo period Japan.
The game allowd players to assume the role of one of the retainers as they go around investigating the town. Occasionally this involves fights with corrupt officials, evil samurai and gangsters. There's also a female ghost that will drain the player character's life if it comes into contact with them.
The game is noted for its many instances of speech samples. It also has a considerable amount of text.
The game consists of seven stages. Players control Kaku-san (Kakunoshin), a jujutsu user, in the odd-numbered stages and Suke-san (Skesaburo), a katana user, in the even-numbered stages, and go around the action stages to collect evidence of evil deeds.
The use of certain items allows the player to switch to a ninja or a servant for a certain period of time. The ninja can go undercover and the servant can interview the townspeople. In every stage, there is evidence that can only
A magic red jewel, known as the Arumana, is stolen from an unnamed village. A thief runs off with the jewel and turns the entire village into stone. The game's hero must track down the thief and recover the stolen jewel.The player takes the role of a hero named Kaito, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Indiana Jones, and must travel through six cavernous levels in search of the stolen jewel, Arumana. The player begins with thirty throwing knives as his weapon of attack. As they venture through the levels they can find various other weapons. These include bombs, a handgun, bolas, a crystal ball that destroys everything on screen, and mines. He must destroy various cave dwelling creatures as well as soldiers, who sometimes drop weapons.The game itself is very reminiscent to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The appearance of Kaito is not only nearly identical to the series' adventurer, but the game's cave environments and plot, which revolves around the main character recovering a jewel that grants life to a v
A magic red jewel, known as the Arumana, is stolen from an unnamed village. A thief runs off with the jewel and turns the entire village into stone. Kaito must travel through six cavernous levels in search of the stolen jewel, Arumana.
The player begins with thirty throwing knives as his weapon of attack. As they venture through the levels they can find various other weapons. These include bombs, a handgun, bolas, a crystal ball that destroys everything on screen, and mines. He must destroy various cave dwelling creatures as well as soldiers, who sometimes drop weapons.
Air Fortress is a video game published in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in Japan in 1987 and later in North America in 1989. Only a total of 385 copies of the game were shipped to the United States in 1987, and it is believed that only 20 were shipped beforehand as a test run for the system. Within PAL-A regions, it was only released in Australia. This makes the American version of the game very rare.
Booby Kids is an action video game for the Nintendo Family Computer. This video game is the home conversion of Nichibutsu's arcade game, Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen (キッドのホレホレ大作戦), that was originally supposed to be named Booby Kids.
In 1993, Nichibutsu released for the Game Boy a similar game entitled Booby Boys.
The bookend to Learning Fun I, Learning Fun II is the INTV Corp. remake of Word Fun. This cartridge adds a pretty title screen and one new game to the three already offered by Word Fun.
Although the basic gameplay of the Word Hunt, Word Rockets and Crosswords games appears unchanged from the original Word Fun cartridge, the graphics were enhanced. According to the official site, a bug was introduced in the Crosswords game that resulted in the computer only choosing words starting with letters A-T instead of A-Z. The new game added to the mix is Memory Fun - your basic 'Memory' style game where you turn over pairs of tiles to find matches. Another grand edutainment game. No wonder they made so many. ;-)
Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100 is an action platformer featuring the titular robot, piloted by a young girl. When the robot is hit, it will break down and dump the girl out. The girl cannot shoot enemies, and will die after 30 seconds if she cannot restore the robot, which requires special items. The game often requires shooting at or jumping on certain unmarked spots repeatedly, either to uncover secrets or even to make progress in a stage at all. In order to reach the true ending, two loops of the game must be beaten.
The player must solve 100 puzzles in the form of rooms that contain magnetized squares. The player assumes either a North or South magnet polarity as he or she collects all of the polarity orbs in each room before attempting to reach the exit. The polarity of the player affects how he or she interacts with the magnetized squares which can enable or hinder the player in his or her progress through the level.