Action game by U.S. Gold, released in conjunction with The Godfather III movie. The game starts off in 1940s New York, but spans a number of decades that mirror the events in the famous movie trilogy. Stages include Las Vegas in the '50s, where you execute a vendetta against opposing family hoods, a confrontation in Cuba, Miami in the '70s, and a final conflict in urban America in the '80s. Fend off enemy gangs and succeed at working towards piece with all the rival families.
SWIV is a vertical scrolling shooter and an unofficial follow-up to Sales Curve's conversion of the side scroller Tecmo arcade game Silkworm.
One player controls a helicopter and the other a jeep, with the jeep transforming into a boat when the vehicles pass over water. As well as a host of blaster fodder the game also includes a mid-level enemy inspired by the "Goose" enemy from the earlier title Silkworm. Pieces of this enemy would fly onto the screen and assemble into one vehicle before commencing to fire at the players' vehicles. When destroyed the "goose" would drop power-ups.
The year is 3151. The human race is under threat from the Cardiac Beam- the latest and most deadly invention of the Cardiaxx Empire. Piloting the new breed of Starfighter- designed purely for neck-breaking speed and agility... your mission is Confront and Destroy. Your cutting edge is provided by an onboard computer that has hacked into the enemy defense systems giving you audio warnings of their movements.
Have you the skill, reflexes and the will to survive as you fly into the Cardiaxx zone?
A horizontal shoot-em-up in the vein of Silkworm; you fly a plane (a 'White Shark' no less) across various terrains killing baddies. The reason this game stands out the most is its innovative attempt at a weapons system, which allows the player to choose from up to 37 million weapon combinations(!).
You've landed in a space station only to discover it is overrun by alien life. You must complete the missions in each floor in order to advance to the next. Make good use of you ammo and don't run out of health!
Falchion is an ace pilot in the Space Defense Force, and the pilot of a space ship known as Divine. On his way back to his home planet, daydreaming about girls, Divine's computer picks up a transmission from a nearby planet. Answering the transmission, it turns out to be a distress call from a beautiful woman on the Water Planet. "Save me..." she pleads, "and I will lend you my power." Falchion, lonely bachelor in space that he is, can't say no to a pretty face, and flies off towards the Water Planet.
GG Aleste is a game in Compile's Aleste series of shoot-'em-ups for the Sega Game Gear. It was only released in Japan and is one of the few Compile Game Gear games published by Compile rather than Sega.
Dragon Saber is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game, released by Namco in 1990; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and as its complete title suggests, it is the sequel to Dragon Spirit which had been released three years earlier.
The sequel to Dragon Spirit follows much in the same vein, with your flying dragon defeating prehistoric monsters over various landscapes. This time round there is a two player mode thrown in for extra appeal.
Taiyou no Yusha Fighbird is technically a vertically scrolling shoot'em'up game by design, though the in-game representation differs a bit from normal as you take control of a mech that can fire off energy blades. It is based off a TV show, and is one of two Fighbird games ever released, the other being another shmup game for the Famicom.
TaleSpin is a scrolling shooter video game based on the Disney television series TaleSpin. The game was developed by Capcom for the NES in 1991 and was ported to the Game Boy in 1992. The Game Boy version is essentially a slightly stripped-down version of the game.
The gameplay consists of maneuvering Baloo's plane "The Sea Duck" through each level, fending off incoming enemies and avoiding obstacles. Items can be collected for extra lives or to add to the total cash score. The plane can be rotated upside to traverse back through the level, but only on horizontally scrolling areas. At the end of each level, the player is required to fight a boss enemy by repeatedly shooting its weak points. After beating a level, the player has the option to buy upgrades for Baloo's plane with the money collected, before proceeding to the next level. In bonus levels the player controls Kit on an airfoil to pop balloons for bonus points.
TaleSpin is a scrolling shooter video game based on the Disney television series TaleSpin. The game was developed by Capcom for the NES in 1991 and was ported to the Game Boy in 1992. The Game Boy version is essentially a slightly stripped-down version of the game.
The NES version of the game was included in The Disney Afternoon Collection compilation for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2017.
The gameplay consists of maneuvering Baloo's plane "The Sea Duck" through each level, fending off incoming enemies and avoiding obstacles. Items can be collected for extra lives or to add to the total cash score. The plane can be rotated upside to traverse back through the level, but only on horizontally scrolling areas. At the end of each level, the player is required to fight a boss enemy by repeatedly shooting its weak points. After beating a level, the player has the option to buy upgrades for Baloo's plane with the money collected, before proceeding to the next level. In bonus levels the player controls Kit on
A version for the PC Engine was released on December 6, 1991. Based on the arcade version of Salamander, changes on this port include starting from a pre-defined checkpoint upon death in 1 Player mode, faster enemy animations, and improved music.
Faceball 2000 is a first-person shooter. You control a H.A.P.P.Y.F.A.C.E., or Holographically Assisted Physical Pattern Yielded For Active Computerized Embarkation. The graphics consist of flat shaded corridors. Enemies are all simple geometric shapes with smiley faces on them.
There are two modes of play. First there is a single player mode in which your goal is to find the exit to each level. There are 70 mazes in this mode. The second mode is the multiplayer arena. For the Game Boy: up to 4 Game Boys can be linked together in this mode.
In the year 2991 AD, the Galactic Federal Government agreed to a full-scale disarmament treaty with the Andromeda nation and it looked like the galaxy would finally be at peace. However, just before the signing of the treaty, members of the military-industrial complex, who were opposed to the treaty, carried out a coup d'état to prevent this. Colonel Iritsa Renina, commander of the Beta Unit of the Galactic Federation, refused to help the coup and ordered the rebellion to be suppressed. The object of the game is that you, the Beta Unit ace pilot Ensign Rova Trotskyna, must destroy the federal facility that was occupied in the coup.