The PAL version of Dragon's Lair expands upon the Japanese version, still having a good speed, but adding new enemy types and cutscenes in-between levels.
Contrary to other multiregional games at the time, the PAL version is a lot faster than the original NTSC version, despite the refresh rate being lower.
"Paaman (or quite possibly Parman) is a comic in Japan which is done by the same guy who did Doraemon. Like that wasn’t already obvious just by looking at ‘em. All of the four characters that you have the choice of controlling have the amazing ability to fly in an amazingly awkward fashion. I don’t think there’s any difference in who you want to pick though. What’s awkward about flying is, if you’re flying Up and want to go Left, you don’t just automatically go Left when you hit the control pad… you go diagonally, then you go left. And you don’t sit still if you let go of the control pad, you have to hit A to stop. And then you have to hit A again to fall to the ground and walk around like normal. Which is all very weird. But you can jump REALLY high, so that’s cool.
There’s a side view, where you can fly, like what I was just talking about, and there’s a top view, where you walk around inside of buildings and stuff. You can’t fly though, but you can jump, which is pretty useless. What’
Tsurupika Hagemaru: Mezase! Tsuruseko no Akashi is 2D platforming game released for the Famicom (NES) in 1991. The game is based on a Japanese children's manga and 58-episode anime series called Tsurupika Hagemaru (Little Baldy Hagemaru), and features many of its characters including protagonist Hagemaru whom the player controls.
The Pizza Boy must deliver pizzas to various dangerous locations in order to make enough money to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring. He is thwarted by many enemies, including his romantic rival who appears frequently to take him down. Points are scored at the end of each stage based on completing stages quickly, defeating enemies and recovering extra pizzas.
Like its sister game Snow Bros., Pipi & Bibi's is an early platform game in the vein of Bubble Bobble where players must defeat all on-screen enemies before moving on to the next level.
The Addams Family is a side-scrolling platformer based on the movie of the same name. The player takes the role of Gomez who searches for his missing family members. To find them he has to explore six different parts of the mansion, e.g. the woods, which are basic platform levels: the player moves from left to right while jumping a lot and avoiding enemies. Some of them can be dispatched of by a jump on their heads.
The main difference to the other versions of this game is a unique level design. There is also a life meter which allows to get hit more often before dying.
Scrapyard Dog is a 2D-sidescrolling platform game in which you play as Louie, a boy whose dog has been kidnapped by Mr. Big. Fight your way through more then 15 levels in this adventure to rescue Louie's pup!
The game features multiple world with different themes like junkyard, forest and desert.
Sonic the Hedgehog was one of the games adapted for release in arcades for the Mega Play hardware. While the Mega-Tech version is largely the same game as the original, the Mega Play version has lots of gameplay differences.
Boomerang Kid is an unlicensed game released with the Quattro Adventure compilation for the NES. It is a platformer developed by Codemasters in which the player controls a boy who has to recover his boomerangs.
TaleSpin is a game based on the television series of the same name, released for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1991 and 1992. There's also a Game Gear port which is identical to the Genesis version.
The game was a one player and two player game. In single player mode you could choose between playing as Baloo or Kit, whereas in two player mode, the first player was Baloo and the second player was Kit.
Each character had his own form of defense, Baloo had a paddle ball with very short range while Kit had a slingshot with very long range.
It consisted of many stages with three different versions:
Around the World: Strolling through each stage collecting ten or more boxes of cargo to unlock the main exit.
Airport: The Boss stages where you face Don Karnage and his air pirate henchmen.
Air Battle: You take to the air with Baloo attacking from the Sea Duck or Kit on his airfoil firing his catapult.
Fred is a platform game, where the player controls a caveman, walking horizontally through the levels. Like in nearly every platform game, there are hanging platforms for the caveman to jump on, though sometimes parts of the platforms give way. Climbable ropes also appear.
You are Agent 17 (codename: "Otto"). Your mission is to secure all top secret documents from a security building and escape in the getaway car, located in the basement of the building. Gameboy version of the Arcade game "Elevator Action".
The hero of the game is a young jungle-man named Toki. One day the evil wizard Dr. Stark kidnaps his girlfriend Wanda. When Toki tries to save her, he is turned into a monkey! Now Toki has to find Dr. Stark in his palace, to rescue Wanda, and to become a human being again!
It is a platform game with a lot of various levels: jungle, underwater, volcanic caves, on the ice... Toki's only weapons are spitting on the enemies or jumping on them and crashing them. There are many possibilities to upgrade his spitting "weapon"; for example, if he finds an upgrade, he can spit fireballs.