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American Dream
1989
American Dream
1989
The player must earn money in order to become the wealthiest gambler in the world. The game, set in New York City, is considered a spin-off from the Pachio-kun franchise. Al Capone has a cameo role in this game even though he lived about one thousand miles to the west (Chicago) in real life. Roads, taxis and automobiles are not portrayed in the game. However, a black limousine that escorts the player from the air force base to the final casino is portrayed as driving on grass. This is in direct opposition to the real New York City where the majority of the surface is concrete (either as roads, parking lots, or as foundations for the buildings). Only parks and some older residential districts use grass in their design in the real world. Buildings are either shown as dilapidated tenements, shiny towers, or as flashy casinos.Sesame Street A B C
1989
Sesame Street A B C
1989
A NES Edutainment game for younger players, featuring characters from Jim Henson's Sesame Street. This one focuses on letters and spatial awareness.Mendel Palace
1989
Mendel Palace
1989
Candy needs your help! She's fallen fast asleep and may never wake up--because she's trapped in her own dream! All her harmless dolls are suddenly out to get her! So who will rescue Candy? Someone must brave her wild nightmare world. With 20 areas and 200 levels!Bishoujo Kachinuki Renju: Gomoku Narabe
1989
A game of gomoku against girls whom strip off clothes if you win. The game's AI is rather hard to beat, but sometimes it makes glaring tactical mistakes.Tetris
1989
Tetris
1989
star 8.4Tetris is a puzzle video game for the Game Boy released in 1989. It is a portable version of Alexey Pajitnov's original Tetris and it was bundled in the North American and European releases of the Game Boy itself. It was the first game compatible with the Game Link Cable, a pack-in accessory that allowed two Game Boys to link together for multiplayer purposes.Flash Point
1989
Flash Point
1989
Flashpoint is a Tetris variant. The various shapes of the falling blocks and their rotation are identical to the prototype. What makes the game different from a standard Tetris clone is its objective. Each stage already contains a pattern of blocks, usually arranged as symbols, characters, or other images. Among these blocks are several bombs. The goal is to make these bombs detonate by clearing out the rows they are in. Once all the bombs have been detonated, the stage "explodes", and the player advances to the next one.Tetris
1989
Tetris
1989
star 7.2Tengen, an Atari label, released an unlicensed version of Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After they lost a lawsuit to Nintendo, which acquired the rights from Russia to port the game to home consoles (they already had the handheld consoles rights), Tengen had to destroy every spare cartridge unsold at the time. The Tengen game featured a two-player simultaneous mode not available in Nintendo's versionRompers
1989
Rompers
1989
The player must take up control of Chap, a gardener wearing a straw hat, who must collect all the keys in sixty-one maze-inspired gardens in order to rescue his girlfriend, Rumina; he can push the walls in the gardens over to crush the various enemies that pursue him, but they shall immediately be resurrected in the form of eggs which hatch after a few seconds. Each round also has a preset time limit to ensure that the player does not dawdle - and once it runs out, a green-haired female vampire known as Tsukaima (who cannot be crushed by the walls) shall appear in search of Chap's blood, as the Yamaha YM2151-generated song (and all the enemies) speed up. The game's enemies include white blobs known as Pyokorin, pink Triceratops-esque creatures known as Kerara which can breathe flames, armadillos known as Gororin which can roll over Chap, purple seals known as Todorin which can breathe ice, sponges known as Bekabeka, which can push walls onto Chap, turquoise blobs known as Fumajime Pyokorin, which occasionally pauseKonami's Mahjong 2
1989
Himeshikibu
1989
Diamond Run
1989
Vs. Tetris
1988
Vs. Tetris
1988
Vs. Tetris is a game developed by Tengen for the Nintendo Vs. Unisystem arcade platform. The game would be the basis for Tetris (NES, Tengen) released some time later, and is noticeably less developed (e.g. the piece graphics use only solid colored or striped blocks).Tetris
1988
Yuu Maze
1988
Yuu Maze
1988
Yuu Maze is the conversion of Taito's arcade game Raimais which was also released in 1988. It can be quickly described as a sort of Pac Man on wheels.Mahjong Gakuen
1988
Mahjong Gakuen
1988
AKA: 麻雀学園 東間宗四郎登場. This is a port of the arcade version adult Mahjong game. Losing gals strip their clothes.Zoom!
1988
Zoom!
1988
star 6.8Zoom! is a puzzle game developed/released by Discovery Software in 1988. It features a 3D-like board the player moves around on. Up to two players may play simultaneously. Not to be confused with Zzoom.Fisher Price: I Can Remember
1988
To play I Can Remember, you have to concentrate! Can you remember what you see? Can you remember where you saw it? Choose a number and look at the picture that's revealed underneath. Then choose another number and look at that picture. Do they match? If they do, they'll stay turned up. If they don't, they'll turn down again and your opponent gets to pick two more. Keep picking pairs until all the pictures are matched and the entire game board is uncovered. Play alone, play against a friend or even the computer. As you get better, the boards get harder, with more numbers and more pictures to remember. You can do it!
