Aurail is a scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Westone and released by Sega in 1990.
The player pilots a tank mecha and shoot enemies (fire in 8 directions), collect power-ups to increase shields and operate the remote attack drone, and defeat bosses to advance levels. Features tunnel levels with a first-person view.
According to the TAD president, Tadashi Yokoyama: One day in December 1988, a freelance artist came at TAD with a portfolio of designs including this monkey. The team was motivated to do a game around this funny monkey.
On February 02, 1989, the first prototype was ready: one level, no enemies, no musics and the monkey can jump only (no shoot). At this point, they decided to reprogram the game entirely from 0. Note JuJu Densetsu was coded with the same system used by the neogeo coders at SNK.
During the first location test (at the TAD office) on September 07, 1989, many new ideas came to the developers but most of them were not included in the final product (i.e: snakes on the first stage), because lack of time.
On September 15, 1989. a public location test was done in Japan AND in the USA (University of Washington). A second test was done in October. After this test, they decided to program the end of the game (done by a non-programmer in a week-end). Note: The girl you have to save is brune in the attrac
Bad Lands is effectively the spiritual successor to Atari's previous racing games Super Sprint and Championship Sprint. Similarly to the Sprint titles, Bad Lands pits three cars against each other in a three lap race around a small, single-screen circuit. Bonuses are present in the form of wrenches which can be traded for goods such as extra speed, extra acceleration or better tires.
You are investigating the suspicious pre-historic islands, to find out why so many people who visited this place, have gone missing. You take control of a plane. While flying above the mysterious island you face many pre-historic animals as enemies. There are many Wild humans below on the ground as well, who try to catch onto your plane if you fly too low. Dinosaurs still exist!!
In a future setting, the dimensional, suggestively demonic, creature and title character Gigandes suddenly awakens. Residing deep below the Earth's surface, it calls its own worshippers and space force from other galaxies to the Milky Way in order to conquer mankind. Earth's defenses constructs the Round-37, a small but powerful space fighter with the intent of stopping Gigandes and its evil plans, combatting its forces and influences on Earth and in space.
The Round-37 had a four-way weapon system: players equipped weapons on either the top, bottom, back or front of the ship by collecting weapons depending on the direction the ship approaches the item in. The player also had full control over the direction of the ship, allowing the ship to not only collect weapons in a desired direction but also fire in different directions. However, the ship could only equip two of the same weapon at a time. Players had to fight through eight long stages leading up to a boss battle at the end of each one. If the players lost a
Darius II was redesigned for it's initial version for the international market with shorter stages and less bosses with less health, but higher overall difficulty to balance the changes out. As a result, some routes and bosses were removed completely.
A bowling game from Romstar.
Championship Bowling was produced by Romstar in 1989.
Romstar released 9 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1987. Romstar was based in United States.
Other machines made by Romstar during the time period Championship Bowling was produced include: Sky Shark, Time Soldiers, Cal .50 - Caliber Fifty, Down Town, Fire Shark, Skeet Shot, and Popshot!
Club Pacman is a Ms.Pac-Man-like game with the same object as Pac-Man except, Club Pacman has some new features including: Music when you eat a Power Pellet, Turbo speed when eating a Power Pellet, Fast fruit, faster ghosts when you get good, and speed options.
Buccaneers is a beat 'em up made game for Arcade machines, developed and released by Duintronic in 1989.
You control a sailor beating up pirate thugs in a pirate-themed world, much in vein of The Secret of Monkey Island. You can attack them by either punching or kicking your enemies.
This game is almost exactly the same as the original except that it has eight brand-new tracks which are Shortcut, Cut-off Pass, Pig Bog, Rio Trio, Leapin' Lizards, Redoubt About, Boulder Hill and Volcano Valley.
Rambo III for the arcade is a different game compared to the one released for the SEGA consoles and the computer ports. The arcade version was is a rail shooter game played from the third-person perspective whereby Rambo would have to blast through hordes of enemy soldiers, jets, tanks using various weapons with crosshairs, as well as fight tank bosses at the end of each level.
In 1989, a version of Pocket Gal was released titled Super Pool III. This version of the game does not contain nudity, and it was released in North America by I.Vics.
The presidential candidate's daughter has been kidnapped! It is your job to get past enemy lines and rescue her. This is the third game in the Ikari Warriors series, and features similar arcade/action gameplay. The screen is a top down view which scrolls vertically, with numerous bad guys to defeat. You start the game with just your fists, and as the levels progress you can find weapons and other objects to help you out.