The Chessmaster 2000 is the chess game that began the Chessmaster franchise. It was developed by The Software Toolworks, featuring a chess engine written by Dav...
Camelot Warriors is an action / adventure 8-bit game developed in Spain by Dinamic Software. It was very popular in Spain and was even a packed-in game (along o...
The Ninja, who must battle enemy ninjas using knives and throwing stars.
Battle your way through an island full of pirates and then battle your way through a ship full of pirates to rescue the damsel in distress.
A bowling simulator for the Famicom. It allowed for up to five players and was the first bowling game for the system.
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
Hydlide (ハイドライド Haidoraido) is a 1984 action role-playing game developed by T&E Soft and published in 1985.
A classic game in which you need to collect all the bombs.
A cross between a simulator and an arcade game in which the player has to fly a Lancester bomber and drop bombs over dams in Germany during World War II. Whereb...
The second game in the Castlevania series, Vampire Killer has the player taking control of Simon Belmont in his quest to defeat Dracula.
Control Jumpman (later known as Mario) and save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil barrel-tossing gorilla known as Donkey Kong. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto...
Full Throttle, also known as Top Speed, is an arcade racing game by Taito, released in 1987. It is similar in style to OutRun, with a fast red car hurtling thro...
Lode Runner is a 2D platform/Puzzle game from 1983 created by Douglas Smith. It is one of the first games to include a level editor tool for players to create t...
Emerald Dragon is a traditional Japanese RPG released for various gaming consoles and computers.
A side-scrolling action game based on a Spanish comic series.
Rance must save the town of Custom from its intended guardians, four young women with magical powers. However, there may be more to this situation than meets th...
Originally released for the Japan-exclusive MSX2 in 1990, this sequel is set four years after the Outer Heaven incident. New FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell, b...
An early action-strategy-RPG game created by Koji Sumii and published by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer in 1983. The game is considered a precursor to several ...
A 1983 arcade game by Tehkan, where players move a fixed turret around a 360-degree playfield and shoot enemy Space Tanks.
Originally released in 1987, Pac-Mania featured a unique take on the Pac-Man formula.
A turn-based strategy game originally released in 1987 by Koei, the creators of Nobunaga's Ambition and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
You play an archaeologist, looking for treasure, as archaeologists are wont to do. Sadly, mummies are after you. To find the treasure you walk round all 4 s...
Finders Keepers is an action adventure game where Magic Knight has to collect as many valuables as possible.
An anime style adventure game that uses cut-scenes and text menus, as well as a few action sequences inspired by other sci-fi games.
A shooting game developed by Hudson.
A video game adaptation of the 1987 movie regarding Eliot Ness, notorious gangster Al Capone and the Prohibition era. The SNES version is based on the 1993 TV s...
An action platformer on the MSX from ZAP Corporation, Funky Mouse allows players to gather cheese throughout a variety of increasingly difficult levels.
One of the progenitors of Japanese RPGs, The Black Onyx brings the world of high-fantasy RPGs to Japanese computers as five brave adventurers set out through a ...
As a floating orb, players must perform repairs to a spaceship.
Help Bugaboo (The Flea) escape a cavern while avoiding a large dragon.
Mr. Do!'s Castle (alternatively called Mr. Do! vs. Unicorns) is the sequel to 1982's Mr. Do!
Harrier Mission is a simulation game.
Recreating the events of the movie of the same title, commando John Rambo must rescue his mentor and friend, Colonel Trautman, from the Soviet forces occupying ...
A managerial soccer game. This time the player directs the career of a striker who starts in the 4th UK soccer league division and has to rise through the divis...
An maze action game in which the player controls a patrol droid and has to keep out aliens out of the colony and off the crops.
RoboWarrior (Bomber King in Japan) is a side-scrolling action game for the NES, developed by Hudson and later published in the US by Jaleco. It is a sequel to H...
An arcade-style action game released for the MSX computer in 1984 and later ported to the Nintendo Famicom console titled as Astro Robo SASA (アストロロボ...
Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.
A scrolling platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Hudson Soft, the game was an adaptation of the Westone/Sega arcade game Wonder Boy fea...
Bounce around different platforming stages in this sequel to Thing on a Spring.
A top-down shooter where one or two bandana-wearing commandos fight enemy forces in a jungle. It is notable for allowing the player to pilot various vehicles in...
A text adventure game from Level 9, using their KAOS adventure system.
Explore caves in an alternate dimension in the mysterious Eidolon vehicle
An Arcade game released by Taito about a priestess named Sayo-chan who must rescue the gods of fortune from monsters.
Play as Mambo, a secret agent tasked with taking down the enemy base before they launch an attack.
Classic turn based strategy game based on the classic Chinese novel "Water Margin."
This shape-based Russian mind-bender set the stage for innumerable puzzle games to follow.
Captain Zapp (released in the UK as Flash Gordon, based on the comic hero), is an adventure game for multiple computer systems.
A fantasy action RPG developed for MSX and NES by Lenar and published by Hi-Score Media Work.
Monty Mole, still on the run from the law, travels across Europe in the fourth installment of this 80s platform series.
Time Gal must save the world by traveling through time and stopping an evil thief from using a time traveling device in order to become the supreme leader of h...
Last Armageddon was only released in Japan for the MSX and PC-8801 in 1988. Then for the Sharp X68000 on March 1st 1989, TurboGrafx CD on August 31st 1990, NES ...
Released by Namco for arcades in 1980, Rally-X was the first scrolling open-world video game, and the first open-world driving/racing game.
A action game written by Steve Willey in which the main protagonist Sam has to sink three Russian submarines in the New York City sewer system.
An isometric adventure game from Rare Ltd., back when they were still called Ultimate.
Goemon's first console game, released for the NES and MSX in Japan.
Released in 1984, Hydlide was the first open-world action RPG. It was the first on-foot, fully-scaled, open-world game, and introduced innovations such as a hea...
Sorcerian, also known as Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian, is an action RPG released by Nihon Falcom in 1987. It was considered unique for its party-based action comb...
Is that Conan? No it's Rastan - the video game version of Conan. Join him in his heroic adventures.
Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namco's first installment in the Galaxian franchise. It was a technica...
A asteroid is hurtling towards earth, you must travel to Tibet and find Professor K.K. Renegade. Once you have found him you must convince him to help build a ...
A vertical scrolling shoot'em up by David Lubar that was released for several 8-bit home computers.
An adventure game where the player must help their chosen character become the Shogun of Japan. Based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell.
A side-scrolling brawler that puts the player in control of a resurrected centurion who possesses the ability to shape shift into many beasts, such as a wolf, d...
Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you cre...
A flight Simulator set during World War II.
Duck Hunt was one of the original NES launch titles, featuring a lightgun, ducks and a laughing blood-hound.
Navy Moves is a shooter game created by Dinamic Software.
A time-travelling strategy challenge
The popular Parker Brothers board game has been released on nearly every home console available, and many of them include several "house rules" to spruce up the...
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