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Captain Comic was one of the first side-scrolling platformers developed for PC.
The direct sequel to Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished developed by Falcom and released on a number of platforms.
The Battle of Olympus is a side scrolling action adventure game with elements of Zelda II and Metroid. The player controls Orpheus, out on a mission to save his love Helene from the clutches of Hades, however the other gods are ready to help you.
As a pizza delivery guy, players must attempt to deliver a pizza to a specific room in a massive apartment building infested with Noids - a mascot for Domino's Pizzas.
Final Fantasy was the first entry in the now widely recognized Final Fantasy franchise, originally developed on the NES by Square (now Square-Enix).
A spin-off to Nihon Falcom's Xanadu series, Faxanadu is a side-scrolling action RPG developed by Hudson for the NES.
The original game in the Megami Tensei franchise. Based on a novel by Aya Nishitani, it introduced many of the elements the series is known for such as demon bartering and fusing.
A platformer/shooter for 80s computer systems.
Alex Kidd puts his life on the line in pursuit of video games in this combination adventure-platformer for the Sega Master System.
An early example of a "Metroidvania"-style platformer, Legacy of the Wizard tells the tale of a family of adventurers who must use their combined abilities to seek the Dragon Slayer sword and defeat a powerful dragon deep in a twisting labyrinth.
Known as the first stealth-action game, Metal Gear tells the tale of Solid Snake, a rookie operative of the U.S. special forces unit FOXHOUND, as he infiltrates Outer Heaven, a fortified military compound, to destroy a mysterious superweapon known as "Metal Gear".
The first game in the Ys series. The player controls Adol Christin who is on a quest to retrieve the six books of Ys which he will use to destroy the evil forces.
An open-world action-adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features a barbarian warrior with a distinctive "diskarmor" weapon. It is distinct from the original 1986 Arcade game Rygar, which saw numerous home console ports.
The second game in the Castlevania series, Vampire Killer has the player taking control of Simon Belmont in his quest to defeat Dracula.
An early role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software for the PC-88, PC-98 and FM-7 computers in 1986 and ported to MS-DOS by Brøderbund. An early RPG-shooter hybrid, it was one of the first computer games with polygonal 3D environments, along with full 360-degree third-person exploration for indoor environments.
Originally released in 1986, J.B. Harold: Murder Club is the first entry in the long-running noir adventure game series.
Don the Power Suit of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran as she recaptures the dangerous Metroid species from the evil Space Pirates. Released by Nintendo in 1986, this game introduced the "Metroidvania" style of open-world gameplay on consoles.
Players must search for five crystals in this action-adventure game from 1985.
Brain Breaker is an epic open-world platform-adventure for the Sharp X1 Japanese home computer. It was an early Metroidvania-style game, predating both Metroid and Castlevania. It was designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa and published by Enix in 1985.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii in 1985 about a young man trying to find the sister of his girlfriend.
Pac-Land is a side-scrolling platformer in the Pac-Man franchise. It was one of the earliest side-scrolling games, released prior to Super Mario Bros.
A platformer that features treasure hunting and puzzle solving.
An action game on the ZX Spectrum.
An adventure game written and designed by Yuji Horii, developed by Login Software and published by ASCII in 1984.
One of the first action RPGs, released in 1984. It was also the first fully-scaled open-world video game.
An adventure game created by Yuji Horii and published by Enix in 1983 where the player controls a detective solving a murder mystery. The title helped establish the template for the Japanese adventure genre, which many other titles would imitate and build upon.
An Egyptian themed arcade game released in 1982 from Konami, where players control an explorer/treasure hunter raiding the ancient catacombs of King Tut's tomb. It was the first maze-shooter action-adventure, predating games such as Gauntlet and Time Bandit.
Rogue is a classic ASCII-based RPG, infamous for its difficulty. It is known for spawning its own genre, called Roguelikes, and its influences can still be seen in a wide variety of other games.
A browser-based adventure platformer.
A sequel to Hollow Knight following the adventures of Hornet.
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