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A fast-paced puzzle-platformer that debuted in arcades, and later moved to home gaming systems; including the Commodore 64, NES, and Nintendo's Virtual Console.
Also known as Salamander, Life Force is a spin-off of the 1985 shoot-'em-up Gradius featuring two-player multiplayer and both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling stages.
Vs. Super Mario Bros. is part of Nintendo's arcade Vs. series that featured enhanced Famicom games.
Be a hero in this rudimentary brawler from Sega, which challenges players to beat up foes using jump kicks and glass bottles in order to save the girl.
A top-down fantasy action Arcade game from the 80s in which up to four players fended off hordes of enemies while navigating treacherous mazes. Its difficulty is legendary; players can still hear the cry "Wizard needs food, badly!" in their nightmares.
A fantasy-themed vertical scrolling shooter released in 1986 for MSX, also available for Wii's Virtual Console in Japan.
A isometric action-adventure game with puzzle elements written by Steven Chapman that is also known as Wizardry.
Tritorn is an action RPG developed by Sein Soft and released in 1985. It was one of the first action RPGs, improving on Dragon Slayer and Hydlide with the use of an action button to attack enemies, and one of the first Metroidvania-style games.
Focusing on a humble plumber and his brother setting out to rescue a Princess who has been kidnapped by a vile lizard king, Super Mario Bros. is a platformer created by Shigeru Miyamoto, published by Nintendo, and is one of the best-selling video games of all time.
Players guide a hammer-wielding Mario to victory in 100 stages of Wrecking Crew.
A game only released for PAL region Atari systems, this surprisingly complex game features a dragon fighting for survival in strange and varied landscapes, collecting crystals to increase its survivability, and rescuing dragon eggs to ensure its species' survival. An ambitious and sadly little-known game.
A PC Booter game that is heavily inspired by Mr. Do. The game tasks players with digging through dirt to collect emeralds while avoiding enemies.
A water combat-based maze game for arcades and SG-1000.
An early 1983 laserdisc video game released by Nihon Bussan and Data East, based on the anime film Harmagedon released that same year.
Unlike the movies, TIE Fighters shot "fireballs" at the player in this game
Dragonfire is a game by Imagic that tasks a prince with recovering the king's treasure from a group of greedy dragons.
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, this was the game that set the template for the platformer genre.
Released by SNK in 1980, it was an early shoot 'em up that featured human characters on foot instead of vehicles, spacecraft, or aliens. The player character faces off against multiple shuriken-throwing ninjas and along the way faces several bosses, such as a flame-shooting shinobi.
Pocket tanks is a 2D strategy game, which features similar gameplay to that of worms.
The first of the two games featuring Xeen, which can be combined with each other to create World of Xeen. In this, the fourth installment in the Might and Magic series, player characters explore the surface of Xeen, as well as high above it, to recover an other-worldly scepter.
A multiplayer physics based game created by Rag Doll Software.
A platformer from Magnussoft.
The sequel to Jump Jack.
An Arkanoid-inspired game for PC.
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A 2D top-down maze game similar to Pac-Man.
A couch multiplayer fantasy action game.
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