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A racing game released by Simulmondo in 1991, 1000 Miglia - literally "1000 Miles" is a racing game based in Italy.
An NES golf game starring Mario. NES Open Tournament Golf features Stroke, Match, and Tournament modes on three different courses.
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land is an unlicensed game developed by Color Dreams, Inc. and published by Wisdom Tree, Inc. in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Punch-Out!! meets sword-and-sorcery in this over-the-shoulder action game for Neo Geo systems.
A spooky platformer featuring a head-tossing mummy that is actually a re-skinned western version of a Japanese game called Magical Hat no Buttobi Turbo! Daibouken.
A real-time strategy game in which a family of cow-people have to grow and sell crops on an island crawling with monsters.
A real-time, dungeon-crawler, action RPG, and the first game in the Xak series from Micro Cabin. It was released for various systems between 1989 and 1993, but was not officially localized into English until a considerable amount of time later.
Passing Shot is a 1988 Sega tennis game released in the Arcade. It can be played alone or with a friend.
A three-in-one cartridge containing the original Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet.
Released in 1987, War of the Dead is considered to be the first true survival horror game. SWAT officer Lila must rescue survivors in the demon-infested small town of Chaney’s Hill. It also featured open-world gameplay and RPG elements.
One of the first action RPGs, The Magic of Scheherazade is a Culture Brain title for the NES (1989) and Famicom (1987, as Arabian Dream Scheherazade).
Woody Poco is a side-scrolling adventure platformer by dB-soft, originally for home computers and later adapted for the Famicom. It was never released outside of Japan.
Adventure game developed by Enix in 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.
Will: The Death Trap II is a video game developed and published by Squaresoft in 1985, for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1 computers. Developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the game was a technical milestone for its real-time animated cutscenes, rendered using animated bitmap graphics, as well as its soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.
Released for the arcades by Sega in 1985, this was an early third-person golf game that featured motion controls. A metal swing stick allows players to swing much like normal golfers do, letting players hit the ball as hard or as soft as they wish.
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 health-regeneration mechanic. It influenced the action RPG genre as well as The Legend of Zelda franchise.
Released in 1984 by Sega, this was the debut work by Sonic creator Yuji Naka. It featured an early female protagonist, and elements of action, adventure, and dating sims.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
An adventure game released in 1984. It was Squaresoft's first game.
One of the first action RPGs, released in 1984. It was also the first fully-scaled open-world video game.
An adventure in hazardous lawn-mowing, programmed for early computer systems by Jeff Minter.
Kidou Senshi Gundam Part 1: Gundam Daishi ni Tatsu!! (機動戦士ガンダム PART 1 ガンダム大地に立つ!! "Mobile Suit Gundam Part 1: Gundam Stands on the Ground!!") is an adventure/shooter/RPG from 1983, based on the popular Mobile Suit Gundam anime television series.
Sir Graham has been given the task to return three royal items to King Edward of the kingdom of Daventry. If he can return all three items, Sir Graham will become the next king of Daventry.
Guide a jungle man through multiple dangers to rescue the heroine in this 1982 Taito arcade game. One of the first side-scrolling platformers, it was the first game with a ducking mechanic. Game graphics and name were changed to "Jungle Hunt" after the Burroughs estate sued Taito for infringing upon "Tarzan" copyrights.
The first 16-bit video game, Pole Position was responsible for popularizing third-person psuedo-3D graphics and racing games as a whole.
A graphical text-adventure written by Tim Wilson in which the player has to find and rescue Professor Paul Eisenstadt who was captured by the KGB and is being held somewhere in northern Afghanistan.
Frogs is a single player game where the player controls a jumping frog.
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