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Super Thunder Blade is a shooter casting the player as a helicopter pilot tasked with, almost, single-handedly defeating an enemy army. Super Thunder Blade was one of the two original Japanese launch titles for the Mega Drive. The other was Space Harrier II.
Mario and his friends find themselves in the mysterious world of Sub-Con, where they must fight new enemies (with new techniques) to stop the master plans of the evil toad king, Wart.
A 2D flip screen action adventure game for the Amiga, vaguely reminiscent of Castlevania in which the player has to reach the titular Wizard's Castle. Each screen has a 30 second time limit.
A xenomorph-themed pinball game for the TurboGrafx-16 and the first in Compile's highly acclaimed Crush Pinball series.
The Adventures of Bayou Billy is an action game released for the NES by Konami. The game is primarily a side-scrolling beat-em-up, but it also includes driving and shooting segments.
A top-down, vertical-scrolling shooter from the late 80s.
An "alternate" version of the original vertical scrolling game, 1943. It was never released outside of Japan until it was included on the Capcom Classics Collection.
Devastators is an early third-person shooter. Up to two players can take control of Rambo-style mercenaries with mullets.
Captain Comic was one of the first side-scrolling platformers developed for PC.
Rescue precious cargo from space pirates with the Cybernoid spaceship
A shoot 'em up spanning four diverse levels. Players control a ship that can morph between a ground based tank and air attack ship.
Dr. Sleeptite has invented a machine for creating nightmares.
The direct follow-up to Konami's arcade shoot-'em-up classic Gradius, introducing customizable Power Meters with new power-ups. It had no official release in North America for 18 years.
A motorbike racing game developed by Binary Design.
A beat 'em up where players control a martial artist, Thomas, who must rescue his girlfriend, Madonna. Released in 1988, this is the spiritual sequel to the first beat 'em up, Kung-Fu Master (Spartan X).
When the U.S. President has been kidnapped by ninjas, this game dares to ask the question: Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?
A sequel to Renegade, Target Renegade was a sidescrolling beat 'em up. Featured the classic "Flying kick dudes to knock them off motorbikes" mechanic.
In the first installment of the Dark Castle series, Prince Duncan must test his stamina and dexterity against the traps and henchmen of the Black Knight in order to escape the fortress.
Beyond Dark Castle is a classic platformer for the Macintosh. The game puts the player in the role of Prince Duncan who, once again, must defeat the evil Black Knight through a series of challenges leading up to the final showdown with the Black Knight himself.
1943 is a vertical shooter made by Capcom. It is the sequel to 1942.
A helicopter shoot-'em-up developed by Sega. The Arcade version made use of Sega's 3D super scaler technology to create city environments where the buildings would appear to have depth. The subsequent home versions sadly lacked this feature.
An arcade game based on Boulder Dash in which the player has to guide Rockford through the puzzles and take on the role of cowboy, spaceman, doctor, chef, and hunter.
A Donkey Kong-inspired platformer where players must reach the treasure chest at the top of the level to succeed.
A sequel to the original Ninja-Kid (Ninja-kun), Ninja-Kid II is a side-scrolling platformer action game for Arcades. It is also known as Rad Action and JT-104, and was later ported to the NES in Japan only.
A Breakout-inspired game where players control a thief who breaks into bank vaults.
ALF must collect parts of his spacecraft in this top-down action game.
Players control a spaceship in this pseudo-3D shoot 'em up.
A Arkanoid/Breakout clone programmed by the French group d3m and published by The Edge for the Atari ST.
Players must collect ampersats while evading enemies - including the titular banana-like creatures.
A sci-fi scrolling shooter.
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