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Rough Ranger is a side-scrolling arcade platformer and shooter released in 1988.
Arcade beach volleyball from Taito. Play as George and Michael as they embark on their quest to win a nationwide beach volleyball tournament and win a million dollars.
Devastators is an early third-person shooter. Up to two players can take control of Rambo-style mercenaries with mullets.
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".
King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch (怒りのメガトンパンチ/Megaton Punch of Fury) was only released in Japan for the Famicom. It is very loosely based off of the 1986 film King Kong Lives.
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.
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Hot Scramble is the first console Gundam game. It features some early first-person shooter elements, along with side-scrolling action segments.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers 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.
Kidou Senshi Gundam Part 2: Tobe! Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム PART 2 翔べ!ガンダム "Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2: Fly! Gundam") is an adventure/shooter/RPG from 1984, based on the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series. It anticipated several gameplay elements later found in FPS, TPS and action RPG games.
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.
An early run & gun shooter designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa in the summer of 1983 and published by Enix in October 1983.
Originally developed by Dan Gorlin of Brøderbund, Choplifter!, which claims to be the computer! game of the year, focuses on the simple mechanics of avoiding fire while ferrying hostages from their capture bunkers to a home base.
Walk forward and take out the opposition in this early arcade run & gun shooter from Taito.
Mission-X, also known as Zoar, is a vertical scrolling shooter from Nihon Bussan and Data East, released in early 1982.
Arcade first-person space shooter released by Sega in 1980. It featured early 3-D effects, such as sprite scaling and a motion cabinet where the screen mobilizes as the player aims a centred crosshair and lasers shoot into the screen. Five bases need to be defended and can be commanded to fire shots, and an energy shield is available for protection.
The first 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay. It was the first flight simulator game, the earliest first-person shooter, the first open-world game, and the first action-adventure game.
Action RPG sequel to Cosmic Soldier, released for Japanese computers in 1987 and for North American PC in 1989.
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