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Fly an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack plane while you complete combat missions over Europe.
Mini-game collection based on dreams of Garfield.
Gogan goes on a quest to save his friend Flare from an evil cult with the aid of a legendary weapon. An action game for the Turbografx-16, developed by Marvelous Interactive.
A side-scrolling platform game, famous for being unfairly difficult, originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, and later ported to other systems.
Action RPG developed by Lee Way and published by Sein Soft for the Sharp X68000 home computer in 1989.
Midwinter is a First Person strategy/role playing game with some first-person shooting. Controlling up to 32 characters, players must defend an immense playing area of over 160,000 square miles. Players can ski, hang-glide, snow-buggy or travel by cable car across the glacial landscape.
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.
16-bit sci-fi RPG originally released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1989.
Step into the shoes of the ninja Ryu Hayabusa as he goes on a quest to avenge his father's unexpected death.
Created by LucasArts in 1988, Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders follows Zak in an attempt to meet girls and stop evil aliens.
A vertical scrolling platformer based on the Matterhorn ride.
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.
A fantasy adventure game where a regular college student is drawn into the world of Konami's Knightmare series.
Featuring a robotic protagonist that could siphon the abilities of his adversaries, Mega Man is a side-scrolling platformer that begins the never-ending struggle between cheeky hero Mega Man and the evil roboticist Dr. Wily.
Is that Conan? No it's Rastan - the video game version of Conan. Join him in his heroic adventures.
A Konami run-and-gun famous for its fast-paced, gritty, old-school action.
A side scrolling action game with a female protagonist. The original 1986 8-bit game was later remade for the Genesis/MegaDrive and the PC-Engine Super CD formats. It is (in a sense) both the first and last game in the Valis series.
The sequel to The Way of the Exploding Fist brings more 2D martial arts action to the C-64 and ZX Spectrum, this time in a free-roaming game world rather than isolated one-on-one fights.
Despite the name and the marketing material's insistence, Sai Combat features Combat but no Sai.
An icon/keyword driven RPG in which the player controls four main characters in search of evil Nemesar and the Mindstone he has stolen.
Known outside of Japan as "Takeshi's Challenge", this game is an unconventional action-adventure platformer created by famous Japanese comedian Beat Takeshi. Along with its open world exploration and mature themes, the game is known for its unorthodox game progression (where the game can easily be made unwinnable).
The most well known game out of the Alex Kidd series, Miracle World follows the adventures of the plucky little lad Alex as he fights his way through 16 stages to find his long lost brother. Sega's answer to Super Mario Bros, Miracle World is a more ambitious platformer, with more varied levels, quirky Roshambo battles, and a longer adventure.
The second game in Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series of historical simulation-strategy games set in the warring states era of Japan, and the first to be released outside of Japan.
A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.
Adventure game developed by Enix in 1985.
Time Gal must save the world by traveling through time and stopping an evil thief from using a time traveling device in order to become the supreme leader of his time. This game was originally released in Japanese arcades in 1985 and later ported to the Sega CD.
Developed by Chris Crawford and distributed through the Atari Program eXchange (APX). The player takes control of the Germany Army and attempts to secure supply lines and cities before the winter rolls in and the tide turns. Seasons have different effects on troop movement, as do supply lines.
A single screen platformer written by Chris Morris and published by The Edge for the Commodore 64.
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.
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.
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