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Excitebike is a 1985 motocross racing game for the NES. Race around premade tracks and even create custom ones!
Clu Clu Land is a puzzle game starring Bubbles, a fish who must collect gold and dodge enemies.
An early fighting game for the NES in which the goal is to win as many fights as possible by knocking the opposing fighter into a manhole.
A Formula One racing title for the Famicom and later Gameboy. The game featured cameo appearences from famous Nintendo characters at the start and end of each race.
A Pac-Man style game made by Nintendo for the Famicom and NES. It is the only NES-era game by Shigeru Miyamoto never to have been released in the US.
An early NES Zapper game that pits the player against the baddest dudes in town.
This shape-based Russian mind-bender set the stage for innumerable puzzle games to follow.
The original golf game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Duck Hunt was one of the original NES launch titles, featuring a lightgun, ducks and a laughing blood-hound.
A Nintendo Entertainment System game developed and published by Nintendo as part of their series of sports games. It can be played in singles or doubles.
An arcade game that debuted Nintendo's Punch-Out franchise. It released in Japan in 1983, and in North America and Europe in 1984. It was a technical breakthrough, for its large detailed sprites, over-the-shoulder perspective, and gameplay innovations such as the player stamina meter, enemy stamina meter, recharging health and dodging mechanics.
A Nintendo recreation of the popular ball and cudgel sport famous in the Americas and Japan. Originally released as a part of the Nintendo Sports Series for NES, later ported as an early title for the Game Boy.
Mario steps aside to let Stanley the bugman have a go in the third Donkey Kong game.
Donkey Kong Jr./Jr. Sansu Lesson was a compilation cartridge released alongside the Sharp C1 TV, a television with a built-in Famicom.
Nintendo's classic arcade hit. Players attempt to eliminate enemies while avoiding fireballs and collecting coins.
Popeye must win the love of Olive Oyl in three different scenarios while avoiding the nasty Bluto. His main weapon against this relentless brute are the cans of spinach that appear at the beginning of each screen.
When Mario finally defeats and captures Donkey Kong, it is up to Donkey Kong's son, Donkey Kong Junior, to rescue him.
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.
Space Firebird is a 1980 arcade game published by Gremlin Industries, Inc. It is a "slide and shoot" shooter, similar to titles such as Galaga.
Early Breakout clone from Nintendo, featuring a giant monkey head to destroy.
An early driving/maze game from Nintendo, and more or less a clone of Sega's Head On.
Radar Scope was one of Nintendo's first arcade video games, a space shooter with a pseudo-3D third-person perspective. While a hit in Japan, it was unpopular overseas. The popular worldwide hit Donkey Kong was based on its hardware.
Space Launcher is a 1979 arcade game developed and published by Nintendo. Its gameplay appears to be a cross between Space Invaders and Frogger, except it came out nearly two years before Frogger.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
Nintendo's Space Invaders clone.
Block Fever was a simple Breakout clone that served as one of Nintendo's first video game releases.
Computer Othello is a 1978 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. It is one of their earliest arcade video games along with Block Fever. It was possibly the earliest arcade video game based on a board game, Reversi/Othello.
Wild Gunman is a light gun shooter by Nintendo. There were two versions of the game: a 1974 FMV arcade game, and later a 1984 NES game developed by Intelligent Systems; the latter uses the NES Zapper to draw, aim and shoot the opponent.
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