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Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode is a mature-themed game with revolutionary design implementing multiple game mechanics, including platforming, first-person shooting, and sniping, and is one of the only games to feature sex on the NES.
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.
Super Hang-On is the sequel to the praised Hang-On. There are two modes of play and several stages available in this motorcycle racing game.
Full Throttle, also known as Top Speed, is an arcade racing game by Taito, released in 1987. It is similar in style to OutRun, with a fast red car hurtling through the U.S. countryside. The key difference in gameplay is the addition of a nitro boost button.
Tecmo Bowl was one of the most popular American football sims, and perhaps the most popular, back in the 1980s. Welcome to the game that started it all for Tecmo Inc. Welcome to Tecmo Bowl.
A Japanese role-playing game originally released in 1987 where the player character must investigate the death of two boys who were found near the entrance of a mansion.
Players take the role of a cargo trucker who delivers goods between various cities in Canada. Crosscountry Canada has frequently been called "the Canadian Oregon Trail" in terms of its importance as a geography-based educational game.
This adventure game has the player searching ancient Mayan temples for a lost professor and his team.
Originally released in 1986, J.B. Harold: Murder Club is the first entry in the long-running noir adventure game series.
Yu Suzuki's classic 1986 Sega arcade "driving game" puts players behind the wheel of a red convertible sports car on a trip through American- and European-inspired landscapes.
A geopolitical turn-based strategy game set in the '80s Cold War. Take on the role of the US President or the Soviet General Secretary and use diplomacy and brinkmanship to boost your superpower's strength throughout the world. Just don't cause a nuclear war in the process!
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.
Drive through five cities painting the road and dodging police cars along the way in this early Jaleco Arcade platformer.
An adventure game developed by Nihon Falcom set in the Mayan city of Palenque.
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.
Finalizer is an arcade shooter from Konami.
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.
Spider-Man casts you as the web-slinger in a neverending quest to save New York from the Green Goblin. You must swing your way to the tops of skyscrapers to disarm bombs, avoiding attacks by the Goblin and his minions.
One of the first Japanese RPG's, and the first game based on the Mission: Impossible franchise. It was notable for replacing the fantasy setting of traditional RPG's with a modern setting.
Ice Hockey is an ice hockey video game designed by Activision programmer Alan Miller, and published by Activision.
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.
An early motorbike racing game developed by Sega and published by Sega-Gremlin in 1976, based on the character Fonz from the TV show Happy Days. Versions of the game are also known as Man TT and Moto-Cross. It uses a pseudo-3D, third-person perspective.
An arcade light-gun shooter released by Kasco in 1975, this was the first holographic 3-D game.
Gun Fight, also known as Western Gun, is a 1975 arcade shooter. Set in the Wild West, Western Gun was the first on-foot shooter, introduced human combat, was the first open-world action-adventure video game, and the first real-time tactical cover shooter. Gun Fight was also the first microprocessor video game.
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.
A first-person arcade racing game released by Kasco in 1968. It was an electro-mechanical game using a form of video projection to display a racing track on a screen. It was a precursor to first-person racing video games.
Thrill Kill is a controversial 3D fighting game developed by Paradox Development that was cancelled several weeks before release when EA bought out its publisher.
Globe Clicker is an Indie game available through Xbox Live, priced at 240 MS. It is a challenge-based game in which the player must try and locate certain cities on a map of the world.
What was to be a new entry in the Silent Hill franchise for the PS4 involving Hideo Kojima, Guillermo Del Toro, and Norman Reedus, was officially cancelled on April 27, 2015. The 'PT' demo of the game has also been taken off PSN.
Why race normal cars when you can race police cars.
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