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Often considered the franchise's pinnacle, The Revenge of Shinobi features a wide variety of locations, and a soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro of Streets of Rage fame. In early versions, it also featured bosses who bore a striking resemblance to characters not owned by Sega.
A vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up and the sequel to the original Xenon.
A side-scrolling platform game, famous for being unfairly difficult, originally developed for the Commodore Amiga, and later ported to other systems.
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.
A Famicom and MSX platformer based on the Osamu Tezuka manga.
An early first-person role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software. Ahead of its time, it had 3D polygon graphics, FPS gameplay, strafing controls, open-world space exploration, and an epic sci-fi space opera plot.
This sequel to Crazy Climber was a Japan-only arcade release in 1988.
Lord of the Sword is a side-scrolling action game for the Sega Master System in which the player takes control over the adventurer Landau who wants to become the new king of Baljinya.
A compilation of gambling mini-games for the Sega Master System and the follow up to Compile's earlier Parlour Games.
A piracy-themed action platformer from Data East originally for the Arcades and later released on the Sega Master System for all regions and NES exclusively for Japan.
A horizontal scrolling shoot 'em up.
Step into the shoes of the ninja Ryu Hayabusa as he goes on a quest to avenge his father's unexpected death.
A side-scrolling brawler that puts the player in control of a resurrected centurion who possesses the ability to shape shift into many beasts, such as a wolf, dragon, tiger and bear. Altered Beast was the original pack-in game for the Genesis in North America.
A bi-directional horizontally scrolling platformer.
A 2D side-scrolling shooter, and an arcade classic! Travel across space, power-up the companion orb, and bring down some of the toughest alien bosses in gaming.
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.
A top-down shooter for the Commodore 64.
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.
Beat up a variety of henchmen, big and small, to rescue your girlfriend in this 1986 brawler by Sega for the Sega Master System, based on the post-apocalyptic martial arts manga and anime series Fist of the North Star.
Quartet is a side-scrolling shooter that, in some configurations, allows up to four players to play at once.
After the devastating underground Dalaus invasion only one TransBot pilot is left standing in this horizontal shoot 'em up from Sega, developed especially for the SG-1000 Mark III (Sega Master System).
A cute-'em-up by Konami featuring color changing bells as power-ups.
Pac-Land is a side-scrolling platformer in the Pac-Man franchise. It was one of the earliest side-scrolling games, released prior to Super Mario Bros.
Released in 1984 by Sega, this was the debut work by Sonic creator Yuji Naka. It featured an early female protagonist, and elements of action, adventure, and dating sims.
A horror game where players must survive in a forest filled with deadly creatures.
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.
Travel through time and shoot biplanes, fighter jets and alien spacecraft in this 1982 shoot 'em up from Konami.
Taito side-scroller released for arcades in 1982 and for the Atari 2600 in 1983, is a modified version of Jungle King. A three phase platformer that puts the player in the shoes of a typical jungle survivalist, tasked with rescuing a lady from the hands of a group of bloodthirsty cannibals.
Guide a jungle man through multiple dangers to rescue the heroine in this 1982 Taito arcade game. One of the first side-scrolling platformers, it was the first game with a ducking mechanic. Game graphics and name were changed to "Jungle Hunt" after the Burroughs estate sued Taito for infringing upon "Tarzan" copyrights.
Drive a six-wheeled rover as you traverse the surface of the moon, jumping over holes and gunning down enemy ships.
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