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Also known as Salamander, Life Force is a spin-off of the 1985 shoot-'em-up Gradius featuring two-player multiplayer and both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling stages.
A seminal accomplishment in Interactive Fiction, Trinity scripts a mesmerizing adventure as you travel through space and time, solving puzzles in an attempt to prevent modern day Nuclear Armageddon.
The first role-playing game developed by Squaresoft, Cruise Chaser Blassty is a sci-fi title released in April 1986.
Quartet is a side-scrolling shooter that, in some configurations, allows up to four players to play at once.
A vertical-scrolling shooter for the Arcades and the NES. It was developed by NMK and published by Jaleco in Japan only.
Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy is a text adventure by TRANS Fiction Systems, in which players assume the role of Captain Kirk during the exploration of the Prometheus sector.
Andrew Braybrook's futuristic racing shooter.
First-person action game, published by SystemSoft for Japanese computers in 1986. Its polygonal 3D graphics engine was a technical milestone, rendering 3D environments at a fast pace and (compared to the tile-based, right-angle movement of earlier first-person games) allowed the player to move with full 360-degree movement.
Pornographic adventure game developed by JAST in 1986.
Halley's Comet is a vertical shooter made by Taito released in 1986. It spawned a sequel, Halley Wars, in 1989.
A shoot 'em up where the player controls Captain Commando as he infiltrates an enemy space fortress, blasting his way from Section-A straight through to the titular Section-Z.
A vertical space shoot 'em up game originally on Arcade machines which then moved to the NES. It was SNK's first game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
A space themed shoot 'em up.
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.
A Time Traveling gnome solves puzzles in several disparate eras.
Full-color sequel to Space Invaders.
A vertical-scrolling shoot'em up written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore 16.
A Space Invaders clone written by John P. Shay and published by Solar Software for the Commodore 16.
A shoot'em up based on Space Invaders, where the player controls a spacecraft at the bottom of the screen moving left or right, destroying a wave of aliens above descending slowly in formation.
A shoot 'em up written by Jim Baguley and published by Solar Software for the Amstrad CPC.
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 vertical scrolling shoot 'em up filled with secrets that was released exclusively in Japan for the Famicom.
A first-person shooter and cockpit-view space shoot-em-up developed by Namco, and released for the Arcade and Nintendo Famicom platforms in 1985.
Brain Breaker is an epic open-world platform-adventure for the Sharp X1 Japanese home computer. It was an early Metroidvania-style game, predating both Metroid and Castlevania. It was designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa and published by Enix in 1985.
Take control of one of three large mechs and fight one-on-one duels in this 1985 arcade fighting game by Konami.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers in 1985.
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