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The third installment in the Zelda series makes a return to the top-down 2D gameplay of the original. Link must travel between the Light and Dark Worlds in order to set things right in the kingdom of Hyrule.
Help Mylo Steamwitz get enough money to cash in on the latest fad by plundering an abandoned, yet profitable series of crystal mines.
When a mad physicist creates an army of Techbots and lays waste to a populated city, it's up to self-proclaimed hero Duke Nukem to foil his plans of conquering Earth in this side-scrolling platformer for PCs.
A dungeon-crawler which was followed by the hit tactical RPG Shining Force.
Magic Sword is a 2D action side-scroller with a fantasy theme. The hero and his chosen accomplice must battle their way through a wizard's tower in a lust for monster slaying and loot.
A horror-themed platformer for home computers.
A 1990 point-and-click adventure game from Dynamix in the vein and spirit of Blade Runner, hard-boiled detective novels, and pulp adventures.
A puzzle game similar to Boulder Dash.
A sidescrolling 2D platformer/RPG hybrid in which the protagonist, Wonder Boy, must regain his human form after having been cursed by a dragon. Released under the name "Dragon's Curse" on the Turbografx-16 with slightly improved 16-bit graphics.
16-bit sci-fi RPG originally released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1989.
You are space adventurer Mike Finn. After receiving a distress call, you plot a course for planet Phoebus. Crew members from Earth are being held hostage by the exiled psychotic scientist Triax. Anticipating your imminent arrival, he steals a vital component from your ship and leaves you stranded in orbit.
Vindicators is a 1-2 player top-down, run-and-gun, shoot-em-up action game, released in 1988. It was published by Tengen for home platforms; an arcade version of Vindicators was published by Atari.
Players must navigate labyrinths while avoiding endlessly spawning enemies.
An arcade game released by Sega in 1988, Last Survivor is the earliest known free-roaming, three-dimensional, third-person shooter, and one of the first shooters with a network multiplayer deathmatch mode.
Three blues singing raisins are on a harrowing journey to escape the Raisin Factory. Battle through traditional 2D side scrolling platform puzzles to reach freedom, or face being baked in an oatmeal cookie.
An early computer platformer by id Software founder John Romero, Dangerous Dave has the titular high-jumper navigating 10 treacherous levels of an abandoned pirate's hideout to retrieve his beloved trophies.
Mario and his friends find themselves in the mysterious world of Sub-Con, where they must fight new enemies (with new techniques) to stop the master plans of the evil toad king, Wart.
A side-scrolling space shooter that takes place in the post-apocalyptic setting of 2777. It was released on the NES by Hudson Soft and co-developed by Atlus.
As a pizza delivery guy, players must attempt to deliver a pizza to a specific room in a massive apartment building infested with Noids - a mascot for Domino's Pizzas.
Maniac Mansion is a graphic adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games. When the innocent Sandy is kidnapped by the maniacal Dr. Fred, it's up to her boyfriend Dave and his friends to her from certain death!
A turn based first person 3D dungeon crawler written by Dan Sureau and published in France by Chip for the Amstrad CPC.
You play a wanted criminal who has busted out of an experimental lab. The game is well known for it's music by composer Rob Hubbard.
An isometric 3D action-adventure and the second series in the Chronicles of the Land of Fairlight.
A fast-paced puzzle-platformer that debuted in arcades, and later moved to home gaming systems; including the Commodore 64, NES, and Nintendo's Virtual Console.
A young boy explores a huge overworld filled with enemies and dungeons to find and rescue Princess Zelda from the evil Ganon.
Fairlight is an isometric action adventure game.
In this isometric action-adventrue the player slips in the role of the evil Doomlord whos castle is under siege from the White Wizard and his hordes of do-gooders.
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.
A platformer that features treasure hunting and puzzle solving.
Tim Martin's Spelunker is regarded by some as one of the most obscenely difficult games of all time.
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