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King's Knight is a top-down vertically-scrolling shooter and was the first North American release under the Squaresoft label.
A shoot'em up game by Andrew Braybrook in which the player flies over spaceship surfaces and has to try to shoot down defense towers and enemy spaceships.
Aces from The Great War become birds in cartoon biplanes. Don't worry about it, just keep shooting!
Summer Games II is a sequel to the popular Summer Games released the year before by Epyx.
A puzzle game where players guide cat-like people through a series of obstacles until they've defeated all enemies in the level. In Japan, this game goes by the name of Pitman.
The official sequel to Namco's coin op classic Dig Dug. It was originally released in arcades and later ported to the NES and Famicom Disk System. It is a major departure from the original and is often seen as being far inferior.
Long before the Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven series, this was Konami's footy claim to fame.
A table tennis simulator made for the Arcades by Konami and later ported to various systems.
Sequel to the seminal fighting game by Konami for the MSX.
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.
Lunar Pool takes the basic physics of billiards and applies them to crazy table designs.
Play as a flying dude holding a large cannon as he takes on giant mechs, flying mushrooms, and fire-breathing dragon skeletons.
An early fighting game in which players compete against their opponents to score points by delivering proper blows during the match.
Ikki is a Japanese arcade game developed by Sunsoft. It was also released for the Nintendo Famicom.
It's ninja versus yōkai in this elimination platformer from Jaleco.
Reunite penguin lovers Gurin and Malon in this cute puzzle game from Hudson.
Paradroid is a top-down hybrid shooter, featuring space vessels infested with hackable droids. Gameplay includes one of the earliest hacking mini-games.
A NES (Famicom) motorcycle game. It is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the player must rescue survivors and defeat enemies.
An action game originally released on the Famicom. The game frequently switches its viewpoint, from side-scrolling to top-down, and boasts 100 stages.
Drive through five cities painting the road and dodging police cars along the way in this early Jaleco Arcade platformer.
Focusing on a humble plumber and his brother setting out to rescue a Princess who has been kidnapped by a vile lizard king, Super Mario Bros. is a platformer created by Shigeru Miyamoto, published by Nintendo, and is one of the best-selling video games of all time.
A multi-directional shooter where the player commandeers a tank to destroy the enemy and protect their base.
A Commando-style vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up with a few novel features. It was developed by TOSE and published by Jaleco for Arcades and the Nintendo Famicom.
Players guide a hammer-wielding Mario to victory in 100 stages of Wrecking Crew.
A side scrolling arcade shoot 'em up and the first in Konami's famous series. The game became famous for its extreme difficulty and varied power-ups.
DESTROY THE ENEMY ARMY as Super Joe in this influential top-down shooter.
An early Arcade horizontal-scrolling shoot-em-up by Jaleco, ported to the MSX by Nippon Dexter and the Famicom by Jaleco and Hect. The player can transform between a jet fighter and a bipedal robot.
A cute-'em-up by Konami featuring color changing bells as power-ups.
Dragon Buster is a dungeon-crawling, arcade platformer with RPG elements, released by Namco in 1985. It was later ported to various home systems. It featured several firsts in gaming history: the double-jump, the life meter, and the hub world map. It was also one of the first action games with RPG elements.
In Ice Climber the player controls a hammer wielding Eskimo that needs to climb 32 ice-covered mountains in order to recover a stolen vegetable from a giant condor.
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