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The evil Dr. Wily is back with eight new menacing creations, and it's up to Mega Man to foil his new plans for world domination! Known for bootstrapping the long-running series, the game also introduces passwords, helpful items (such as Energy Tanks), and the series standard of eight bosses.
Airwolf is a helicopter shoot-em-up based on the 80s TV show of the same name. This version was developed by Kyugo Boueki exclusively for Japan. It is not to be confused with Acclaim's Airwolf NES game.
Was produced and released in 1988 to coincide with the anime movie of the same name released earlier that year.
Final Fantasy II follows four heroes who join a resistance group and try to stop an empire from taking over the world. Its gameplay deviates greatly from the first game by utilizing a usage-based growth system.
A side-scrolling platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Aicom. The player controls a Marine who has crash-landed on an island.
A side-scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Data East and ported to numerous home computers, based on the 1987 Verhoeven movie.
Anticipation is an NES video board game for 1 to 4 players.
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.
Get to the bottom of the mystery shrouding both a recent influx of body-snatching robotic terrorists and your own past as futuristic gumshoe Gillian Seed in this thrilling cinematic adventure. A Hideo Kojima adventure game originally released for the NEC PC-88 in 1988.
A driving game about chasing criminals through hi-speed pursuits and bringing them to justice! It was released by Taito for arcades in 1988 and then ported to various different home systems.
Super Mario Bros. 3 sends Mario on a whole new adventure across diverse worlds and sporting strange new suits and abilities.
Ultima V is the second game in the trilogy of Enlightenment of the Ultima story. After your character had gleaned the title of the avatar from traveling to the eight shrines of virtue in the fourth game you return to find that Lord British has been kidnapped!
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.
8 Eyes is an early NES game by Thinking Rabbit very similar in gameplay to Castlevania. It is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the player must retrieve 8 magic gems, the titular "eyes".
The Adventures of Bayou Billy is an action game released for the NES by Konami. The game is primarily a side-scrolling beat-em-up, but it also includes driving and shooting segments.
Blades of Steel is an ice hockey game first released by Konami for the arcade in 1987, followed by a release on the NES in 1988.
Control Jason Frudnick in his sweet battle-tank as he blasts his way through eight levels of dudes!
An action platformer game released in 1988 by Konami for the Famicom Disk System and was later made available via the Wii Shop's Virtual Console.
RPG developed by Xtalsoft in 1986. It was developed for home computers and later ported to the Famicom Disk System.
The Battle of Olympus is a side scrolling action adventure game with elements of Zelda II and Metroid. The player controls Orpheus, out on a mission to save his love Helene from the clutches of Hades, however the other gods are ready to help you.
When the U.S. President has been kidnapped by ninjas, this game dares to ask the question: Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?
A mini golf game featuring four different courses of varying difficulty levels and modes for up to four players.
1943 is a vertical shooter made by Capcom. It is the sequel to 1942.
Inspired by Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, this game is set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327 where a murder has been committed.
Solve a variety of difficult and creative puzzles using the unique abilities of a pair of creatures named Head and Heels.
Remember those advergames Burger King put out for the Xbox 360? Yeah, turns out it wasn't the first time they played with the idea. "Whopper Chase" is a Spain-exclusive action game that was given to customers with the purchase of a Whopper meal.
Air Fortress is a combination side-scrolling shooter and action adventure game from Japanese developer HAL Laboratory.
Bionic Commando follows hero Rad Spencer as he fights through enemy territory to rescue fellow commando, Super Joe.
Animal Attack Gakuen is a NES run-and-gun shooter that uses the Z-axis, similarly to Sega's Space Harrier. It was only released in Japan, on December 26th 1987.
Featuring a robotic protagonist that could siphon the abilities of his adversaries, Mega Man is a side-scrolling platformer that begins the never-ending struggle between cheeky hero Mega Man and the evil roboticist Dr. Wily.
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