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Metal Max is a 1991 sandbox role-playing game set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic, open-world environment, where the surviving humans cluster in villages and ruins while "hunters" fight the monsters and outlaws outside.
Pursue a terrorist army throughout Vietnam to rescue a kidnapped super-scientist in this Cabal-style shooter for the Neo Geo. One of the four launch titles for the platform.
CrossFire is a brawler/run-and-gun for the Famicom.
Originally released for the Japan-exclusive MSX2 in 1990, this sequel is set four years after the Outer Heaven incident. New FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell, brings a shell-shocked Solid Snake back from early retirement to infiltrate the military nation Zanzibar Land.
Clash at Demonhead is an action platformer for the NES featuring non-linear gameplay and an absurd story.
Classic shoot 'em up starring the Monkey King Sun Wukong (except for Western releases, where the protagonist is "Mike Chen")
First Queen (PC, Super Famicom, etc) was a unique hybrid RTS/RPG/action game first released in 1988. It was one of the first games by Kure Software Koubou and helped establish their eventually popular Multiple Character gameplay system that they went on to use in many later games.
A unique hybrid RTS/Action/RPG game first released in 1988. It was the first game by Kure Software Koubou and introduced their eventually popular Multiple Character gameplay system that they went on to use in many later games.
A strategy war game based on the Napoleonic Wars, developed by Lenar and published by Irem for the Famicom in 1988. It was never released outside of Japan.
Released in 1987, War of the Dead is considered to be the first true survival horror game. SWAT officer Lila must rescue survivors in the demon-infested small town of Chaney’s Hill. It also featured open-world gameplay and RPG elements.
One of the first action RPGs, The Magic of Scheherazade is a Culture Brain title for the NES (1989) and Famicom (1987, as Arabian Dream Scheherazade).
Known as the first stealth-action game, Metal Gear tells the tale of Solid Snake, a rookie operative of the U.S. special forces unit FOXHOUND, as he infiltrates Outer Heaven, a fortified military compound, to destroy a mysterious superweapon known as "Metal Gear".
The second game in Koei's Nobunaga's Ambition series of historical simulation-strategy games set in the warring states era of Japan, and the first to be released outside of Japan.
Will: The Death Trap II is a video game developed and published by Squaresoft in 1985, for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1 computers. Developed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the game was a technical milestone for its real-time animated cutscenes, rendered using animated bitmap graphics, as well as its soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.
In this side-scrolling action game, up to two players infiltrate enemy bases armed initially with only their knives. As they move from left to right they will find "power up" weapons like bazookas, grenades, and flame throwers. Defeat the bosses at the end of each level to win. Also known as Green Beret, this was one of the first side-scrolling, run & gun shooters.
DESTROY THE ENEMY ARMY as Super Joe in this influential top-down shooter.
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-fi cyberpunk plot. Set in a post-apocalyptic city, the game revolves around an amnesiac protagonist with psychic powers.
One of the first action RPGs, released in 1984. It was also the first fully-scaled open-world video game.
An early action-strategy-RPG game created by Koji Sumii and published by ASCII for the Sharp X1 computer in 1983. The game is considered a precursor to several genres: the action RPG, tactical RPG, real-time strategy, and tower defense.
A turn-based strategy-puzzle game released by Koei for the FM-7 and PC-88 in 1983, later remade as Stop That Roach for the Game Boy in 1994. The gameplay is similar to later tower defense games, with the goal being to protect confectionaries from cockroaches.
In 1983 Fox Video Games, Inc. released M*A*S*H, a game based on the popular movie and TV series.
Players take control of a stationary cannon and attempt to shoot down enemy android paratroopers before they can raid their village.
Walk forward and take out the opposition in this early arcade run & gun shooter from Taito.
Released by SNK in 1980, it was an early shoot 'em up that featured human characters on foot instead of vehicles, spacecraft, or aliens. The player character faces off against multiple shuriken-throwing ninjas and along the way faces several bosses, such as a flame-shooting shinobi.
Protect the king by preventing evil balloons from carrying him away in this early Namco arcade game.
A new Zombie MMO that is playable on several sites.
Command & Conquer, originally known as Command & Conquer Generals 2, was a free-to-play real-time strategy game developed by Victory Games. The game was officially cancelled on October 29th, 2013.
Project Reality 2 is the canceled sequel to the Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2.
Animated Online Digital Trading Card Game (dTCG) currently in beta. Developed by Lightmare Studios.
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