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A classic, side-scrolling hack and slash game, Golden Axe was ported to many platforms, including the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.
Final Fight is a classic beat-em-up game developed by Capcom featuring a memorable cast of characters, including Guy, Cody, and the first and only mustachioed ex-pro-wrestler turned mayor, Mike Haggar. Released for the CPS arcade system in 1989 and then ported to the SNES and other home systems.
Classic NES volleyball game based on the arcade smash hit, U.S. Championship V'Ball. Super Spike V'Ball is one of twenty-two games that were compatible with the NES Four Score (or NES Satellite) for four-player gameplay. The game features three tournament modes: Exercise, American Circuit, and World Cup.
The action-rpg sequel to Kung-Fu Heroes.
Scrolling brawler with RPG attributes. Fight through street gangs as Alex and Ryan in search of Ryan's kidnapped girlfriend. This game was basically an early proto-GTA sandbox brawler, where the player can explore the city, beat up or steal from random people, and shop around.
Play Beach Volley Ball around the world to win the Beach Volley Cup. Play against the computer in cup mode or against a second player
Dungeon Explorer is a top-down action-adventure RPG developed by Atlus and published by Hudson Soft in 1989. Up to five players can join in the quest to recover the Ora stone from the mighty Natas.
Ikari III: The Rescue is the third installment of the Ikari Warriors series, which were popular commando style top-down view shooters from the 1980s.
Help Billy and Jimmy avenge Marion's death in this sequel to the beat-em-up arcade classic.
Rough Ranger is a side-scrolling arcade platformer and shooter released in 1988.
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.
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".
Devastators is an early third-person shooter. Up to two players can take control of Rambo-style mercenaries with mullets.
Superman is a video game released for the arcades.
When hostile aliens take over a space station, it's up to a team of space adventurers to make First Contact the only way they know how... with heavy firepower and extreme prejudice.
A SNK arcade shooter based on the Cuban Revolution.
Super Contra, also known as Super C, is the sequel to Contra. In addition to side-scrolling levels like its predecessor, Super Contra introduces top-down levels, which replace the third-person segments of the original. The NES version, uses the same gameplay engine as the NES version of Contra, with some levels not featured in the arcade version.
Assemble the superweapon Heavy Barrel as you blast your way through an endless horde of terrorists in this arcade run-and-gun by Data East.
Side-scrolling, Metroidvania-style, action RPG, released by System Sacom in 1987.
Tecmo Bowl was one of the most popular American football sims, and perhaps the most popular, back in the 1980s. Welcome to the game that started it all for Tecmo Inc. Welcome to Tecmo Bowl.
The second compilation of levels from Irem's Lode Runner Arcade series. Developed for the Famicom Disk System, it was never released outside of Japan.
A game credited, in part, with the popularity of the brawler genre in the arcade craze of the 1980s and 1990s.
A Konami run-and-gun famous for its fast-paced, gritty, old-school action.
An early arcade platformer that has 100 levels. Released by Taito in 1986, it was one of the first games to feature two-player cooperative play and multiple endings.
Alien Syndrome is a cooperative, top-down, run & gun shooter with aliens developed by SEGA as an arcade game in 1987. Compared to other shooters at the time, Alien Syndrome introduced a horror atmosphere in an isolated space station, along with some exploration and survival elements.
Vertically scrolling shooter in the vein of Commando, where Rambo sets out to murder anyone who gets in his way, and free hostages or blow up police cruisers for power ups!
The Ikari Warriors, Paul and Vince, are back in their second installment. Originally an arcade release, the game was later ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System and other platforms.
Take the role of soldiers infiltrating enemy territory in a jeep to rescue POW comrades.
Speed Rumbler puts you into an armed and armored car as you work your way through multiple enemy-filled levels. The player can also exit the vehicle and battle on foot. Ahead of its time, the game's combination of run & gun shooter with driving mechanics was a precursor to later action games like GTA.
The sequel to Tower of Druaga and an asynchronous two-player action-RPG. After rescuing Ki at the end of the first game, Gilgamesh and Ki must escape the Tower of Druaga by descending through its floors.
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