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A goofy Japanese-exclusive side-scrolling brawler game by Data East for arcades. Control tough guy Santos, ninja Kamakura-kun, or swordsman Rose Sub as they battle numerous comical enemies throughout the world.
Clash at Demonhead is an action platformer for the NES featuring non-linear gameplay and an absurd story.
A side-scrolling action game developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Psygnosis.
Shoot enemies before they can strike back in this Operation Wolf-like shooter.
Gogan goes on a quest to save his friend Flare from an evil cult with the aid of a legendary weapon. An action game for the Turbografx-16, developed by Marvelous Interactive.
Set a century before Simon Belmont's adventure, Castlevania: The Adventure entrusts the Vampire Killer whip to Christopher Belmont in the first handheld Castlevania game.
The world's richest duck sets off on a globe-trotting adventure to uncover several lost treasures with the help of his family and friends. Explore five exotic locations across the world and pogo-jump to victory as Scrooge McDuck in this NES classic.
A light-hearted horror-themed NES platformer from Bandai.
Princess Daisy of Sarasaland has been kidnapped by the evil alien Tatanga and it's up to Mario to rescue her in this handheld platformer (and launch title) for the original Game Boy.
16-bit sci-fi RPG originally released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in 1989.
Like in the original Paperboy, Paperboy 2 features a boy who delivers papers.
Last Armageddon was only released in Japan for the MSX and PC-8801 in 1988. Then for the Sharp X68000 on March 1st 1989, TurboGrafx CD on August 31st 1990, NES on November 10th 1990, and FM Towns.
A horror adventure game with a key-driven verb interface vaguely based on the same-named film by Alfred Hitchcock. The player ransacks the house of the Bates in order to find and bring back out, the stolen jewels before sunrise.
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 barbarian-themed brawler that came out on the Amiga, Genesis and Mac.
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.
Captain Comic was one of the first side-scrolling platformers developed for PC.
Make your way through a nasty, robot-filled maze with a friend in Xybots, a cooperative shooter from Atari.
A 1987 Arcade and NES game from Data East. It introduced the popular character of Karnov, who went on to become one of Data East's mascots. The Famicom version of the game was published by Namco.
Knightmare II: The Maze of Galious (Majou Densetsu II: Galious no Meikyuu in Japan) is a screen by screen action adventure platformer released originally for MSX in 1987. It can be considered an early example of a Metroidvania game with free exploration of a large castle.
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.
An action RPG developed by Rare Ltd. and the first in a trilogy of games for the NES. The game features a swordsman named Kuros saving a number of damsels in distress on his way to defeat the evil wizard Malkil.
A platformer/shooter for 80s computer systems.
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".
Psycho Soldier is a sidescrolling arcade game originally released in Japan in 1986. The game is credited as being the first video game with a vocal in-game soundtrack, sung by Japanese idol Kaori Shimizu.
A top-down sci-fi action-adventure game for the Famicom Disk System developed and published by Konami in 1987.
Is that Conan? No it's Rastan - the video game version of Conan. Join him in his heroic adventures.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is the second entry in the ground-breaking Zelda franchise. This controversial follow-up ditches the original's top-down perspective for 2D side-scrolling exploration and combat. The 2D towns, dungeons and combat arenas are tied together by a top-down overworld.
A side scrolling action game with a female protagonist. The original 1986 8-bit game was later remade for the Genesis/MegaDrive and the PC-Engine Super CD formats. It is (in a sense) both the first and last game in the Valis series.
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