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Famicom Wars marks Intelligent Systems' first game for the Nintendo console, and it also is the first offering of the popular, turn-based strategy series known alternatively as Nintendo Wars or Advance Wars.
A tank-based arena combat game that doesn't appear to involve General Patton. It was developed for the Famicom Disk System by Soft Pro International.
A vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up from SNK in which the player controls a tank. It is reminiscent of games like Ikari Warriors (also by SNK) and Commando. Known as "Great Tank" in Japan.
Devastators is an early third-person shooter. Up to two players can take control of Rambo-style mercenaries with mullets.
Control Jason Frudnick in his sweet battle-tank as he blasts his way through eight levels of dudes!
M-1 Abrams Battle Tank is an arcade style tank simulator developed by Dynamix Inc and published by Electronic Arts. It was later ported to the Sega Genesis by Realtime Games Software Ltd.
It's a race again time to secure two nukes stolen by terrorists.
A vertical military shoot 'em up developed by Toaplan and published by Taito in 1987.
Make your way through a nasty, robot-filled maze with a friend in Xybots, a cooperative shooter from Atari.
A James Bond game released for numerous 1980s computer systems.
An Arcade game released by Konami 1987, Flak Attack was known as MX5000 outside of Japan.
Bolo is a computer game made for the BBC Micro computer in 1987, and was later adopted for the Macintosh computer. It was an early multiplayer computer game, allowing up to 16 players at once.
A single-screen shoot'em up in which two players guide their tanks along the screen and try to blow each other up.
King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch (怒りのメガトンパンチ/Megaton Punch of Fury) was only released in Japan for the Famicom. It is very loosely based off of the 1986 film King Kong Lives.
Control the heroic Autobot, Ultra Magnus, as he searches for the missing Autobot leader, Convoy.
Released for the Fujitsu FM-77 AV computer in 1986, this game was an early 3D first-person shooter. It was notable for its advanced 3D graphics engine, which processed 3D polygons at high frame rates for its time. It was the first FPS to use 3D polygons.
Strike Force Harrier is a combat flight simulator developed by H&H Software and published by Mirrorsoft in 1986.
An early role-playing shooter released by Arsys Software for the PC-88, PC-98 and FM-7 computers in 1986 and ported to MS-DOS by Brøderbund. An early RPG-shooter hybrid, it was one of the first computer games with polygonal 3D environments, along with full 360-degree third-person exploration for indoor environments.
Command your various forces against the absolute might of the heavy tank OGRE in this 1980's computer game adaptation of Steve Jackson's sci-fi board game of the same name.
A top-down shooter where one or two bandana-wearing commandos fight enemy forces in a jungle. It is notable for allowing the player to pilot various vehicles including a tank and a helicopter.
It is the far-off future year of 2005 AD, and aliens have taken over Antarctica. You are sent in with your new Slye-Hicks MX-100 supertank and it's your job to give them a warm welcome!
Alternatively labeled Sky Kid DX, this is the sequel to Namco's seminal "birds-in-planes" shoot-'em-up.
EPYX' sequel to Crush,Crumble and Chomp! Play as one of the famous movie monsters and cause havoc in mankind's most precious cities
TANK, AKA TNK III, was an early shoot-'em-up game by SNK. It was also the first appearance of Ralf Jones of Ikari Warriors, King of Fighters, and Metal Slug fame.
A turn-based strategy game for the Apple II and Macintosh in which players aim to capture the world.
A action platformer, with over 104 rooms, following the adventures of a Viking awoken in 1983 who plans to conquer Britain.
A shoot-em-up on a ski resort. Released by Casio for the MSX and PV-2000.
Top-down shooter video game in which the player has to rescue a POW from a map filled with enemies.
Brain Breaker is an epic open-world platform-adventure for the Sharp X1 Japanese home computer. It was an early Metroidvania-style game, predating both Metroid and Castlevania. It was designed by Hiroshi Ishikawa and published by Enix in 1985.
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