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Ikari Warriors II - Victory Road
5 
Action | 2 players
Heavy on the action, Ikari Warriors became a favorite both in the arcades and on home consoles. To fuel that frenzy, SNK and Tradewest teamed up again for a sequel, Victory Road, released later that same year.
This time, the Ikari Warriors take on more cosmic foes, battling rock-headed beasts, on...
Akumajou Dracula
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4 
Action - Platformer | 2 players
Akumajou Dracula is a 2D arcade platform game, part of the Castlevania game universe. It's the first game in the series for arcade machines.
The game's main hero is once again Simon Belmont. He wants to rescue his wife Selena from Dracula. The gameplay is simple - Simon goes from left to right an...
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu Hen
9
Action - Platformer - RPG | 1 player
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Heavy Unit
1
1
Shoot'em up | 1 player
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R.C. Pro-Am
2
Racing | 1 player
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Yuu Yuu Jinsei - Victory Life
0 
Board game - Strategy | 5 players
Yū Yū Jinsei: Victory Life is a video game adaption of the board game "The Game of Life" for up to five players, either controlled by human or computer players. Players are displayed as little cars driving on a road track, symbolizing a whole life from birth to death. Each turn players have to spin ...
Space Harrier
0
Shoot'em up | 1 player
Run… fly… dodge those obstacles, but return fire on wave after wave of attacking aliens. Armed with a really big gun, you have to defend yourself against the alien hordes using your wits to navigate around the screen. But watch out for those end of level bosses!
Originating in the arcades, Space ...
Sengoku Mahjong
0
Board game | 2 players
Sengoku Mahjong is a mahjong game that takes place in feudal Japan. There are 12 different opponents, and two different modes of gameplay. In normal mode, the player chooses 3 opponents and plays mahjong against all of them at once. In battle mode, the play aims to unify the world by becoming a warl...
Sadakichi 7 Series - Hideyoshi No Ougon
0
Adventure - Visual Novel | 1 player
Sadakichi 7 is a japanese digital comic and, as far as I know (and understand), is a sort of comedy adventure (I think) based on a spy novel by Togo Takashi . The player incarnates a boy, an apprentice spy ( Number 7 in the game title is probably a reference to the famous English super-agent james B...
Pro Yakyuu World Stadium
0
Sports | 2 players
Pro Yakyuu World Stadium is the first baseball game released for the PC-Engine. The general gameplay as well as the graphics style closely resembles that of Namco's own "Family Stadium/Famista" baseball series for the Nintendo NES/Famicom. Game options include a one or two-player mode as well as wat...
Pro Tennis World Court
0
Sports | 4 players
World Court Tennis is a tennis game with a twist. The action itself features no big surprises: the players control their characters over the scrolling tennis field and try to counter balls from their opponents. It is possible to perform typical tennis actions like cross, smash or lob and the hit per...
Power League
0
Sports | 2 players
World Class Baseball is a baseball game. The player controls the pitcher and fielders (through an automatic system that, following baseball games' tradition, gives to him control on the one of the players who is closest to the ball); not the batter. One or two little windows display the runner's sta...
Jaseiken Necromancer
0
RPG | 1 player
Long time ago, the Gods fought the Demons in a cosmic battle. To ensure victory, the Gods had to sacrifice part of their divine nature, and forge a weapon that had both good and bad in it - the "Evil Holy Sword" Necromancer. The demons were forced to dwell in the lower world, while the Gods remained...
Fantasy Zone
0
Shoot'em up | 1 player
The Fantasy Zone is a solar system consisting of eight brightly colored, fantastic planets. The evil Menons are trying to take over all of the planets in the Fantasy Zone by using misappropriated foreign currency to build their forces. It is the player's job to recover all of the coins and save the ...
Appare Gateball
0
Sports | 1 player
Appare! Gateball is a sports game featuring gateball, an Asian sport similar to croquet. The game consists of two teams of five players each. One team plays with a white ball, and one team plays with a red ball. The red team starts first. The goal is to pass the ball through three gates and hit the ...
Alien Crush
1
Pinball | 1 player
Alien Crush is an alien-themed video pinball game. The graphics feature strong similarities to the art from the Alien movies, and everything has a dark and sinister look.
The main table has numerous moving targets and ball locks and is two screens high. There are at least three bonus games that a...
Gryzor
2
Action | 2 players
The universe teeters on the brink of total annihilation at the hands of the vile alien warmonger, Red Falcon. Earth's only hope rests with you, a courageous member of the Special Forces elite commando squad. Your mission: Battle deep into the deadly Amazon jungle, where the Red Falcon and his galact...
Gradius II
1
Shoot'em up | 2 players
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Wonder Boy in Monster Land
0
Action - Platformer | 1 player
Eleven years have gone by since Tom-Tom rescued his girlfriend Tanya from the clutches of the evil King. Word of Tom-Tom's dangerous adventure soon spread throughout Wonder Land. The people were very proud of him and gave Tom-Tom the highest honor of all - the legendary name of Wonder Boy. With the ...
Legendary Wings
0
Shoot'em up | 2 players
Legendary Wings is an arcade shooter influenced by Greek mythology. A heroic figure from ancient times thrust into a strange futuristic world, you must fight your way through six levels to defeat "The Devil" and save the day.
The primary gameplay mode is a top-down, vertical-scrolling shooter sim...
Zone
0
Management | 1 player
Le Grand Conflit a exterminé presque toute l'humanité. Les survivants ont formé des clans et parcourent les terres à la recherche de nourriture et de carburant pour leurs véhicules, en évitant de traverser les nuages radioactifs qui subsistent. Un médecin qui avait trouvé un moyen de résister à ces ...
Zany Golf
0
Sports | 4 players
Using the mouse to determine the direction and strength of your putts, you must navigate 9 tricky holes of crazy / mini golf. Try to putt into holes protected by bouncing hamburgers, windmills, etc. Courses have several twists; one is a mad scientists's lab, another is a pinball table. The final hol...
Maniac Mansion
0
Adventure - Point&click | 1 player
The Edison mansion has always been a creepy old house on the edge of town. There have been rumors of strange experiments going on and of odd creatures living amongst the Edison family. There is even a story that a meteorite once crashed near the home nearly 20 years ago. More immediately, a girl nam...
Aztec Adventure - The Golden Road to Paradise
0
Action | 1 player
Aztec Adventure is a traditional action/labyrinth game in which the player assumes the role of Nino, an explorer whose aim is to find the Aztec Paradise.
The labyrinth is full of Aztec mythology creatures and other ancient Mexican references.
Although it is a maze game, the controls are very s...
Bubble Bobble
1
Action - Platformer | 2 players
Bubble Bobble is the story of two humans, Bub and Bob who wander into the mysterious cave of monsters and magically turn into dinosaurs. The only way to transform back is to reach the end of the cave...
Bubble Bobble is a platform game, with each level being a single screen. The enemies must be c...
Youkai Douchuuki
0
Action - Platformer | 1 player
Tarosuke has died and now must cross the purgatory as depicted in Buddhist lore, fighting enemies and advancing in his path towards ultimate redemption. Depending on just how well he behaves in this afterlife you can see up to 5 different endings, which involve everything from re-incarnation to eter...
Fighting Road
2
Fighting | 1 player
Fighting Road is a one-on-one fighting game in which you take the role of a nameless martial artist out to pummel a collection of enemy fighters in order to be crowned grand master.
The game plays from a non-scrolling side view and plays like most one-on-one fighters: you move around the screen a...
1943 : The Battle of Midway
0
Shoot'em up | 1 player
The sequel to 1942, which is still a vertically scrolling shooter, has the player once again fighting over the clouds during the second world war, this time in an intense battle just off the coast of Midway islands.
Updates to the gameplay include an energy bar, which can be run down by either be...
Mickey Mousecapade
0
Action - Platformer | 1 player
One of Mickey's friends is in trouble, and Mickey and Minnie Mouse are on a rescue mission! Mickey Mousecapade is an action platform game. In order to reach your goal (and find out which of Mickey's friends is in trouble), you'll need to jump and climb your way through various levels which take plac...
Kenseiden
0
Action - Platformer | 1 player
In Kenseiden, you play Hayato, a fearless samurai warrior. You must get back the stolen swords and scrolls, and defeat the evil waiting in the Black Castle!
Kenseiden is a one-player game that comprises of sixteen levels. Each of the levels are side-scrolling, with bamboo houses or dark, haunted ...
Tetris (Tengen)
0
Puzzle game | 2 players
One of many conversions of the famous block-stacking game available for Nintendo's home console, this one is based on the 1988 coin-op version produced by Atari Games. The goal is to place pieces made up of four tiles in a ten-by-twenty well, organizing them into complete rows, which then disappear....
Tetris (Tengen)
0
Puzzle game | 2 players
One of many conversions of the famous block-stacking game available for Nintendo's home console, this one is based on the 1988 coin-op version produced by Atari Games. The goal is to place pieces made up of four tiles in a ten-by-twenty well, organizing them into complete rows, which then disappear....
Castlevania II : Simon's Quest
1
Action - Platformer | 1 player
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is the second game in the Castlevania series. After the vampire killer Simon Belmont destroyed Count Dracula in the previous game, an evil curse possessed him. The only way Simon can break the count's curse is to find five of Dracula's body parts (which are mysteriously...
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
0
Action - RPG | 1 player
Link has just turned sixteen, and discovers a strange birthmark on his hand. With the help of Impa, Zelda's nursemaid, Link learns that this mark is the key to unlock a secret room where Princess Zelda lies sleeping. When young, Princess Zelda was given knowledge of the Triforce of power which was u...
Fighting Road
1
Fighting | 1 player
Fighting Road is a one-on-one fighting game in which you take the role of a nameless martial artist out to pummel a collection of enemy fighters in order to be crowned grand master.
The game plays from a non-scrolling side view and plays like most one-on-one fighters: you move around the screen a...
Alien Syndrome
2
Action - Shoot'em up | 2 players
Alien Syndrome is a scrolling shooter arcade conversion.
Your job is to run around and rescue all the captives and make it to the escape hatch before the time bomb explodes. Then face the mother alien at the end of the level.
You can play as a single player or two people, taking turns (Player ...
Alien Syndrome
0
Action - Shoot'em up | 2 players
Alien Syndrome is a scrolling shooter arcade conversion.
Your job is to run around and rescue all the captives and make it to the escape hatch before the time bomb explodes. Then face the mother alien at the end of the level.
You can play as a single player or two people, taking turns (Player ...
Double Dragon
1
Beat'em all | 2 players
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Shanghai
1
Puzzle game | 2 players
Shanghai is one of the first video game adaptations of the tile-based game played with the Chinese mahjong stones - essentially a puzzle game that has little to do with real mahjong rules.
The gameplay involves 144 tiles, each depicting different images, which have to be removed by matching them ...
Top Rider
0
Racing | 1 player
Top Rider is a motorcycle game in which the main objective is to basically make a decent or random time in each race.
To achieve a decent time the player must avoid getting off the track and colliding with the "endless" number of motorcycles that will appear and also with the posts or advertising...
Bikkuriman Daijikai
0
Other | 1 player
One of the first games that used the CD-ROM format (and also one of the first ones that featured voice acting), Bikkuriman Daijikai is a quiz game dedicated entirely to the popular Bikkuriman franchise, which originated with stickers on chocolate bars, and later evolved into collectible card game, m...
Rampage
0
Action | 2 players
George, Lizzy and Ralph were just ordinary Americans, until an experiment went wrong, turning them into a Gorilla, Lizard and Werewolf respectively. Following this, the three of them plan to go round destroying buildings, and up to 3 human players can join in.
Smashing at the edges of the buildin...
Rastan
1
3
Beat'em all | 1 player
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Gun.Smoke
1
Shoot'em up | 1 player
Gun.Smoke is a top-down scrolling shooter that casts the gamer as a lone gunman, out to save the gold rush town of Hicksville from a fearsome group of bandits known as the Wingates. Each level has a particular target enemy, although his or her henchmen must also be taken out.
Although it largely ...
Argos no Juujiken
0
Action - Platformer | 2 players
An evil being known as Ligar is about to conquer the land of Argool. Such is his power that no living creature dares to cross paths with him. But the legendary warrior Rygar rises from his grave to restore peace and justice. Armed with his famed weapon Diskarmor, Rygar begins to traverse the vast la...
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego ?
0
Adventure | 1 player
The Master System version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? keeps the gameplay mechanics of the computer original. The main difference is the interface: instead of navigating text menus, the player directly controls the detective through the side-scrolling cities. There are two landmarks to ...
Ys
0
RPG | 1 player
In this game, the player takes the role of Adol (Aron in the English-language Sega Master System version) Christin, a red-haired adventurer and expert swordsman. One day he encounter a fortune teller who sends him on a quest to find information about the six books of Ys. It appears that there was on...
Zaxxon 3-D
1
0
Shoot'em up | 1 player
Zaxxon 3-D is, as the title implies, a three-dimensional variant of the arcade game Zaxxon. Like most games of its kind, the backdrop is set in space. The first part of the battle is spent shooting down opposing fighters, snagging more powerful weapons, speed power-ups and fuel. Not only do you have...
Shanghai
0
Puzzle game | 2 players
Shanghai is one of the first video game adaptations of the tile-based game played with the Chinese mahjong stones - essentially a puzzle game that has little to do with real mahjong rules.
The gameplay involves 144 tiles, each depicting different images, which have to be removed by matching them ...
Renegade
0
Beat'em all | 2 players
This is the scrolling beat 'em up by Technos which started the Kunio / Nekketsu High series. The original takes takes place in a Japanese city, whereas its western version named Renegade is set on the mean streets of Brooklyn. This conversion later produced unofficial sequels Target: Renegade and Re...
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