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Tournament Arkanoid is the American follow-up to the arcade hit Arkanoid, produced in 1987 by Taito America under license from distributor Romstar. It offers 32 entirely new stages - some harder than anything in the original - while the Vaus paddle mechanics, power-up capsules and story framing remain unchanged. It was released exclusively to North... 190

RoboCop 2 is a side-scrolling action platformer based on the 1990 film, published for home computers by the British company Ocean Software. The cyborg RoboCop destroys stocks of the drug Nuke, rescues hostages and hunts down the dealer Cain, with a firing range and a memory puzzle between levels. The record covers the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum,... 1422

Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling run & gun shooter arcade game by Capcom in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. This Western-themed game was designed by... 2051

RoboCop is an action game between a beat 'em up and a run-and-gun, developed by Data East after Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film and released to arcades in 1988. The player walks the cyborg RoboCop side-on through Detroit, punching, shooting, collecting stronger weapons and facing bosses such as the ED-209 robot, with a first-person target range between... 6216

Strider (Strider Hiryū in Japan) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked member of an organization of high-tech ninja-like agents... 590

Dragon Breed (Doragon Burīdo) is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game produced by Irem and released in arcades in 1989. It runs on M72 and M81 hardware. Activision released home computer ports in 1990. The player controls King Kayus, who rides a large dragon named Bahamoot. Bahamoot is immune to enemy attacks, capable of blocking most projectiles... 760

Wonder Boy (Wandā Bōi) is a 1986 platform game published by Sega and developed by Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment). Originally designed for arcades, it was later ported to the SG-1000, Master System and Game Gear consoles by Sega, and to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers by Activision. The titular Wonder Boy... 26954

Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makai-mura) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs. The player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur,... 16162

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan.... 3670

Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game released by Konami for the arcades in 1987. The game is an adaptation of the original Castlevania, but is not a direct port of the NES version. Rather, it is a new game running on custom JAMMA-based hardware. The game has the player controlling Simon Belmont, who embarks on a journey... 1870

Lemmings is an action-puzzle game developed by the Scottish studio DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1991, originally for the Commodore Amiga. The player guides swarms of mindless, self-endangering lemmings to safety by assigning eight different skills to individual creatures — from digging and bridge-building to self-sacrifice by explosion.... 753

Frogger is a 1981 arcade game developed by Konami and originally published by Sega. Frogger was positively received as one of the greatest video games ever made and followed by several clones and sequels. The game found its way into popular culture, including television and music. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one... 7930

Ninja Gaiden, released in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword) and as Shadow Warriors in Europe, is a side-scrolling cinematic action-platformer. Tecmo developed and published it for the NES; its development and release coincided with the beat 'em up arcade version of the same name. The story follows a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa... 1643

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 565

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 733

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is the version licensed by Russian company Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) in 1988 to Atari - arcade coin-op machines, and Nintendo - home consoles and handhelds. The game features a standard endless mode, as... 19985

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is a port of Tetris for Arcade machines and Genesis/Mega Drive home consoles, developed by SEGA in 1988. The goal is to place pieces made up of four tiles in a ten-by-twenty well, organizing them into complete... 5059

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in 1991. It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987 and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware. Street Fighter II improved upon the many concepts introduced in the first game, including... 54209

1941: Counter Attack is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game by Capcom, released in February 1990. It was the second sequel to 1942, and the third game in the 19XX series. It was ported to the SuperGrafx in 1991. Player 1 uses a P-38 Lightning and Player 2 uses a new plane: DH.98 Mosquito. The game shifts from the original Pacific Front setting... 3368

1943 Kai: Midway Kaisen is a enhanced remake of 1943: The Battle of Midway released in 1987 for Arcades exclusively in Japan. It was later ported to the PC Engine in 1991 by Naxat Soft. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was replaced by the Boeing Stearman E75 biplane. All the game's graphics were edited, with enemies and backgrounds now sporting different... 1003