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4-Player Bowling Alley
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1978 |
Black-and-white bowling game for up to four players. |
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Bowling Alley ボウリングアレイ
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1979 |
No summary. |
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Player's Choice
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1974 |
No summary. |
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Karate Champ (1 Player) 空手道
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1984 |
No summary. |
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Alley Rally アレイラリー
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1978 |
No summary. |
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Torpedo Alley
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0 |
No summary. |
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Alley Master アレイマスター
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1985 |
No summary. |
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Hogan's Alley ホーガンズアレイ
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1985 |
Gangster-themed light gun shooting game.
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Up Your Alley Sea II
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1987 |
No summary. |
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Vs. Hogan's Alley VSホーガンズアレイ
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1985 |
No summary. |
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Up Your Alley
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1987 |
No summary. |
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Ikari Warriors
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1986 |
Jungle combat with guns and grenades against an army of evildoers. Lots
of powerups and an eight-direction turning joystick/knob to control
you fighter. Plus you get to jump into tanks! A classic two player
reminiscent of Front Line. |
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Capcom Bowling カプコンボウリング
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1989 |
bowling. |
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3D Bowling 3Dボウリング
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1978 |
No summary. |
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Championship Bowling
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1985 |
No summary. |
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Coors Light Bowling
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1989 |
No summary. |
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Pro Bowling プロボウリング
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1983 |
No summary. |
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League Bowling リーグボーリング
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1990 |
No summary. |
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Strata Bowling
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1990 |
No summary. |
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Tecmo Bowling
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0 |
No summary. |
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World Class Bowling
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1997 |
Video Bowling |
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Bowling
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1978 |
No summary. |
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Strike Bowling ストライクボウリング
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1982 |
No summary. |
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Cabal カベール
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1989 |
Third person (behind player). Use a trackball to control a soldier and his aiming crosshair, and conduct attacks on various enemies. This game has quite a few "pseudo-hidden" power-ups and suprises. |
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Trog
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1990 |
Trog is a 1 to 4 player Pacman style game. Each player controls a
dinosaur who must move around the island collecting their colored eggs and then making it back home first. There are 51 different levels.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom ダンジョンズ&ドラゴンズ
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1994 |
Medieval 1-4 player cooperative slash'n'trash game where you choose from 4 diffrent characters, a fighter, an elf, a cleric and a dwarf. |
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Legendary Wings アレスの翼
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1986 |
Two Player game similar to Xevious. Unique combination of vertical scroller (main game) and side scroller (underground sequences). |
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Tri-Sports
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1989 |
Power Strike (bowling), Pool shark (billiards), and Mini-golf Deluxe all in one cabinet |
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Baseball Stars Professional ベースボールスターズ
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1990 |
Standard baseball game with unique themed teams and stats. Has photos for every single player. |
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Rip Off リップオフ
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1979 |
A cooperative two-player game in which you and your teammate try to protect fuel pods from the enemy tanks.
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Eliminator エリミネーター
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1981 |
A 2- or 4- Player battle frenzy to be the first to destroy the Killer
Bagel (actually a Death Star of sorts). |
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Sprint 8 スプリント8
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1977 |
8-player driving game with a coin slot, steering wheel, and accelerator pedal for each player. |
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Violence Fight バイオレンスファイト
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1990 |
Primitive two player fighting game. Two players can duke it out in this 2d fighter similar to Pit Fighter. |
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Revolution X
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1994 |
A 2-player cabinet-mounted-light-gun game based on the musical group Aerosmith. |
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NBA Maximum Hangtime
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1996 |
Action-oriented basketball featuring real NBA player faces and spectacular
dunks. |
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Outfoxies, The
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1995 |
A one or two player game in which you choose from a wide variety of characters and battle to the death with your opponent. |
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Sea Devil
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1973 |
Perhaps Sega. Player aims gun at a moving manta ray to kill it. |
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Asterix & Obelix
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1992 |
A 2 player fighting game like Final Fight, the 2 characters you can choose are Asterix and Obelix. |
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NBA Hangtime
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1996 |
Four-player action basketball with real NBA players (or at least their
faces). |
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Atari Football フットボール
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1978 |
Black-and-white head-to-head football for two or four players. First arcade game to use a trackball as the controller. |
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Gun Dealer
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1990 |
Poker/Card puzzle game that "rewards" the player with naked ladies. |
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Biplane
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1975 |
Two player game mode only. Game play simular to Atari Tank. Timed game.
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Fire Truck ファイアートラック
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1978 |
1 or 2 player simulataneous driving game - with a twist. The earliest video game with 2-player cooperative gameplay. |
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Kuhga - Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
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1989 |
In 1999, a terrorist organization known only as DAGGER has occupied the city of New York where they have hacked into military defenses world-wide, established their own military command and gained access to nuclear missile silos. They hold the world hostage in this position and promise to cancel their threats of destroying the Earth only until the world's governments relinquish their power to DAGGER. |
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China Gate 中華大仙?
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1988 |
You (and optional teamate) choose 1 of 3 characters, battle many different enemies with different abilities, and beat various bosses. The goal is to retrieve a book which the enemies have stolen from your master (as you see in the attract screens). |
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Turpin ターピン
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1981 |
Maze collection game (Pac-man style) based around collecting items(turtle eggs) hidden in Question Mark '?' boxes around the screen and returning them home. A.K.A. "Turtles." |
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Ataxx アタックス
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1990 |
A variation on the Othello boardgame. You control either the blue or red
blobs (pieces). You can either jump over one space, or "multiply" to an
adjacent space. Then, all blobs in adjacent spaces change to your color. |
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Super Dodgeball
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1985 |
Playground fun. Reasonably fun, two player game of dodgeball. |
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Qix クイックス
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1981 |
Qix (pronounced "kicks") is a simple and elegant game in which you claim territory by drawing boxes to fill a rectangular space. You must avoid the Qix – sticklike objects that float and bounce through your space in unpredictable patterns. You can rack up more points for creating boxes more slowly, and besides the Qix, you must be careful of Sparx and Fuses which appear if your marker stops while you are drawing. |
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Samurai Showdown 2 真サムライスピリッツ-覇王丸地獄変-
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1994 |
One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan. |
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Samurai Showdown 3: Blades of Blood
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1995 |
One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan. |
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Samurai Showdown 4: Amakusa's Revenge
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1996 |
One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan. |
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Samurai Showdown サムライスピリッツ
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1993 |
The first in a popular line of fighters in which the combatants wield various weapons. Known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan. |
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Killer Shark
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1973 |
Perhaps Sega. Player aims gun at a moving shark to kill it. |
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Pleiads
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1981 |
The same play style as Phoenix. Move your ship left and right, and destroy the enemy characters. Several different waves, with the major difference from Phoenix being a wave where you have to land the ship. |
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Marvel Vs. Capcom
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1997 |
The 5th game by Capcom to utilize their insanely popular Xmen fighting game
engine. Players select 2 characters out of a possible 15 (plus 5 hidden)
and battle it out. |
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Lunar Lander ルナーランダー
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1979 |
Check it out: Atari’s first vector graphics game. Using a throttle lever and rotation buttons, you attempt to land a manned spacecraft on the moon. Readouts show fuel usage and speed readings which must be coordinated for a successful landing. |
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Banbam
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1984 |
A one or two player maze game published and developed by Sun Electronics |
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Alien Syndrome エイリアンシンドローム
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1987 |
Third-person shooter where you get to blast all kinds of aliens and rescue people. You can also find power-ups for better blasting power!
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Street Fighter 2: Hyper Fighting
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1992 |
Choose from the original eight characters plus new boss characters in a speed-up version of Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition. |
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Hot Rod ホットロッド
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1988 |
Four player cocktail disk-based racing game from Sega. |
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Twin Cobra ツインコブラ
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1987 |
Single or dual player helicopter flying/bombing game. |
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Asteroid アステロイド
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1973 |
1 or 2 player game.
Joystick for each player moved a space ship up or down. |
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Attack アタック
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1977 |
Two player battle - air vs. sea (bomber vs. destroyer) |
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Paddle Ball パドルボール
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1973 |
This game, like virtually every other video game from the early 70s, is a black and white Pong clone. |
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Legionnaire
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1992 |
A run through the city and beat up all the bad giys game in the same vein as games like Final Fight. Judy has been kidnapped by the crime syndicate and Frank, Chris, and Alfred must save her. |
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SD Gundam Neo Battling
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0 |
Gundam and friends star in this shooter with a myriad of power-ups, mini-robot enemies and very smooth control and action. |
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Cyber Troopers Virtual On 電脳戦機バーチャロン
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1995 |
Two-player linked robotic combat. First in a series |
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WWF Wrestlefest WWFレッスルフェスト
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1991 |
Wrestling, not that it's a sport really, just acting. WWF WrestleFest is a wrestling game that is a follow-up to WWF Superstars. One to four players can play in a Tag Team Challenge or the Battle Royal. |
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Print Club 2
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1997 |
A classic photo booth that can be reconfigured to print stickers. Has two verified styles of printers and can print one, four or sixteen pictures to a page in beautiful photo-quality images. Has overlays that are applied to the frame of the image. |
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Kingdom Grand Prix
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1994 |
Kingdom Grand Prix is a scrolling shooter/racing hybrid arcade game developed by Raizing and published by Eighting. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn. It is the second entry in the Mahou Daisakusen series, but the first to be a shooter/racing hybrid. |
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Three Wonders スリーワンダー
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1991 |
Three different games from varying genres. Midnight Wanderers is a side-scrolling platform game, Chariot is a side-scrolling shooter, and Don't Pull is a maze/block game. All have very colorful graphics.
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M.A.C.H. 3
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1983 |
Flying - Destroy ground and air targets. Has a fighter game and a bomber game. AKA Mach 3, M.A.C.H. III |
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Power Drift パワードリフト
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1988 |
One player first-person sprite based driving game. |
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Borderline ボーダーライン, Bōdārain
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1981 |
drive Jeep, destroy enemy refineries - four stages with different gameplay - vertical shooter, dig-dug like maze, etc |
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Gridiron Fight グリダイアンファイト
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1985 |
Football Game, table style. 1 player or 2 players head to head. |
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NBA Jam
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1993 |
Two on two basketbrawl using real NBA teams and players. |
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Smash TV
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1990 |
In the "distant" future of 1999, you are a contestant on the most violent game show of all – Smash TV. On this game show anything goes, as you attempt to collect prizes, cash, and keys by fighting off a host of enemies with your array of weapons. In some versions, if you collect enough keys, you are rewarded with a trip to the Pleasure Dome. |
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Run & Gun
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1993 |
Run and gun is a life-like basketball game with high flying dunks, in your face rejections and much much more. |
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Challenger チャレンジャー
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1981 |
Split and destroy "space bubbles" and enemy ships. Ship fires in three directions, and can "Warp" to the top or bottom of the screen. Dock with the Bonus Bug for bonus points.
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Excitebike エキサイトバイク
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1985 |
side-scrolling moto-cross game, one player |
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Joust ジャウスト
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1982 |
Who would have thought a game with knights fighting on ostriches and storks could become such a classic? Many people attribute the enormous success of Joust to the fact that it could be played either competitively or collaboratively, making it almost two games in one. |
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X-Men vs. Street Fighter エックスメンVSストリートファイター
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1996 |
A 2 player fighter game in the Street Fighter/X-Men vein.
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Laguna Racer ラグナレーサー
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1977 |
Early black-and-white, single-player driving game. |
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X-Men エックスメン
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1992 |
Multi-player fighting game featuring X-Men characters. |
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Chase H.Q. 2
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1990 |
police chasing baddies and running them off the road. Just like C-HQ1 except you had a man jump out of the sun roof and fired a machine gun when you pressed a button. |
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Pulsar パルサー
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1981 |
You drive through a maze while strange opponents fire at you. You must vanquish opponents before you move to the next maze. Watch for the maze to change, because as some walls disappear others materialize. |
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Formation Armed F フォーメーション アームドF
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1988 |
Vertically scrolling shoot 'em up - control the Vowger spaceship - shoots enemies, collect power-ups - defeat bosses to advance levels - Vowger can be changed to shoot in a multitude of formations and directions |
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Warrior ウォーリア
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1978 |
Two-player sword-fighting game with vector graphics. |
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Pigskin 621 A.D.
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1990 |
Football with fantasy races. You and your opponent use weapons, traps, and magic to score touchdowns.
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Mini Golf ミニゴルフ
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1985 |
A 1-4 player 18 hole miniture golf game.
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Metro Cross
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1985 |
You control a runner in a series of timed races. You must run to the end of the hall before time runs out.
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Rygar アルゴスの戦士
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1986 |
You play the Legendary Warrior "Rygar" in the side scrolling platform game. The aim is to make it though 27 levels picking up power ups and bonuses along the way.
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Cobra Command サンダーストーム
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1984 |
Standard scrolling shooter. Fly your helicopter and wipe out
round after round of bad guys while picking up powerups. |
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Demolition Derby デモリションダービー
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1985 |
4-player table-top driving game. Destroy cars. |
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Moon Alien-Part 2
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1980 |
This game is very similar to Galaxian, except that there is now an energy meter at the bottom that decrements with time. If you do not destroy all the aliens before this meter empties, your ship is destroyed.
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Raiden Fighters II: Operation Hell Dive
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1997 |
One of the best vertical scrolling shooters yet. Great music, spectacular sound effects, and tons of multi-layer parallax, bright, vivid colors, and huge detailed bosses make this game a keeper. |
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Xexex ゼクセクス
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1991 |
Xexex is one of the best shooters out there with really innovative power ups (the arms are cool) and engrossing action. |
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Mortal Kombat モータルコンバット
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1992 |
Gore-fest head to head fighting. Seven awesome warriors go head to defeat the evil Shang Sung to win back control over the earth and restore peace.
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Altered Beast 獣王記
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1988 |
You are risen from the dead to save Zeus' Daughter. Fight your way through five levels collecting power ups to defeat the Evil Magician. |
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Sky Shark 飛翔鮫
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1982 |
Vertical shoot 'em up. Original Hi Sho Zame in Japan, licensed to Electrocoin in Europe under the name Flying Shark, and Romstar in North America under the name Sky Shark. |
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Gun Force ガンフォース
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1991 |
Side scrolling platform game like Metal Slug with lots of power ups. |
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Chinese Hero チャイニーズヒーロー
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1984 |
Chinese Hero (チャイニーズヒーロー, Chainīzu Hīrō), also known in Japan as Super Chinese (スーパーチャイニーズ, Sūpā Chainīzu), is an arcade action game developed by Nihon Game (now Culture Brain) and published by Taiyo System in October 1984. |
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Time Crisis タイムクライシス
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1996 |
Time Crisis is a first person shooter in which there is a pedal used for ducking/reloading. |
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Elevator Action エレベーターアクション
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1984 |
Your mission as Secret Agent 17(code name "Otto") is to find the secret documents behind red doors and then escape in your getaway car. As you travel by elevator and stairs, avoid enemies or immobilize them by force if necessary. |
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BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge
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1992 |
R-Type-ish shooter where your ship can fire a projectile that freezes enemy vehiicles and take their form and power. Innovative idea. |
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Crime City クライムシティー
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1989 |
Classic-style walk-and-shoot, similar to E-Swat and Shinobi. Assume the role of two cops and go out stopping bank robberies, saving the kidnapped, and all that other good stuff cops do.
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Darius ダライアス
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1986 |
Multiple-monitor game. Scrolls from Left to Right for most of the game,
except when choosing the next level to go to, which scrolls Up and Down.
Can gain power-ups along the way for stronger Bombs and (laser?) Shots.. |
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Esprade エスプレイド
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1998 |
Sharp looking shooter in which your ship can equip itself with a large arsenal of power pick-ups and bolt-on weaponry. |
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New York Captor
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1986 |
Light gun shooting fun; nail the gangsters before they get you or your loved ones. |
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Bucky O'Hare バッキーオハラのスチャラカ空中戦
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1992 |
Bucky's mission is to destroy each planet boss and rescue his crews and
infiltrate into the Toad's spaceship and stop their ambition of universe
domination. |
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10 Pin Champ
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1984 |
Shuffleboard bowling meets video. |
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Vs. Mania Challenge
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1986 |
Sequel to MAT MANIA. Wrestling game where you could compete head-to-head against another person. |
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Bionic Commando トップシークレット
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1988 |
A side scrolliing action game. As the hero you have a bionic grappling hook and try to defeat an evil army of soldiers. |
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Punky Doodle
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1993 |
A PacMan-style game where Punky Doodle and his brother Curly Doodle defend
the pumpkin patch against enemy monsters by drawing magic doodles using
magic markers. |
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Canyon Bomber キャニオンボンバー
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1977 |
A very simple, classic game. Use a button to drop bombs into a canyon of numbered blocks. Your ship changes between a blimp and a biplane. |
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Crystal Castles クリスタルキャッスル
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1983 |
The Brothers Grimm go 3-d. Pac-man style game in which you move Bentley Bear through a series of dazzling 3-d landscapes, collecting gems and avoiding balls, trees, and other bad guys. |
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War Gods ウォーゴッド
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1996 |
3-D Fighting Game. Play as a wide variety of Gods and Deities with
Special Powers and Moves. |
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Wolf Fang
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1991 |
You're the mech in this side scrolling platformer which its you against a host of enemy soldiers, bosses and harsh terrain. |
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Bubble Bobble バブルボブル
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1986 |
As Bub and Bob, you try to capture enemies in bubbles and pop them to complete all 100 levels and rescue your girlfriends. |
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9-Ball Shootout
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1993 |
So, you think you can play pool, huh? Then challenge 9 BALL SHOOTOUT'S Dirty Dozen. |
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Badlands (1989)
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1989 |
1 or 2 player simultaneous driving game. In the "Sprint" series. |
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Wings
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1976 |
Two player head-to-head air combat |
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Galaxy Game
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1971 |
Early Space War coin operated video game, released two months before Computer Space at Stanford. |
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Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
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1989 |
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang. |
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Vapor Trail 空牙
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1989 |
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang. |
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Eliminator 4
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1981 |
4-player tabletop version of Eliminator. |
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King of Fighters '95
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1995 |
Sequel to The King of Fighters 94. This game once again uses characters from SNK's other fighters but this time you can edit you teams to your liking.
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Munchyman
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1981 |
A Pacman bootleg - one of the few to have its own dedicated cabinet. |
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Super Off Road スーパーオフロード
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1989 |
A head to head driving game with up to three simultaneous players. |
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Robot Bowl ロボットボール
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1977 |
Early black and white bowling game. |
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Yie Ar Kung Fu
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1985 |
Beat up small men. "Street Fighter" like style of game. |