Only a relentless commando assault can stop this international arms syndicate's threat to humanity. That's why we picked you. You'll need rocket launchers. hyper pineapples, and super napalm to blast through their high tech fortress... past tank brigades, bazookas, and then far into space. Confront the renegade military lunatic sworn to your destruction. Listen up for your orders, Commando. You'll be facing one suicide mission after another along the way. It'll make a great story... if you live to tell it!
Sgt Slaughter wants you-but only if you’ve got the guts to wrestle the meanest, toughest, ugliest wrestlers in town and the street-smarts to be a wheeling. dealing wrestling manager.
March into the ring and try all of the Sarge’s favorite moves-like a killer KO punch, a brutal body slam, or a ferocious flying pin. You can even throw your opponent over the ropes and fight outside the ring! Fight the ugly mugs in the league one by one and work your way through the ranks. Win, and you'll pick up a little combat pay and close ranks on a championship payoff. Lose, and you're likely to get Sgt Slaughter's dishonorable discharge.
Outside the ring, change roles and become a cunning. worldly-wise manager. Bid for the best wrestler you can afford in Sgt Slaughter's Auction House. Then take him to one of the wrestling joints in town.
If he’s green. you'll have to start him off in a sleazy gym. If and when he’s good enough. he’ll be a headliner at the high-class Main Arena for the championship! Sgt Slaughter
Herzog Zwei is a Sega Genesis-exclusive game by Technosoft, published in 1989 (released in North America and Europe in early 1990). It is an early real-time strategy game, predating the genre-popularizing Dune II. Herzog Zwei combines the arcade-style play of Technosoft's own Thunder Force series with a simple, easy-to-grasp level of strategy.
In Herzog Zwei, the player directly pilots a flying, transforming mech, a multi-role robot suited for utility and combat. Through the mech, the player purchases surface combat units, airlifts them across the battlefield, and issues them orders. These command activities can only be performed through the mech. Vehicles follow their assigned orders (which are fairly basic: patrol, garrison, capture base) until they either run out of fuel or are destroyed. Tactical re-deployment (mission reassignment, vehicle repair) involves a great deal of micromanagement, due to the required involvement of the mech.
Top Gun: The Second Mission, known as Top Gun: Duel Fighters in Japan, is a combat flight game developed and published by Konami and released on NES platforms on 1989. It is a sequel to the NES version of Top Gun.
Thirty years prior to the story in 1959, famous artist Ichirō Mamiya hid several precious frescos in his huge mansion before he mysteriously disappeared. In the present day, a team of five documentary filmers seek to recover the paintings from the abandoned, dilapidated mansion. Upon entering, they are trapped inside by the ghost of an unknown woman, who threatens to kill all trespassers.
The team decides to split up and find a way out, but the mansion is both in danger of collapsing and is occupied by countless monsters.
Bad News Baseball was developed and published by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, and released in North America in 1990. It followed the rules of baseball for the most part, with the addition of some cartoonish features that made the game more attractive to kids.
Bonk's Adventure was developed by Red Company and Atlus and released on the TurboGrafx-16 in 1989 before being ported to the NES, Game Boy and Amiga. It is a 2D platform game that became quite popular, with subsequent remakes and sequels spawning from the game. It was later included in Nintendo's Virtual Console service as well as the PlayStation Store.
The long-running FINAL FANTASY series hits the Game Boy with FINAL FANTASY LEGEND. Create your party by choosing four warriors from eight different character classes including humans, mutants, and monsters. Humans specialize in hand-to-hand combat and have access to most weapons, mutants wield magic like no other, and monsters can evolve themselves by feasting on the meat of fallen opponents to become new monsters! Venture your way through four different lands each with a unique fantasy theme to stop the wicked Ashura Devils from destroying the world. A beautiful fantasy soundtrack adds atmosphere to the experience and puts you in the right mood. This single-player RPG features battery backup to save your progress, and is compatible with both Game Boy and Game Boy Color. RPG fans on the go should check out FINAL FANTASY LEGEND.
Your difficult task will be to deliver levels from wild rotating balls. To do this, you will be able to use your studded shoes...
A raster moves up and down behind the title screen.
The screen size of the game is larger than normal: CRTC R1 = 32 (instead of 40); CRTC R6 = 32 (instead of 25); (R1*R6 = 1024 versus 1000 for a so-called normal display)
Published as a bonus in Databox 8-9-90 of PC Amstrad International magazine.
In the darkest reaches of infinite space, pure evil lies in wait ... The Dark Forces led by the god of destruction, Bacterian, prepare to launch a massive onslaught against the planet Gradius. Possessing unstoppable power, the Dark Forces threaten to plunge the Universe into total war and complete annihilation.
Their invasion force smashes the Gradius defenses, and the surrounding planets soon fall like dominoes. Now Bacterian's evil grasp reaches for the heart of the resistance...planet Gradius itself...
To counter the oncoming threat the United Gradius World Forces gather all their fighter craft. Half of them form a defensive net - the other half a strike team. But they are badly outnumbered and The Dark Forces easily tear through their thin frontline. No fighters survive the slaughter....
In a last gasp move, the United Gradius World Forces send out two fighters, previously considered too dangerous for combat missions: The InterDimensional VIC VIPER fighters.
The Fighters take off for the heart of darkness t
This prototype version of Madou Monogatari II was released in Disc Station's 1989 Special Christmas Edition to promote the then-upcoming Madou Monogatari 123, and is thus the first entry in the Madou Monogatari series.
Shanghai II is a variant of the puzzle game also known as solitaire mahjong. 144 mahjong tiles are arranged in rows and stacked upon each other in various patterns; the player's goal is to remove pairs of matching tiles that do not have adjacent tiles from both sides until the whole board is clear. This variant features six patterns named after animals: tiger, scorpion, monkey, snake, panther, and dragon. The player can choose to display hints or reverse any amount of moves. A mode with a time limit is available as well.
Pachinko Time sees you participating in the Japanese past time of pachinko, where you launch numerous balls onto a board, pinball-style, aiming at specific receptacles to extend game play. It offers offers 100 different virtual tables to play at, each requiring you whittle down a specific target score to zero before you run out of balls. Each area on the world map features a number of different tables; completing three will allow access to new areas with more tables.
Knight Arms: The Hybrid Framer was part third-person rail shooter and part side-scrolling platformer, released by Arsys Software for the Sharp X68000 computer in 1989. It featured some of the most advanced pseudo-3D sprite-scaling seen on a home system of the 1980's.
The second game based on the Osomatsu-kun anime and manga, released in 1989 for Famicom.
Osomatsu-kun: Back to the Me no Deppa no Maki is an Adventure game, developed by TOSE and published by Bandai Shinsei, which was released in Japan in 1989.
The fastest, most thrilling, 3D driving game yet! Take the wheel of your turbo-charged Porsche as you and your partner go in pursuit of dangerous criminals all driving an evil array of souped-up roadsters. TURBO BOOST! Need to catch up in a hurry? Well, just one press of your Turbo Button will leave your eyes in the back of your head! Barrelling through the city streets, along the roughest of dirt tracks and through busy tunnels - if you can hold the line!