Shin Satomi Hakkenden: Hikari to Yami no Tatakai is a Role-Playing game, developed by Micronics and published by Toei Animation, which was released in Japan in 1989.
The Super Spy is an early Neo Geo game released by SNK. It is a first-person shooter and beat 'em up game with action RPG elements. It was an early example of a first-person shooter where the player character's arms and weapons are visible on screen.
Select your boxer, select your manager and duke it out for the championship. Bullfight takes the conventional side view of many boxing games - you shuffle left and right tapping one button for block and another for punch, the height of which is determined by the D-pad. During the action, commentators chatter away at the bottom of the screen until one of you goes down for good. This is fairly standard stuff, although Bullfight also has an extra fighting mode to add variety. In it, you take to the streets in a Vigilante-style scrolling beat 'em up, stopping at shops to buy equipment on the way to the main fights in a proper arena.
According to the TAD president, Tadashi Yokoyama: One day in December 1988, a freelance artist came at TAD with a portfolio of designs including this monkey. The team was motivated to do a game around this funny monkey.
On February 02, 1989, the first prototype was ready: one level, no enemies, no musics and the monkey can jump only (no shoot). At this point, they decided to reprogram the game entirely from 0. Note JuJu Densetsu was coded with the same system used by the neogeo coders at SNK.
During the first location test (at the TAD office) on September 07, 1989, many new ideas came to the developers but most of them were not included in the final product (i.e: snakes on the first stage), because lack of time.
On September 15, 1989. a public location test was done in Japan AND in the USA (University of Washington). A second test was done in October. After this test, they decided to program the end of the game (done by a non-programmer in a week-end). Note: The girl you have to save is brune in the attrac
Inspired by the Contra series, Cyber-Lip is an early side-scrolling shooter by SNK for the Neo Geo. It's considered one of the predecessors to popular Metal Slug franchise.
Wizardry 6+7 offers two games that brought veritable incline to the RPG genre. Brave through tough, tactical, and turn-based battles that will push your skills to their extreme limits. Unravel fiendish puzzles and avoid devious traps, here to test your intellect as you navigate labyrinthine dungeons. Many will play but only a few will make it to the end of the glorious and majestic quest. Will you be one of the chosen few?
Includes Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge and Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant which also comes as the improved Wizardry Gold on top of the classic DOS version.
Both Wizardry games offer classic hard core turn-based role-playing with 14 ranked professions and 11 unique races.
Tons and tons of treasure to find, elaborate dungeons to explore, tough tactical battles to win, and that’s just the start of the adventure of up to 500 hours of playtime.
Death Race is an unlicensed game developed by American Game Cartridges Inc. that was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. It was also released by Home Entertainment Suppliers for an Australian release. The game is a remake of the 1976 arcade game by Exidy.
A humorous strategy RPG taking place in feudal Japan, framed as being made by a fictional American clueless about Japanese culture, and thus riddled with inaccuracies of the time period.
Logo features three independent puzzle games with 120 levels each. The main motivational factor are digitized, more or less naked women that appear between levels. All levels have to be solved within a time limit and a password is given once every five levels. In game one and three, all moves can be undone.
In the first game, the player needs to recreate a stone combination shown in the lower part of the screen. To do so, he places a single stone on the playfield. However, each stone also has a value between one and four which needs to be matched. Every time a stone is placed besides another stone, the value of the stone already on the field rises by one. If the value was already four, it resets to one.
In the second game, a pre-defined stone combination has to be erased. To do so, the player clicks on a stone which then disappears. But the stones around the clicked stone (left, right, above and below) also disappear. If there is no stone on a clicked place or a place around it, one is created.
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X Rock is a Tetris variant. The player must eliminate balls of the same colors in vertical and horizontal directions. Balls fall in form of a cross or 'X' letter. When they reach the ground, the balls on the sides also fall down. The player can rotate balls around the center and change their colors. After finishing the level, an erotic real-life photo of a woman is displayed. There are eight such pictures in the game.
An entry in the Super Solver series, Challenge of the Ancient Empires requires players to use problem solving skills to learn about ancient civilizations.
Meimon! Tako Nishi Ouendan is a strategy game released exclusively in Japan for the NES (Famicom) in 1989, and is based on Juzo Tokoro's 1984 manga series of the same name (which was also adapted into a anime motion picture in 1987). Players control a gang of "ouedan" who must battle their way back to their turf after being ambushed on an island.
A splendid adventure of terror, struggle, and danger! The evil demon King Kull has created a machine to transplant the souls of demons into the body of machines. With his army of ROBODEMONS he has cast a dark shadow over the region of Earth. You are a great warrior armed with your magical Boomerang. With it, you must penetrate the 7 gates of Hades that lead you to a confrontation with this demon king. Along the way you will free the condemned soul captives of Kull, wipe out his demons in their own living quarters, and destroy his Robodemon machine!