Originally made in 1990 by David Markley under the name of Hextris; Hexion is a game released in 1992 by Konami. Hexion is a puzzle game in the Tetris style; except instead of shapes made out of square blocks laid evenly on a flat surface, the pieces are shapes made out of hexagon blocks laid roughly on an uneven surface. The core goal is still the same; create a horizontal line without leaving gaps.
Nitro Ball itself is apparently some kind of game show that involves two heavily armed guys blasting their way through hordes of mooks, collecting fabulous prizes along the way.
Dead Connection is an arcade game released by Taito in 1992. The game takes place on September 5, 1953 "in a big city somewhere".
It features a group of detectives who set out to fight a crime family. The game has a strong Film noir vibe, shown through the appearance of the detectives and the featuring of a female protagonist. Each stage is preceded by a short cinematic interlude that explains the transition between the game's different locales.
Shogun Warriors plays similarly to some other 2D versus fighting games during its release, which the player's character fights against his or her opponent in best two-out-of-three matches in a single player tournament mode with the computer or against another human player. It is controlled with an 8-way joystick and 4 buttons that perform weak and strong versions of punches and kicks. In one player mode, after selecting a character, the arcade randomly selects an opponent. The opponent order goes randomly and always leaves the last four bosses in a certain order. Some characters stabbed by ones armed with katanas or other sharp weapons can cause blood to spurt out, which became popularized a few months later by Midway's Mortal Kombat. The main unique feature of Shogun Warriors is its "grabbing system". When the player is grabbed by the opponent, the grabber must move the joystick left and right to make it more difficult for his opponent to escape, while the one being grabbed must rapidly press any or all buttons to
This battlerama has eight different characters to choose from, each decked out with their own colorful costumes, personal fighting styles and special power moves. The characters are Deckard, K. O. Joe, Killer The Shaddam, Spike, Knuckle, Yasha-The Ninja Warrior, Gunboat Rodie, and B. B. Scorpion.
Challenges include battles in the ring, crazy cage matches, warehouse wars, and junkyard brawls.
In the 1990's, a dark force appears on our planet. it's the evil Dr. Bio, the twisted genius behind "Bio-Roid". By using advanced biotechnology, he creates mutant life forms with superhuman strength, terrorizing the human population. To stop the evil doctor, four men, each with courage and fortitude, are chosen to wage a just war against these creatures. And now, that battle has begun!
Heated Barrel is a Western themed side-scrolling shoot 'em up game that supports up to four players at the same time. The game offers four typical Western characters to choose from: Howdy Pardner with his shotgun, the Mexican Chi Chi Gringo throwing boomerangs, the axe throwing Indian Little Plum and Billy Six Guns a revolver shooting guy. As you make progress you fight cowboys, Indians and ghosts.
While shooting in all directions you walk across towns, deserts and rivers blasting everything that crosses your path. Along the way, you can pick up several items, including power-ups that make your bullets stronger, a double star item that gives your character a second weapon, so you can shoot both at the same time, extra lives and a barrel, which you can use to blow up everything near you and makes you invincible for a brief amount of time, this is useful when you are surrounded. Some levels have large mid-bosses and all of them have an end-of-level boss.
The far off land of Capconia lived in peace and prosperity for years thanks in part to the Knowledge Tree, a tree in which the holder of the tree's seeds are granted infinite knowledge of the world around them. However, an evil being known as Gordian has taken a seed of the tree and has planted a Knowledge Tree of his own. Gordian has given some of the seeds to some of the dragons in the land and now, which unfortunate soul who cannot answer any of the dragon's questions correctly will be eaten by them. The King then decides to send out four brave warriors entrusted with the knowledge of the land out to stop Gordian and end his tyranny once and for all.
Mystic Riders is a 2D side-scrolling shoot'em up game set in a fantasy world, similar in style to Cotton. The player controls a child witch riding on a broomstick. Gameplay is very typical - the player flies right, shoots enemies like ghosts, grim reapers, bats, dragons, gargoyles etc., and collects bonuses and power-ups. The witch can charge shoot to deal more damage. The game has six levels and a multiplayer mode for 2 players.
Arabian Fight is a scrolling beat 'em up video game released in arcades by Sega in 1992 (the displayed copyright year is 1991). Running on the Sega System 32 arcade system, the game displays pseudo-3D sprite-scaling graphics and supports cooperative multiplayer for up to four players.
Like its sister game Snow Bros., Pipi & Bibi's is an early platform game in the vein of Bubble Bobble where players must defeat all on-screen enemies before moving on to the next level.
G.I. Joe is a third-person shooter released by Konami in 1992. It's a 4-player high-octane action game with gorgeous visuals.
It stars Snake Eyes, Duke, Scarlett and Roadblock from the cartoon series.
Desert Assault (known in Japan as Thunder Zone is a 1991 run and gun arcade game by Data East. In this arcade game, up to four players control four soldiers holding machine guns and other projectile weapons, while fighting their way through the terrorist arsenal to take control of the Persian War.
The Destroyer from Jail is a Korean arcade game that uses the "belt-scrolling" perspective typical of beat 'em ups. but features gun based combat. Control a convict shooting down a criminal boss and his goons across five levels to gain his freedom.
Zeta Force is a game that was bundled into the Electro Choice MGX arcade machine. The game was developed by Arcadia and released in 1990. Currently there is no information about the game online apart from a promotional poster mentioning the game, thus making it lost media.