An adventure game created by Yuji Horii and published by Enix in 1983 where the player controls a detective solving a murder mystery. The title helped establish...
A reimagining of the Mario Bros. arcade game, developed exclusively for Japanese computer systems by Hudson Entertainment and released in 1984. Each stage in th...
An unusual variation of Mario Bros. in which Mario and Luigi throw "punch balls" at enemies rather than hitting them from below.
An adventure game written and designed by Yuji Horii, developed by Login Software and published by ASCII in 1984.
Adventure game created by Prosumer in 1983.
An early sci-fi Japanese adventure game developed and published by T&E Soft in 1983, about the adventures of Star Arthur on his quest to obtain the legendary en...
Star Arthur Densetsu II: Ankoku Seiun (Legend of Star Arthur II: Dark Nebula) is an adventure game released by T&E Soft in 1983.
Star Arthur Densetsu III: Terra 4001 (Legend of Star Arthur III: Terra 4001) is an adventure game released by T&E Soft in 1984.
Golf sim developed by T&E Soft in 1984.
Action game created by Bothtec in 1985.
Adventure game developed by Leben Pro in 1985.
Adventure game created by Bond Soft in 1985.
Adult Rock-Paper-Scissors type game developed by Enix in 1983.
Tritorn is an action RPG developed by Sein Soft and released in 1985. It was one of the first action RPGs, improving on Dragon Slayer and Hydlide with the use o...
The sequel to Micro Cabin's Mystery House released for Japanese computers in 1982.
Baseball sim developed by Hudson in 1984.
Adult simulation game developed by HARD in 1986.
Adult simulation game developed by HARD in 1987.
Adult simulation game created by HARD in 1987.
One of Koei's first video games, Night Life was an adult computer game released in 1982.
Adult adventure game created by Champion Soft in 1984.
Adult adventure game created by Champion Soft in 1983.
Adventure game developed by Magical Zoo in 1983.
RPG developed by Micro Cabin in 1985.
Adventure game developed by Micro Cabin in 1984.
Action game developed by Carry Soft in 1985.
Action game developed by Carry Soft in 1983.
Adult game developed by HARD in 1988.
Pornographic adventure game developed by JAST in 1986.
Adult adventure game developed by Lucifer Soft in 1990.
Alpha (アルファ) is a visual novel adventure game, developed and published by Squaresoft in 1986, for the PC-8801 & PC-9801 and FM-7 computers. It was k...
Zeta Gundam is an action game for the Fujitsu FM-7; it is based on the anime of the same name.
Sports game developed by Nidecom in 1985.
A video game adaption of Hayao Miyazaki's Lupin III anime film of the same name.
A Urusei Yatsura adventure game.
A Japanese top-down puzzle game from Artdink, starring a little bomb-disposal robot. Control it directly while it is in light, and educate it to take appropriat...
Adventure game developed by Hot B in 1987.
Adventure game developed by Hot-B in 1988.
RPG developed by Hot-B in 1986.
RPG developed by Hot-B in 1986.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1983.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1984.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1986.
Adventure game created by Microcabin in 1988. It is based on the Rumiko Takahashi manga and anime Maison Ikkoku.
Unrelated to the popular SNES RPG, Earthbound is an adventure game developed by Xtal Soft in 1983.
Puzzle game developed by Thinking Rabbit in 1984.
Dating simulation game released by Enix in 1985. Considered somewhat revolutionary for its time, this game helped lay the foundations for the dating sim genre.
Eroge game created by PSK in 1988.
Eroge game developed by CSK in 1983.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers in 1985.
Play riichi mahjong against characters from the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West in this game for the Famicom Disk System and Japanese computers.
The 2nd entry in the "J.B. Harold" series, first released in 1987.
An expansion to Manhattan Requiem that features the same characters and location but a completely new mystery.
A turn-based strategy-puzzle game released by Koei for the FM-7 and PC-88 in 1983, later remade as Stop That Roach for the Game Boy in 1994. The gameplay is sim...
An early Japanese RPG released by Hot-B in 1984 that departed from the fantasy themes of most other early RPGs in favour of what is possibly gaming's first sci-...
Woody Poco is a side-scrolling adventure platformer by dB-soft, originally for home computers and later adapted for the Famicom. It was never released outside o...
This game was the first Hokuto No Ken that was released for the PC-88 computer that was an adventure game.
An action platformer for the Arcades produced by UPL. It was later ported to the Famicom by Jaleco. It's known as Ninja-kun in Japan, and is the first of the Ni...
Reviver: The Real-Time Adventure is an adventure game designed by Katsunori Yoshimura and released by Arsys Software in July 1987. It featured the concept of a ...
An adventure game released in 1984. It was Squaresoft's first game.
Released by Koei in 1982, The Dragon & Princess (ドラゴンアンドプリンセス) is the first known RPG developed in Japan. It tasks the player with f...
Action RPG sequel to Cosmic Soldier, released for Japanese computers in 1987 and for North American PC in 1989.
The Earth Fighter Rayieza (地球戦士ライーザ Chikyū Senshi Raīza?) is a role-playing game developed and published by Enix (currently Square Enix) in 19...
A sci-fi adventure game from Enix, released in 1983. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story is about the last survivors of a nuclear war going into crygeni...
Will: The Death Trap II is a video game developed and published by Squaresoft in 1985, for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Fujitsu FM-7 and Sharp X1 computers. De...
Kidou Senshi Gundam Part 2: Tobe! Gundam (機動戦士ガンダム PART 2 翔べ！ガンダム "Mobile Suit Gundam Part 2: Fly! Gundam") is an adventure/shoote...
Kidou Senshi Gundam Part 1: Gundam Daishi ni Tatsu!! (機動戦士ガンダム PART 1 ガンダム大地に立つ！！ "Mobile Suit Gundam Part 1: Gundam Stand...
One of Koei's first games, Danchi Tsuma no Yuwaku (団地妻の誘惑, "Housewife Temptation") was an early adventure RPG with adult content and dating sim elem...
One of the earliest side-scrolling run-'n'-gun games, Hover Attack is a game for Japanese computers in which players control a mechanized "Attacker" that can le...
An expansion pack for Nihon Falcom's Xanadu released in 1986.
One of the first Japanese RPG's, and the first game based on the Mission: Impossible franchise. It was notable for replacing the fantasy setting of traditional ...
A relatively obscure early Squaresoft game released in 1985, this is the first known railroad management simulation game.
Released for the Fujitsu FM-77 AV computer in 1986, this game was an early 3D first-person shooter. It was notable for its advanced 3D graphics engine, which pr...
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