Hydlide (ハイドライド Haidoraido) is a 1984 action role-playing game developed by T&E Soft and published in 1985.
Lode Runner is a 2D platform/Puzzle game from 1983 created by Douglas Smith. It is one of the first games to include a level editor tool for players to create t...
Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it ...
Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.
Released by Namco for arcades in 1980, Rally-X was the first scrolling open-world video game, and the first open-world driving/racing game.
Released in 1984, Hydlide was the first open-world action RPG. It was the first on-foot, fully-scaled, open-world game, and introduced innovations such as a hea...
An adventure game where the player must help their chosen character become the Shogun of Japan. Based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell.
The fourth game in a series of multi-platform adventure-platformers by the Oliver Twins, produced by Codemasters.
Hunchy is an action game for Commodore 64, Sharp MZ, & ZX Spectrum.
The first game in Koei's long-running strategy game series, based on the Chinese historical novel of the same name.
An adventure game in which, as Sir Cucumber, you must rescue Princess Tomato.
Players climb the tower, defeat Druaga and rescue Princess Ki in this maze-style, action role-playing game. Originally released by Namco for arcades in 1984, it...
Heiankyo Alien is a 1979 maze game originally developed and released for the NEC PC-8001 and for for arcades. It is the first "trap 'em up" game and the first g...
Play as chef Peter Pepper, climbing ladders and running over burger ingredients to assemble giant burgers, whilst avoiding dastardly hot dogs, pickles and frie...
One of Data East's early arcade games, Bump 'N' Jump (or Burnin' Rubber) involves high speed car crashes and plenty of obstacles to jump over.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most sho...
Players must destroy waves of UFOs while saving abductees in this classic shoot 'em up
Play as a flying dude holding a large cannon as he takes on giant mechs, flying mushrooms, and fire-breathing dragon skeletons.
One of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man was released in arcades in 1980 and became a pop culture icon for the decade.
A puzzle game from dB Soft for various home systems. It was the first dB Soft game on the Famicom. The player controls a mole-like creature named Flappy and mus...
A menagerie of animals roll balls at each other across a large table, with the goal being to get every single ball into the opponent's goal simultaneously.
Cannon Ball is a early Hudson game where players destroy large spheres with a harpoon.
An action shooter game featuring a giant robot which can transform into a jet. Trapped within a mysterious facility, the goal is to navigate 16 maze-like levels...
One of the all-time great platformers.
Go for it! Climb to the top of the building as a helicopter awaits! A precursor to the platformer genre, Crazy Climber was the first game revolving around climb...
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
DoorDoor is an arcade-style puzzle game developed by Chunsoft founder Koichi Nakamura and published by Enix. As Enix's very first game, the player's task is to ...
An action maze game where a mouse policeman has to find stolen goods in a house filled with crooked cats.
Lady Bug is an arcade game from 1981 that attempted to capitalize on the success of Pac-Man, but differentiated itself by adding revolving doors and a more stru...
A simple puzzle game created in 1980 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi and published by Thinking Rabbit in 1982.
The original version of Bomberman contained the basic single-player gameplay that the series was known for in its early years, but didn't contain any multiplaye...
A Nintendo Entertainment System game developed and published by Nintendo as part of their series of sports games. It can be played in singles or doubles.
Grobda is a shooter released by Namco in 1984. It can be found in the Namco Museum Battle Collection.
A puzzle game where players guide cat-like people through a series of obstacles until they've defeated all enemies in the level. In Japan, this game goes by the...
Golgo 13: Moretti Ichizoku Zansatsu Jiken (Golgo 13: Moretti Family Murders) is an adventure game developed by Pony Canyon and released in 1983.
Side-scrolling shooter developed by TechnoSoft in 1983.
Mahjong game developed by Hudson Soft in 1983.
Simulation game created by Tsukumo in 1981.
Adventure game created by Hudson in 1983.
Action racing game created by TechnoSoft and released in 1984, initially for the PC-88 and then other Japanese computer platforms. It was the first home video g...
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 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...
The sequel to Micro Cabin's Mystery House released for Japanese computers in 1982.
Baseball sim developed by Hudson in 1984.
Adventure game developed by Micro Cabin in 1984.
Action game developed by Carry Soft in 1983.
An adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1982. It is also known as Takara Building Adventure.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1983.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1984.
Adventure game developed by Microcabin in 1984.
Action game developed by Atsushi Shirai and one of the winners of Enix's first Game Hobby Program Contest.
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.
Adult adventure game developed by DB-Soft in 1984.
Eroge game developed by Macadamia Soft in 1985.
RPG developed by Kogado and released for Japanese computers in 1985.
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 action RPG developed and published by SunSoft for the Famicom Disk System. It was originally developed by System Sacom for the PC98.
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 horizontal scrolling shoot'em up in which the player flies a spaceship over the surface of Mars bombing and shooting the rockets and fuel dumps.
The first game in the Nobunaga's Ambition series. It was never released outside of Japan.
The first release in a high-regarded chess simulation series.
The first entry in what is known in the West as the "Genghis Khan" series. It is named after a line in "The Secret History of the Mongols", the oldest surviving...
The first Japanese developed graphical adventure game created by Micro Cabin in 1982. Although it features the same name, it is otherwise unrelated to On-Line S...
A poker game developed by Masahiro Kawaguchi and one of the winners of Enix's first Game Hobby Program Contest.
A heavily modified version of Sega's Appoooh for Japanese computers.
A Japanese text adventure created by Hideki Akiyama and Suguho Takahashi. The title was released in ASCII's 1982 issue of "Yearly Ah-SKI!" and is considered to ...
An independently published graphical adventure game developed by Naoto Yamamoto in 1983.
Traditional hanafuda card game from Hudson Soft.
Stag-Beetle is a maze game developed by Pony Canyon for the Sharp MZ-2000.
A Czech-only sequel to Tetris, released for the ZX Spectrum in 1990, and later ported the Sharp MZ.
An RPG for various Japanese computers, from Xtalsoft.
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