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Game |
Year |
Description |
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Armored Car
(アーマードカー)
|
1981 |
Kinda Tutankham meets Rally-X. Typical Stern release. |
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Asteroids Deluxe
(アステロイドデラックス)
|
1981 |
Space - destroy rocks, saucers and homing enemies |
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Astro Blaster
(アストロブラスター)
|
1981 |
Space - Shoot aliens & dock with mothership |
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Astro Combat
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Astro Fantasia
(アストロファンタジア)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Barrian
(バリアン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Battle of Atlantis
(バトルオブアトランティス)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Big Kong
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Billiards, The
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Black Widow
|
1981 |
Rare Taito game. Not to be confused with Atari's Black Widow, which came out in 1982. |
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Boarder Line
(ボーダーライン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Borderline
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Boxing Bugs
(ボクシングバグ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Buramzon
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Caveman
|
1981 |
A full-sized pinball machine with a color monitor taking up the top center of the playfield. This predates Baby Pacman by about a year. |
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Challenger
(チャレンジャー)
|
1981 |
Split and destroy "space bubbles" and enemy ships. Ship fires in three directions, and can "Warp" to the top or bottom of the screen. Dock with the Bonus Bug for bonus points.
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Cosmic Avenger
(コスミックアベンジャー)
|
1981 |
Scramble-like shooter. |
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Cosmos
(コスモス)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Crazy Climber 2
(クレイジークライマー２)
|
1981 |
Sequel to Crazy Climber. Climb a building and avoid falling obstacles. A Japanese game featuring excrement that actually made it to the states! |
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Crazy Kong
(クレイジーコング)
|
1981 |
A Donkey Kong clone (not a bootleg) made by Falcon. |
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Crush Roller
(クラッシュローラー)
|
1981 |
Japanese version of "Make Trax." |
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Dambusters
(ダムバスター)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Dark Warrior
(ダークウォーリア)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Dazzler
(ダズラー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Demon Eye X
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Donkey King
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Donkey Kong
(ドンキーコング)
|
1981 |
Guide Mario (jumpman) to rescue Pauline from Donkey Kong. |
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DS Telejong
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Eliminator
(エリミネーター)
|
1981 |
A 2- or 4- Player battle frenzy to be the first to destroy the Killer
Bagel (actually a Death Star of sorts). |
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Eliminator 4
|
1981 |
4-player tabletop version of Eliminator. |
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End, The
|
1981 |
A Stern take-off of Space Invaders |
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Enigma II
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Eyes
(アイズ)
|
1981 |
Roam maze and kill monsters |
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Fantasy
(ファンタジー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Fitter
(フィッター)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Flash Boy
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Frenzy
(フレンジー)
|
1981 |
Robots - Kill them all |
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Frisky Tom
(フリスキートム)
|
1981 |
Maze game similar to "Pipe Dream." |
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Frog
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Frog & Spider
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Frogger
|
1981 |
Guide frogs home across road and river |
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Funky Fish
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Future Flash
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Galaga
(ギャラガ)
|
1981 |
Space - blast waves of alien bugs |
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Gallag
(ギャラグ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Gorf
(ゴーフ)
|
1981 |
Space - defeat the Gorfian Armada over 5 different missions |
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Got-Ya
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Grand Champion
(グランドチャンピオン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Hangly Man
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Hero
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Hustler, The
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Intruder
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Invelian Type 106
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Jack Pottens's Poker
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Jump Bug
(ジャンプバグ)
|
1981 |
Guide jumping VW beetle through worlds |
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Jungler
(ジャングラー)
|
1981 |
You're a centipede trying to shoot other centipedes while navigating through a maze. |
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Kaos
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Kick
|
1981 |
Catch and burst balloons etc. Started life as "Kick" and was changed to KickMan after upright serial number #1600. |
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KickMan
(キックマン)
|
1981 |
Catch and burst balloons etc. Started life as "Kick" and was changed to KickMan after upright serial number #1600. |
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Killer Comet
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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King & Balloon
(キング＆バルーン)
|
1981 |
Shoot attacking ballons to guard king. |
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KO Punch
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Lady Bug
(レディバグ)
|
1981 |
Pac-Man clone with swinging doors. Your character is a lady bug. |
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Laser Base
|
1981 |
Asteroids-style shooter with a base instead of ship. |
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Lock n' Chase
(ロックンチェイス)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Lucky Poker
|
1981 |
A Data East cassette poker game. |
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Magic Brush
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Marine Deto
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Mariner
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Mars
(マーズ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Mazeman
(メイズマン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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MegaTack
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Meteoroids
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Mirage
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Miss Pac-Plus
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Missle Sprinter
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Monkey Donkey
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Moon Shuttle
(ムーンシャトル)
|
1981 |
Fly your shuttle through asteroid fields. |
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Moon War II
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Mouse Trap
(マウストラップ)
|
1981 |
A somewhat-inventive Pac-Man clone |
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Ms. Pac Attack
(ミスパックアタック)
|
1981 |
Hack of MsPacman by Two-Bit Score. |
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Ms. Pac-Man Attacks
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Ms. Pacman Plus
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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New Bosconian
(ニューボスコニアン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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New Grand Derby
(ニューグランドダービー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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New Rally-X
(ニューラリーＸ)
|
1981 |
Updated version of the racing game Rally-X with easier gameplay and the addition of a "lucky" flag. |
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New York New York
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Omega Race
(オメガレース)
|
1981 |
Space - zap things around track |
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Pac Gal
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Paint Roller
|
1981 |
Paint the paths of the maze in this Pac-Man clone. Same as "Make Trax" and "Crush Roller." |
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Percussor, The
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Pirranha
|
1981 |
A bootleg game on Pac-Man hardware. |
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Planet Patrol
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Pleiades Part 2
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Pleiads
|
1981 |
The same play style as Phoenix. Move your ship left and right, and destroy the enemy characters. Several different waves, with the major difference from Phoenix being a wave where you have to land the ship. |
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Pleitek
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Pliades Part 2
(プレアデス)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Polybius
|
1981 |
We need information. |
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Pulsar
(パルサー)
|
1981 |
You drive through a maze while strange opponents fire at you. You must vanquish opponents before you move to the next maze. Watch for the maze to change, because as some walls disappear others materialize. |
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Qix
(クイックス)
|
1981 |
Qix (pronounced "kicks") is a simple and elegant game in which you claim territory by drawing boxes to fill a rectangular space. You must avoid the Qix – sticklike objects that float and bounce through your space in unpredictable patterns. You can rack up more points for creating boxes more slowly, and besides the Qix, you must be careful of Sparx and Fuses which appear if your marker stops while you are drawing. |
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Quasar
(クエーサー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Radar Zone
(レーダーゾーン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Red Alert
(レッドアラート)
|
1981 |
Save countries from nuclear attack |
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Red Baron
(レッドバロン)
|
1981 |
fly around arena shooting down enemy planes and airships etc.. |
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Rock Climber
(ロッククライマー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Round Up
(ラウンドアップ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Route 16
|
1981 |
Driving maze game |
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Satan of Saturn
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Scramble
(スクランブル)
|
1981 |
Space - Fly over planet surface and destroy base |
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Silver Land
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Solar Quest
|
1981 |
Space - shoot things around a sun |
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Space Demon
(スペースデーモン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Space Force
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Space Fortress
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Space Fury
(スペースフューリー)
|
1981 |
Space - defeat the Mekon |
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Space Odyssey
(スペースオデッセイ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Spiders
(スパイダー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Star Hawk
(スターホーク)
|
1981 |
Space - shoot ships over space station |
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Star Laker
(スターレイカー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Star Raker
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Stargate
|
1981 |
Space - protect humanoids from aliens. Even more hyper-active sequel to Defender. |
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Strategy X
(ストラテジーＸ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Super Cobra
(スーパーコブラ)
|
1981 |
Space - fly helicopter through caverns |
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Super Invaders
|
1981 |
Bootleg of Space Invaders. |
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Super Tank
(スーパータンク)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Tactician
(タクティシャン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Tank Battalion
(タンクバタリアン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Tempest
(テンペスト)
|
1981 |
Space - Blast through abstract 3-D "tubes" |
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Thief
(シーフ)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Tower, The
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Turbo
(ターボ)
|
1981 |
Race through fake 3-D course |
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Turpin
(ターピン)
|
1981 |
Maze collection game (Pac-man style) based around collecting items(turtle eggs) hidden in Question Mark '?' boxes around the screen and returning them home. A.K.A. "Turtles." |
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Ultra Dome
(ウルトラドーム)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Venture
(ベンチャー)
|
1981 |
Adventure - get treasure from rooms |
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Video Hustler
(ビデオハスラー)
|
1981 |
Pool game. |
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Voyager
(ボイジャー)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Vs. Battle City
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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War of the Bugs
(ウォーオブザバグ)
|
1981 |
Centipede Clone. |
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War of the Worlds
(ウォーオブザワールド)
|
1981 |
No summary. |
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Warp Warp
|
1981 |
Shoot the beasties |
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Wizard of Wor
|
1981 |
Adventure - clear dungeons of monsters |
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Zarzon
(ザーゾン)
|
1981 |
No summary. |