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Car Action
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1983 |
No summary. |
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Armored Car アーマードカー
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1981 |
Kinda Tutankham meets Rally-X. Typical Stern release. |
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Car Polo カーポロ
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1977 |
Soccer (or polo) with cars instead of people. |
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Car Hunt カーハント
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1979 |
No summary. |
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Pace Car Pro
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1975 |
No summary. |
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Hammer Car ハンマーカー
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1983 |
No summary. |
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Touring Car
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1996 |
No summary. |
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Sega Touring Car
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1996 |
No summary. |
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Touring Car Championship ツーリングカーチャンピオンシップ
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1996 |
No summary. |
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Van Van Car
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1983 |
No summary. |
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Car Chase
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1979 |
Konami, Head On clone, released by Leijac. |
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Chinese Hero チャイニーズヒーロー
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1984 |
Chinese Hero (チャイニーズヒーロー, Chainīzu Hīrō), also known in Japan as Super Chinese (スーパーチャイニーズ, Sūpā Chainīzu), is an arcade action game developed by Nihon Game (now Culture Brain) and published by Taiyo System in October 1984. |
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Elevator Action エレベーターアクション
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1984 |
Your mission as Secret Agent 17(code name "Otto") is to find the secret documents behind red doors and then escape in your getaway car. As you travel by elevator and stairs, avoid enemies or immobilize them by force if necessary. |
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Pinball Action ピンボールアクション
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1985 |
A video pinball game from Tehkan (later Tecmo). |
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Eight Ball Action
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1984 |
a Nintendo conversion
kit - simulated pool / billiards |
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Action Fighter アクションファイター
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1985 |
No summary. |
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Rad Action
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1987 |
No summary. |
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MIA Missing In Action
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1989 |
No summary. |
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Missing in Action
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1989 |
No summary. |
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Video Action ビデオアクション
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1975 |
No summary. |
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Video Action 2
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0 |
No summary. |
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Elevator Action Returns エレベーターアクションリターンズ
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1994 |
The sequel to the acclaimed 'Elevator Action' with improved graphics
and much better playability. |
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Super Pinball Action スーパーピンボールアクション
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1991 |
No summary. |
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Puzzle & Action: Treasure Hunt
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1997 |
No summary. |
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M.I.A (Missing In Action) M.I.A
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1989 |
No summary. |
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Johnny Nero Action Hero
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2004 |
No summary. |
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Grand Striker グランドストライカー
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1993 |
Grand Striker (also called Grand Striker Human Cup) is a Japanese arcade soccer game where players advance through five tournament stages to win the Human Cup. The gameplay is fast-paced and accessible, emphasizing fun and straightforward arcade action. |
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Virtua Striker 3 バーチャストライカー
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2001 |
Virtua Striker 3 ntroduces new teams, improved 3D graphics, and expanded match modes. Maintains the series’ arcade-focused gameplay with fast, action-driven soccer, dynamic camera angles, and fluid animations. |
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Strikers 1945 III ストライカーズ1999
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1999 |
Strikers 1945 III is a modernized vertical shooter with advanced planes, complex bullet patterns, and high-intensity arcade action requiring skill, strategy, and precise timing. |
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Night Striker ナイトストライカー
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1989 |
Night Striker is a rail shooter where players drive a gun-equipped car through enemy-filled streets, using fast-paced shooting and dodging to progress and score points. |
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F-1 Dream F-1ドリーム
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1988 |
A difficult overhead racing game with fake ads like "Coco-Colo" and your choice of a normally-aspirated or turbocharged car. |
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R-Type II R-Type II
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1990 |
The Byo return for revenge! 6 Levels of absolute nightmare, as the successor to the original brings more infamous sideways scrolling action.
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Bionic Commando トップシークレット
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1988 |
A side scrolliing action game. As the hero you have a bionic grappling hook and try to defeat an evil army of soldiers. |
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Xexex ゼクセクス
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1991 |
Xexex is one of the best shooters out there with really innovative power ups (the arms are cool) and engrossing action. |
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Strikers 1945 Plus ストライカーズ 1945 PLUS
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2000 |
Strikers 1945 Plus is a vertical shooter combining classic arcade action with enhanced visuals, multiple planes, and fast-paced, skill-based combat. |
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Virtua Striker 4 バーチャストライカー
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2004 |
Virtua Striker 4 is the fourth in the main series. It modernized visuals and smoother animations combined with additional game modes and refined mechanics. Continues the series’ focus on high-speed arcade soccer and dramatic plays rather than realistic simulation. |
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SD Gundam Neo Battling
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0 |
Gundam and friends star in this shooter with a myriad of power-ups, mini-robot enemies and very smooth control and action. |
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Virtua Striker バーチャストライカー
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1994 |
Virtua Striker is a soccer game featuring fast-paced, 3D polygonal gameplay, emphasizing speed, action, and dramatic plays over realism. |
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Top Secret トップシークレット
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1986 |
Drive well-equipped spy car through enemy territory, doing combat with a
variety of enemies along the way. |
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San Francisco Rush - Extreme Racing サンフランシスコラッシュ
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1996 |
Sports car driving game through San Francisco-based tracks, albeit with relaxed physics |
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Strikers 1945 2 ストライカーズ1945II
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1997 |
Strikers 1945 II is an intensified vertical shooter featuring diverse planes, complex enemy patterns, and upgraded visuals, requiring precision, strategy, and quick reflexes. |
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Winter Games
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1987 |
Rather tricky lil' game w/8 diffrent levels of snow slashin' atari action |
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Qix クイックス
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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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Strikers 1945 ストライカーズ1945
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1995 |
Strikers 1945 is a fast-paced vertical shooter where players pilot WWII-era planes against waves of enemies and bosses, emphasizing skillful shooting, dodging, and strategic power-up use. |
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NBA Maximum Hangtime
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1996 |
Action-oriented basketball featuring real NBA player faces and spectacular
dunks. |
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Speed Freak スピードフリーク
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1979 |
Driving game with an occasional car in the oncoming lane and a cow on the shoulder. |
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NBA Hangtime
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1996 |
Four-player action basketball with real NBA players (or at least their
faces). |
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Run & Gun
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1993 |
Run and gun is a life-like basketball game with high flying dunks, in your face rejections and much much more. |
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Big Striker ビッグストライカー
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1992 |
Big Striker is a soccer game with an isometric view, eight teams, and dynamic weather effects. Players use a three-button control scheme for passing, shooting, and feints, emphasizing fast-paced, strategic arcade play. |
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Rolling Crash ローリングクラッシュ
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1979 |
Drive a car around a maze and eat the dots. Avoid crashing with the other car.
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Moon Base
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1979 |
Drive a car around a maze and eat the dots. Avoid crashing with the other car.
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Super Spacefortress Macross
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1992 |
A rather tough, action-packed vertical scrolling space sci-fi shooter.
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Sengeki Striker 旋激ストライカー
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1997 |
Sengeki Striker is a Japan-only vertical shoot ’em up where players pilot a ship with multiple auxiliary weapons, chaining enemy kills for high scores. The game combines fast-paced shooting, dynamic explosions, and strategic use of bombs and Gambits. |
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Virtua Striker 2 バーチャストライカー2
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1997 |
Virtua Striker 2 is an arcade soccer game with enhanced 3D graphics, fluid animations, and faster matches, combining simple controls with smarter AI and strategic play. |
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Hit The Ice
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1991 |
An all action ice hockey game by Taito, badged by Williams. |
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Tail n Nose
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1989 |
Top-down Formula 1 racing game where the track rotates instead of the car. |
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Altered Beast 獣王記
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1988 |
You are risen from the dead to save Zeus' Daughter. Fight your way through five levels collecting power ups to defeat the Evil Magician. |
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Virtua Striker 2 Version 2000
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1999 |
Update to Virtual Striker 2. Updated team rosters and player statistics, refined gameplay mechanics, and new animations for more fluid matches. Emphasizes speed, arcade intensity, and counterattack opportunities while keeping controls simple. |
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Super Speed Race スーパースピードレース
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1979 |
Super Speed Race is a top-down arcade racing game with manual controls, scrolling tracks, and a separate speedometer, displaying the top five scores on an LED panel. |
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Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
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1989 |
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang. |
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Vapor Trail 空牙
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1989 |
Vapor Trail: Hyper Offense Formation, known in Japan as Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail (空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail) and usually simply referred to as Vapor Trail, is a 1989 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Data East. Vapor Trail was followed by Rohga: Armor Force and Skull Fang. |
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Grand Striker 2 グランドストライカー2
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1996 |
Grand Striker 2 is a Japan-only arcade soccer game featuring faster gameplay, improved graphics, and a wider selection of teams compared to its predecessor. |
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Alien Syndrome エイリアンシンドローム
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1987 |
Third-person shooter where you get to blast all kinds of aliens and rescue people. You can also find power-ups for better blasting power!
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Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers スーパーストリートファイターII
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1993 |
Super Street Fighter II arcade expanded the roster to 16 characters, improved graphics and audio, rebalanced gameplay, added a scoring system and color options, and introduced an eight-player Tournament Battle mode. |
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Rygar アルゴスの戦士
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1986 |
You play the Legendary Warrior "Rygar" in the side scrolling platform game. The aim is to make it though 27 levels picking up power ups and bonuses along the way.
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Three Wonders スリーワンダー
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1991 |
Three different games from varying genres. Midnight Wanderers is a side-scrolling platform game, Chariot is a side-scrolling shooter, and Don't Pull is a maze/block game. All have very colorful graphics.
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Vs. Excitebike エキサイトバイク
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1987 |
Compete in motorcross circuit with either 3 computer bikes, other human racers or a combination of human and computer opponents. Winners advance to more difficult courses. |
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Ataxx アタックス
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1990 |
A variation on the Othello boardgame. You control either the blue or red
blobs (pieces). You can either jump over one space, or "multiply" to an
adjacent space. Then, all blobs in adjacent spaces change to your color. |
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Formation Armed F フォーメーション アームドF
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1988 |
Vertically scrolling shoot 'em up - control the Vowger spaceship - shoots enemies, collect power-ups - defeat bosses to advance levels - Vowger can be changed to shoot in a multitude of formations and directions |
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Out Run アウトラン
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1986 |
A car racing game. Features a realistic steering wheel. |
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Kingdom Grand Prix
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1994 |
Kingdom Grand Prix is a scrolling shooter/racing hybrid arcade game developed by Raizing and published by Eighting. It was later ported to the Sega Saturn. It is the second entry in the Mahou Daisakusen series, but the first to be a shooter/racing hybrid. |
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Trog
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1990 |
Trog is a 1 to 4 player Pacman style game. Each player controls a
dinosaur who must move around the island collecting their colored eggs and then making it back home first. There are 51 different levels.
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Ikari Warriors
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1986 |
Jungle combat with guns and grenades against an army of evildoers. Lots
of powerups and an eight-direction turning joystick/knob to control
you fighter. Plus you get to jump into tanks! A classic two player
reminiscent of Front Line. |
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Legend of Kage, The
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1985 |
Action/Adventure game set in ancient feudal Japan. |
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Borderline ボーダーライン, Bōdārain
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1981 |
drive Jeep, destroy enemy refineries - four stages with different gameplay - vertical shooter, dig-dug like maze, etc |
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BOTTS (Battle of the Solar System)
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1992 |
2-pc
cabinet w/seat - mechanized warrior action |
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WWF Wrestlefest WWFレッスルフェスト
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1991 |
Wrestling, not that it's a sport really, just acting. WWF WrestleFest is a wrestling game that is a follow-up to WWF Superstars. One to four players can play in a Tag Team Challenge or the Battle Royal. |
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Raiden Fighters II: Operation Hell Dive
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1997 |
One of the best vertical scrolling shooters yet. Great music, spectacular sound effects, and tons of multi-layer parallax, bright, vivid colors, and huge detailed bosses make this game a keeper. |
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Darius ダライアス
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1986 |
Multiple-monitor game. Scrolls from Left to Right for most of the game,
except when choosing the next level to go to, which scrolls Up and Down.
Can gain power-ups along the way for stronger Bombs and (laser?) Shots.. |
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Super Street Fighter II Turbo スーパーストリートファイターIIX
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1994 |
Super Street Fighter II Turbo arcade ran on CPS2 hardware with advanced graphics and Q-Sound audio, introduced the Super Combo system, selectable speed settings, and the hidden character Akuma. |
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NFL Blitz
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1997 |
Action-oriented 7-on-7 football. A.k.a. NFL Blitz.
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NFL Blitz '99
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1998 |
Action-oriented 7-on-7 football. A.k.a. NFL Blitz '99. |
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Galaga '88 ギャラガ’88
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1988 |
The official sequel to Galaga gets updated with new graphics, in-game-music for bonus stages, and scrolling stages--not just stars.
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Ninja Taro
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1992 |
As a ninja in ancient Japan, you are on a mission to find out if rumors are true about an evil emperor. |
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BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge
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1992 |
R-Type-ish shooter where your ship can fire a projectile that freezes enemy vehiicles and take their form and power. Innovative idea. |
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Kuhga - Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail
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1989 |
In 1999, a terrorist organization known only as DAGGER has occupied the city of New York where they have hacked into military defenses world-wide, established their own military command and gained access to nuclear missile silos. They hold the world hostage in this position and promise to cancel their threats of destroying the Earth only until the world's governments relinquish their power to DAGGER. |
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Atari Basketball バスケットボール
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1979 |
One-on-one basketball. Also called Atari Basketball. |
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Cabal カベール
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1989 |
Third person (behind player). Use a trackball to control a soldier and his aiming crosshair, and conduct attacks on various enemies. This game has quite a few "pseudo-hidden" power-ups and suprises. |
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Street Fighter Alpha 3 ストリートファイターZERO3
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1998 |
Known as Street Fighter Zero 3 in Japan. Street Fighter Alpha 3 arcade, released in 1998 on CPS2 hardware, features 31 characters and an adjustable "ism" system, allowing tailored playstyles with A-, X-, or V-ism, and expanded the Alpha series’ mechanics and roster. |
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Super Street Fighter IV スーパーストリートファイターIV
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2009 |
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, released in Japanese arcades on December 16, 2010, added four new characters, gameplay adjustments, and used the NESYS Card system for tracking player rankings. |
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A. P. B.
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1987 |
Overhead driving game. Catch criminals, force confessions, eat doughnuts, avoid demerits, meet quotas. (No, it's not a sim, even if it sounds that way.) |
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Street Fighter III: New Generation ストリートファイターIII
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1997 |
Sequel to Street Fighter II. Street Fighter III introduces parrying, Super Arts, and extended hit stun mechanics, combining traditional 1-on-1 combat with new movement, attack, and combo options |
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Bubble Bobble バブルボブル
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1986 |
As Bub and Bob, you try to capture enemies in bubbles and pop them to complete all 100 levels and rescue your girlfriends. |
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Chase H.Q. 2
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1990 |
police chasing baddies and running them off the road. Just like C-HQ1 except you had a man jump out of the sun roof and fired a machine gun when you pressed a button. |
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Crash クラッシュ
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1979 |
Drive a car around a track collecting dots. |
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NBA Jam
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1993 |
Two on two basketbrawl using real NBA teams and players. |
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Turpin ターピン
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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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Space Invaders Part II スペースインベーダーパート2
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1980 |
Thump Thump Thump you shoot the aliens vertically to keep them from tromping down on to you. This was also the FIRST game to have a intermission between levels, ever! |
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Pulsar パルサー
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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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Lunar Lander ルナーランダー
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1979 |
Check it out: Atari’s first vector graphics game. Using a throttle lever and rotation buttons, you attempt to land a manned spacecraft on the moon. Readouts show fuel usage and speed readings which must be coordinated for a successful landing. |
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Moon Alien-Part 2
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1980 |
This game is very similar to Galaxian, except that there is now an energy meter at the bottom that decrements with time. If you do not destroy all the aliens before this meter empties, your ship is destroyed.
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F355 Challenge
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1999 |
Racing simulation with just the one car type. |
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Sprint 8 スプリント8
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1977 |
8-player driving game with a coin slot, steering wheel, and accelerator pedal for each player. |
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Taito Cup Finals
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1992 |
Football (soccer) game where you can kick in opponents as well as score goals. |
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Street Fighter EX Plus ストリートファイターEXプラス
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1997 |
Street Fighter EX Plus added all hidden characters from the original EX plus four new fighters, raising the roster to 21 playable characters. |
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Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold ストリートファイターZERO2′
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1996 |
This is a Japanese only release after Street Fighter Alpha 2 to please the Japanese pundits with the addition of Evil Ryu and other new modes of play. |
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Shinobi 忍
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1987 |
You play a ninja on a one man mission out to destroy a evil force and
save kidnapped hostages. |
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Street Fighter EX ストリートファイターEX
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1996 |
Street Fighter EX blends 2D and 3D movement with systems from SFII and Alpha, featuring segmented super meters, Guard Breaks that stun, and Cancel/Super Cancel mechanics for chaining attacks and multiple Super Combos. |
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World Cup VolleyBall
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1995 |
Classic Volleyball action for the NeoGeo. |
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Virtua Striker 3 ver. 2002 バーチャストライカー
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2002 |
Minor update to Virtua Striker 3 with roster revisions, small gameplay adjustments, and optimized graphics. Keeps the emphasis on fast, exciting arcade matches. |
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Tri-Sports
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1989 |
Power Strike (bowling), Pool shark (billiards), and Mini-golf Deluxe all in one cabinet |
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Block Out ブロックアウト
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1989 |
A Tetris-type game of arranging falling "bricks", except it's 3D and you're looking top-down into the grid that is being filled. |
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Mortal Kombat 2 モータルコンバット2
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1994 |
Considered the Best of Midway's Mortal Kombat Series, this is your basic vs. type fighting game. Game players fight each other or the computer. |
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Mortal Kombat モータルコンバット
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1992 |
Gore-fest head to head fighting. Seven awesome warriors go head to defeat the evil Shang Sung to win back control over the earth and restore peace.
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Top Skater トップスケーター
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1997 |
Pull off the craziest tricks ever
to score major points and become the best Top Skater in town. |
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Soul Blade
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1996 |
You've been killed by and evil ruler, and become a vampire. Now you need to eat souls to live.
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