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                                Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters                             
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                        1989 | 
                        Traverse a series of maze like rooms rescuing hostages and destroying equipment.  | 
                    
                    
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                                Escape Kids エスケープキッズ                            
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                        1991 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom                             
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                        1983 | 
                        Space - Fly through space and over planets | 
                    
                    
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                                I, Robot                             
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                        1984 | 
                        Space - Colour the levels - Destroy the evil eye | 
                    
                    
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                                Dark Planet ダークプラネット                            
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                        1982 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Robot Bowl ロボットボール                            
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                        1977 | 
                        Early black and white bowling game. | 
                    
                    
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                                Robot                             
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                        1975 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Planet Patrol                             
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                        1981 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Robot Defense                             
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                        0 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Robot Offense                             
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                        0 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Surf Planet                             
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                        1997 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Wonder Planet                             
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                        1987 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                Cosmic Monsters コズミックモンスター                            
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                        1979 | 
                        Space Invaders clone. | 
                    
                    
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                                Cosmic Monsters II コズミックモンスター2                            
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                        1979 | 
                        Space Invaders II clone. | 
                    
                    
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                                Monsters, The                             
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                        1976 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                King of the Monsters                             
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                        1991 | 
                        Trash-em-up like Mortal Kombat meets Rampage. | 
                    
                    
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                                King of the Monsters 2                             
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                        1992 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                The King of Monsters 2 キングオブモンスター2-ザ・ネクスト・シング-                            
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                        1992 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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                                The King of Monsters キングオブモンスターズ                            
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                        1991 | 
                        No summary. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Punky Doodle                             
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                        1993 | 
                        A PacMan-style game where Punky Doodle and his brother Curly Doodle defend
the pumpkin patch against enemy monsters by drawing magic doodles using
magic markers. | 
                    
                    
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                                Gal's Panic ギャルズ・パニック                            
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                        1993 | 
                        A simple Qix-like game (you draw areas that once completed fill the playfield locking the monsters away) with a cute girl appearing on the background after each level.
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                                Bucky O'Hare バッキーオハラのスチャラカ空中戦                            
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                        1992 | 
                        Bucky's mission is to destroy each planet boss and rescue his crews and
infiltrate into the Toad's spaceship and stop their ambition of universe
domination. | 
                    
                    
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                                Psycho - Nics Oscar サイコニクスオスカー                            
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                        1987 | 
                        Control a yellow robot named Oscar, collect shield and weapon power-ups, shoot bad guys until you get to a massive boss-monster at the end. | 
                    
                    
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                                Bagman バッグマン                            
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                        1982 | 
                        Bagman was about an escaped convict that was being chased thru mineshafts w/
elevators and escape routes thru various levels. | 
                    
                    
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                                Gauntlet II ガントレット2                            
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                        1986 | 
                        Sequel to Gauntlet. Multiplayer (up to 4) exploration/shooting game with RPG elements. More varied monsters/walls/items and higher difficulty than its predecessor.
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                                Arm Wrestling アームレスリング                            
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                        1985 | 
                        Hero arm-wrestles a series of increasingly strong and increasingly odd characters, including a girl and her robot.
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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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                                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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                                Rug Rats ラグラッツ                            
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                        1983 | 
                        You are a woman with a vacuum cleaner cleaning a room while being attacked by monsters. | 
                    
                    
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                                Freedom Fighter                             
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                        1986 | 
                        Help free the world from robot tyrany!  Grab your laser and shoot anything
mechanical. | 
                    
                    
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                                Cyberbots サイバーボッツ                            
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                        1995 | 
                        2-D robot fighting game with highly maneuverable mecha and the usual special moves and combos. | 
                    
                    
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                                Black Tiger ブラックドラゴン                            
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                        1987 | 
                        Scrolling fighter with great music and great medieval monsters.  U.S. version of Black Dragon. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Zoom 909 ズーム909                            
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                        1982 | 
                        The game that became Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom | 
                    
                    
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                                Fire Bird                             
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                        1980 | 
                        Vertical space shooter - shoot robot eagles and robot falcons | 
                    
                    
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                                Liberator リバレーター                            
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                        1984 | 
                        Space - protect your planet - aka Atari Force Liberator | 
                    
                    
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                                Bank Panic バンクパニック                            
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                        1985 | 
                        Shoot bad guys behind the doors, don't shoot the good guys. Try
to collect stolen money back. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                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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                                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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                                Smash TV                             
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                        1990 | 
                        In the "distant" future of 1999, you are a contestant on the most violent game show of all – Smash TV.  On this game show anything goes, as you attempt to collect prizes, cash, and keys by fighting off  a host of enemies with your array of weapons.  In some versions, if you collect enough keys, you are rewarded with a trip to the Pleasure Dome. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                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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                                Xevious ゼビウス                            
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                        1983 | 
                        Space  - Fly over planet, destroy Solvalou mothership | 
                    
                    
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                                Star Raker スターレイカー                            
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                        1981 | 
                        alien planet reskinned version of Borderline | 
                    
                    
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                                Starblade                             
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                        1991 | 
                        Save your home planet, fighting mechanized enemies. | 
                    
                    
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                                Mr. Do! ミスタードゥ                            
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                        1982 | 
                        Mining - dig for cherries and kill monsters | 
                    
                    
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                                Super Locomotive スーパーロコモティブ                            
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                        1982 | 
                        Super Locomotive is a split screen scrolling game. The aim is to reach the end of each section without being run into by the opposition and without running red lights.
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                                Scramble スクランブル                            
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                        1981 | 
                        Space - Fly over planet surface and destroy base | 
                    
                    
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                                Cobra Command サンダーストーム                            
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                        1984 | 
                        Standard scrolling shooter. Fly your helicopter and wipe out
round after round of bad guys while picking up powerups. | 
                    
                    
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                                New Zealand Story, The                             
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                        1990 | 
                        Basic horizontal platform game - help a little kiwi save his friends from
an evil walrus who intends to have them for dinner. | 
                    
                    
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                                Gauntlet ガントレット                            
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                        1985 | 
                        Multiplayer (up to 4) exploration/shooting game with RPG elements. | 
                    
                    
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                                Cloak & Dagger                             
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                        1984 | 
                        Espionage - plant bombs and escape | 
                    
                    
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                                Mappy マッピー                            
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                        1983 | 
                        Travel through a house to collect items and avoid the cats trying to get you. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Final Starforce ファイナルスターフォース                            
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                        1992 | 
                        Pilot your spaceship, shooting enemy spacecraft and ground targets. Grab the pulsator capsules for extra fire power. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Street Fighter EX2 ストリートファイターEX2                            
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                        1998 | 
                        Street Fighter EX2 expands EX Plus with Guard Breaks, Super Canceling, and introduces Excel Combos, allowing timed chains of varied basic and special moves with move restrictions. | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Crackshot                             
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                        1986 | 
                        First-person shoot-’em-up gallery game where players hit “good” targets, avoid “bad” ones, and progress through increasingly challenging themed levels under a time limit. | 
                    
                    
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                                Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Red Wave)                             
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                        1992 | 
                        Red Wave is an unofficial arcade modification of Street Fighter II': Champion Edition that adds mid-air special moves, limits multiple projectiles, and became popular in regions with limited official updates. | 
                    
                    
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                                Renegade 熱血硬派くにおくん                            
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                        1986 | 
                        It's 2am. You're in the subway. The wrong place to be unless you're
looking for trouble. They've got sticks, chains and your girlfriend. It's
up to you to fight your way through the thug infested city to save her.
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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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                                Gauntlet Dark Legacy ガントレット ダークレガシー                            
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                        1999 | 
                        Gauntlet Dark Legacy, as an expansion to Gauntlet Legends, plays similarly, but with new levels, items, characters, and combat capabilities.  | 
                    
                    
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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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                                Speed Rumbler ラッシュ&クラッシュ                            
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                        1986 | 
                        Save your family from terrorists by running and shooting, or driving and shooting.  Earn bonus as you save each person.  Somewhat graphic. | 
                    
                    
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                                Pleiads                             
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                        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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                                Canyon Bomber キャニオンボンバー                            
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                        1977 | 
                        A very simple, classic game.  Use a button to drop bombs into a canyon of numbered blocks.  Your ship changes between a blimp and a biplane. | 
                    
                    
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                                Time Traveler タイムトラベラー                            
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                        1991 | 
                        You are a cowboy who goes through time to destroy the Evil
Scientist and Rescue the Princess to save the Universe. | 
                    
                    
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                                Wizard of Wor ウィザードオブウォー                            
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                        1981 | 
                        Adventure - clear dungeons of monsters | 
                    
                    
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                                Legionnaire                             
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                        1992 | 
                        A run through the city and beat up all the bad giys game in the same vein as games like Final Fight. Judy has been kidnapped by the crime syndicate and Frank, Chris, and Alfred must save her. | 
                    
                    
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                                China Gate 中華大仙?                            
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                        1988 | 
                        You (and optional teamate) choose 1 of 3 characters, battle many different enemies with different abilities, and beat various bosses.  The goal is to retrieve a book which the enemies have stolen from your master (as you see in the attract screens). | 
                    
                    
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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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                                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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                                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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                                Nemesis グラディウス                            
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                        1985 | 
                        Space - fly over strange worlds and get power-ups - A.K.A. Gradius. | 
                    
                    
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                                Street Fighter EX2 Plus ストリートファイターEX2プラス                            
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                        1999 | 
                        Street Fighter EX2 Plus adds new and returning characters, introduces Meteor Combos for all fighters, and refines Excel Combos to allow repeated moves in sequences. | 
                    
                    
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                                Eggs                             
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                        1983 | 
                        Free your chicks contained in Eggs while avoiding the Bad Guys. | 
                    
                    
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                                Scrambled Egg                             
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                        1983 | 
                        Free your chicks contained in Eggs while avoiding the Bad Guys.
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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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                                Block Hole                             
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                        1989 | 
                        A puzzle game where a spaceship tries to shoot blocks by shooting the top
of each block until they match. The game ends when the blocks reach the
bottom. | 
                    
                    
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                                Crystal Castles クリスタルキャッスル                            
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                        1983 | 
                        The Brothers Grimm go 3-d. Pac-man style game in which you move Bentley Bear through a series of dazzling 3-d landscapes, collecting gems and avoiding balls, trees, and other bad guys. | 
                    
                    
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                                Eyes アイズ                            
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                        1981 | 
                        Roam maze and kill monsters | 
                    
                    
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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. |