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	Game	Year	Summary
=>	Juno First ジュノーファースト	1983	Space - Shoot everything
	First Funky Fighter, The	1993	No summary.
	Lunar Lander ルナーランダー	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.
	Kingdom Grand Prix	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.
	Trog	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.
	Space Invaders Part II スペースインベーダーパート２	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!
	Samurai Showdown サムライスピリッツ	1993	The first in a popular line of fighters in which the combatants wield various weapons. Known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
	King of Fighters '94	1994	The first in a series of fighting games using a mixture of characters from SNK's other 2 series Fatal Fury and The Art of Fighting.
	Time Crisis タイムクライシス	1996	Time Crisis is a first person shooter in which there is a pedal used for ducking/reloading.
	Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder	1993	A walk-around-and-kill-everything-that-moves game with the exact same gameplay as the first Golden Axe.
	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).
	Atari Football フットボール	1978	Black-and-white head-to-head football for two or four players. First arcade game to use a trackball as the controller.
	Karate Champ	1984	Head to Head Karate, gaming's first complex beat-em-up - beat your opponent senseless
	Star Fire スターファイア	1980	First-person shooter in which the enemy ships are TIE fighters (of Star Wars fame).
	Smash TV	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.
	Stratovox	1980	A Galaxian / Space Invaders - like game. Possibly the first game with voice synthesis.
	Samurai Showdown 2 真サムライスピリッツ-覇王丸地獄変-	1994	One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
	Samurai Showdown 3: Blades of Blood	1995	One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
	Samurai Showdown 4: Amakusa's Revenge	1996	One or two player fighting game with various weapons. Series known as "Samurai Spirits" in Japan.
	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.
	China Gate 中華大仙？	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).
	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.
	Zero Point	1998	3D first person shooter, manufactured bu Unico, licensed by Game Vision.
	Pit Fighter ピットファイター	1990	First (maybe only) entirely digitized fighter game, for up to 3 players.
	Empire City 1931 エンパイヤーシティー１９３１	1987	First-person gangster-shooting game set during the Prohibition.
	King of Fighters '95	1995	Sequel to The King of Fighters 94. This game once again uses characters from SNK's other fighters but this time you can edit you teams to your liking.
	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."
	Outfoxies, The	1995	A one or two player game in which you choose from a wide variety of characters and battle to the death with your opponent.
	Cyber Troopers Virtual On 電脳戦機バーチャロン	1995	Two-player linked robotic combat. First in a series
	Street Fighter ストリートファイター	1987	The First in a long series of mega-popular fighting games.
	Slap Fight スラップファイト	1986	First space shoot'em-up created by Toaplan. Released as Alcon in the US.
	Kuuga – Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail	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.
	Vapor Trail 空牙	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.
	Kuhga - Operation Code Vapor Trail 空牙 – Operation Code Vapor Trail	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.
	Marvel Vs. Capcom	1997	The 5th game by Capcom to utilize their insanely popular Xmen fighting game engine. Players select 2 characters out of a possible 15 (plus 5 hidden) and battle it out.
	Ikari Warriors	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.
	Power Drift パワードリフト	1988	One player first-person sprite based driving game.
	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.
	Journey	1983	The first (and last?) rock-n-roll game.
	Crystal Castles クリスタルキャッスル	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.
	Borderline ボーダーライン, Bōdārain	1981	drive Jeep, destroy enemy refineries - four stages with different gameplay - vertical shooter, dig-dug like maze, etc
	Three Wonders スリーワンダー	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.
	Chinese Hero チャイニーズヒーロー	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.
	Cabal カベール	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.
	Moon Alien-Part 2	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.
	Pigskin 621 A.D.	1990	Football with fantasy races. You and your opponent use weapons, traps, and magic to score touchdowns.
	Crime City クライムシティー	1989	Classic-style walk-and-shoot, similar to E-Swat and Shinobi. Assume the role of two cops and go out stopping bank robberies, saving the kidnapped, and all that other good stuff cops do.
	Legionnaire	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.
	Rip Off リップオフ	1979	A cooperative two-player game in which you and your teammate try to protect fuel pods from the enemy tanks.
	Violence Fight バイオレンスファイト	1990	Primitive two player fighting game. Two players can duke it out in this 2d fighter similar to Pit Fighter.
	Tactician タクティシャン	1981	Like Space Invaders except you get 30 seconds before a level to build up barricades, and the ships don't move in unison.
	Submarine サブマリン	1979	This is a mechanically controlled game, possibly built before pong. Produced by Namco (as marked on case). The object of the game is to aim through the periscope and shoot torpedoes at ships moving back and forth in the ocean.
	Neo Bomber Man	1997	The arcade released NeoGeo version of Bomberman. Similiar to the other versions. Also released for the NeoGeo home cart system.
	Joust ジャウスト	1982	Who would have thought a game with knights fighting on ostriches and storks could become such a classic? Many people attribute the enormous success of Joust to the fact that it could be played either competitively or collaboratively, making it almost two games in one.
	Speed Rumbler ラッシュ＆クラッシュ	1986	Save your family from terrorists by running and shooting, or driving and shooting. Earn bonus as you save each person. Somewhat graphic.
	Banbam	1984	A one or two player maze game published and developed by Sun Electronics
	Alien Syndrome エイリアンシンドローム	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!
	Elevator Action エレベーターアクション	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.
	Ozma Wars	1979	Black-and-white space shooter for one or two players.
	Fire Truck ファイアートラック	1978	1 or 2 player simulataneous driving game - with a twist. The earliest video game with 2-player cooperative gameplay.
	Gridiron Fight グリダイアンファイト	1985	Football Game, table style. 1 player or 2 players head to head.
	Klax クラックス	1989	Catch colored blocks rolling down a conveyer belt and stack them by color in vertical columns or, in higher levels, horizontal and diagonal rows.
	Cyber Lip サイバーリップ	1990	SNK's answer to Contra. Not a bad game, but the later released Metal Slug blew it away.
	Hard Drivin' ハードドライビング	1991	First driving game with force feedback.
	Sprint 8 スプリント８	1977	8-player driving game with a coin slot, steering wheel, and accelerator pedal for each player.

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