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Once the player gets past the title screen, the game will begin. The movement of Godzilla is in three dimensions, and Godzilla's only weapon is his atomic breath, which can be aimed. Godzilla has four lives, which are depleted by either the enemies touching Godzilla, hitting Godzilla with their attacks,...
Electric Dreams' game based on the 1986 film Aliens is a first-person strategy game somewhat similar to Space Hulk. The player controls six characters from a remote terminal, guiding them through a 255-room complex in search of the Alien Queen. Each character has a helmet camera and a smart gun,...
Pick up your trusty bullwhip and don the mantle of the legendary Indiana Jones! Prepare yourself for your most dangerous adventure yet - to storm the evil Temple of Doom and rescue the imprisoned children and the magical Stones of Sankara! Beware the foes and hazards that block your way....
Now you can command the fate of the U.S.S. Enterprise in this home version of the hit arcade game. You're training to become a Federation Starship Captain. Fight off deadly Klingon Battle Cruisers that threaten the existence of your Starbases. Skillfully navigate through perilous asteroid fields and comet storms. Prepare...
Based on King Kong Lives movie, King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu is an action game with puzzle-solving and role-play elements, a more complex experience compared to Famicom version of King Kong 2. You play as Mitchel (Hank Mitchell from the movie) who travels to Golnebo Isle in search of Lady...
Now those adorable little Cabbage Patch Kids run and jump across your screen in this popular new video game! Start at Babyland General. Head for the park, and one adventure after another! It's hours of playtime fun! Your player is a Cabbage Patch kid with pigtails who is having a...
Aliens: Alien 2 is an arcade platformer featuring Ripley on a planet infested with aliens. Armed with only a basic gun at first, she faces facehuggers that come out of alien eggs. After having dispatched a face hugger, the egg may be shot to reveal an item. Items may be...
Rambo's mission is set deep in Afghanistan, in the days when the Soviets occupied it, and America was putting this right (we won't mention who they enlisted to do so). Colonel Trautman has been kidnapped by the Soviets, and you've gone in there to rescuing him. Doing so is a...
Parodius: The Octopus Saves the Earth is the first game in the Parodius series, although this position is often confused with the better-known second game. "Parodius" is a portmanteau of "Gradius" and "Parody," and Parodius is a parody of Gradius. Gameplay is similar to Gradius, a horizontal scrolling shooter, but...
Karateka is a 1984 beat'em up video game by Jordan Mechner, and was his first game created while attending Yale University. It was originally programmed for the Apple II, and was later ported to several other home computers and early gaming consoles. The game was published in North America by...
Gojira-kun is a 1985 video game developed by Toho for the MSX. The game is notable for featuring chibi versions of the Godzilla monsters, in a similar manner to Bandai's Godzilland merchandise line. Compile developed a sequel to this game, Gojira-kun: Kaiju Daikoshin, for the Nintendo Game Boy in 1990....
The game starts with the Shobijin being taken away by an UFO, and saying "HELP, MOTHRA!" The game starts with Mothra Larva hatching from an egg. She can shoot webs to stun any monster (except Godzilla and Hedorah). Mothra can walk north, south, west and east, but the screen locks...
TwinBee is a vertical scrolling shooter. The players control cartoon-like spacecrafts with anthropomorphic arms, player one being TwinBee and player two being WinBee. The spacecrafts can be moved in all 8 directions, with one button for regular shooting flying enemies and one button for dropping ground bombs. Power-ups in the...
Yuko Ahso is an ordinary Japanese teenager with an ordinary life - until one day she is attacked by a monster on the street. Out of nowhere, a sword appears in her hands. She fights the monsters who have suddenly invaded the city, and is summoned to the parallel world...
Super Rambo Special is an action game based on movie Rambo: First Blood Part 2. As in the movie you play the part of one-man-army John Rambo who is busted out of prison by his former CO to go deep into the Vietnamese jungle and rescue a group of P.O.W.s....
The first Rambo game in the series to be released on the MSX features Rambo with an arsenal of weapons and grenades on well guarded military grounds, and is similar to and based on the movie. Your main objective is to rescue the girl from captivity. You start out with...
In Knightmare, the player takes control of a brave knight named Popolon, who has to rescue his sweetheart Aphrodite from the clutches of the evil Hudnos. The game is essentially a top-down shooter. Popolon can shoot arrows at his enemies, and at the end of level face bosses, such as...
With April O'Neil held hostage by The Shredder's thugs, Bebop and Rocksteady, once again, it's up to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to come to her rescue! Play as all four of the turtle heroes, rescue April, and then rescue your sensei Splinter from Mecha-Turtles clutches, and then go after...
From the dark streets of GOTHAM CITY to the deepest corners of the criminal underworld comes the CAPED CRUSADER as you've never seen him before. Incredibly strong. Armed to the teeth. And ready to put his life on the line for the sake of all, on a search-and-destroy mission to...
Robin was repairing the Batmobile when he was kidnapped. Before Batman can contemplate rescuing him, he must reassemble the car from its seven parts. There are all over the Batcave, in this isometric arcade adventure taking in over 150 screens. Initially Batman lacks his super powers, which must be collected....
In this action game made under licensed from D.C. Comics, Inc. and First Star Software, Inc., you play as Superman on his mission to save kidnapped Lois Lane and all humankind from two super villains, Darkseid and Lex Luthor. The gameplay consists of different action-oriented sections including 3D flying, overhead...
Ten years ago in the town of Custom, four young girls were appointed as disciples to old mage Ragithis. They were to be raised as mages and then to work as town's guardians. But after the ten years of training due to unknown reason girls rebelled against Ragithis and killed...
Rance: Hikari o Motomete is the first instalment of Rance series. Keith, owner of Keith's Guild, offers Rance a job worth 20,000 gold in reward from the Bran family to find and protect their daughter, Hikari Mi Bran, who was kidnapped with no subsequent demands made. Assisting him in his...
The chase is on... all the way to the greatest treasure in history - the Holy Grail! And if you can survive the treacherous caves of Colorado, a savage rat attack, and overcome the deadly traps of the Grail temple, then you're ready for anything the Luftwaffe can throw at...
As Chef Peter Pepper, you must fend off the Food Foes while making perfect burgers! Each ingredient is located on a different platform, and you must climb a series of ladders in order to reach them all. Walk across the ingredient to drop it closer to the waiting plate below....