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Jovial Race is an action game similar to Pac-Man. Players control a racing car through a maze, running from other cars and collecting flags scattered around. The aim is to collect all flags in a particular maze to proceed to the next one of the 75 available. There is a radar in the lower portion of … Continue reading “Jovial Race”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
In this game the player controls Joshua, the leader of the Jewish people after the death of Moses. Joshua must lead the Israelites into the Promised Land (Canaan), but there are many puzzles and obstacles that stand in his way – falling rocks, hostile soldiers and other things. Using his horn and other special weapons … Continue reading “Joshua & the Battle of Jericho”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, NES
Genre: Action, Educational
Theme: Puzzle elements
Jackpot is a slot machine simulator. The slot machine featured in Jackpot is a little more detailed than other NES efforts, since it also includes a double-or-nothing guessing game where you have to guess whether the next number is going to be higher or lower. You start with $1,000 and lose when it is all … Continue reading “Jackpot”
Year: 1988
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Casino / gambling
You have 8 hours to prevent Elvin, a psychotic genius, from destroying the world in this sequel to Impossible Mission. Enter Elvin’s tower fortress, avoid his robots, assemble security combinations for each tower, recover musical sequences and tie them together into a full melody to reach Elvin’s central control room.
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES, Wii, Windows, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Metroidvania
Huge insect was the last game released by Sachen and is extremely rare because it was never sold in stores. It’s basically a bug-based clone of Galaga where you control a can of bug spray and have to fire at insects as they fly into formation and swoop down exactly like they do in Namco’s … Continue reading “Huge Insect”
Year: 1993
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
This is a simple slot machine simulation. What makes it different are the erotic pictures of naked or half-naked girls, which you get if you successfully complete a casino round and win a lot of money. There are three casinos you can play in, each one leading to different girls and different short scenes and … Continue reading “Hot Slots”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Casino / gambling
Honey Peach (also known as Meinü Quan) is a very simple rock-paper-scissors game in which the player competes against several increasingly skillful female opponents. The screen displays two hands, each representing a competitor, rapidly closing and opening fists. The goal is to press one of the three buttons corresponding to rock, paper, and scissors at the right … Continue reading “Honey Peach”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy
Hidden Chinese Chess is a video game version of a real-life variant of Chinese Chess called Banqi. It’s played on a board half the size of a normal Chinese Chess board, and all 32 tokens are turned face-down so you can’t tell which pieces they are. Players take turns either turning over the tokens to … Continue reading “Hidden Chinese Chess”
Year: 1989
Platforms: NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Board game
For many a year, Satan has been eager to control the world, but he’s never had the right opportunity…that is, until a crystal ball falls into his hands. The ball lets Satan unleash chaos on the world, with volcanoes erupting and Hell on Earth essentially kicking off. Luckily, a wise old man who knows how … Continue reading “Hell Fighter”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Happy Pairs is a tile-matching puzzle game based on the Japanese game Shisenshō. Similar to the well-known Shanghai, the object is to remove tiles from the board in matching pairs until the entire board is clear. Pairs can only be removed if they can be connected by a line with no more than two turns. The game is … Continue reading “Happy Pairs”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Tile matching puzzle