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This is a puzzle game where you knock Tetris-style shapes out of the Great Wall of China.
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Falling block puzzle
Loosely based on Thunder Warrior that was published in Taiwan. The barbarian protagonist is replaced with an odd bug-like mascot also called Gruk.
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Benny the Bee lives in a beautiful garden, but he’s starting to run out of honey. In order to find more he has to leave his home and travel elsewhere to see if he can locate some. The problem, is this involves entering the turf of insects, so Benny has th his work cut out … Continue reading “Go! Benny!”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Your starship is alive! A metamorphic creature that can transform from a huge flying insect into a metallic destroyer. Face squadron after squadron of alien fighters, marching ever onward towards a final confrontation with an all-powerful enemy. This is basically a scrolling, shoot-it-if-it-moves, action game. As your ship scrolls up the screen, you fire on … Continue reading “Galactic Crusader”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES, Supervision
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Gaiapolis is 2D top-down arcade game mix beat’em up and light RPG elements, with the action set in the world of “medieval fantasy”. The game features characters including a prince, fairy and dragon. They must find the legendary sword of the Golden Hawk, hidden in the flying citadel known as Gaiapolis, defeat the evil king … Continue reading “Gaiapolis”
Year: 1993
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler, RPG elements
The President of the United States has put you in charge of stopping the trafficking of drugs into the United States. To accomplish this, you pilot a Firehawk helicopter gunship through seven missions that involve rescuing agents and destroying drug producing facilities. When flying you survey the whole landscape from a top down view. However, … Continue reading “Firehawk”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Playing as a dragon, you have to move around the screen trying to eat as many small balls as possible. Every time you collect a ball your dragon’s tail grows by a section, meaning the more you eat the longer you get. Eventually this makes movement more tricky because if you run into your tail … Continue reading “Fire Dragon”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
In this war game you have to drive your tank to all 16 enemy bases and destroy them all while coming out in one piece. Each base has a central hub surrounded by impenetrable blocks, after a while spent destroying enemy forces, a flashing truck will eventually appear. Destroy that to get a key that … Continue reading “Final Combat”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Fighting Hero plays much like Street Fighter II. You play as Leon and travel across continents fighting other opponents. Beat the Asia, Africa, Australia,and European opponents and then you travel to North America for the final boss.
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
The Fantasy Zone is a solar system consisting of eight brightly colored, fantastic planets. The evil Menons are trying to take over all of the planets in the Fantasy Zone by using misappropriated foreign currency to build their forces. It is the player’s job to recover all of the coins and save the solar system! … Continue reading “Fantasy Zone”
Year: 1986
Platforms: Arcade, MSX, NES, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, SEGA Master System, SEGA Saturn, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16, Wii
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter