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Based on the board game, the object is to guess either a word or phrase based on a drawing. Each team starts on the same square on the board and the first team attempts to draw a picture based on a clue. If his team correctly guesses the clue, then this team gets to roll … Continue reading “Pictionary”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Board game
Based on the 1985 Hong Kong movie, “Mr. Vampire”, Phantom Fighter puts the player in the role of a Chinese warrior who walks with your pupil through several Chinese towns taken by phantoms. Enter each house and beat ’em up using a variety of kung-fu moves. After defeating a phantom, you’ll receive a special gift that recovers … Continue reading “Phanton Fighter”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Welcome to Neverland! With your help, Peter Pan will defeat Captain Hook and his evil band of pirates! Fly and sword-fight your way to victory, but it won’t be easy — the pirates get tougher as you move from stage to stage! Watch out for the crocodile, too! If you succeed in defeating the pirates, … Continue reading “Peter Pan and the Pirates”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
This is mostly the parody of Gradius (Nemesis on some systems), with some flavor from other shoot-em-ups, like Twinbee. The series is available on numerous platforms. The game is a right-to-left scrolling shoot-em-up. You can choose from 4 different flying creatures, with different weapons. You must finish 7 stages, each having a boss at the end. You may … Continue reading “Parodius”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Arcade, Game Boy, NES, SNES, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
This sequel to Rainbow Islands sees a return to the gameplay of Bubble Bobble, but with Bub and Bob in their now-human forms. The boys must clear a series of screens of bad guys – who take slightly more esoteric forms than the angry caterpillars from Rainbow Islands – and again pick up a whole … Continue reading “Parasol Stars: Rainbow Islands II”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, NES, TurboGrafx-16, Wii
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
You’re a paper boy. Get on your bicycle. Avoid obstacles on the road, such as dogs, cars, and basically everything you can imagine. Hell, some people shoot cannon balls at you! And you’d better be very sure to only throw papers at the right houses! (and at people, that’s fun 🙂
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The object of Paperboy is to deliver papers to your customers while inflicting as much damage as possible to the houses of your non-customers. To make things more difficult, numerous obstacles get in your way including construction workers, rogue tires, skateboarders, dogs and cats, cars, and even the occasional tornado.
Year: 1984
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Arcade, Atari ST, BBC Micro, BlackBerry, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Electron, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Gear, Genesis, J2ME, Lynx, NES, SEGA Master System, Xbox 360, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Panic Restaurant is a side-scrolling platform game where you play as chef Cookie. The rival chef Ohdove has taken over his restaurant and it’s up to Cookie to reclaim it. It is a fairly basic platform game. You run and jump, and enemies are placed all around to try and stop you. The entire game, backgrounds, … Continue reading “Panic Restaurant”
Year: 1994
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The goal of Palamedes is to clear the screen which is, line by line, filling up with dice. Players control a small person situated near the bottom of the screen, who can only be moved to the left or right. The number of the dice the person is holding can be changed with the B … Continue reading “Palamedes”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Arcade, FM Towns, Game Boy, MSX, NES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Cards / tiles
Overlord is a real-time strategic warfare game where the player must manage large standing armies, economic capital, and political stability throughout a number of extra-dimensional star systems. As the dictatorial ruler of the Epsilon Galaxy, the player has obtained complete, indisputable authority. However, during a scientific experiment in hyperdrive technology, Epsilon scientists discovered four “buffer” dimensions, … Continue reading “Overlord”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy