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The film Platoon featured a squad of five soldiers on their mission for the US Army in Vietnam. In this action game based around the film, you take control of these five guys in turn, with the chance to switch between them as they each take one of the 3 hits that would kill them. … Continue reading “Platoon”

Year: 1987

Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES, ZX Spectrum

Genre: Action

Theme: Shooter


Take on the life of a buccaneer in the golden age of Caribbean Piracy! This game lets you choose from 6 different “ages” (for example, “The Silver Empire” from 1560-1600, “War For Profit” from 1640-1660, etc.), one of 4 nationalities (English, French, Dutch, Spanish), 4 difficulty levels, and one of 5 special abilities (skill at … Continue reading “Pirates!”

Year: 1987

Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, NES, PC Booter, PC-88, PC-98

Genre: Action

Theme: Real-time strategy


Each level of this abstract puzzler challenges the player to set up a network of pipes to allow an unspecified substance known as ‘flooz’ to flow through as many of those as possible. The pieces are offered in random order, and there are seven different types – straight lines going horizontally or vertically, corners rotating … Continue reading “Pipe Dream”

Year: 1989

Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Arcade, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DOS, Electron, Game Boy, Macintosh, NES, PC-88, PC-98, SAM Coupé, SNES, Sharp X68000, Windows 3.x, ZX Spectrum

Genre: Action

Theme: Puzzle elements


Pinball Quest is billed as a pinball role-playing game, though the term is used loosely, as you only earn gold to buy stoppers and more powerful flippers. Actually, there are four different modes of play. The RPG-mode has six, multi-screen pinball tables, where you use your flippers to knock the pinball into enemies, find keys, and … Continue reading “Pinball Quest”

Year: 1990

Platforms: NES

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Action RPG


Try to keep the ball out of the little hole at the bottom of the board by using two flippers (in case somebody doesn’t know what kind of game pinball is :). The playing field is splitted into two parts, so if the ball falls down the first little hole you aren’t dead yet: you … Continue reading “Pinball”

Year: 1984

Platforms: Arcade, Game Boy Advance, NES, Nintendo Switch, Wii, Wii U

Genre: Action

Theme: Pinball


Pin-Bot is a conversion of the arcade pinball game by Williams Electronics. The game is played with a split screen; the bottom half of the screen remains on your flippers, while the top half scrolls to follow the ball(s) on the table. In addition to recreating the pinball game’s table, lights, and sounds several video … Continue reading “Pin Bot”

Year: 1988

Platforms: Arcade, NES

Genre: Simulation

Theme: Pinball


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