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Golf features two challenging 18 hole courses where players are able to play a round of golf, and allows players to choose a club, adjust stance and control the swing. The game features three alternating views; an overhead long-range view of the entire hole, an overhead medium-range view from the ball’s current location, and an overhead … Continue reading “Golf”
Year: 1984
Platforms: Arcade, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, NES, New Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PC-88, Sharp X1, Wii U
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
In a completely different style from the first Nintendo Godzilla game from Toho, you play as japanese military forces fighting against Godzilla. Because Godzilla is such a ferocious monster, this is no easy task… in fact, your attacks to Godzilla don’t actually do any damage to him at all. Strategy instead becomes the main point … Continue reading “Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Goal! Two is the sequel to Goal!. It is a football/soccer game for one or two players and changed the top-down perspective from the first game to an angled overhead point of view with a scrolling screen. Play modes include a single-player “Super Cup” tournament and several single-game options, including two players against the CPU. … Continue reading “Goal! Two”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Goal! is a soccer game for one player against the computer, two players against each other, or two players against the computer. Gameplay is from an angled overhead point of view, with the screen scrolling to follow the action. Several game options are available, including tournament mode, world cup mode, and a goal shooting competition.
Year: 1989
Platforms: NES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
In Ghoul School the player is cast as Spike O’Hara, a senior at Cool School High in a small American town. Spike is a rebel and an outcast, but is a good kid. While taking a shortcut through the graveyard home one day, he comes across a glowing skull. Intrigued, he takes it to Dr. Femur, his … Continue reading “Ghoul School”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Metroidvania
A mysterious white lion once attacked a small village and killed many of its inhabitants. But a brave soldier defeated the beast with his spear. The white lion ran away and found a shelter in a dark cave near the town. Some years later, Maria’s parents organize an expedition to the cave in order to … Continue reading “Ghost Lion”
Year: 1992
Platforms: NES
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
The UK-produced adaptation of Ghostbusters II contains three action scenes based on the film: In the first scene, the Ghostbusters must collect slime samples from the sewers. One Ghostbuster is being lowered into a shaft on a cable and must collect the samples at the bottom. On the way down, many ghosts will try to stop him. … Continue reading “Ghostbusters II”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, NES, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Based on the 1984 film of the same name, the Ghostbusters are the ones to call to “bust” any ghost hauntings. They do this through the use of nuclear-accelerated “proton packs” and “ghost traps”, whereby the ghosts can be captured and transferred to a secure storage facility at their Headquarters. However New York City has … Continue reading “Ghostbusters”
Year: 1984
Platforms: Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, MSX, NES, PC Booter, SEGA Master System, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Featuring heavyweight champion George Foreman, this is a boxing simulation where players, taking the role of Foreman, go through a series of twelve rounds against different boxers to win the championship title belt. Played from an third-person perspective using a view from right over the shoulders over the boxer, players can move left and right … Continue reading “George Foreman’s KO Boxing”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Game Boy, Genesis, NES, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Genghis Khan is a top-down 2D turn-based grand strategy game, based on the real mongol leader Genghis Khan’s life. The game’s main objective is to become the supreme ruler. The player can select from two campaigns: Mongol conquest or World conquest. In the Mongol conquest, players take on the role as Temujin (later known as Genghis … Continue reading “Genghis Khan”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Amiga, DOS, MSX, NES, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Turn-based strategy