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Earth is under fire by Colossus, a battleship the size of a city. Using powerful laser cannons, it has destroyed most of Earth’s defence forces, while its many troops clean up the rest of the planet. All expect for 5 warriors. The Battletoads, who are well aware of evil forces in the galaxy, join forces … Continue reading “Battletoads & Double Dragon”

Year: 1993

Platforms: Game Boy, Genesis, NES, SNES

Genre: Action

Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler, Platform


The Dark Queen has attacked and kidnapped (toadnapped?) your best buddy. To make matters worse, she nabbed the best looking girl around! So, what will you do? Cry? Whimper? Hide? Call the Starcops? NO! Cause you’re a Battletoad! Battletoads don’t cry, hide or call for help! And they certainly don’t whimper! They get MAD then … Continue reading “Battletoads”

Year: 1991

Platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler, Platform


Battleship for NES and Game Gear is an adaptation of the pen and paper battleship game that puts its own spin on the concept. The ship lineup is unique in designations and sizes, the grid is 12 by 8 instead of the standard 10 by 10, and only one shot can be made per turn regardless … Continue reading “Battleship”

Year: 1993

Platforms: Game Gear, NES

Genre: Strategy / tactics

Theme: Turn-based strategy


Battle Tank borrows so much from Battlezone that it may as well be a spiritual successor. Players are put behind the controls of an MI Abrams tank, and the aim is to blow up everything – enemy tanks, choppers, nuclear power bases, fuel tanks and the like – in an attempt to find and rescue … Continue reading “Battle Tank”

Year: 1990

Platforms: NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Shooter, Wargame


The Battle of Olympus is an action game with light role-playing elements. It is set in ancient Greece and casts the player in the role of Orpheus, whose girlfriend, Helene, has been kidnapped by the demonic ruler of the netherworld called Hades. Orpheus must consult the powerful gods and have their help in order to … Continue reading “The Battle of Olympus”

Year: 1988

Platforms: Game Boy, NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Metroidvania


Battle Chess is a quite typical chess game, but it comes with a twist: all pieces are represented by small, realistic figures that walk around on the chessboard, and when one piece takes another, they both take part in an animated battle. There is a different animation for each permutation, depending on which pieces are capturing … Continue reading “Battle Chess”

Year: 1988

Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, CDTV, Commodore 64, DOS, Linux, Macintosh, NES, PC-98, Sharp X68000, Windows, Windows 3.x

Genre: Strategy / tactics

Theme: Turn-based strategy


Like Konami’s other adaptation of Batman Returns, the NES version is a side-scrolling beat ’em up. Next to brawling action, it also features two sections where the player controls the Batmobile and the Batskiboat seen in the movie. In the beat ’em up sections, Batman has to defeat a large number of enemies (members of … Continue reading “Batman Returns”

Year: 1993

Platforms: NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Platform


The Joker lives again in SunSoft’s sequel to their NES original. The Joker has somehow managed to escape from Arkham Asylum once again, and Batman must fight him across seven stages to restore peace to Gotham City. Batman carries a gauntlet shooting basic bullets by default. This can be upgraded with weapon powerups located in boxes … Continue reading “Batman: Return of the Joker”

Year: 1991

Platforms: NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Platform


The NES version of Batman: The Video Game is loosely based on the 1989 movie. It is a side-scrolling game, with a blue dressed Batman fighting enemies such as robots, jet-packed soldiers, ninjas and mutants. The game consists in five levels somewhat related to the movie: Gotham City streets (with Killer Moth as the final boss), AXIS … Continue reading “Batman”

Year: 1990

Platforms: NES

Genre: Action

Theme: Platform


Reaping the Dungeon is a turn-based, randomized dungeon crawler in the vein of Rogue and Hack. Below the surface of Jupiter, a machine runs out of control and floods the underground tunnels with synthetic creatures. You must descend into the depths to find and destroy the machine. The adventure is split into a freeware episode of 15 levels titled The … Continue reading “Reaping the Dungeon”

Year: 1993

Platforms: DOS

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Roguelike