PLATFORMS
Zero Wing is an horizontal shooter game where the player is in control of a ZIG, an escape pod released after its main ship was attacked and destroyed by the evil cyborg CATS, bent on taking over the world. Like most games in the genre, there are three color-coded weapons: red (scatter), green (homing) and blue … Continue reading “Zero Wing”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Arcade, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, TurboGrafx CD, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game merges the personalities and action of the WWF TV show characters with a Mortal Kombat-style fighting game. This title features digitized graphics of 8 WWF superstars: Doink, Razor Ramon, Bret “Hit Man” Hart, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker, Yokozuna, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Lex Luger. Although presented as a wrestling title, this game … Continue reading “WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Arcade, DOS, Genesis, PlayStation, SEGA 32X, SEGA Saturn, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Wrestle War puts the player in the role of a rookie pro-wrestler, Bruce Blade, who has to go through a series of bouts to win the championship. The “Sega Wrestling Alliance” wrestling promotion in which the wrestlers compete is fictional. There are no real-life wrestlers or any licensed tournament used in the game; however, many of … Continue reading “Wrestle War”
Year: 1989
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
An alien entity known as Geegus threatens the Earth in the year 3091. As all of Earth’s forces have been defeated, a scientist uses his recently-built time machine to find the greatest fighters of different eras to compete against Geegus. World Heroes is a versus fighting game. It features a cast of characters from different countries … Continue reading “World Heroes”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Android, Arcade, Genesis, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, SNES, Wii, Windows Apps, Xbox One, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
This soccer game lets you choose a team representing one of twenty-four countries around the world to participate in the World Championship tournament, which is identical to the real 1990 World Cup. Once you pick your team you can also select which players you want on the field, so that you can round out the … Continue reading “World Championship Soccer”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, SEGA Master System, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair is a quite different game to most of the games in the Wonder Boy series. You play a green-haired dude named Leo, who must attack the invaders that attempt to collect weapons and use them to destroy the land. The game starts out like a simple platform game, but it’s just when Wonder … Continue reading “Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Arcade, Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
One day the town of Niknik is invaded by Wardner’s henchmen. Wardner’s henchmen have the power to turn all humans into crystals. A honeymooning couple, Dover and Mia, get lost in the towns nearby forest. One of Wardner’s wards, Terragon, spots them and decides to kidnap Mia. Now it’s up to Dover to rescue Mia … Continue reading “Wardner aka Pyros”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Arcade, Genesis, NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Virtua Racing is Sega’s first ever 3D, polygon-based racing game. The game consists of racing Formula-1-looking cars around a beginner, intermediate, or expert track, competing against a second player or computer drivers. Despite having Formula-1 cars, the game controls are very “arcadey” and players can see the leap they made from here to Daytona. The … Continue reading “Virtua Racing”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Arcade, Genesis, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Racing/Driving
One year after after the first tournament Akira, Wolf, Pai, Jeffry, Kage, Jacky, Sarah and defending champion Lau are invited to the World Fighting Tournament, and are joined by the master of drunken Kung-Fu Shun-di, who wants to prove he’s more than an old geezer and Lion Rafale, who’s fighting for his freedom. Each fighter … Continue reading “Virtura Fighter 2”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, SEGA Saturn, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Viewpoint is a top-down orthographic perspective game in the tradition of Zaxxon. The PlayStation and Saturn versions feature 3D rendered graphics with texture maps, unlike the other versions which primarily feature shaded polygons. One or two players (in hot-seat or cooperative mode) control a spaceship equipped with a laser cannon which can be charged (by … Continue reading “Viewpoint”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Arcade, FM Towns, Genesis, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, PlayStation, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter