In the near-future, a scientist experiments with creating life using a secret scroll found in Tibetan ruins. He accidentally revives an ancient bio-weapon that quickly captures him...
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf is a golf-simulation video game developed by Sculptured Software, and published by Accolade in 1988. The game features...
In Fortress, players build castles and attempt to control more territory than their opponent.
The sequel to Enix's classic PC adventure game.
Tritorn II: Road of Darkness is an Action RPG developed by XAIN Soft and released in 1988. It is the second game in the Tritorn trilogy.
As told by the ancient scroll Lyle found on his travels, a great five-headed Pentadragon once ruled the Diodoran continent with its legions of monsters. The heavens struck them dow...
Swashbuckler is an early fighting game for the Apple II family of computers, created by Paul Stephenson and published by Datamost in 1982. The player controls a sword-wielding s...
A text-based adventure game developed by Soft Studio Wing released only in Japan.
Woody Poco, an 8-bit action-RPG about a wooden boy (or girl, depending on the version) who wants to become human
Psy-O-Blade is a 1988 point-and-click adventure game for the MSX, PC-88, and PC-98 by T&E Soft. GRC and Sigma ported the game to the Sega Mega Drive in 1990. No version has left Ja...
In the virtual adventure world of DNAxCat, players can raise and breed a variety of cute meow warriors and fight side by side with them. And players can get more rewards through da...
When the epic, thousand-year-old battle between different dragon clans was finally over, and the benevolent White Dragons started ruling the country of Akranis, it looked like the...
An overhead run-and-gun in which the player assumes the role of a monk. Navigating around the land and shooting monsters in eight directions while collecting coins and power-ups, p...
The first version of Dig Dug for the PC-8801 computer, also released for the Sharp X1.
NOBUNAGA’S AMBITION: Bushou Fuunroku is the 4th in this orthodox simulation game series, released in 1990. The theme is Culture&Technology. Tea ceremonies and the gathering of tea...
Majoriko Inbizone (also known as Majoriko Inbikai, or “Majoriko in the Impure Zone”) is a side-scrolling action game with some mild RPG elements. Each of the game’s eight stages is...
The player must attempt to hack into the Magma, Ltd. computer system at the beginning of the game by guessing the logon password. Access can be gained if the player knows the passw...
A graphical text-adventure in which the player has to escape from the mid-African nation of Rungistan.
The second version of Dig Dug for the PC-8801 computer.
Famicom Top Management is a Strategy game, developed and published by Koei, which was released in Japan in 1990.
A sequel to the original J.B. Harold no Jikenbo. 24 year old pianist Sarah Shields was found dead after falling from the 25th floor of her apartment window. The cause of death was...
Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf was released in 1992, the third in the series and the second to be released outside Japan. The wolves of the Great Plains become the rulers o...
An action platformer, the first game of the Ninja-kun series.
The Forbidden Tower is a sequel to The Sign of Chaos and is the third game in the Tir-nan-óg series of role-playing games based on Irish myths. The plot continues the events of the...
Two advanced civilizations, the Paranoids (a race of alien humanoids) and the Solenoids (an all-female race) are waging a war that has gone on for centuries. When the Solenoid flee...
Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games—the builder or construction set class of games. With PCS, users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by drop...
The PC-8801 and Sharp X1 port of Excitebike.
Mecha strategy game developed by Masaya in 1987. Gaiflame is a turn-based strategy game from Masaya that was released on a number of Japanese home computers, as well as the PC Eng...