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72 hrs, 24 mins of gameplay footage from 100% of all 757 N. American releases and 15 Famicom games
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Ice Climber™
© 1985 - Nintendo - Platform - NTSC - Licensed
In the game, player 1 controls Popo (a boy dressed in a blue Eskimo parka) while player 2 controls Nana (a girl dressed in a pink Eskimo parka). Their challenge is to venture up an ice-covered mountain and recover their stolen vegetables from a giant condor. The only tool a player has is a hammer to make openings on the ice layer above and to club enemies. Each mountain consists of eight levels of colorful ice and a bonus stage. Standard, dull ice blocks pose no threat other than an easily disposed of barrier. Ice blocks that appear more square and detailed are indestructible forcing the player to take another path. The darker ice with diagonal lines act as a conveyor belt sliding the Eskimo either to the left or right. Finally, many mountains include cloud-shaped, moving platforms as an additional hurdle. The bonus stage takes place at the peak. With a time limit of 40 seconds and no enemies, the Ice Climbers often face trickier jumps and multiple moving platforms. It is also the only place they can snag back their stolen vegetables, most notably eggplants. At the top of the peak, the condor flies overhead. Grabbing its talons before time runs out gives the player a large bonus. In the original Japanese version, the yeti characters were seals.
 
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02/12/2007
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| Dig Dug
1985 - Namcot - Arcade
Become Dig Dug, the champion of love and justice, as you drill up, down, left, and right, defeating any enemies in your path. Avoid the persistent Pooka and the deep-dwelling but whimsical Fygar as you defeat all the enemies in order to clear each stage. Defeat enemies by hitting them with the (more...)
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| Defenders of Dynatron City
1992 - JVC - Action
Dr. Mayhem has performed atomic experiments on Dynatron City. This has produced six powerful superheroes. However, it has also established a large number of enemies for the heroes to fight. Take control of the good guys and use their special abilities to defeat Gatomorphs, Loogiehawks, Rabid Robot, The (more...)
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| Gilligan's Island
1990 - Bandai - Adventure
The player controls the Skipper and is followed around by Gilligan, who is controlled by the computer. The game has four episodes where the player had to wander around the island, collecting various objects, speaking with the other castaways and solving various puzzles. As is the case with Mickey Mousecapade, (more...)
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| Captain Comic - The Adventure
1989 - Color Dreams - Platform
In the game, the player takes control of Captain Comic, who is on a mission to the planet Tambi, to recover three treasures stolen from the planet Omsoc. Captain Comic is a standard platformer, in which the player has health, lives, a score, and a set of useful items. The game is divided into a number (more...)
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| Ski or Die
1991 - Ultra - Sports, Other
Ski or Die is a winter-themed extreme sports game in which the player can competes in 5 different events: Downhill Blitz: Downhill skiing event in which the player can make large jumps over chasms and perform stunts in the moguls section. Innertube Trash: Two players descend a mountain (more...)
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| Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
1991 - Hudson Soft - Role Playing
Despite a simple and rather cliché premise (a knight must rescue a captured princess and restore order to the kingdom), its plot is fairly complex by 8-bit console gaming standards. Taking the role of Sir Cucumber, a knight, the player must defeat the evil Minister Pumpkin who has kidnapped Princess (more...)
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| Trick Shooting
1990 - Nintendo - Light Gun
Pull out the Zapper Light Gun, and blast a variety of objects in Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. The game starts out simple enough; shoot rising balloons while avoiding the happy-go-lucky dog. As you get through each stage, the challenges become more difficult. Each level offers a new challenge, including (more...)
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| Gumshoe
1986 - Nintendo - Light Gun
The player acts as Mr. Stevenson, the main character and a former gumshoe. Mr. Stevenson's daughter Jennifer has been kidnapped by a mafia boss, King Dom, and has to retrieve five Black Panther Diamonds within 24 hours. Defeating Zulie, who has eaten the last diamond, allows Stevenson to rescue his daughter (more...)
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| Adventure Island
1989 - Hudson Soft - Platform
Adventure Island is a side-scrolling platform game, in the same vein as Super Mario Bros.. Power-ups are found inside eggs, and include, but are not limited to, shooting power, skateboard, superior shooting power, and fairies. Running into an enemy, a rolling boulder, or a fire results in death, as does (more...)
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| DuckTales
1989 - Capcom - Platform
DuckTales is often a subject of NES-related nostalgia, and was generally popular and addictive. The game provides a good example of the work produced by Capcom in the late 1980s and early 1990s, along with such titles as those in the Mega Man franchise. Duck Tales has much in common with the Mega Man (more...)
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| Gemfire
1992 - Koei - Strategy
6 magicians were liberated from the gem that imprisoned them. All of them choose a leader of the land of Isheria to control the world. You could select one of these leaders and try to accomplish your goals in GEMFIRE. 2D; turn-based strategy; use magic and brute strength on the battlefield; recruit all (more...)
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| Ms. Pac-Man
1990 - Tengen - Arcade
Ms. Pac-Man is a popular arcade game released by Midway in 1981. This sequel to Pac-Man differs from its predecessor on the fact that there is more than one layout of paths involved. Every two or three levels, the map changes with intermissions in-between that illustrate the courtship of Pac-Man and (more...)
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