The game captures the spirit of the RoboCop film to some degree, as it involves killing generic criminals and enemy bosses, like the dangerous ED-209. Being quite popular, RoboCop was followed by several sequels including RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, and RoboCop...

The object is to use several X-Men characters, each with special powers, to complete a series of missions. The powers of each character come in handy on particular missions. For instance, Cyclops' eye-beam is useful on the factory level. The game allo...

One or two players control two soldiers named Ricky and Mary, who must fight their way through large eight-way scrolling levels rescuing their comrades who are being held by aliens. After they have rescued a certain number of hostages the exit opens and t...

The legendary Siamese-Twin Shiva (god of destruction) has cursed your village with evil spirits. After repeated attempts to drive out the evil spirits failed, Master Hu has turned into a drunkard. Now Master Chu must search through hostile palaces and tem...

Raid 2020 is a NES action game that takes place in the year 2020. The object is to defeat all the drug dealers and eradicate drugs from the streets of America. However, the game is badly programmed and did not receive a wide release. In an unusual turn, e...

The player takes control of Albatross, a member of Interpol's "Rolling Thunder" espionage unit. Albatross' mission is to save a missing female agent named Leila Blitz from a secret society named Geldra located in New York. Albatross must...

The five missions in the game are each three or four stages long. Anywhere from 2-9 hostages are being held in each stage; Joe must rescue all of them before he is allowed to finish the stage. The last stage in each mission has no hostages, but instead fe...

After hundreds of years of chaos, mankind has finally emerged from the ruins of a nuclear war. This world of the distant future has once again come to flourish under the guidance of the Great King, who has harnessed the power of the 8 Eyes to rebuild the ...

The game contains three worlds, with two stages in each of them plus a final stage making 7 stages total. In order to regain the pieces of the shattered sword and advance in the game, the player must defeat a boss at the end of every stage. The player wil...

Rescue: The Embassy Mission is an action-strategy videogame, released in 1990 by Kemco for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The player takes on the role of one of several elite SWAT-esque members, whose job it is to infiltrate a building held by terrori...

River City Ransom has been described as a cross between a beat 'em up and a role-playing game. The game follows a more or less linear path from start to finish, and fights take place in the style of Double Dragon (another Technos hit), with the player...

Double Dragon II drops the rescue premise of the original game in favor of a revenge theme (hence the subtitle). Whereas in the original game, Marian was merely kidnapped, in the sequel she is shot to death by Black Warriors' leader Willy right in the...

Platform action game featuring the locations of the 1989 movie. The NES title had five levels culminating in a showdown with the Joker in Gotham Cathedral. The game had a much more futuristic feel to it than the movie, with robots, jet-packs and mutants. ...

Astyanax is a side-scrolling platform game. The controls are fairly simple: the A Button makes Astyanax jump, the B Button will attack with an axe called Bash, and a combination of up and attack will perform a special magic attack. The game also contains ...

Code Name: Viper is a NES action game where the player has to go to South America under the command of an Army commander in order to bust up a commando army. But in the end, the player realizes that the commander is corrupt and he ends up killing his supe...

The story is that terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site, and it is up to the player to infiltrate the base and kill the enemy leader. The name "Heavy Barrel" comes from a powerful weapon within the game...

Clearly inspired by the success of Double Dragon - Ocean were outbid for the official license - which was in turn pre-figured by the original Renegade arcade game. The game comprises of five levels, though details of enemies / weapons vary from one versio...

This is a game of combat between giant mechanized dinosaurs named robosaurs in a faraway solar system named Spondylus. Mad robosaurs have overrun the planets of this man-made solar system and it is up to Professor Proteus to take the controls of the #1 ro...

Based on the 1985 Hong Kong movie, "Mr. Vampire", Phantom Fighter puts the player in the role of a Chinese warrior who walks with your pupil through several Chinese towns taken by phantoms. Enter each house and beat 'em up using a variety of...

Snake's Revenge plays essentially like an updated version of the original Metal Gear. Aspects from the MSX Metal Gear that were missing from the first NES game (such as the ability to take food and ammo by punching enemies or the double exclamation ma...