The game begins at the entrance to a mansion, though it is quickly made clear that building is linked to an increasingly-exotic series of other areas through passageways, including ice and lava caves, a mountainside chasm crossed via suspension bridge, an...
In The Guardian Legend, the player takes control of the guardian of Earth, a "highly sophisticated aerobot transformer". It is the guardian's mission to infiltrate Naju, a spaceship the size of a planet which is hurtling towards the Earth. W...
The Immortal is legendary for its profoundly-steep learning curve and practically-impossible difficulty. Indeed, some sections of the game seemingly required the player to die in order to progress. There are also a number of 'one false move' style...
King Neptune's kingdom has been disturbed and turned into an evil underwater world. A dark tentacled creature has stolen his magical orb and eight other artifacts. Armed with bouncing lightshots and a limited amount of bubble bombs that can be detonat...
The Last Ninja contains a blend of exploration, puzzle solving and combat. The object of the game is to journey to the palace of the evil Shogun Kunitoki to destroy him and retrieve the sacred scrolls. As the player progresses, Kunitoki's henchmen bec...
The game chronicles story of the Drasle family's attempt to destroy an ancient, evil dragon named Keela that is magically entrapped in a painting within an underground labyrinth. The only way the Drasle family can accomplish their goal is to use the &...
When Zelda was released, its gameplay defied categorization, incorporating elements from action games, adventure games, computer role-playing games, and computer puzzle games. The game begins with the player controlling Link, armed with a small shield. A ...
Cosmic (Linus in the NES version) is an alien from the planet Linoleum who crashed into the legendary planet Earth. Expecting a hero's welcome, Cosmic soon found his fellow Linomen were skeptical of the existence of the so-called "planet Earth&qu...
The object is to survive life after the end of the world by battling survivalists and collecting valuable food, water, gasoline, and money in order to continue racing into the desert wasteland that lies beyond. In the game you start out as what appers to ...
The evil wizard Sabaron summoned a horde of demons to invade Arabia. One brave magician tried to fight Sabaron, but was trapped in the holes of time. This magician is you. Traveling through different time periods, you'll have to stop Sabaron's evi...
Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). Maniac Mansion has become known among video game players and programmers for its highly-acclaimed gameplay and its introduction of new id...
The player starts out at the bottom floor of a four-story castle named Castle Garland, where each story can only be reached by defeating the boss of the floor below. Although seemingly basic, the only way the bosses can even be reached is by discovering a...
In the game the player (and up to three other players with a special adapter) controlled a character that has to jump and punch his way through various Elm Street locations and homes to collect all of the bones of Freddy Krueger in order to place them in ...
The game takes place in an urban city called Metro City. As the story unfolds, the city's local superhero named Vortex is outnumbered by gangs and killed. With the city's protector murdered, the crime grows rapidly. Soon enough the city's crim...
Pirates! is a single-player game. The player does not in fact take on the role of a pirate at the start of the game, but rather that of a privateer, in the service of Spain, The Netherlands, England, or France (though his loyalties may change over the cou...
The Grand Visir Jaffar has thrown a young prince into the dungeon. Jaffar has forced the prince's beloved to choose between marrying his evil self...or death. Take the role of the prince and try to escape from the dungeon. You must fight through 12 le...
The Boomerang Kid must retrieve all of his boomerangs scattered throughout the outback. Super Robin Hood must fight his way through Nottingham Castle while avoiding a multitude of traps to successfully rescue Maid Marian. Treasure Island Dizzy: Dizzy find...
The Adventures of Rad Gravity was a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System published by Activision in 1990. It was developed by Interplay Productions. The game was a platformer with a wacky storyline in which the eponymous main character explored mult...
Tread the path of one of history's most legendary thieves. Based on the movie, Expect scenes like the jailbreak from Jerusalem, Robin's return home to Locksley Castle and his fight with Little John, who then joins him on his quest to free England ...
Set during World War II. Nazi scientists are about to make an astonishing breakthrough that will allow them to win the war! A rocket pack that allows its bearer to fly is sent back from the future to the player to allow him to hopefully prevent the Nazis ...
