3-D WorldRunner features many elements that are typical of a vertically scrolling shooter game. The player must focus on destroying or dodging onscreen enemies against a scrolling background. However, 3-D WorldRunner incorporates a distinct third-person v...

Action 52 is a multi-cart consisting of 52 individual video games, released in 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis consoles by Active Enterprises. It was initially sold for the comparatively high price of...

The player controls a small pad, known as the "vaus" space vessel, which prevents a ball from falling from the playing field, attempting to bounce it against a number of bricks. The ball striking a brick causes the brick to disappear. When all the bricks ...

In Balloon Fight, the player controls a Balloon Fighter who flies around with two balloons on his back. The object of the game is to defeat all of the enemies in each level by popping the balloon on their backs. When the balloon is popped, the enemy will ...

The general goal throughout the series is to complete the levels by strategically placing bombs in order to kill enemies and destroy obstacles. Exploding bombs can set off other bombs, kill or injure enemies and destroy obstacles. However, they can also k...

Get ready for big blasts and split second timing in BOMBERMAN II. You must seek and destroy every enemy that inhabits each level. Luckily, you have an unlimited number of bombs that can be set to blast the baddie. Destroy the enemies in each level; more t...

The hero of the game, whom the player has to control, is the brave prospector "Rockford". He has to dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds, while avoiding dangerous creatures of various types as well as obstacles like falling rocks and the problem...

Time to "rack 'em up" in this late release from FCI. Choose one of four different games - Rotation, 8-ball, 9-ball, and 14-1 Rack Game - each based on professional pool rules. As if that wasn't enough, also included are Practice and Watch Modes and the "N...

Born from a game called iChack'n Pop/i came Bubble Bobble, which evolved the series into an iconic phenomenon. Each level (or round) consists of one screen, with no scrolling or flipping. The dragons can move around the levels by walking on platforms, fal...

The bubble stomping adventure continues in BUBBLE BOBBLE PART 2. Take control of the Cubby and Rubby, descendants of the original Bubby, as they travel through multiple levels. In each level, the two heroes will have to capture their enemies in bubbles, a...

The basic plot of this game is that the players' girlfriend has been kidnapped, and they are racing to her rescue. The goal in this game is to drive from the beginning of a level to the end while bumping enemy vehicles into obstacles and jumping over vari...

The playfield consists of ladders and on which rest oversized hamburger layers (the bun, the meat patties, tomatoes, lettuce, and cheese). The layers are arranged vertically so that they can be dropped directly onto each other. The player's objective is t...

The six games on the cartridge are: bBookyman/b (A clone of Williams Electronics and Kural's arcade game iMake Trax/Crush Roller/i), bAdam and Eve/b (A single-screen platform game similar to Nintendo's iBalloon Fight/i, in which you have to kill snakes by...

The North American Chubby Cherub game is about a flying cupid who eats food and attacks enemies with limited supplies of hearts. The Japanese game is about a ghost named Q-tar, a character from a manga series called Obake no Q-tar....

The main character in the game is a driver on a tour of all the sights and roads across the world. To prove that he has visited a particular location, he must drive around the location painting every section of the road white. However, the police, who hav...

Clu Clu Land's story starts with a type of Sea Urchin, the Unira, stealing all of the treasures in the underwater kingdom of Clu Clu Land. Bubbles, the heroine, sets out to retrieve the treasure. The object of the game is to uncover all the golden Ingots ...

In Crystal Mines the player controls a robot via remote control to conduct a mining operation on a newly discovered planet in the year 2265. The robot can use energy balls to dig through dirt and rock as well as defeat enemies. On each level, the player i...

Unlike the first game, Dig Dug II takes place on an island with an overhead view. The goal is simple: to kill all the enemies on the level. There are two types: Pookas, the round red monsters with goggles, can only touch Dig Dug to kill him, but Fygars, t...

Donkey Kong is an early example of the platform genre. Winning the game requires patience and the ability to accurately time the acent of Jumpman (Mario). In addition to presenting the goal of saving the Lady (Pauline), the game also gives the player a sc...

Released in the arcades in 1983, Donkey Kong 3 is the third of the "Donkey Kong" arcade game series, changing the format to more of an action-shooter than a platform game. As Stanley the Bugman, players are positioned under Donkey Kong, who has ...