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 ...

The player assumes the role of a spy who infiltrates a building filled with elevators. He must collect secret documents from the building and traverse the 30 levels of the building using an increasingly complex series of elevators. The player is pursued b...

The Legend of Kage (Kage no Densetsu in Japan) is an 1985 arcade game by Taito and was released for several contemporary home computer systems the year after. The object is for a ninja named Kage to rescue Princess Kiri from mystical villains. Kage must f...

In Renegade, the player controls a nameless thug who fights a variety of street gangs on his way to save his girlfriend. Unlike other similar games like Double Dragon and Final Fight, the playfield is limited to one two-screen-wide area (a subway platform...

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...

A group of desperate terrorists is keeping hostages in their jungle fortress. As a member of the elite tactical squad Operation Wolf, you must invade their hideout, destroy their operations, and get the hostages out alive! Maneuver through a series of mis...

This port of Sky Shark for the NES is true to the spirit of the original quarter-eating arcade cabinet, and is arguably one of the most difficult shooters on the system. Piloting a bi-plane, the player must take out land based targets such as tanks and tu...

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...

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...

In the game the player goes through five levels, using throwing stars and special abilities called the "Ninja Arts", to stop a gang and the evil mastermind behind a slue of kidnappings, El Toro. One of the kidnapped is a student of the Black Man...

500 years ago, the Kingdom of Granville fought a terrible war with Darces the Dark Overlord. A great hero, the warrior "Magi", rose to challenge Darces. He owned six magical swords and a powerful suit of armor that was impervious to all but the ...

The challenge in each level of Puzznic is to maneuvre a selection of blocks into place so as to clear them all, by making them make contact with blocks of the same design. You control a cross-hair, which can move a block left or right, which can cause it ...

The objective of Qix is to fence off, or "claim", a supermajority of the playfield. At the start of each level, the playing field is a large, empty rectangle, containing the Qix - a sticklike entity that performs graceful, but unpredictable moti...

Grab your bullwhip, dust off your fedora, and race into worlds of action, intrigue and adventure. Now you can become Indiana Jones and embark on the quest for the Holy Grail. Travel across three continents with 6 arcade sequences to rescue your dad, recov...

After years of infighting and millions of casualties, the 22nd Century sees the emergence of the New Earth, which is controlled by a Master Computer that houses government and information databases that are vital to the functioning of the entire planet. W...

The New Zealand Story (also known as Kiwi Kraze in its American NES version) is a 1988 arcade game by Taito. The player controls a sneaker-wearing kiwi chick called Tiki, and the aim of the game is to rescue several of his kiwi chick friends who have been...

Rainbow Islands is a 1987 arcade game from Taito. The game is subtitled "The Story of Bubble Bobble 2" and is the sequel to Taito's hit game Bubble Bobble from the previous year. It became the second of four arcade games in the Bubble Bobble...

THE FLINTSTONES is based on the movie of the same name. You play the role of prehistoric dimwit Fred Flintstone, and along with your wife Wilma and friends Barney and Betty Rubble, you've got a serious problem. The dastardly Cliff Vandercave has kidna...

The hero of the game is a young jungle-man named Toki. One day the evil wizard Dr. Stark kidnaps his girlfriend Wanda. When Toki tries to save her, he is turned into a monkey! Now Toki has to find Dr. Stark in his palace, to rescue Wanda, and to become a ...

You're a young Kickmaster, and your training has been going very well. But after you learn that your parents the King and Queen of Lowrel have been assassinated and your sister Silphee kidnapped, you must hurry home to defend the kingdom that now belo...