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Arcade games are video games commonly installed in cabinets and placed in bars; they were very common in the '80s.

Paperboy 2 amigagenesis

Paperboy 2 is an arcade game developed by Tengen and published by Mindscape, originally released for 8-bit systems in 1991. The initial NES, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum were followed by Amiga, MS-DOS, SNES, and Mega Drive/Genesis.

Year: 1991 Genre: Arcade

action platformer arcade isometric

Street Fighter amiga

Street Fighter is a fighting game created by Capcom and released initially as an arcade in 1987. It is the first chapter of the fighting series that became popular thanks to the sequel, Street Fighter II.

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

2 players arcade brawler coin-op conversion competitive fighting martial arts

Frogger atari-8-bitatari-5200

Frogger is an arcade created by Konami and one of the most popular video games ever created. It was released for the first time in 1981, and it has been ported to almost all platforms since then.

Year: 1982 Genre: Arcade

arcade clear-screen arcade coin-op conversion top-down

Boulder Dash commodore-64amstrad-cpc

Boulder Dash is a popular strategy/maze game initially created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray for Atari 8-bit and released in 1984. The game, published by First Star Software, was p...

Year: 1984 Genre: Arcade

arcade boulder dash variants maze chase

Commando amigacommodore-64

Commando is a 2D action shooter arcade created by Capcom in 1985. It was ported first to the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. After its release, it was ported to multiple platforms, incl...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

arcade coin-op conversion multi-scrolling shooter run and gun shooter top-down war

Midnight Resistance amiga

Midnight Resistance is a popular platformer/shooter created by Data East and released initially as an arcade in 1989. It was later ported to several home computer platforms, includ...

Year: 1990 Genre: Arcade

2 players arcade co-op coin-op conversion cyberpunk platform-shooter run and gun shooter

Rodland amiga

Rodland (aka Rod-Land or Rod Land) is a platformer developed and published by Jaleco in 1990 initially in arcades only. In the following years, it was ported to multiple other plat...

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

2 players anime arcade clear screen clear-screen arcade co-op coin-op conversion fantasy platformer

Puyo Puyo genesis

Puyo Puyo is a puzzle game originally developed by Compile and first released in 1991. Its roots lie in the Madō Monogatari series, a first-person dungeon crawler featuring colorful, anime-style characters.

Year: 1992 Genre: Arcade

anime arcade falling block puzzle puzzler

Bomb Jack amiga

Bomb Jack is an arcade platformer created by Tehkan (later known as Tecmo) and released in 1984. The game was designed by Michitaka Tsuruta and Kazutoshi Ueda (also known for the arcades Lady Bug and Mr.

Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer

2d arcade clear-screen arcade coin-op conversion platformer

Parasol Stars: Rainbow Islands 2 amigapc-engine

Parasol Stars, also known as Parasol Stars: The Story of Rainbow Islands II - or if you prefer, The Story of Bubble Bobble III - is an arcade by Taito. The title is quite strange because there was no "Story of Bubble Bobble I".

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

2 players arcade clear-screen arcade co-op flip-screen pc engine original platformer

RoboCop amiga

RoboCop is a side-scrolling shooter based on the 1987 movie. Ocean Software, a well-known computer games publisher, purchased the license for the title and sold it to Dataeast to create an arcade game.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

arcade coin-op conversion cyborgs licensed movies platform-shooter science fiction shooter

Paperboy amiganes

Paperboy is a popular arcade created by Atari and released originally in 1985. In this game, you are a paperboy that has to deliver the newspapers with his bicycle. You have to del...

Year: 1988 Genre: Arcade

action platformer arcade coin-op conversion isometric transport

Emerald Mine amiga

Emerald Mine is a Boulder Dash clone created by Kingsoft in 1987 for the Amiga and later ported to Commodore 64. The mechanics are well known: you have to collect the emeralds di...

Year: 1987 Genre: Arcade

2 players amiga original game arcade boulder dash variants clone co-op maze chase

Silkworm amiga

Silkworm is a side-scrolling shooter arcade developed by Tecmo and released initially in 1988. In 1989 the game was ported to Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum by Random Access.

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

2 players arcade co-op coin-op conversion h-scrolling shoot-em up helicopter shooter side-scrolling