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Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue dos

Dangerous Dave’s Risky Rescue is the third of the Dangerous Dave series and was developed by Gamer’s Edge and published by Softdisk in 1993 for DOS. This was only the second on...

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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Disney's Toy Story snesgenesis

Disney's Toy Story is a side-scrolling platformer developed by Traveller's Tales and released in 1995 for SNES and Genesis. The game is based on Pixar's groundbreaking animated film.

Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer

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Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Holiday Hare 98 windows

Jazz Jackrabbit 2: Holiday Hare 98 is a free festive edition of Jazz Jackrabbit 2, developed by Epic MegaGames and released in 1998. The game features the character designed by Nic...

Year: 1998 Genre: Platformer

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Dynamite Headdy genesis

Dynamite Headdy is a platform game developed by Treasure and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994. It is one of the most inventive and technically accomplished game...

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

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Gradius msxnes

Gradius is a horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up developed and published by Konami, initially released in 1985 as an arcade game. The game was ported to MSX and NES in 1986 and released outside Japan with the name "Nemesis.

Year: 1986 Genre: Shooter

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Kirby's Adventure nes

Kirby's Adventure is a platformer developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo in 1993 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This colorful platform game represents the se...

Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer

2d cartoon parallax scrolling platform-adventure platformer side-scrolling

Castlevania amiganesgame-boy-advance

Castlevania, released in 1987 in North America for the NES, marked the beginning of one of Konami’s most iconic franchises. Designed by Hitoshi Akamatsu (as later confirmed throu...

Year: 1986 Genre: Brawler

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Disney's The Little Mermaid nes

Disney's The Little Mermaid for the NES is a side-scrolling action game loosely based on the 1989 animated film. It was developed by Capcom and released in 1990. At the time, Capco...

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

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The First Samurai dosamigacommodore-64

The First Samurai is a fantasy platform game developed by Vivid Image and published by Image Works in 1991 initially for the Amiga and Atari ST. Later it was ported to several other platforms, including DOS.

Year: 1991 Genre: Brawler

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Persian Gulf Inferno amiga

Persian Gulf Inferno is a platformer/action adventure created by the Danish studio Parsec. It was released in 1989 for the Amiga and later ported to Atari ST and Commodore 64. In t...

Year: 1989 Genre: Action

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Ruff 'n' Tumble amiga

Ruff 'n' Tumble is a platformer shoot 'em up developed by Wunderkind and published by Renegade Software in 1994, exclusively for the Amiga. The hero is Ruff Rogers, a guy that has to save an alien planet from the mad Dr.

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

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Abuse dos

Abuse is a 2D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter developed by Crack Dot Com and published by RedHat in 1995 for DOS and Linux. It eventually made its way onto the Mac, Amiga, Acorn 32-bit, GP2X, and iPhone, to name a few.

Year: 1995 Genre: Shooter

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Earthworm Jim 2 genesis

Earthworm Jim 2 for the Mega Drive is an action-platformer game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment in 1995. Serving as a sequel t...

Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer

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Lionheart amiga

Lionheart is a side-scrolling hack'n'slash action platformer created by Thalion Software for the Amiga only. It was published in January 1993 and received many positive reviews. The game features parallax scrolling and 3D backgrounds.

Year: 1993 Genre: Platformer

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