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Rayman 2 game-boy-color

Rayman 2: The Great Escape is an adventure platformer developed by Ubi Studios UK and released in 2001 by Ubisoft for Game Boy Color. This portable adaptation of Michel Ancel's cel...

Year: 2001 Genre: Platformer

2d action-adventure cartoon comedy game boy original game hop and bop platformer side-scrolling

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

action-adventure amiga original game disaster platform-shooter side-scrolling

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure dos

Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Apogee Software and released for DOS in 1992. The game has many references to another Apogee title, Duke Nukem (one of my favorites), throughout.

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

hop and bop parallax scrolling platformer side-scrolling

Fire Force amiga

Fire Force (aka Fireforce) is a horizontal scrolling platform shooter developed by Dave Gibbons and Steve Day for the Amiga and Atari ST. It was published by ICE in 1992. The game ...

Year: 1992 Genre: Shooter

amiga original game military platform-shooter shooter side-scrolling violence

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja amigagenesis

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja ("ikusae genshizin" in the original title) is an arcade created by Data East and released initially in 1991. It was then ported to several home platforms, ...

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

2 players caveman coin-op conversion dinosaurs hop and bop platformer prehistoric side-scrolling

Risky Woods amiga

Risky Woods is a platformer created by the Spanish studio Zeus and published by Electronic Arts and Dinamic Software in 1992. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, and Mega Drive/Genesis.

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

anime dark fantasy platform-shooter platformer run and gun side-scrolling supernatural

The Revenge of Shinobi genesis

The Revenge of Shinobi is the second game in the Shinobi series created by SEGA. Revenge was released in 1989, specifically for the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis, with the PAL (Europe) version coming out in 1990.

Year: 1989 Genre: Brawler

brawler genesis original game hack and slash martial arts ninja progressive beat-em-up side-scrolling

Bubba 'N' Stix amigagenesis

Bubba 'N' Stix is a platformer-puzzle game created by Core Design simultaneously for the SEGA Genesis and Amiga, including the CD32 version. The game, conceived by Simon Phipps, was released in 1994.

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

amiga cd32 cartoon hand-drawn animations multi-directional platformer puzzle 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

action-adventure brawler dark fantasy horror nes original game progressive beat-em-up side-scrolling vampires

R-Type II amiga

R-Type II is the sequel to the original R-Type and is a side-scrolling arcade shooter developed and published by Irem in 1989 in arcades only. It soon made its way onto multiple pl...

Year: 1991 Genre: Shooter

aliens coin-op conversion h-scrolling shoot-em up science fiction shooter side-scrolling

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

mutants platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shooter side-scrolling

Rastan sega-master-system

Rastan is a hack & slash side-scrolling platformer created by Taito and released initially in 1987. The game was designed and directed by Toshiyuki (aka "Nenko") Nishimura. The her...

Year: 1988 Genre: Brawler

barbarian brawler coin-op conversion fantasy hack and slash platformer progressive slash-em-up side-scrolling

Tiger Road amiga

Tiger Road is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Capcom in 1987. The game combines martial arts with fantasy elements, placing players in the role of Lee Wong, a heroic warri...

Year: 1989 Genre: Brawler

arcade brawler coin-op conversion martial arts progressive beat-em-up side-scrolling

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