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Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse sega-master-systemgenesis

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is a side-scrolling platformer developed by SEGA and released in 1990 for the Genesis/Mega Drive. It was also converted to 8-bit and ported to the SEGA Master System.

Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer

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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

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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

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Walker amiga

Walker, a shooting game developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis, was released onto the Amiga personal computers in the early 1990s. A quick look at the game would assum...

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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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

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Renegade Amiga Enhanced amiga

Renegade Amiga Enhanced, or Renegade AGA, is a remake by Dave Douglas of the 1986 arcade Renegade by Technos. The original Renegade, developed by Technos Japan, marked a crucial turning point in arcade brawlers.

Year: 2025 Genre: Brawler

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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

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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

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Benefactor amiga

Benefactor is an Amiga original game created by the Swedish studio Digital Illusions and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga and Amiga CD32 in 1994. Digital Illusions was famous f...

Year: 1994 Genre: Platformer

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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

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Barbarian II amiga

Barbarian II is a fantasy action game released by Psygnosis in 1991 for Amiga and Atari ST. It's the sequel of the 1987 Barbarian, and should not be confused with Palace's Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax.

Year: 1991 Genre: Brawler

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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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Alien Terminator dos

Alien Terminator is a sci-fi side-scrolling shooter created by Flair Software and published by Golden Zone for PC in 1997. One year before, the game was released on the SNES with the name Realm.

Year: 1997 Genre: Shooter

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Lupo Alberto: The VideoGame amiga

Lupo Alberto: The VideoGame is a platformer based on the Italian comics Lupo Alberto (Alberto the Wolf). It was created by Digiteam and Idea Software in 1990 for Amiga and Commodore 64.

Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer

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