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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

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Baby Jo amiga

Baby Jo in: Going Home is a side-scrolling platformer game developed and published by Loriciel for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, and MS-DOS in 1991. The game's plot follows the jou...

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

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Contra: Hard Corps genesis

Contra: Hard Corps, also known as Probotector, is a shoot 'em-up created by Konami and published in 1994 for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. The Contra series started with the arcad...

Year: 1994 Genre: Shooter

2 players co-op platform-shooter run and gun science fiction shooter side-scrolling

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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Electro Man dos

Electro Man (aka Electroman) is a sci-fi platformer-shooter created by xLand Games and released initially as shareware in 1992. It was later re-released as freeware in 2006..

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

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Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX game-boy-advance

Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX is a side-scrolling shooter game released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002. It was developed in a collaboration between Konami and TOSE and published by Konami.

Year: 2002 Genre: Shooter

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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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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

barbarian brawler fantasy hack and slash progressive slash-em-up side-scrolling sword and sorcery

Mega Man 3: The Robots are Revolting dosnes

Mega Man 3 is the third game of the popular side-scroller platformer created by Capcom. When you grow up playing video games, sooner or later, you learn that none of your favorite sagas are safe from the passage of time.

Year: 1992 Genre: Platformer

anime platform-shooter platformer science fiction side-scrolling

Manic Miner amiga

Manic Miner is a platform game initially created for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Software Projects in 1983. The game was ported to many platforms in the follow...

Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer

hop and bop platformer side-scrolling zx spectrum

Flood amiga

Flood is a side-scrolling platformer created by Bullfrog originally for the Amiga and then ported to Atari ST. The game was published in 1990 by Electronic Arts. The main author of...

Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer

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Anarchy amiga

Anarchy is a side-scrolling parallax shooter developed by WJS Design and published by Psygnosis in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. Despite not being extremely innovative, this Def...

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

h-scrolling shoot-em up science fiction shooter side-scrolling

Thunder Force III genesis

Thunder Force III is a space shooter developed by Technosoft for the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive and published by SEGA in 1990. The title was adapted for the arcade in 1991 under Thunder Force AC and for SNES as Thunder Spirits.

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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B.C. Kid amigapc-engine

Bonk's Adventure is a side-scrolling platformer developed by Red Company and Atlus for the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine in 1989. It was published by Hudson Soft. Known as PC-Genjin in J...

Year: 1989 Genre: Platformer

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