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Asterix and the Power of the Gods genesis

Asterix and the Power of the Gods is a side-scrolling action-platformer developed by Core Design and published by Sega in 1991. The game was released exclusively for the Genesis/Mega Drive.

Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer

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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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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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Pegasus amiga

Pegasus is an action game developed by Optimus and published by Gremlin in 1991 for PC, Amiga, and Atari ST. In this title, clearly inspired by mythology, you are Perseus, and you have to fight Satan and his guardians.

Year: 1991 Genre: Platformer

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Ristar genesis

Ristar is a classic action platformer game developed by SEGA for the Mega Drive/Genesis console in 1995. The same team behind the legendary Sonic created this cartoon-style platformer.

Year: 1995 Genre: Platformer

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Predator amiga

Predator is a shooter-action game created by Activision, based on the famous movie with Schwarzenegger. Released in 1988 by Activision and developed by Source, it is an action-pack...

Year: 1989 Genre: Shooter

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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

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Super Contra nes

Super Contra is an arcade game developed and published by Konami in 1988, also ported for Nintendo Entertainment in 1990 This installment is a sequel to the legendary Contra (19...

Year: 1990 Genre: Shooter

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Ninja Spirit amigapc-engine

Ninja Spirit, known in Japan as Saigo no Nindou, is an arcade game created by Irem in 1988. Two years later, the home computer versions were released, including the Amiga version, the Atari ST one, Commodore 64, and more.

Year: 1990 Genre: Brawler

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Lorna amiga

Lorna is an action game based on the Spanish comic book character created by Alfonso Azpiri. The game was developed by Topo Soft and released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, MSX, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.

Year: 1990 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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Gunstar Heroes genesis

Gunstar Heroes is a run-and-gun game developed by Treasure for the Genesis/Mega Drive and published by Sega in 1993. The side-scrolling shooter has become one of Sega Genesis's most beloved games.

Year: 1993 Genre: Shooter

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Cave Story MD genesis

Cave Story MD is a fan-made remake for Genesis/Mega Drive of the famous platformer Cave Story. The game was created by Andrew DeRosier, and although it's not 100% complete, it is perfectly playable, and the main story is fully intact.

Year: 2022 Genre: Platformer

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Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King game-boy-advance

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King is a platform game created by Tose for the Game Boy Advance and released in 2005. The story told in the game precedes the events of Tim Burton's famous holiday horror film.

Year: 2005 Genre: Platformer

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