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Out Run is an arcade racing game created by Sega in 1986. It is one of the best-selling video games of all time. In 1987, it was ported to the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The Ami...
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Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986 and one of the most popular videogame ever created. It's inspired to Breakout, a videogame created by Atari in 1970, but it's much richer.
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Metal Gear Solid is a stealth action game created by Konami and released initially for PlayStation in 1998. In 1999, an enhanced version was released for Windows. It's the third ga...
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Operation Wolf is a rail-shooter arcade released by Taito in 1987. It was ported to many home platforms, including Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, Atari ST, Amiga, and more. Roy Ad...
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Commando is a 2D action-shooter arcade game developed by Capcom in 1985. It was ported first to the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum. After its release, it was ported to multiple platform...
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Arkanoid 2 - Revenge of Doh is the sequel to Arkanoid, a popular coin-op created by Taito in 1986. The sequel was released in 1987 and ported to Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and XZ Spectrum in 1988.
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Boulder Dash is a popular strategy/maze game initially created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray for Atari 8-bit and released in 1984. The game, published by First Star Software, was p...
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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.
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The first revolutionary Football Manager was created by Addictive Games in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum and then ported to many other platforms. Kevin Toms created the first version of the game on a clone of the TRS-80.
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Knightmare, known in Japanese as Majyo Densetsu, is a fantasy vertical shoot-em-up created by Konami for MSX computers in 1986. In this game, you are Popolon, and your task is to save Aphrodite from the Prince of Darkness.
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge is a side-scrolling beat 'em up created originally as an arcade by Technos Japan, as a sequel to Double Dragon. The game was ported to many home com...
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Altered Beast is a beat ''em-up arcade game created by SEGA in 1988 as a coin-op machine. The same year, it was also converted to the SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console, becoming the pack-in game officially offered with the console.
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Penguin Adventure is a platformer/arcade game developed and published by Konami for MSX in 1986 as a sequel to Antarctic Adventure. The game was designed by Ryouhei Shogaki, but on...
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Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress is the second role-playing game in the Ultima series. Released in 1982, it is the only Ultima game published by Sierra On-Line. After th...
Year: 1983 Genre: Role Playing
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Metal Gear is a stealth action-adventure designed by Hideo Kojima and originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2. It was later ported to the NES, Commodore 64, and DOS. Not...
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The Chessmaster 2000 is the first title in the popular Chessmaster series created by The Software Toolworks. The game, developed initially for MS-DOS, was released in 1986 for PC, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and MSX.
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Ultima (later renamed Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness), is the first game in the series of role-playing games created by Richard Garriott. The original Ultima was created for t...
Year: 1983 Genre: Role Playing
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Bomb Jack is an arcade platformer created by Tehkan (later known as Tecmo) and released in 1984. The game was designed by Michitaka Tsuruta and Kazutoshi Ueda (also known for the arcades Lady Bug and Mr.
Year: 1988 Genre: Platformer
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