Taito Games
Like Data East and Konami, Taito Software is an established arcade name that has skyrocketed to the top of the consumer gaming field. With powerful adaptations of several solid coin-op properties, Taito has plenty of ammunition to carry the company into 1989 and beyond. Qix - The classic strategy/action classic! Pronounced "kicks", this abstract game pits you, as a pen drawing boxes to claim areas, against other equally abstract bad guys and the title character, Qix. The Qix is an energy field that methodically winds its way across the screen, destroying your pen whenever it comes in contact with broken lines.
Operation Wolf - A battlefield tour-de-force! Just now appearing for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the C-64/128, Operation Wolf is a first-person shoot-em-up that places you in a number of jungle settings where commandos attack from every direction. Sky Shark - Another safe bet from Taito, Sky Shark brings home the tried and true vertical shooter. A variety of land and air targets attack with relentless frequency as a detailed background slowly slumbers by. A little light on substance, but definitely a lot of fun when Sky Shark becomes available for the Nintendo Entertainment System in April and popular computer formats in March and April.
Jaleco Games Here's a company that, with a few minor exceptions, has found a very successful niche in the NES market by sticking with recognizable sports titles. Having already done justice to baseball and tennis, Jaleco is now banking on Basketball and Hockey as well as an in-depth action piece.
Hoops - A basketball simulation with a twist! Hoops recreates the finer points of street basketball, where teams of two compete on the blacktop. Great enhancements like a close-up visual of each slam dunk make Hoops one of the best basketball games ever! Goal! - Goal! cashes in on the booming popularity of soccer, a sport that now out-ranks football among teenage youth. Goal! features three different play formats: against the computer, against each other, or cooperatively against the computer. A Pass Key function allows you to save progress against the computer opponents.
Robowarrior - The first high action entry from Jaleco. Robowarrior combines the action elements from hits like Ghosts and Goblins with adventure overtones from The Legend of Zelda. The meshing of straight action with adventure turns out well, with plenty of game play throughout.
Bubble Bobble
You and a friend take control of Bub and Bob, two bubble blowin' dragons headed on a fantastic voyage to save their sweethearts, held captive by Baron von Blubba.
The Flintstones
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy is a first-rate platformer with a bright, colorful look that successfuly mimics the cartoon series.
Chase HQ 2
Chase H.Q. II is a Racing game, developed by ITL and published by Taito Corporation, which was released in 1992.
Hit The Ice
This radical hockey game pits you and your team against some of the toughest skaters ever to burn a hole in the ice! Victory goes to the team that kicks, punches, and high-sticks its opponent into slush. Standard hockey rules apply, plus a few surp..
Bubble Bobble Part 2
You remember Bubble Bobble. In each of the game's one-screen stages, you trap and destroy all of the little critters hopping around.
New Zealand Story
The player controls a sneaker-wearing kiwi called Tiki, and the aim of the game is to rescue several of his kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by a leopard seal.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade game has 5 levels, each of them are rather large, and are all taken from locations of the movie.
Bust-A-Move 4
Can't get enough of that pudgy green dinosaur with a penchant for busting balls?
Toki
The resident Sorcerer, Vookimedlo, snatches your girlfriend, Miho, and immediately changes you into, that’s right a banana burner.
Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition
Bust-A-Move 2 is the lightning-quick, ultra-intense, 100% addictive, arcade puzzler that's gonna grab you and never let go! As the balls descend, you're gonna need sharp eyes and quick reflexes to match 3 or more balls and pop them... fast! Insane ..
The Flintstones: Rescue of Dino and Hoppy
Turn your watch back a few million years and join the whole Flintstone family in prehistoric pandemonium.
Bust-A-Move '99
Think you've busted with the best? Not until you've faced Bust-A-Move '99! With intense 4-player competition, all new graphics, and create-a-level mode, you've never busted bubbles like these! And with eight new mysterious characters to save, you'l..
Bust-A-Move
The objective of the game is to clear all the bubbles from the arena without dying. Bubbles will fire automatically if the player remains idle. After clearing the arena, the next round begins with a new pattern of bubbles to clear.
Super Bubble Bobble
Super Bubble Bobble is an Action game, developed by Audiogenic Ltd. and published by SunSoft, which was released in 1994.
Insector X
Drab graphics, bland music, frustratingly hard levels (and only five of them!), disgustingly easy bosses.
Psychic Force 2012
Like the first Psychic Force on the PlayStation a couple years back, this is one fighting game you'll either love or hate.
Rainbow Islands - The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
The player must therefore get to the top of each level, by jumping on platforms and making use of the game's most distinctive feature: the ability to produce solid rainbows, which are used both as platforms to stand on, and as a weapon.
Parasol Stars
The third installment in the Bubble Bobble trilogy will soon be coming to the Turbo from a new company -Working Design.
Sonic Blastman 2
The Super NES sequel, entitled Sonic Blastman II, plays similarly to its predecessor, as well, and adds more options, such as new playable characters, two-player modes, among others.
Final Blow
You're a contendah! James "Buster" Douglas Boxing throws you into the ring with the meanest power-punchers around. Pummel your way to the title in a game designed with all the toughness of James "Buster" Douglas, the Columbus, Ohio boxer who beat M..
Darius 2
You shoot everything that moves and get to pick up different pick-up items to increase your fire-power and enable yourself a shield.
Super Soccer Champ
Another soccer game
Darius Twin
Join Proco and Tiat in Darius Twin as they fight to protect planet Orga from Belser in this planetary scrolling horizontal shooter game.
Sonic Blastman
The game consists of hitting the enemies and targets, in order to win, each target has a set a number of tons (t) of resistance. Once they are depleted, they will be defeated.
Arkanoid Returns
It's been over 10 years since U.S. gamers have gotten a new home version of Arkanoid, but in Japan the series has lived on, and the latest incarnation, Arkanoid Returns, is now available for the PlayStation in Japan.
James Buster Douglas Knock Out Boxing
You're a contendah! James "Buster" Douglas Boxing throws you into the ring with the meanest power-punchers around. Pummel your way to the title in a game designed with all the toughness of James "Buster" Douglas, the Columbus, Ohio boxer who beat M..
Rastan Saga 2
Rastan Saga 2 is the sequel to Rastan, containing the same hack-em'/slash-'em gameplay as the original.
G Darius
G-Darius is a graphical wonder, containing some of the best twitch shooting to come our way in a while. Hopefully a wise U.S. publisher will hop on this one ASAP.
Arkanoid: Doh it Again
Your goal is to destroy the blocks in order to reach the planets in hopes of seeking out one that is suitable for a colony.
Space Invaders 91
Space Invaders '91 is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed and published by Taito Corporation, which was released in 1991.
Sky Shark
The arcade hit Sky Shark is coming to NES.
Raycrisis
Scrolling shooters are pretty hard to come by on the PlayStation, so fans of the genre tend to snap up whatever they can no matter the quality.
Fire Mustang
Fire Mustang is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed by NMK and published by Taito Corporation, which was released in Japan in 1991.
Runark
A mysterious poaching and smuggling syndicate, operating under the cover name Rendow Animal Protection Organization (RAPO), has been stripping the world of its endangered animals. No one knows who Rendow is or the real motives behind his organizati..
Saint Sword
The evil being Gorgan has set his minions out to wreak havoc upon humanity. Humanity has joined with the Titans to help bring down Gorgan.
Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock
The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy is a first-rate platformer with a bright, colorful look that successfuly mimics the cartoon series.
Time Gal
Keep the roads safe from the forces of evil with this new CD driving game!
Thunder Fox
In 19xx, the world is overtaken by a storm of terrorism, and the evil power of invasion extends over the land, sky, and sea. However, there are brave men fighting against it for putting down a storm.
Master of Weapon
It is a basic shoot 'em up game in which the player controls a space ship that has upgradeable weapons.
Super Chase HQ
In the game the player assumes the role of a police officer named Tony Gibson in a black Porsche 928 chasing after a fleeing criminal. Along with his partner, Raymond Broady, they are members of the Chase Special Investigation Department, who must ..
Growl
Growl is a one-player game, in which you control one of four characters and must defeat these evil poachers by dealing with them with your fists.
Jetsons: The Invasion of the Planet Pirates
Platformer action game based on TV series of Jetsons.
Ultimate Qix
Ultimate Qix plays much like the arcade Qix. You slowly box in an entity that is large and strong
Bust-A-Move 3
What it boils down to is this: If you can gauge the placement of the balls well enough, you will kick butt.
Rastan
Grab your trusty battle axe and head into battle!
Sagaia
Darius was once a planet that boasted a highly advanced civilization, but fell into ruin after succumbing to the relentless assaults of Belser and his mysterious space aliens. Proco and Tiat, two survivors of Belser's evil quest, escaped and fled t..
Super Nova
The Darius series is a series of horizontally-scrolling arcade shooter video games, released by Taito. When it started, its primary difference from other top first-generation scrolling shooters, such as R-Type and Gradius, was the ability to select..
Space Invaders 90
Attention all Earthlings! Relentless alien hordes have been identified near you. Be aware - the classic arcade update has proven to be even more dangerously addictive than ever before. Space Invaders skyrockets the legendary arcade franchise to new..
