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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 16 August 2010 00:00 |
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1941: Counter Attack is an arcade game in the "vertical scrolling shooter" genre made by Capcom in 1990. The goal is to shoot down enemy airplanes and collect weapon power-ups (POW). One is only able to perform three loops per level and a bonus is awarded at the end of the level for unused loops. Player 1 uses a P-38 Lightning and Player 2 uses a Mosquito Mk IV.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 00:00 |
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1942 is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up made by Capcom that was released for the arcade in 1984. It was the first game in the 19XX series. It was followed by 1943: The Battle of Midway. 1942 is set in the Pacific theater of World War II. The goal is to reach Tokyo and destroy the entire Japanese air fleet. The player pilots a plane dubbed the "Super Ace" (but its appearance is clearly that of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning). The player has to shoot down enemy planes; to avoid enemy fire, the player can perform a roll or "loop-the-loop".
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1943 The Battle of Midway |
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010 00:00 |
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1943: The Battle of Midway (1943: Midway Kaisen in Japan) is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game released by Capcom in June 1987.
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19XX The War Against Destiny |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 00:00 |
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19XX: The War Against Destiny is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game made by Capcom in 1995 (copyrighted in 1996). The game is the 4th of a series of World War II vertical shooters made by Capcom. The story takes place before a fictional war (Hence, the 19XX) as a lone pilot tries to defeat an entire army/evil organization from starting another World War, which soon escalates to a nuclear apocalypse.
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Saturday, 16 January 2010 00:00 |
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''Alien vs. Predator'' is a side-scrolling beat-em-up in the style of Double Dragon or Final Fight. The gameplay features authentic AvP-universe weapons and enemies, as well as some neat fighting mechanics that make the combat exciting without the tedium that typically accompanies this genre. There are four distinct characters: Linn, a sexy female ninja-type character, Dutch, Arnie's character from the films, and two different Predators. You'll face all manner of dangerous aliens, mechanical menaces, and human foes. The screen is always full of motion, and the controls are responsive and fast.
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Thursday, 01 July 2010 00:00 |
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Arabian is a platform arcade game created in 1983 by Sun Electronics and published by Atari Inc. The player assumes the role of an adventurous Arabian prince whose goal is to rescue the princess from her palace. During his quest, the prince will sail seas, crawl through caves, and fly magic carpets.
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 00:00 |
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Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the Vaus, the player's ship, escapes.
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 00:00 |
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Arm Wrestling is a 1985 arcade game developed and released only in North America by Nintendo and a spin-off of the Punch-Out!! series. Since it was created by the same development team who made the Punch-Out!! series, Arm Wrestling features many of the same features such as a dual monitor system and quirky computer opponents. It was Nintendo's last arcade game they independently developed and released.
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Friday, 02 July 2010 00:00 |
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Asteroids is a video arcade game released in 1979 by Atari Inc. It was one of the most popular and influential games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games.[citation needed] Asteroids uses vector graphics and a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes (a toroidal topology). The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire.
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Saturday, 03 July 2010 00:00 |
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Due to Asteroids' success, a sequel followed in 1980 dubbed Asteroids Deluxe. Though similar to the original game, several changes and additions occurred, with the onscreen objects now tinted blue and a shield that depleted with use replacing the hyperspace feature.
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 00:00 |
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Ataxx (also known by such names as SlimeWars and Frog Cloning) is a board game that first appeared in 1990 as an arcade video game by The Leland Corporation. The game was invented by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley in 1988 and was called Infection.
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 00:00 |
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Avengers, also known as Avenger, is an overhead-view vertically scrolling beat 'em up arcade game released by Capcom in 1987. The game was developed by Takashi Nishiyama, who later co-planned the original Street Fighter and a few of SNK's early fighting games.
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Sunday, 04 July 2010 00:00 |
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Batman is a horizontally scrolling beat 'em up arcade game released by Atari Games in 1990, produced by Numega. Batman must save Gotham City from The Joker. The storyline is based on the 1989 movie of the same name. It features stages based on locations in the film, including stages with the Batmobile and the Batwing. The game features realistic sounds and voices from the movie. The soundtrack is based on Danny Elfman's score from the film.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00 |
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Battle Arena Toshinden 2 is the sequel to Battle Arena Toshinden. As with its precursor, it is a weapons-based 3D fighting game. Though the core gameplay remains unchanged from the first game, Toshinden 2 includes a simple combo system. The 3D movement is also altered to create slightly better balance in battle.
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Friday, 20 August 2010 00:00 |
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Bionic Commando (Top Secret in Japan) is a 1987 action platform game released by Capcom for the arcades. It was later released for several home computers (ported by Software Creations and published by Go!). Capcom later produced a home version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, also titled Bionic Commando, that was drastically different from the original arcade game. Capcom advertised the game in the United States as a sequel to Commando, going as far to refer to the game's main character as Super Joe (the protagonist of Commando) in the promotional brochure, who was originally an unnamed member of a "special commando unit" in the Japanese and World versions.
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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 00:00 |
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Black Tiger, known in Japan as Black Dragon, is a 1987 action game released for the arcades by Capcom. A barbarian hero jumps and fights his way through a variety of colourful, enemy-packed levels in this spiritual successor to the Capcom classic Ghosts 'n Goblins. The sprawling, eight-way scrolling, two-dimensional levels are packed with hidden bonuses to encourage and reward exploration. Most of these bonuses are in the form of 'Zenny coins'; currency that allows the player to buy such items as an upgrade to their weapons and armour, keys for treasure chests, and anti-poisoning potions. Special items that reveal coins, upgraded armour, full vitality, extra lives, extra time, or simply bonus points may be found by attacking certain walls.
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Monday, 05 July 2010 00:00 |
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Black Widow is a vector arcade game developed by Atari released in 1982. The player takes the titular role of a Black widow spider defending a web from invading bugs. The player must move the spider around the web while simultaneously shooting/avoiding various bugs and collecting the bonuses that appear after the enemies are eliminated. The spider is controlled through two joysticks; the left one is used to move the spider, and the right one is used to control the shot direction.
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Friday, 25 June 2010 00:00 |
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BlaZeon is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Atlus in 1992 and was ported to the Super NES in the same year. The game's most distinguishable feature is that players come equipped with a device that allows them to freeze and control certain robots.
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 00:00 |
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is a 1993 arcade game released by Capcom. It is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the comic book series Xenozoic Tales. The game was produced as a tie-in to the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs animated series which was aired during the same year the game was released.
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 00:00 |
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Canyon Bomber is a black-and-white 1978 arcade game, developed and published by Atari. The game was ported to the Atari 2600, also in 1978.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 00:00 |
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Capcom Bowling is a top down bowling simualtion released in arcades 1988 by Capcom. Up to 4 four players could play a single game playing alternately. The controls feature a trackball which is used to control both direction and power, also there are 2 buttons which control left and right spin or hook.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:00 |
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Captain Commando is a 1991 futuristic side-scrolling beat 'em up game originally developed and published by Capcom as a coin-operated video game, and later ported to several other platforms. It was the seventeenth title produced for the company's CP System hardware. The game stars the titular superhero who was originally conceived as a fictional spokesman used by Capcom USA in the company's console games during the late 1980's.
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Friday, 12 March 2010 00:00 |
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Carrier Air Wing, released in Japan as U.S. Navy, is a 1990 side scrolling shooting game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It is the spiritual sequel to U.N. Squadron, released during the previous year. As with the original, players chose any one of three different jet fighters and battle their way through ten enemy-packed stages. Another idea carried over from U.N. Squadron is the shop, which allows players to buy weapon and shield upgrades for their jet fighter.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00 |
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Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot 'em up arcade game produced by Atari in 1980. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at this time. It was also the first arcade coin-operated game to have a significant female player base. The player defends against swarms of insects, completing a round after eliminating the centipede that winds down the playing field.
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:00 |
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Commando is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released in 1985. Its influence can be seen in several later games in the genre (Gun.Smoke, Who Dares Wins, Ikari Warriors, Rambo: First Blood Part II..., Heavy Barrel, Trax, etc.).
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 00:00 |
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Crystal Castles is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc in 1983. The player controls a cartoon bear by the name of Bentley Bear, who has to collect gems located throughout trimetric-projected rendered castles while avoiding enemies out to get him as well as the gems.
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 00:00 |
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Defender is an arcade video game developed released by Williams Electronics in 1980. It is a shooting game that features two-dimensional (2D) graphics. The game is set on a fictional planet, where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts.
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:00 |
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Dark Adventure, released as Majū no Ōkoku ("The Devil's Kingdom") in Japan and as Devil World in Europe, Oceania and Asia, is a fantasy-themed, dimetric action adventure game produced by Konami that was released for the arcades in 1987.
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Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00 |
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DoDonPachi is a vertically scrolling manic shooter arcade game developed by Cave and published by Atlus, in 1997. It was the second game developed by Cave, and the sixth on Cave's first generation arcade hardware. As with its predecessor DonPachi, the title is both a Japanese term for expressing the sound of gunfire, and a term that relates to bees (here it means "angry leader bee").
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Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00 |
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Gameplay is a variation of the snake genre, in which players compete by surrounding each other with lines of dominos. Players change direction via a set of four directional buttons representing up, down, right, and left respectively.
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Saturday, 26 June 2010 00:00 |
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DonPachi is a vertically-scrolling manic shooter video game developed by Cave and published by Atlus in 1995. It was the first game developed by Cave, and the second on Cave's first generation arcade hardware (the first being Power Instinct 2). Literally translated, the title means "leader bee", but it is also a Japanese onomatopoeic expression associated with the sound of firing guns. It is one of the first manic shooters.
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Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:00 |
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Dragon Spirit is a 1987 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game released by Namco and Atari Games (in the US). It runs on Namco System 1 hardware, and was later ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, Atari ST, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16 and ZX Spectrum platforms.
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:00 |
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Eco Fighters (Ultimate Ecology in Japan) is an arcade game released by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board on December 1993. The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating gun. As suggested by both its titles, the game has an "eco-friendly" theme.
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters |
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Sunday, 11 July 2010 00:00 |
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters is an arcade game developed by Atari Games in 1989. The game is based loosely around the campy science fiction B movies of the 1950s. It was converted for most major home computer platforms of the time.
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Monday, 15 March 2010 00:00 |
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Exed Exes is an arcade game that was released in 1985 by Capcom. It is a vertically-oriented scrolling shooter. It was originally released in North America as Savage Bees (full title: Attack of the Savage Bees) by Memetron (licensor to the game).
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 00:00 |
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Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in 1989. It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware. The player takes control of one of three vigilantes who must rescue a kidnapped young woman from a street gang.
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 00:00 |
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Final Fight Revenge is a 3D head-to-head fighting game released in 1999 as a coin-operated arcade game for the Sega ST-V hardware. A home version for the Sega Saturn was released in Japan on March 30, 2000, which was the last Capcom game officially released for the platform. The game is a fighting game spinoff of the original Final Fight developed by the same American team that later produced Maximo and Final Fight: Streetwise. Although the home version was released only in Japan, the game will be displayed in English if the Saturn's internal language is set to any non-Japanese language.
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Monday, 12 July 2010 00:00 |
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Food Fight is a 1983 arcade game by Atari. The player guides an ambitious youth trying to eat an ice cream cone before it melts, while being pursued by four angry chefs.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 00:00 |
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Forgotten Worlds, originally titled Lost Worlds in Japan, is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated video game in 1988. It is notable for being the first title released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware.
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 00:00 |
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Gauntlet is the name of a fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games. It is noted as the first class-based multiplayer game and first cooperative multiplayer game. Released during the emergence of popularity of other role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, the game was a sensation, being one of the first true dungeon crawl arcade games.
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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 00:00 |
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Gauntlet II is a 1986 arcade game, the first sequel to the game Gauntlet, released the previous year. Gauntlet II, like its predecessor, is a fantasy-themed hack and slash.
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Monday, 23 August 2010 00:00 |
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Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makaimura "Demon World Village" in Japan) is a 1985 platform game developed by Capcom for video arcades. Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, demons and other undead creatures in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, King of Demon World. Along the way the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor that can help in this task.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:00 |
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Ghouls 'n Ghosts (Dai Makaimura "Great Demon World Village" in Japan) is a platform game/run and gun developed by Capcom and released as an arcade game in 1988, and subsequently ported to a number of other platforms. It is the sequel to Ghosts 'n Goblins, and forerunner to the Super NES game Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts.
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:00 |
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Gotcha is a 1973 arcade game manufactured by Atari Inc.. It was Atari's fourth game after Pong, Space Race, and Pong Doubles. This was the first maze arcade game, as well as the very first video game to cause a considerable amount of controversy, predating other early examples such as Death Race by several years. The object of the game is for two players to find their way through an on-screen maze, attempting to catch each other.
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Friday, 16 July 2010 00:00 |
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Gravitar is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Atari, Inc in 1982. It was the first of over twenty games Mike Hally designed and produced for Atari, including Star Wars.
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 00:00 |
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Gun.Smoke is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game created by Capcom in 1985 (its author is Yoshiki Okamoto). The game, which has a Western theme, centers around a character named Billy Bob, a bounty hunter who is after vicious criminals of the Wild West.
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Monday, 28 June 2010 00:00 |
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Hebereke no Popoon (Hebereke's Popoon) is a two player puzzle video game developed and published by Sunsoft. It is based on the Hebereke series. Hebereke means drunk or untrustworthy. Popoon is an onomatopoeia for the sound made by the game pieces when they explode.
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Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:00 |
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I, Robot is an arcade game designed by Dave Theurer, and published by Atari Inc. in 1983. The arcade machine comes with two games. The first is I, Robot, a multi-directional shooter that has the player assume the role of "Unhappy Interface Robot #1984", a servant bot that rebels against Big Brother. The object of the game involves the servant bot going through 126 levels, turning red squares to blue to destroy Big Brother's shield and eye. The player can switch to the second game, Doodle City, a drawing tool that lasts for three minutes, and vice versa.
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Sunday, 18 July 2010 00:00 |
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Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom is a 1985 action arcade game developed and published by Atari Games, based on the 1984 film of the same name, the second film in the Indiana Jones franchise. It is also the first Atari System I arcade game to include digitized speech, including voice clips of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and Amrish Puri as Mola Ram, as well as John Williams' music from the film.
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Monday, 19 July 2010 00:00 |
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Kangaroo is an arcade game that was released in 1982. It was manufactured by Sun Electronics but distributed by Atari. The game bears a strong resemblance in terms of gameplay and plot to Donkey Kong as well as the Popeye video game. The player takes the role of a mother kangaroo who is trying to rescue her son. She must climb through treetops, while disabling pink monkeys that attack the kangaroo with apples.
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 00:00 |
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Klax is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, similar to Columns. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 00:00 |
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Knights of the Round is an arcade game released by Capcom in 1991. A side-scrolling beat 'em up based loosely on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the game features an RPG-like level advancement system, with fighters getting new weapons and armour as they advance through the game, however the player can not choose how to upgrade his/her character - the level up system is static.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 00:00 |
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Last Duel or Last Duel: Inter Planet War 2012 is a 1988 Vertical scrolling shooter arcade game released by Capcom which was available on various PCs and later came in a compilation of arcade games called the Capcom Classics Collection volume 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable.
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Friday, 27 August 2010 00:00 |
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Legendary Wings (Aresu no Tsubasa "The Wings of Ares" in Japan) is a fantasy-themed shoot-'em-up game released by Capcom as a coin-operated video in 1986. The player takes control of a young soldier equipped with magical wings who must save the world from a malfunctioning supercomputer.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:00 |
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Atari Force Liberator is an arcade game based on the Atari Force comic book series. Atari Force was published by DC Comics from 1982 to 1986. The story Atari Force Code Name: Liberator describes the premise of the arcade game in detail and was included as part of Superman in the House of Mystery issue #53, published in 1983. Characters and concepts from the comic exist throughout the game. In the opening screen of the arcade game, Commander Champion of the Atari Force asks you to help free the galaxy from the evil Malaglon Army. Commander Champion of the Atari Force has chosen you as the Liberator.
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:00 |
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Lunar Lander is an arcade game released by Atari, Inc. in 1979, which uses a vector monitor to display vector graphics. Although not particularly successful, is vector-graphics generator was the impetus of Atari's most successful coin-operated game: Asteroids. The object of the game is to pilot a lunar landing module to a safe touchdown on the moon.
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Saturday, 28 August 2010 00:00 |
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Magic Sword (Fully titled as Magic Sword - Heroic Fantasy), is a side-scrolling fantasy arcade game released by Capcom in 1990. The game casts the player as a hero who must fight his way through a mystical tower in order to save the world. The player can use a sword, axe, or magic, and can also rescue and recruit potential allies of various character classes, each of which has his or her own special abilities.
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Friday, 23 July 2010 00:00 |
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Major Havoc (or The Adventures of Major Havoc) is an upright cabinet vector-based arcade game made by Atari in 1983. The game was initially released as a dedicated cabinet in 1983 and then one year later as a conversion kit for older vector arcade games like Tempest. Dedicated versions of the game used a roller control for left-right movement, while conversion kits used their native controller hardware, such as the Tempest rotary spinner knob.
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Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:00 |
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Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a trackball. Marble Madness is known for using innovative game technologies. It was one of the first games to use true stereo sound—previous games used either monaural sound or simulated stereo—and it was Atari's first to use the Atari System 1 hardware and to be programmed in the C programming language.
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Thursday, 31 December 2009 00:00 |
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Mario Bros. is an arcade game published and developed by Nintendo in 1983. It was developed by Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario franchise. It is a follow-up to Donkey Kong and stars Mario, a plumber who was previously named "Jumpman". To date, Mario Bros. has been rereleased more than twenty times across more than a dozen platforms.
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Megaman 2: The Power Fighters |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 00:00 |
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Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, known in Japan as Rockman 2: The Power Fighters, is an arcade video game, released in Japan in 1996 as a fighting game in the Mega Man series of games. It is the direct sequel to Mega Man: The Power Battle released the previous year. Like The Power Battle, each character has an epilogue once the player beats the game. However, in The Power Fighters, the epilogues are more detailed and have more to do with past and future Mega Man games, providing vague explanations regarding characters and canon, most notably the Evil Energy incident from Mega Man 8 and how Dr. Wily created Zero from the Mega Man X series.
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Megaman: The Power Battles |
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 00:00 |
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Mega Man: The Power Battle, known in Japan as Rockman: The Power Battle, is an arcade video game and a spin-off title for the Mega Man series. It was released in Japan in 1995 and was followed by a sequel, Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters, the following year. The story of the game is simplistic; the evil Doctor Wily has rebuilt some of his Robot Masters, with which he is trying to take over the world, forcing the heroes to stop him.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 00:00 |
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Mercs (Senjō no Ōkami Tsū "Wolf of the Battlefield II" in Japan) is a 1990 top-down run and gun arcade game developed and published by Capcom for the arcades. It is the successor of Commando. It was followed by Commando 3 in 2008, a downloadable game.
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:00 |
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Millipede is a 1982 arcade game by Atari Inc. and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede. Screenshot of MillipedeThe objective of the game is to score as many points as possible by destroying all segments of the millipede as it moves toward the bottom of the screen, as well as destroying and avoiding other enemies. The game is played with a trackball and a single fire button, which can be held down for rapid-fire. The game is over when the player's last life is lost.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 26 July 2010 00:00 |
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Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game by Atari, Inc. that was also licensed to Sega for European release. It is considered one of the most notable games from the Golden Age of Video Arcade Games. The plot of Missile Command is simple: the player's six cities are being attacked by an endless hail of ballistic missiles, some of them even splitting like multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), and in later levels smart bombs which can evade a less than perfectly targeted missile. As a regional commander of three anti-missile batteries, the player must defend six cities in their zone from being destroyed.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
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Muscle Bomber Duo - Ultimate Team Battle, released in Japan as Muscle Bomber Duo - Heat Up Warriors, is an updated version of the original Slam Masters which eliminates the Single Match mode from the original game, focusing solely on the two-on-two Team Battle mode.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 00:00 |
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A very, very simplistic but fairly pretty arcade platformer based on the classic 1905 comic strip. "Little Nemo in Slumberland". It was released in 1989.
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:00 |
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Night Driver is a 1976 arcade game by Atari Inc. It is the original first-person racing game, and is believed to be the first published game to display real-time first-person graphics. The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as indicated by road side reflectors. The coin operated game had a choice of three tracks from which the player could choose at game start. The turns were sharper and more frequent on the more difficult tracks.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:00 |
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Off the Wall is an arcade game produced by Atari and released in North America in 1991. A modern remake of Breakout, this game introduces many new gameplay features to the bat-and-ball genre, and it incorporates some elements from Pong as well. It supports up to three players simultaneously (though most cabinets only support two), and the game's graphics include many backgrounds modeled after modern abstract art.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:00 |
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Oh My God! is an arcade puzzle game from Atlus. The gameplay is similar to Dr. Mario.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:00 |
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Pac-Mania is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987 and distributed by Atari Games in the United States and Europe. It is a pseudo-3D interpretation of the classic maze game genre and features most elements of the original Pac-Man, as well as several new features. Pac-Mania runs on Namco System 1 hardware.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Friday, 30 July 2010 00:00 |
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Paperboy is a 1984 arcade game by Atari Games. The players take the role of a paperboy who delivers newspapers along a suburban street on his bicycle. This game was innovative for its theme and novel controls.
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Saturday, 31 July 2010 00:00 |
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Peter Pack Rat is a 1984 platform game released by Atari for the Atari System 1. Only 500 units were produced, either as a standalone cabinet or as an upgrade kit to existing cabinets. The game's background music appeared on the 1991 and 2003 release of That's Atari Music - G.S.M Atari Games 1.
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Friday, 03 September 2010 00:00 |
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Pirate Ship Higemaru is an action/puzzle game by Capcom originally released in 1984 as a coin-operated arcade game. The game was later included in the 1998 compilation Capcom Generations: The First Generation for the PlayStation (in Japan and Europe) and Sega Saturn (Japan only). Like the other games in the Capcom Generations titles, it was included in the 2005 compilation Capcom Classics Collection for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and in the PlayStation Portable version Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded, which was the first time the game was released for home consoles in North America.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Sunday, 01 August 2010 00:00 |
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Pit-Fighter is a 1990 arcade by Atari Games, notable for its early use of digitized live actors. The graphic animation for the player character(s) and opponents were created through a bluescreen process, where the various poses & moves of the characters were acted out by hired actors in front of a video camera. The game's on-screen character animation are replays of the actual footage, not a rotoscoped (redrawn) animation as was common in other games. Live-action shooting reached a brief highpoint with later arcade titles such as Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam, before gaming trends shifted away.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 02 August 2010 00:00 |
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Pole Position is a racing video game released in 1982 by Namco. It was published by Namco in Japan and by Atari, Inc. in the United States. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its "rear-view racer format"—where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight—which would remain in use even after true 3D computer graphics became standard for racing games.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 00:00 |
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Pole Position II is a racing arcade game that was released by Namco in 1983 as the sequel to Pole Position, which was released the previous year. As with the original, Namco licensed Pole Position II to Atari for US manufacture and distribution. Atari also released Pole Position II as the pack-in game for their Atari 7800 Prosystem console.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 00:00 |
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Power Instinct is a fighting game series created by Atlus started in 1993. The Power Instinct or Gouketsuji Ichizoku series (often abbreviated as PI or GI for short) is renowned for its more humorous take on fighting games, its music and its often-weird characters.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Sunday, 05 September 2010 00:00 |
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Puzz Loop is a 1998 arcade puzzle game developed by Mitchell Corporation. It was later ported to the Game Boy Color, Neo Geo Pocket Color, PlayStation and Samsung Nuon DVD players under the name Ballistic. The original Puzz Loop game was also known by this title. In 2008, publisher Hudson Soft released the game on Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 00:00 |
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Quantum was a color vector arcade game designed by Atari Inc. in 1982. The premise of the game was related loosely to quantum physics in that the player directed a probe with a trackball to completely circle atomic "particles" for points, without touching various other particles. Once the particles were surrounded by the probes' tail they were destroyed.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 00:00 |
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Rampart is an arcade game, released in 1990 by Atari Games, that combines the shoot 'em up and puzzle genres. It is widely-ported, with versions for most contemporary systems.
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Friday, 06 August 2010 00:00 |
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Red Baron is an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc and released in 1980. The first first-person flight simulator game, the player takes the role of a World War I ace in a biplane fighting on the side of the Allies. The game is named after the nickname of Manfred von Richthofen, German flying ace. The game utilizes the same monochrome vector graphics and similar arcade hardware as Atari's own immensely popular Battlezone; both were developed at the same time. Like Battlezone, the player is presented with a first-person view of the action. Both Battlezone and Red Baron required additional hardware, an "Auxiliary" board, to perform the mathematical computations required for simulating a 3D environment.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Saturday, 07 August 2010 00:00 |
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Road Runner is a variant of the platformer genre, based on the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts. It was developed and released by Atari Games in 1985.
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Sunday, 08 August 2010 00:00 |
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S.T.U.N. Runner (Spread Tunnel Underground Network Runner) is a fast-paced, racing/shooter arcade game released by Atari Games in 1989. The player pilots a futuristic "speed bike" at speeds of up to and even exceeding 900 mph through various tunnels and courses, with changing environments, hazards and enemies. The final goal is to reach the "Ultimate Challenge", an endless race filled with unexpected surprises, where the player must simply get as far as possible in the allotted time. Markers on the Ultimate Challenge course show the names of the five players who have traveled the farthest, who are tracked independently of the game's traditional high score table.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 06 September 2010 00:00 |
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Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as Muscle Bomber - The Body Explosion, is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star.
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Monday, 09 August 2010 00:00 |
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Space Duel is an arcade game released in 1982 by Atari Inc. It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. Shoot all objects to complete a level.
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 00:00 |
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Star Wars is an arcade game produced by Atari Inc. and released in 1983. The game is a first person space simulator, simulating the attack on the Death Star from the final act of Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope. The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics.
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Wednesday, 11 August 2010 00:00 |
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Starship 1 is an arcade game developed, manufactured, and released by Atari in 1977.
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Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:00 |
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Super Bug is an arcade game developed, manufactured, and released by Atari in 1977.
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Friday, 13 August 2010 00:00 |
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Super Sprint is a 1986 arcade game by Atari Games. The player drives a Formula One-like car on a circuit that is viewed from above.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010 00:00 |
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Tempest is an arcade game by Atari Inc., originally designed and programmed by David Theurer. Released in October, 1981,[1] it was fairly popular and had several ports and sequels. The game is also notable for being the first video game with a selectable level of difficulty (determined by the initial starting level). The game is a tube shooter, a type of shoot 'em up where the environment is fixed and viewed from a three-dimensional perspective.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Saturday, 04 September 2010 00:00 |
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The Punisher is a 1993 arcade game released by Capcom which stars the Marvel Comics anti-hero, The Punisher, and co-starring Nick Fury as the second player's character. The Punisher is a beat 'em up where Punisher and Fury are on a mission to thwart the New York crime lord Kingpin, engaging on various foes and final bosses mostly in hand-to-hand combat.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Monday, 28 December 2009 00:00 |
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The Simpsons: The Arcade Game is an arcade game developed by Konami in 1991. It is a beat 'em up based on the cartoon series of the same name. The voice actors of the immediate family (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith) provide voices for their respective characters. It uses the same engine and therefore has similar overall gameplay as the very popular 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, also made by Konami.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:00 |
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Vendetta, known as Crime Fighters 2 in Japan, is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up by Konami released in 1991 as a coin-operated arcade game. It is the sequel to the 1989 Konami game Crime Fighters.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Sunday, 15 August 2010 00:00 |
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Warlords is an arcade game released by Atari in 1980. The game resembles a combination of Breakout and Quadrapong (an early Atari arcade game) in the sense that not only could up to 4 players play the game at the same time, but also the "forts" in the four corners of the screen were brick walls that could be broken with a flaming ball.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Sunday, 27 December 2009 00:00 |
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WWF Superstars is an arcade game manufactured by Technos and released in 1989. It is the first WWF arcade game to be released.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:00 |
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WWF WrestleFest is a professional wrestling arcade game released by Technos in 1991, featuring stars of the World Wrestling Federation. The game is the sequel to WWF Superstars. The game was distributed by Technos in Japan and North America and by Tecmo in Europe and Australasia.
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Written by Hagen Dragmire
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Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:00 |
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X-Men is an arcade game produced by Konami in 1992. It is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the characters of the same name under license from Marvel Comics. The animation of the X-Men and the supervillains is based on the 1989 X-Men pilot episode titled Pryde of the X-Men.
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