Baseball is a simple baseball video game made by Nintendo in 1983 for the Nintendo Family Computer, making it one of the first games released for the Famicom. It was later one of the NES’s 18 launch titles when it was released in 1985 in the United States. As in real baseball, the object of … Read more
Rambo is a side scrolling platform game where the player controls Rambo with his mission to Vietnam. The game starts at the military base before getting sent to Vietnam. In Vietnam, Rambo has to fight animals in the jungles, swamps, and caves like wasps, snakes, fish, tigers, bats, spiders, birds, apes and flamingos. Before making … Read more
In Bump ‘n’ Jump, the girlfriend of the protagonist has been kidnapped by the Black Army Corps, and he must race to save her. The goal in is to drive from the beginning of a level to the end while bumping enemy vehicles into obstacles and jumping over various large obstacles such as overpasses, and … Read more
Are you ready to climb ladders, jump landings, eat spinach and punch-out Brutus, Seahag and the flying Bernard? Because that’s what it takes to win Olive Oyl’s hand in marriage. You’ll score points by defeating your enemies and collecting the “love tokens” Olive drops from her window. The more you collect, the more points you’ll … Read more
Originally created in 1983, Montezuma’s Revenge became a household name as a huge hit for most popular early home computers and game consoles. Originally developed for the Atari 800 with the 48K expansion module, Montezuma’s Revenge would see a release on the Atari 8-bit Atari 2600 and 5200, the Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM … Read more
An adventure game based on an anime film of the same name, published for the Famicom by Kemco. Toki no Tabibito “Time Stranger” is an adventure game with a heavy emphasis on text commands and dialogue, similar to other NES adventure games like Portopia Serial Murder Case or Hokkaido Serial Murders: Fade to Okhotsk. Unlike … Read more
A random sequence of tetrominoes (sometimes called “tetrads” in older versions)—shapes composed of four square blocks each—fall down the playing field (a rectangular vertical shaft, called the “well” or “matrix”). The objective of the game is to manipulate these tetrominoes, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim … Read more
Despite being rather short on story and depth, this game was nevertheless fairly popular. The game flashes three “cardboard cut-outs” of a mixture of bad guys and innocent civilians. The player needs to react quickly and shoot the thugs while sparing the bystanders and other friendlies (such as police officers). The game gets more difficult … Read more
Here’s an off-the-wall demolition game that you design yourself! This amazing Nintendo Programmable game lets you design your own building, place obstacles wherever you want them, and then blow everything to smithereens! You can play the game as designed by Nintendo, or you can be the game designer and build a different maze of barriers … Read more
Duke it out with the computer or take on a friend in a battle of brute strength and wits in Urban Champion. You and your opponent each start with 200 stamina points. Flower pots falling from the building above will cause you to lose five stamina points, and you’ll lose even more for being punched … Read more