Game Year: 1987

An Arkanoid-like game. After blocks are broken, a cute girl’s picture is behind.

Gain Ground is a top down shooter that focuses on tactics. It was developed and published by Sega, and originally an arcade game before being ported to the Master System, Genesis, and Turbografx-16 CD.

Thunder Blade is a shoot ’em up originally released for video arcades in 1987. In the game, players control a helicopter to destroy enemy vehicles. A unique feature of this game is that the perspective alternates between a top-down view and a third-person view during the course of each level. The game was released as … Read more

The first game in Sierra’s Police Quest franchise. This game introduces Sonny Bonds, a Police Officer based in the fictional town of Lytton, California. His adventures lead him to the dangerous drug lord, Jessie Bains. In Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, you play as rookie patrol Officer Sunny Bonds as he tracks … Read more

Command your Cobra spaceship in a fantastic voyage of discovery and adventure, a supreme test of your combat , navigational and entrepreneurial skills. Trade between countless planets, using the proceeds to equip your ship with heat-seeking missiles, beam lasers and other weapons – corporate states can be approached without risk, but unruly anarchies may be … Read more

The F-14 Thundercat. It’s the fastest, meanest set of wings ever to slice through the air. And you’re flying it! The action in this supercharged game is so intense, the graphics so real, you’ll sweat bullets as bogeys fill the skies. Get vertigo from going vertical. The rush you feel is from pulling heavy G’s … Read more

Street Fighter, designed by Takashi Nishiyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto, made its debut in the arcades in 1987. In this game, the player takes control of martial artist Ryu, who competes in a worldwide martial arts tournament, spanning five countries and 20 opponents. A second player can join in at any time and take control of … Read more

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named the R-9 to defend humanity against a mysterious powerful alien life-form known as the “Bydo”. The game is composed of several sequential levels, with a boss enemy at the end of each. The player must … Read more

The goal of the game is to retire with as much gold and land as possible, as many ranks/titles as possible (Colonel, Admiral, Marquis, Duke), and a wife. Finding long lost relatives helps too. You accomplish these goals by plundering cities, capturing and sinking enemy ships, getting in good with governors to receive titles, learn … Read more