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| Play Action Football
Nintendo - Football - 1990
Web Rating: 4.0Video Length: 7:30
Wii Release (US): 09/10/2007
This game was highly impressive for its time. It allowed players to choose from ten real teams from various cities, and each team featured all the actual players that were currently playing for them. The game used an isometric view, presenting the game at an angle to make it appear 3-D, and the game (more...)
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| Punch-Out!!
Nintendo - Fighting - 1990
Web Rating: 9.1Video Length: 5:43
Wii Release (US): 04/16/07
When the contract licensing the use of Mike Tyson's name in the console version expired, Nintendo removed Mike Tyson from the game re-releasing it as Punch-Out!! Otherwise, this release is exactly the same as the original release "Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!". (more...)
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| Renegade
Taito - Action - 1988
Web Rating: 3.7Video Length: 6:06
Wii Release (US): 05/05/2008
In Renegade, the player controls a nameless thug who fights a variety of street gangs on his way to save his girlfriend. Unlike other similar games like Double Dragon and Final Fight, the playfield is limited to one two-screen-wide area (a subway platform, a park, an alley, a parking lot) and does not (more...)
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| River City Ransom
American Technos - Action - 1990
Video Length: 6:29
Wii Release (US): 04/21/2008
River City Ransom has been described as a cross between a beat 'em up and a role-playing game. The game follows a more or less linear path from start to finish, and fights take place in the style of Double Dragon (another Technos hit), with the player moving Alex (Kunio) or Ryan (Riki) around the screen (more...)
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| Sky Kid
Sunsoft - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 1:30
Wii Release (US): 05/19/2008
Sky Kid is a two-dimensional, scrolling shooter type of game. The players play as the Sky Kids (called "Red Baron" and "Blue Max" on the flyer.) The Sky Kids fly around in biplanes and are assigned specific targets during the missions. These missions involve bombing specific targets. This would seem (more...)
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| Soccer
Nintendo - Soccer - 1987
Web Rating: 2.0Video Length: 2:01
Wii Release (US): 11/19/2006
NES Soccer is a video game developed and published by the Intelligent Systems team of Nintendo as part of its Sports Series for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The objective is to kick the ball into the opponent's goal. The game features cheerleaders and the ability to choose between 15-, 30-, and (more...)
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| Solomon's Key
Tecmo - Puzzle - 1987
Web Rating: 8.2Video Length: 7:05
Wii Release (US): 11/19/2006
The player must overcome unlimited enemy spawning, challenging level designs, a countdown timer, Dana's fragility, and limited ways to dispatch enemies. In addition, it's easy for players to unintentionally make levels impossible to clear while playing them. Solomon's Key also has many hidden items and (more...)
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| Spelunker
Broderbund - Arcade - 1987
Video Length: 4:48
Wii Release (US): 03/17/2008
Spelunker is set in a colossal cave, with the player starting at the cave's entrance at the top, and the objective is to get to the fabulous treasure at the bottom. To achieve this, the player must walk and jump through increasingly challenging parts of the cave, all the while working with a finite supply (more...)
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| Star Soldier
Taxan - Shooter - 1989
Web Rating: 4.0Video Length: 3:42
Wii Release (US): 07/30/2007
Star Soldier is an overhead vertical shooter and the second title in Hudson Soft's Caravan Shooting series (after Star Force), first released for the NES in 1986, and 1988 in North America. It was followed by numerous sequels and spinoffs, including Super Star Soldier, Blazing Lazers, and Star Soldier: (more...)
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| Star Tropics
Nintendo - Adventure - 1990
Video Length: 5:42
Wii Release (US): 01/07/2008
The story revolves around Mike Jones, a star pitcher from Seattle, who comes to C-Island to visit his uncle, an archaeologist named Dr. Steve Jones, after receiving a letter from him. Uniquely, this letter was actually packaged with the game and addressed to the player. Just as Mike carries the letter (more...)
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