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| Spelunker
Broderbund - Arcade - 1987
Video Length: 4:48
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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| Spy Hunter
Sunsoft - Shooter - 1987
Web Rating: 7.3Video Length: 2:14
Spy Hunter is an action/driving game. It places the player as the driver of a "spy" vehicle. The object of the game is to travel the freeways and hunt down and destroy as many enemy vehicles as possible, while protecting and not harming innocent civilian vehicles. The view is aerial, much like a helicopter (more...) |
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| Sqoon
Irem - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 5:02
The player is given the pink submarine, Sqoon, and must use it to destroy the aliens and rescue captured human survivors while trying to avoid coming into contact with enemies and running out of fuel. To accomplish this, Sqoon is equipped with missiles to attack enemies, and an ice ball bomb attack to (more...) |
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| Stadium Events
Bandai - Power Pad - 1987
Prior to being released by Nintendo as the Power Pad, Bandai test marketed their version of the peripheral in the North Central United States. Their version, known as the Family Fun Fitness was released only in a limited number of Woolworths department stores alongside the one game compatible with the (more...) |
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| Star Force
Tecmo - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 1:51
Unlike later vertical scrolling shooters, like Twin Cobra, the Star Force ship had only two levels of weapon power, and no bombs. Each stage in the game was named after a letter of the Greek alphabet. At least in certain versions of the game, players got level "infinity" after Omega, after which the (more...) |
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| Star Voyager
Acclaim - Simulation - 1987
Video Length: 4:16
When those who were left in your civilization boarded CosmoStation Noah, they thought they were headed for safety. Little did they know they would end up under intergalactic seige. Surrounded indefinitely by Molak Wardrivers. Somehow, someone must rid Spiral Galaxy IX of this Molok flotilla. Perhaps (more...) |
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| Stealth ATF
Activision - Simulation - 1987
Video Length: 3:05
The player is in full control of the plane; in other words, the player is in control of taking off from the runway, battling other fighters while airborne, and landing the plane after the battle is over. The fighter is equipped with machine guns and missiles to take out enemy aircraft. Each level has (more...) |
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| Stinger
Konami - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 6:46
Unlike its predecessor, Moero! Twinbee has horizontal shooter levels in addition to the vertical ones. The horizontal levels were the odd-numbered stages and basically, are like the vertical levels, with a different orientation (as opposed to other horizontal shooters like Gradius where the player must (more...) |
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| Super Pitfall
Activision - Arcade - 1987
Video Length: 5:37
Super Pitfall is a 1987 Japanese game for the Famicom and NES developed by Micronics for Pony and Activision. It was the first game ever that Activision published for a system made by Nintendo and it was based upon Activision's earlier Pitfall series for the Atari 2600. This game was also ported to the (more...) |
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| Tiger-Heli
Acclaim - Shooter - 1987
Video Length: 4:31
The game is a vertical scrolling shooter where the player controls a helicopter taking on hordes of enemies which include tanks, battleships, and artillery. It is interesting to note that, besides some airplanes taking off, there are no flying enemies in the entire game. The player's main weapon is an (more...) |
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