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| 1943: The Battle of Midway
Capcom - Shooter - 1988
Web Rating: 7.9Video Length: 6:31
1943 is set in the pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the American Aircraft Carrier, pursue all Japanese Air and Sea forces, fly through the 16 levels of play, make your way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and (more...) |
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| Airwolf
Acclaim - Shooter - 1988
Web Rating: 2.6Video Length: 2:36
The game places the player in the cockpit of a helicopter (codenamed Airwolf), where the player must attempt to shoot down enemy aircraft and rescue prisoners. The game contains thirty missions, each with the objective being to rescue prisoners being held captive in prisoner bases. The layout of each (more...) |
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| Anticipation
Nintendo - Board Game - 1988
Video Length: 2:57
The gameplay is similar to that of a board game, like Pictionary. Either playing as a pair of women's shoes, a horn, an ice cream cone, or a Teddy bear, the game slowly draws a picture and the first person to buzz in and guess the correct answer moves forward on the game board. The number of spaces the (more...) |
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| Bases Loaded
Jaleco - Baseball - 1988
Video Length: 4:32
Bases Loaded featured a unique television-style depiction of the pitcher-batter matchup, as well as strong play control and a relatively high degree of realism, which made it one of the most popular baseball games of the early NES era. One unique feature of the game is that the pitcher can provoke a (more...) |
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| Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa
Konami - Platform - 1988
Video Length: 6:07
Bio Mircale Bokutte Upa is an action game released in 1988, but it was never before available outside of Japan before being released on the Wii Virtual Console in 2008. Players take on the role of baby Upa, a prince of the Akuyo kingdom. Prince Upa must take on an adventure spanning seven different worlds (more...) |
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| Bionic Commando
Capcom - Action - 1988
Web Rating: 9.0Video Length: 9:56
Radd/Ladd Spencer sports a gun with one hand and an extendable bionic gripper device on the other. His bionic arm can be extended and rotated in 45-degree increments, from horizontally left to directly upwards to horizontally right. Once attached to something, Radd can pull himself to wherever the arm (more...) |
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| Blades of Steel
Konami - Sports, Other - 1988
Web Rating: 7.8Video Length: 5:34
An exhibition match is just one game played against either the computer or another player. Tournament matches are similar to the NHL playoffs. It starts out as one team of the player's choice going against other teams in a playoff style tournament. The team that is successful in beating all of the opposing (more...) |
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| Blaster Master
Sunsoft - Action - 1988
Web Rating: 8.4Video Length: 7:17
Jason begins the game in his tank, Sophia the 3rd, with a limited selection of abilities. It can move horizontally, jump, fire shots from its cannon, or use special attacks after finding ammunition for them. As the game progresses, however, Jason acquires new abilities for the tank by defeating the bosses (more...) |
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| Bubble Bobble
Taito - Arcade - 1988
Web Rating: 8.5Video Length: 7:06
Born from a game called Chack'n Pop came Bubble Bobble, which evolved the series into an iconic phenomenon. Each level (or round) consists of one screen, with no scrolling or flipping. The dragons can move around the levels by walking (more...) |
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| Bump 'n' Jump
Vic Tokai - Arcade - 1988
Video Length: 2:27
The basic plot of this game is that the players' girlfriend has been kidnapped, and they are racing to her rescue. The goal in this game 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 large (more...) |
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