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| Fighting Golf, Lee Trevino's
SNK - Golf - 1988
Video Length: 4:49
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf is an alternating two-player arcade game released by SNK in 1988. A player can choose between four different golfers, each one having his or her own advantages and disadvantages. Lee Trevino is playable as a character named Super Mex. Despite the title, no fighting is involved (more...) |
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| Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll
Culture Brain - Action - 1988
Video Length: 5:42
Flying Dragon was an NES game released for by Culture Brain in 1989, where the player controlled a martial artist trying to recover magical scrolls stolen by the evil Tusk Soldiers. It was afforded a nominal sequel with Flying Warriors. (more...) |
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| Freedom Force
Sunsoft - Light Gun - 1988
Video Length: 4:15
Players assume the role of an anti-terrorist gunman who must kill terrorists without shooting any of their hostages. The game has different levels, including an airport that has been taken over by the terrorists and a city street. The game does have some blood, but it lacks gore; a small red splotch (more...) |
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| Galaga: Demons of Death
Bandai - Arcade - 1988
Web Rating: 6.0Video Length: 3:32
Galaga is a sequel to Galaxian and has similar gameplay. The player controls a spaceship (which can move only right or left) and shoots at swarms of incoming insect-like aliens that fly in formation above him and occasionally swoop down to bomb him in a kamikaze-like dive. The enemies in the top row (more...) |
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| Gauntlet
Tengen - Arcade - 1988
Video Length: 4:15
Gauntlet is a fantasy-themed arcade game port. A player may control either Thor the Warrior, Merlin the Wizard, Thyra the Valkyrie or Questor the Elf. There is only one of each hero. Each hero has a unique specialty/advantage: The Warrior is strongest in hand-to-hand combat, the Wizard has the strongest (more...) |
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| Ghostbusters
Activision - Arcade - 1988
Web Rating: 5.0Video Length: 5:51
The player sets up a ghost busting franchise in a city with a rising Psychokinetic (PK) Energy level and has the ability to purchase equipment such as traps, or to upgrade their vehicle. The player then negotiates a grid representing the city. They need to stop the "roamers" from reaching the temple (more...) |
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| Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
Vic Tokai - Action - 1988
Video Length: 6:32
Based on a popular Japanese manga, the player takes on the role of Golgo 13 (also known as Duke Togo), an assassin whose objective is to destroy the leader of the Drek group. On the way, Golgo 13 must pass through several areas, including East Berlin, Athens, and Alexander Island, off the coast of Antarctica. (more...) |
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| The Guardian Legend
Broderbund - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 7:21
In The Guardian Legend, the player takes control of the guardian of Earth, a "highly sophisticated aerobot transformer". It is the guardian's mission to infiltrate Naju, a spaceship the size of a planet which is hurtling towards the Earth. While inside, the guardian must activate ten self-destruct switches (more...) |
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| Gun.Smoke
Capcom - Shooter - 1988
Video Length: 6:57
Gun.Smoke is very similar to Commando, another Capcom game. However, there are differences in Gun. Smoke. Whereas Commando is a run and gun game, this game is a scrolling shooter in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot which is done with three buttons (more...) |
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| Ice Hockey
Nintendo - Sports, Other - 1988
Web Rating: 7.5Video Length: 7:41
Each game consists of two teams in 5v5 matches (one on each team being a goaltender). The four players on offense and defense may be in one of three different weight classes (determined pre-game): thin players, ordinary players, and stocky players. Thin players are the quickest of the three, although (more...) |
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