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Zombie Nation is a horror shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by KaZe and published by Meldac of Japan in 1990. The year is 1999, and the meteorite that fell in the Nevada desert turns out to be Darc Seed, an alien creature...

Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II is an action adventure for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Locomotive and published by Nintendo in 1994. Mike Jones, just back from the South Pacific, is pulled into a new journey through time and space, with a mission to...

Zen: Intergalactic Ninja is an action platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Konami in 1993 and built around the comic book character of the same name. The greatest environmental disaster in human history is about to arrive, and Zen...

Wizards & Warriors is an action platform adventure for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Rare and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1987. You are Kuros, the knight warrior of the Books of Excalibur, and your journey begins deep in the woods of Elrond,...

Whomp 'Em is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Jaleco in 1991. You play a young Native American hero who sets out with a spear to face whatever waits in eight separate worlds, and unknown perils lurk behind...

Urban Champion is a fighting game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, made by Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo in 1984, which places it among the very first games the system ever had. Two men in suits trade punches up and down a city...

Ultimate Air Combat is a flight combat game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Activision in 1992. Where most air games on the system pick one camera and stay with it, Ultimate Air Combat takes the pilot fantasy and splits it...

Time Diver: Eon Man is a science fiction action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by A.I and published by Nitra in 1994, and it was never a licensed Nintendo release. The promotional copy billed it as a new thriller from Taito. The...

The Rocketeer is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Realtime Associates and published by Bandai America in 1991 alongside the film. California, 1938: ace air racer and stunt pilot Cliff Secord loses his stunt plane in a shootout between a...

Thundercade is a shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Micronics and published by American Sammy in 1989. The story is late eighties action cinema in miniature: terrorism has reached new heights, and AATOM, the Atomic Age Terrorist Organization of Miracali, has built...

The Miracle Piano Teaching System is exactly what its name promises: a piano teaching system for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Software Toolbox in 1990 and sold together with a keyboard. In 1990 that was a startling proposition. The family television,...

The Magic of Scheherazade is Culture Brain's fantasy role playing adventure for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published in 1987. It draws on the world of the Arabian Nights and spreads its story across five chapters of magic and mystery, carrying you through...

The Legend of Robin Hood is an action role playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Sculptured Software. It had reached the final stages before release when Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves arrived in cinemas. Arcadia could not fund licensing...

The Legend of Kage is Taito's ninja action game, developed and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986. You play Kage, a skillful young ninja armed only with a sword and a supply of star knives, who sets out to rescue Princess Kiri...

The Last Starfighter is a shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Graftgold and published by Mindscape in 1990, built on the much loved science fiction film of the same name. The setup is pure wish fulfillment: you are the best there is,...

The Krion Conquest is an action platform game developed and published by Vic Tokai for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. Its story opens like a fairy tale. Long ago, enormous beasts were loosed upon the world and brought terrible hardship, so the desperate...

The Incredible Crash Dummies brings the crash test dummy toy line to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Developed by Software Creations and published by LJN in 1993, it arrived late in the console's life, when the dummies were everywhere, and it leans straight into the...

The Karate Kid takes the martial arts story from the films and turns it into a short, punchy NES game. Developed by Atlus and published by LJN in 1987, it follows Daniel from the tournament mat into fights on the streets of Los Angeles,...

The Immortal is a dark isometric adventure for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Sandcastle and published by Electronic Arts in 1990. You guide a wizard down through the levels of a deep underground labyrinth, and from the first room the game makes its...

The Hunt for Red October puts you at the controls of the submarine from the film of the same name. Developed by Beam Software and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991, it follows the story's setup: the Soviet Union has secretly built...

The Guardian Legend is Compile's science fiction shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System, published by Brøderbund Software in 1988. You play the guardian of Earth, a highly sophisticated aerobot transformer who can switch between a fighter craft and a humanoid fighting form, sent to...

The Great Waldo Search brings the Where's Waldo picture books to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Developed by Radiance Software and published by THQ in 1992, it takes the simple idea behind the books, finding the man in the striped shirt among a crowd of...

The Goonies II is Konami's second NES outing with the gang from the 1980s adventure film, released in 1987 with the characters, the villains and the music that made the movie such a hit, including the theme song. Konami both developed and published it,...

The California Raisins: The Grape Escape is a platform game made for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Radiance Software, starring the singing raisins who were everywhere in advertising in the late 1980s. It was cancelled before it reached stores, which is the first thing...

The Chessmaster puts a complete game of chess inside a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge. Developed by The Software Toolworks and released in 1989, it brought the company's long running computer chess program to Nintendo's console, where thinking games were far rarer than running and...

The Blues Brothers puts Jake and Elwood on the run from the law in a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Titus France and published by Titus Software in 1992. The brothers are wanted, their records are missing, and the only...

The Blue Marlin is a saltwater fishing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Hot B in 1992. The studio built its reputation on fishing games, and The Blue Marlin is its take on deep sea sport: warm blue water, the...

The Battle of Olympus is an action adventure set in ancient Greece, developed by Infinity and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. It tells an old story from the days when men and gods lived together. In the peaceful village...

The Adventures of Rad Gravity casts you as a futuristic spaceman with a name to match. Interplay Productions developed it and Activision published it for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990, setting you loose after the evil Agathos, a mad scientist who has thrown...

The Bard's Tale is a role playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Atelier Double and published by FCI in 1990, built from the computer role playing game that made the name famous. The story opens in Skara Brae, a small and...

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends is a new episode in moose and squirrel history, built for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Radical Entertainment and published by THQ in 1992. Bullwinkle learns that he is the Lost Earl of Moosechester, which means...

The Adventures of Gilligan's Island brings the castaways of the 1960s television sitcom to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Human Entertainment developed it and Bandai America published it in 1990, taking the show's premise at face value: your ship has wrecked on a deserted island...

The Adventures of Dr. Franken is an action platformer built for the Nintendo Entertainment System by Cygnus that never reached the shops. The NES version was never officially released, and only a prototype exists, which is what makes playing The Adventures of Dr. Franken...

Target: Renegade is a side scrolling brawler for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Software Creations and published by Taito in 1990, carrying on the street fighting of Renegade. Mr Big is back in town, and this time he has your brother, held at...

The Adventures of Bayou Billy is an action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Konami Industry in 1988. Your best girl Annabelle has been kidnapped by the evil Gordon, the gangster king of Bourbon Street, and as Bayou Billy it...

Tag Team Wrestling is a wrestling game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Sakata SAS and published by Data East USA in 1986. It brought Data East arcade action into the living room early in the console's life, when the shelves were still...

TaleSpin is a side scrolling shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed and published by Capcom in 1991 and based on the Disney cartoon of the same name. It came out of Capcom's celebrated run of Disney games on the console, and TaleSpin stands...

Swords and Serpents is a dungeon crawling role playing game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Interplay Productions and published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1990. Interplay knew this territory well from computer role playing games, and Swords and Serpents carries that first person,...

Taboo: The Sixth Sense is one of the strangest things ever committed to a Nintendo Entertainment System cartridge, developed by Rare and published by Tradewest in 1989. It is not a game in the usual sense at all. It turns the console into a...

Sword Master is a sword and sorcery action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Athena and published by Activision in 1990. It landed in an era of fast running, fast jumping heroes and went the other way. Sword Master asks you to...

Super Spy Hunter is a vertically scrolling action game developed by Tokai Engineering and published by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. It carries the Spy Hunter idea much further than before: your spy car is a heavily armed machine that converts...

Super Spike V'Ball is beach volleyball with the volume turned all the way up, developed by Technōs Japan and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. It takes the arcade energy Technōs was known for and points it at a sand...

Swamp Thing is an action platformer developed by Imagineering and published by THQ for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992, based on the comic book hero and the television show that was running at the time. Dr. Alec Holland, once a brilliant biochemist, was...

Super Pitfall is the Nintendo Entertainment System sequel to Pitfall! and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, developed by Micronics and published by Activision in 1986. Pitfall Harry is back underground, this time hunting the famed Raj Diamond and searching for his niece Rhonda and his...

Super Jeopardy! brings the television quiz institution to the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Imagineering and published by GameTek in 1991. It plays by the rules the show made famous: the host supplies the answer, and you supply the question. Super Jeopardy! is built...

Super Glove Ball is an action puzzle game developed by Rare and published by Mattel for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. The setup is pure early nineties science fiction: your shuttle commander is trapped in a dimensional maze somewhere in space, and the...

Super Dodge Ball brings the schoolyard classic to the Nintendo Entertainment System with no mercy at all. Developed by Technōs Japan and published by CSG Imagesoft in 1988, it comes from the same studio that gave the console Double Dragon, and that pedigree shows...

Super Cars is an overhead racing game built by Gremlin Graphics Software and published by Electro Brain for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. The pitch is pure arcade bravado: the roar of engines and high powered machinery in your ears, a slick Nissan...

Super C is the Nintendo Entertainment System sequel to Contra, developed and published by Konami in 1990. Red Falcon is back after losing a confrontation with the Super Commandos, stronger than ever, with a sinister plan to seep his intergalactic warriors into the brains...

Street Cop is a Power Pad game developed by Sonata and published by Bandai for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987. You play Little Ben, who grew up on these crime ridden streets having his lunch money taken by local bullies, and who has...