Billed as a pinball role-playing game, though the term is used loosely, as you only earn gold to buy stoppers and more powerful flippers. Actually, there are four different modes of play. The RPG-mode has six, multi-screen pinball tables, where you use your flippers to knock the pinball into enemies, find keys, and eventually rescue … Read more
Paaman (or quite possibly Parman) is a comic in Japan which is done by Fujiko Fujio who did Doraemon. Like that wasn’t already obvious just by looking at them. All of the four characters that you have the choice of controlling have the amazing ability to fly in an amazingly awkward fashion. There’s a side … Read more
Perman: Enban wo Torikaese!! is an action platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is based on a Japanese comics and has an animated television show. Birdman’s space saucer was stolen by Dr. Mad and its up to Perman to recover it and save the day. The game features standard platforming and has two … Read more
Perfect Bowling is a Japan-only Famicom bowling game, in which the player competes with other computer opponents. Each of the opponents has their own name, appearance and style of play. The game seems to take place in the future, with lanes restocking pins with lasers and certain characters dressed in strange, futuristic (or at least … Read more
The Pennant League: Home Run Nighter ’90 is a baseball game similar to Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium (Japan) and R.B.I. Baseball (USA).
Home Run Nighter: Pennant League!! is a Famicom baseball game in the mold of Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium: All the athletes have a cartoonish super-deformed look to them. Home Run Nighter goes one step further than its contemporaries by having every batter in the fictional teams that comprise the Pennant League their own unique sprite. … Read more
A penguin rolls spheres across a table attempting to knock its opponent out for points. The character with the fewest spheres on its side of the table at the end of the timed match is the winner.
Peepar Time is similar to the Game Boy game Blodia. You control some weird hopping machine that runs across tiles that are 4-, 3- or 2-way. If he falls off a tile into the water, he loses. If he hits a dead end, he bounces back. If he runs into an enemy, he loses. Your … Read more
This is mostly the parody of Gradius (Nemesis on some systems), with some flavor from other shoot-em-ups, like Twinbee. The series is available on numerous platforms. The game is a right-to-left scrolling shoot-em-up. You can choose from 4 different flying creatures, with different weapons. You must finish 7 stages, each having a boss at the … Read more
Paris-Dakar is an imaginative racing game with platformer and action-adventure elements. It features Dakar Rally cars that could fire bullets, a driver with the ability to exit the car and go exploring to lower a bridge or bypass other obstacles, underwater driving sections, and at times having avoid a fleet of tanks and fighter jets. … Read more