Batsu & Terry is a Japanese manga that follows the adventures of a pair of eponymous friends who are highschool students and baseball stars. The game controls much like any side-scrolling platformer, with a button for jumping and another for attacking. The main character starts off as Batsu, who uses baseballs to attack enemies with … Read more
The NES version of Batman: The Video Game is loosely based on the 1989 movie. It is a side-scrolling game with a blue-dressed Batman fighting enemies such as robots, jet-packed soldiers, ninjas, and mutants. The game consists of five levels: Gotham City streets (with Killer Moth as the final boss), AXIS Chemical Factory (boss: Machine … Read more
This NES version of Baseball Stars is the very first game in SNK’s popular series. It is also the most comprehensive game in the series. You can create, name, upgrade, and manage your own team, as well as customize the team’s logo and colors. You can also change the stats of each individual player by … Read more
Baseball Fighter is a baseball game released exclusively in Japan. Despite being released in 1991, it had primitive-looking graphics and gameplay, with its only redeeming quality being that fielding would keep the same view perspective as batting. The game features Japanese regional teams, with a single, fictional USA team.
Baseball is a game where the player can pitch, hit, field, and run just like in a real baseball game. The player can choose between USA and Japan modes, two different teams, and among a line-up of unique players. In the 1-player game, the player is against the computer, and the in the 2-player game, … Read more
The following text from the box cover summarizes the premise: Long ago, when magic still prevailed, the evil wizard Mangar the Dark threatened a small but harmonious country town called Skara Brae. Evil creatures oozed into Skara Brae and joined his shadow domain. Mangar froze the surrounding lands with a spell of Eternal Winter, totally … Read more
The sequel to the popular RPG Bard’s Tale. After your characters defeated the wizard Mangar the Dark and freed Skara Brae from eternal winter, all seemed well in the world. Fortunately for your employment prospects, the evil Archmage Lagoth Zanta shows up and splits the Destiny Wand into seven pieces, scattering them all over the … Read more
This video game was released exclusively in Japan on December 18, 1992 for the Nintendo Family Computer. As the title suggests, it is a video game where players use a Barcode Battler II (a card-scanning handheld) together with a Nintendo-licensed Famicom-Barcode Battler interface that came packaged with the game and not sold separately. A special … Read more
In the great Banana kingdom, the Banana nation possesses a great symbol of prosperity – a big banana. One day, the Prince is engaged in a conversation with the Dragonmaster, when the evil Paprika Dragon flies over, saying “quack, quack!”, and… oh horror – steals the holy banana! The Dragonmaster is desperate. “Fear not”, – … Read more
In this puzzle game, you have to navigate a mole through various levels, making it to the exit. The task is not as simple as it sounds. First, the mole cannot jump or climb up unless there is a ladder nearby. So you have to plan your route ahead, otherwise you can get stuck at … Read more