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Irem Corporation, Data East, Hudson Soft, Irem, U.S. Gold, Konami, Clover, Sega

On the baddest streets of the city they know your name. You are lean and mean... the karate master they call the Vigilante! Your turf was left alone. Your friends and neighbors lived in peace. Until the Rogue gang got too big for their britches. You chilled, hoping things wouldn't get too rough. No such luck. They've taken your girlfriend Maria, and there's only one thing you can do... get her back... anyway you can! You have fists of steel! Legs like pistons! And courage that just won't quit! You will need all three because the Rogues are waiting with knives, guns and a whole bunch of nasty punks. And you'll have to fight fast. If the Rogues make it back to their headquarters before you rescue Maria, all hope will be lost. But catch them first and you'll fight the leader of the Rogues. Win Maria... and your turf... will remain safe. Feel any pressure? No way. You're the Vigilante!

Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft, Sofix

Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft

Compile, Naxat Soft, NEC Home Electronics, Konami, Hudson Soft

Fight against the aliens with your pinball skills! Imagine a living pinball machine...with aliens and outlandish worlds to throw at you. And turbo-charged, speed-of-light pinball action. You control the flippers and ball speed to defeat the Slime, the Tentacloid and Scorpion. Go for the eyes! This is full-tilt, out-of-this-world action! Surrealistic graphics plus true-to-life, earsplitting arcade pinball sound. Achieve the maximum possible score of 10 less than 1 billion and the game ends with the destruction of the table and a congratulatory message. The game is the first installment in the Crush Pinball series. It was followed by three sequels, Devil's Crush, Jaki Crush, and Alien Crush Returns.

Now Production, Hudson Soft

Jackie and his sister, Josephine, are tough on tyrants. As China's supreme kung fu champs, they guard their country against the Prince of Sorcerers, who lurks just beyond the Great Wall. It comes as no surprise when this fiend and his ghouls try yet again to seize China for themselves. But this time they're clever, casting a spell over Josephine which causes her to vanish into thin air! Jackie is in shock! How can he save his country without his sister? The two have been an unbeatable team! Meanwhile, a demon horde led by the Sorcerer storms the Great Wall and prepares to establish a fierce empire. At the urging of his revered Master, Jackie must now battle the dreaded Sorcerer and rescue Josephine. Maybe he can learn a little magic on his own, because he's going to need all the help he can get!

Scipio, Hudson Soft, Play Byte

Graffiti artists live a hard life. Joe and Nat are always on the run, trying to escape New York's police. When they reach a mysterious castle, there's no way of knowing they're in deep trouble already. Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts is a platform game featuring two characters. The protagonists can jump, crawl, kick, beat, slide, and swim. They are even able to hold their breath when under water. If you are playing the game solely, "Joe" is your character of choice. A friend can take on Nat's part at the same PC. The game's purpose is to get rid of "Professor X", who is the bad guy. The players can attack opponents using several weapons, including molotovs, chainsaws and nunchakus. Yo! Joe! Beat the Ghosts doesn't offer save games. The copy protection requires the original disk at every start-up.

Activision, Hudson Soft

Shanghai is a computerized version of mahjong solitaire. After winning a game, the tiles reveal the three-dimensional blinking eye of a dragon behind the game screen. The Macintosh and Sega Master System version shows an animated dragon spitting fire.

Xing, Hudson Soft, Konami

Hudson Soft

Hudson Soft

Mario Bros. Special is a game developed by Hudson Soft. Like Punch Ball Mario Bros., the game is not a straight port of Mario Bros, but more of a sequel. It has adjustments to the game's graphics and sounds and even a bonus timer.

Hudson Soft

SameGame (鮫亀) is a Satellaview-compatible Slotted Cartridge game. The game was playable on its own without any data packs, it was playable in conjunction with 8M Pack data downloaded via the BS-X cartridge, and it could also be used together with the separately released Write-protected memory packs, Character Cassette and Character Data: Tengai Makyo. The game was eventually used to hype the release of the promotional game of the same family, UNDAKE 30 SameGame.

Hudson Soft

A Bomberman named Indy Bomber sets out on a long journey to uncover a legendary treasure called the Ring of Wishes. He discovers a scripture and begins reading it, but soon falls into a trap in the floor and ends up in a cave. Now he must find hs way out of the cave and find the Ring of Wishes!

Westone, Hudson Soft

A version of the arcade game Wonder Boy in Monster Land by developer Westone. Unlike other ports of this game, this version was developed by Westone themselves, but re-themed to use the setting of the anime Bikkuriman, which started airing around the time of released. It is one of the two launch titles for the PC Engine.

Hudson Soft, Konami

Play as Challenger, a brave archeologist whose mission is to rescue a princess who's been kidnapped by a secret evil organization. The game offers four different types of adventures in four different ways to play, starting with a runaway train battle, exploring a vast island, and facing off against a boss. Originally planned as a port of the ZX Spectrum video game Stop the Express, which was released by Sinclair Research Ltd in 1983. Stop the Express only contained the first train level, and 3 levels were added for the release of Challenger.

Hudson Soft

Is a Sega Dreamcast game. It is built to use the Dreamcast Keyboard. The game is a dating simulation but in order to progress the player has to type in certain words within specific time frames. Not only the concept but also the name of the game are referencing The Typing of the Dead.

Hudson Soft

Castle Quest is board strategy game mixed with magic battle confrontations. The game is like a chess clone with fantasy creatures that fight with playing cards. The player's goal is to topple the opponents king. A player controls a small army (with units like orcman, karate man, warrior etc) on a small chess board. If two pieces meet on the same square, they fight on special screen with a playing-card roulette. Depending on the cards that each unit gets they will do damage to an opponent. Different units have different health points and also different cards, for example, some units have more propensity to getting the instantly killing joker card. Some units are able to cast attack or defense spells. When these pieces move to an empty square on the map a spell window will open. Each spell can either damage surrounding squares or heal/revive surrounding units.

Hudson Soft

Much alike the Universal arcade game Space Panic. You control a character with a shovel and dig pits in hope that the aliens chasing you fall into them. When they do you need to hit the alien with your shovel to kill it.

Hudson Soft

The game takes place inside a bacteria factory. You walk around and spray the various bacteria with yeast. That will turn them into white happy cloud-like bacteria. If you spray them again they will turn malevolent, so make sure not to overdo it! Move all the happy bacteria to the little bottle to clear the stage.

Hudson Soft

You play as a shepherd who must gather sheep into the pen before nightfall so that he can go date his girlfriend. You catch the sheep by running into them and then dragging them to the pen. You can close the pen gate to stop sheep from escaping. But watch out for the wolves who will tear open the gates again. The game was programmed by Kikuta Masaaki, notable for making the Hudson hit game Binary Land.

Hudson Soft

A Space Invaders-like game where you control a missile platform and shoot down "Killer Stations" while avoiding their missiles. The bad guys have "Barrier Satellites" and "Space Mines" to try to block your missiles from hitting them. Try your best to get all the killer stations to win the round and progress.

Hudson Soft

A very early baseball management game. As the coach of the team you manage either the Saitama Seibu Lions or the Yomiuri Giants and make lineup decisions regarding the batting and fielding lineup. Once the game begins you watch a simulated game between the teams. The roster is based on the team roster of 1982.

Hudson Soft

One of the first hospital management games. You hire staff, expand your hospital and advertise your services. But also take decisions on salary and how much medicine you prescribe to your patients. At times are prompted with text scenarios and have to decide how to handle them. It might be Yakuzas raiding the hospital, competing hospitals opening up, embezzling scandals etc.