Family Trainer 8: Totsugeki! Fuuun Takeshi Jou

Mon 28-12-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The eighth Family Trainer game produced by Bandai for the NES, Totsugeki! Fuun Takeshijou is based on the obstacle course TV show Takeshi’s Castle. Family Trainer: Totsugeki! Fuun Takeshijou is based on the popular TV...

Attack Animal Gakuen

Sat 26-12-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Attack Animal Gakuen is an Action game, developed by Scitron & Art and published by Pony Canyon, which was released in Japan in 1987.

Exciting Boxing

Wed 16-12-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Exciting Boxing is a Sports game, developed by Human Entertainment and published by Konami, which was released in Japan in 1987.

Family Tennis

Fri 11-12-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Family Tennis released December 11, 1987 exclusively in Japan for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The fourth of Namco’s lengthy “Family” series of sports games and the first to concentrate on tennis, Family Tennis plays much...

Dragon Scroll: Yomigaerishi Maryuu

Fri 04-12-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Dragon Scroll: Yomigaerishi Maryuu (ドラゴンスクロール甦りし魔竜? lit. Dragon Scroll: Resurrection of the Demon Dragon) is an adventure game developed by Konami in 1987 for the Famicom. It is often compared to The Legend of Zelda...

Faxanadu

Tue 17-11-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Unlock doors of legend on your journey through Faxanadu! You are the elves’ last hope. Outside the town walls lurk monsters with the power to destroy anything in their path. Inside the walls, water and...

Artelius

Fri 13-11-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Artelius is a Role-Playing game, developed and published by Nihon Bussan, which was released in Japan in 1987. An advanced civilization once flourished in a fictional solar system. One day, a black hole appeared and...

After Burner

Wed 11-11-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The F-14 Thundercat. It’s the fastest, meanest set of wings ever to slice through the air. And you’re flying it! The action in this supercharged game is so intense, the graphics so real, you’ll sweat...

Esper Boukentai

Tue 13-10-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Esper Boukentai is a platform action game developed by Jaleco for the Famicom and published in 1987. It is an exploration game which uses Jaleco’s arcade game Psychic 5 as the basis for the story...

Alpha Mission

Thu 01-10-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Out beyond, in the galaxy of Tetrenova, a war has been fought that has exhausted resources and even worlds. The survivors band together and look for a new place to rebuild. They choose a seemingly...

Bio Senshi Dan: Increaser to no Tatakai

Tue 22-09-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

In the year 2081, the Earth was taken over by a group of hostile monsters under the command of the mysterious entity known as Increaser. A warrior named Dan has arrived from his time machine...

3-D WorldRunner

Sat 12-09-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The battle of a lifetime comes alive in 3-D! The wildest of the space cowboys is out looking for adventure. Now he’s got it and he needs your help. A strange world terrorized by Grax,...

Arabian Dream Scheherazade

Thu 03-09-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

An action-adventure/RPG that mixes Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda style gameplay and combat. The original Japanese version is a significantly different game than its North American counterpart, The Magic of Scheherazade. The music, graphics,...

Athena

Wed 26-08-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

I am ATHENA. They call me the Goddess of Wisdom, but I have grown weary of my dull life in the castle. The Fantasy World beyond the castle walls beckons to me! Strange and fearsome...

Family Mahjong

Tue 11-08-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

A mahjong game by Nihon Bussan and published by Namco for the Famicom. Family Mahjong is another in a long line of mahjong games for the Famicom. Uniquely, at least for the time, it does...

Elnark no Zaihou

Mon 10-08-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Elnark no Zaihou (エルナークの財宝? lit. Riches of Elnark) is an adventure game developed and published by Towachiki. It presents the action from an overhead perspective, similar to many of the traditional 2D Zelda games. It...

Elevator Action

Sat 01-08-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The player assumes the role of a spy who infiltrates a building filled with elevators. He must collect secret documents from the building and traverse the 30 levels of the building using an increasingly complex...

Family Trainer 5: Meiro Daisakusen

Fri 31-07-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

A Famicom game developed by Bandai as part of their Family Trainer series, which all use the Family Trainer (Power Pad) accessory. The goal is to explore mazes. The fifth in Bandai’s series of Family...

Batsu & Terry

Wed 22-07-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The player controls a baseball superhero named Batsu (Bats) who must use baseballs to defeat his opponents. Being hit once reverts him to “normal” Terii (Terry), who swats at his opponents using a baseball bat....

Fantasy Zone (SunSoft)

Mon 20-07-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Take command of the spaceship Opa-Opa and blast your way through various fantastical levels as you try to take out all the enemy bases in each stage. Once you’ve destroyed the bases, you’ll have to...

Athletic World

Wed 01-07-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Five exciting playing fields! Three different skill levels! Customized advice screen – game adjusts to your age and gender! An athletic training camp – in your own home! Fitness is just a hop, skip, and...

Bases Loaded

Fri 26-06-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The game allows the player to control one of 12 teams in either a single game or a full season. For single games, there is also a two-player option. Bases Loaded featured a unique television-style...

1943: The Battle of Midway

Mon 01-06-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the players’ American Aircraft Carrier,...

Family Trainer 4: Jogging Race

Thu 28-05-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

An exercise game created for the Family Trainer (the Japanese name for the NES Power Pad) developed by Human and published by Bandai. Jogging Race is the fourth game created by Bandai for the Family...

Dynamite Bowl

Sun 24-05-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Step into the arcade and play a game of bowling! 3D layout, proper ball physics and incredible graphics. Challenge your friends and score a strike!

Family Jockey

Fri 24-04-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Family Jockey is a horse-racing sim in which the player chooses a horse to ride and wins races to rake in prize money. The races get progressively harder and there are some raising sim aspects...

Fist of the North Star

Fri 17-04-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Fist of the North Star is a side-scrolling action game developed by Shouei System for the Nintendo Entertainment System, originally released in Japan by Toei Animation in 1987 and in North America by Taxan in...

Adventures of Dino Riki

Tue 10-02-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Somewhere in the land of dinosaurs, a hero known as Dino-Riki sets out to battle against the beasts of the ancient times and prove man’s right to survival amongst evolution. You control Dino-Riki from a...

Dragon Quest II: Akuryou no Kamigami

Mon 26-01-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

Long ago, a descendant of Erdrick the Great defeated the Dragonlord and recovered the mystical ball of light in Alefgard. Under the rule of his children and their descendants there was prosperity throughout the land...

Dragon Buster

Wed 07-01-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases

In the beginning, a prince named Clovis was born the son of the kingdom’s chief bodyguard to the royal Lawrence family. As a young child, Clovis was very mischievous and undisciplined, so his father thought...