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Athena

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
Gauntlet

Gauntlet

Thu 01-01-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases
In a land known as Rendar, Morak, a hooded devil-like creature, has stolen the Sacred Orb that protected the lands. He hid this along with other treasures he stole in the Gauntlet which is protected...
Airball

Airball

Thu 01-01-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases
The player begins every round atop inflating stations. These inflating stations, which are scattered throughout the arenas, also act as checkpoints. Remaining atop an inflating station for too long will cause the player to burst....
Alien Syndrome

Alien Syndrome

Thu 01-01-1987 12:00 | Nintendo Entertainment System Releases
The extra-terrestrials in this game are anything but friendly. They’re slimy monsters that are holding space colonists captive aboard seven alien starships. For one or two players, this super action game challenges you to free...