

City Hunter is a side‑scrolling action game starring private eye Ryo Saeba, based on the manga and anime. Exclusive to the PC Engine, it mixes exploration and shooting across four chapters as Ryo checks doors for mission‑critical NPCs and items while fending off thugs. The game features series characters like Kaori Makimura, Umibozu, and Seiko Nogami, and captures Ryo’s mix of lechery and sharp investigative skill.

Shooter / Platform / Adventure / Action / Science fiction
The player takes on the role of Golgo 13 (also known as Duke Togo), an assassin whose objective is to destroy the leader of the Drek group. On the way, Golgo 13 must pass through several areas, including East Berlin, Athens, and Alexander Island, which is located off the coast of Antarctica. It is necessary to navigate several mazes in order to win, but one maze is a fake base with no way out. The mazes account for a large amount of the frustration players encounter with this game. The instruction manual contains maps for the mazes.

Shooter / Arcade / Action / Science fiction
Data East used footage from the film Harmagedon to create a laserdisc video game titled Bega's Battle. It was released in June 1983. In the game, the player to take on the role of the robot Bega (Vega) whose goal was to stop the invasion forces of the alien Varga (Genma), while also rescuing his three friends who had been kidnapped by them. Even among laserdisc games Bega's Battle has become somewhat rare because many of the machines were converted into Cobra Command machines as part of a discount deal offered by Data East in exchange for the internals of the Bega's Battle arcade cabinet. Similar to Astron Belt, the game used the footage mainly for backgrounds, while the actual gameplay was a shooting game with sprites laid over the video. Bega's Battle also used brief full-motion video cut scenes to develop a story between the game's shooting stages. Years later, this would become the standard approach to video game storytelling. Bega's Battle also featured a branching storyline. The Twin Galaxies world record for Bega's Battle was set by Steve Harris (later the founder of Electronic Gaming Monthly) on July 18, 1983.

Shooter / Arcade / Action / Fantasy
Shoot'em ups don't come any weirder than Parodius - dodge through waves of killer penguins, neon rabbits and 50ft tall dancing girls. An intense experience of one or two players. This compilation collects the first two arcade incarnations of Konami's shoot'em'up parody series on one disc: Fantastic Journey (Gokujou Parodius) and Parodius (Parodius Da!). Unlike the ports seen on the SNES these are much more accurate to the original arcade version.

Shooter / Adventure / Arcade / Action / Science fiction
A horizontal scrolling shooter, players control the title hover ship in an attempt to completely construct the ship into a giant robot and to destroy any enemies attempting to stop it. The three-headed mechanical dragon found as a boss character in the game, known as Babylon, strongly resembles Mecha-King Ghidorah from the Godzilla franchise.

Shooter / Platform / Arcade / Action / Open world
Dick Tracy is a tie in to the 1990 movie adaptation of the classic comic strip, staring Warren Beatty and Madonna. While an action/adventure hybrid using this license was released by Disney for the PC and Amiga, Titus also held a license to the movie. This is a side scrolling action game, where you control Dick Tracy as he moves through five stages, shooting gangsters with an assortment of weapons. Each stage leads to one of the mob bosses, until you ultimately capture the big man himself.

Shooter / Arcade / Action / Science fiction
You are Athena, a school girl who goes around fighting crime, along with her friend Kensu (Player 2), Athena sets out to bring peace to the world by killing all monsters. This game serves somewhat as a sequel to an earlier SNK game by the name of Athena. Following the end of that game, the goddess Athena returned to heaven and faded from the minds of the mortals on earth below. The Athena in this game is said to be a reincarnation of her and she has a normal job as a pop star.Psycho Soldier is an Action game, developed and published by SNK, which was released in 1987.