Nintendo console exclusive
WayForward Technologies · Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Windows
A sequel to the 3DS/Wii U puzzle-platformer by WayForward that swaps law enforcement for fire-fighting.
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280 games like Drill Dozer · 1981 – 2025
Nintendo console exclusive
WayForward Technologies · Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Windows
A sequel to the 3DS/Wii U puzzle-platformer by WayForward that swaps law enforcement for fire-fighting.
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Image & Form · Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Switch +6
SteamWorld Dig 2 takes you on a platform mining adventure forged in Metroidvania flames. When an old trading town is struck by mysterious earthquakes, it’s up to a lone steambot and her unlikely companion to uncover what trembling terrors l
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Capcom · NES, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation +1
From the United States, Canada and Japan they came. The world's premier designers and their finest robotic warriors traveled to do battle in the First Annual Robot Tournament. But what began as a game suddenly took a terrifying twist! On th
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Nintendo exclusive
Inti Creates · Nintendo DS
This game contains elements from the Mega Man X series and the Mega Man Zero series. The game introduces a new open-ended gameplay environment and the ability to select the protagonist's gender, a first in the series. The player's character
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Nintendo exclusive
Treasure · Game Boy Advance
Blue and Red, the lead characters in Gunstar Super Heroes, must once again keep a stone of great power from falling into the hands of an evil empire intent on resurrecting the God of Ruin. Blue and Red take on the same adventure using diffe
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Nintendo exclusive
Inti Creates · Game Boy Advance, Wii U
It's the third chapter in the Mega Man Zero action adventure series for the Game Boy Advance. Featuring a new customization system, you can now equip Zero, with a combination of chips that will affect both his attributes and abilities, allo
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Rainbow Arts · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +11
Turrican is a 1990 video game programmed and designed by Manfred Trenz. It was first developed for the Commodore 64 by Rainbow Arts, but was ported to other systems later. In addition to concept design and character creation, Trenz personal
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Nintendo exclusive
Sunsoft · NES, Nintendo 3DS, Wii +1
You've fallen down a hidden manhole into a world of creatures so terrifying they'd scare the rats away. You can panic and perish, or blast your way through an endless maze of tunnels, searching for the secret passages to your escape. And th
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Sega exclusive
Konami · Sega Genesis
Kickin' cyborg butt... That's what it's all about, dude. Jack into this game of genetic engineering gone bad. Real bad. It's five years after the mother of all wars ended - and things still aren't right. Your job is to fix it. The ever-popu
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Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows
In this exploration-heavy 2D action game, use your demon sword to interfere with the past, create platforms, and shield yourself from danger to explore a dystopian cyberpunk world depicted in gorgeously animated pixel art.
81 rating1 list7 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Michael Denio · MS-DOS, NES
The Adventures of Captain Comic is a platformer featuring a huge nonlinear playfield divided into several different terrains. As Comic, you must search throughout Tambi for power ups and items that will aid you in your quest to recover the
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Nintendo exclusive
Codemasters · NES
Too hot to handle? Or can you take up the challenge? Equipped with a dazzling range of weapons and skills, travel through scores of different action scenes, battling against the hottest, meanest, mechanized maniacs ever dreamed up! Rescue t
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Nintendo console exclusive
Factor 5 · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST +6
Turrican II: The Final Fight is a platformer/shooter as typically seen on consoles, but designed for home computers from the ground up. Its plot is - naturally - very simple: an evil mega-robot called The Machine attacks the United Planets
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Nintendo console exclusive
Michael Denio · MS-DOS, NES, SAM Coupé
The Adventures of Captain Comic is a platformer featuring a huge nonlinear playfield divided into several different terrains. As Comic, you must search throughout Tambi for power ups and items that will aid you in your quest to recover the
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Windows
Iji is an action-packed strategic platform shooter with a detailed story, large levels with multiple paths, powerful bosses and lots of secrets. There are alternate gameplay events, dialogues and scenes depending on what you do, a wealth of
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Nintendo exclusive
Advance Communication · NES
Something was terribly wrong in the distant man-made Spondylus star system. One by one, the planets' central life-support computers had been infected with a life-threatening virus while the planets' surfaces had been overrun with computeriz
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Banpresto · Arcade
The player controls a constantly bouncing car while driving through various environments including a city, pyramid, and underwater. The height of the jump and speed of a fall can be controlled with the joystick. The player can shoot various
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Nintendo exclusive
Aicom · NES
Vice: Project Doom is a game that features side-scrolling platform sequences, overhead driving modes and rail-shooter stages. In driving stages Hart's vehicle can accelerate or slow down and fire his weapon straight ahead. During side-scrol
70 rating3 lists
Nintendo exclusive
SNES
"X-Kaliber 2097" consists of two modes. The first modes gameplay consists of side-scrolling action. The player can jump and swing a sword at enemies. The player can also deflect projectiles with the sword. The game also features one on one
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Nintendo exclusive
Color Dreams · NES
A splendid adventure of terror, struggle, and danger! The evil demon King Kull has created a machine to transplant the souls of demons into the body of machines. With his army of ROBODEMONS he has cast a dark shadow over the region of Earth
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Nintendo exclusive
Treasure · Game Boy Advance
Join Astro, the robotic superhero with a human mind, in a quest to reunite the robotic race with humans. Astro uses his seven super abilities to face off against the likes of Atlas, Blue Knight, and more than 40 other characters. The game b
78 rating2 lists10 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Creatures · Game Boy Color
Chee-Chai Alien is a Japanese only Game Boy Color game.
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Nintendo exclusive
Rare Ltd. · Nintendo 64
The insect invasion has begun. The galaxy is being infested by the evil Mizar and his horde of Drones. Already, the planet of Goldwood has been subjugated and the peaceful Tribals enslaved. With an arsenal of mega-weapons at their disposal
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Konami · Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200 +14
Tutankham is a combination of the maze, action and shoot 'em up genres. Taking on the role of an explorer grave robbing Tutankhamun's tomb, the player is chased by creatures such as asps, vultures, parrots, bats, dragons, and even curses, a
59 rating6 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Android, Nintendo 3DS, Switch +2
In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws. A group of bandits have kidnapped Mayor Johnsons daughter and are spreading havok across the land. Only Gunman Clive can bring order to the west and save the girl! Jump and sho
76 rating3 lists1 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Software Technology · Nintendo DS, Wii U
Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person action-adventure game that combines exploration, shooting, and competitive multiplayer gameplay. Set across interconnected locations, it features objective-based progression alongside encounters with
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Nintendo exclusive
Thin Chen Enterprise · NES
A deadly alien force has taken control of all of the Earth's military forces. For some reason, the alien power is unable to control you, leaving you as the only one who can fight back. To be victorious you will need to battle both military
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Atari console exclusive
Gremlin Interactive · Amiga, Atari Lynx, Atari ST +1
Switchblade II is a computer action game. It was released for the Amiga and the Atari ST by Gremlin in May 1991, and for the Atari Lynx in 1992. A sequel to Switchblade, Switchblade II is an action-platformer. The action is viewed from the
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Nintendo exclusive
SNES
The game is a side-scroller which is divided into six stages. The player starts with a three-heart life gauge and one spell attack. The player can increase Princess's lives by collecting golden tokens (which look like the Princess's face),
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Nintendo exclusive
GameFAQs · NES
Battle station cyberg's massive computer that keeps peace throughout the solar system is no longer user friendly. It's gone wildly out of control. The LaserGun it operates has already destroyed Neptune. Earth is its next target. As a high-t
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development · Switch
Join intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her first new 2D Metroid story in 19 years. Samus’ story continues after the events of the Metroid Fusion game when she descends upon planet ZDR to investigate a mysterious transmission sent to
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Sega exclusive
Tokai Communications · Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
Psycho Fox must get to the right hand side of the level. However, there are many enemies in the way. He can use a Shinto stick to change into characters/animals like a hippopotamus, a monkey or a tiger, each of which has its own special abi
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Nintendo exclusive
Tokai Communications · NES
Clash at Demonhead is an open-ended platformer. The player takes control of Billy "Big Bang" Blitz, who is capable of running, jumping, and shooting. He is initially armed with a handgun, though various upgrades can be purchased from a shop
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Nintendo exclusive
Capcom · NES
The player takes the role of Kenny Smith, an agent of the 98th Special Forces, also known as "Code Name: Viper", who is assigned by his commander, Director Jones, to investigate a large drug syndicate that covers all of South America. Smith
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Nintendo exclusive
Renegade Kid · Nintendo DS
Set on the Earth’s moon in the mid-21st century, in Moon, players take on the role of Major Kane. Chief of Military Operations for the Extra Terrestrial Encounter Organization (ETEO), you and your team have been brought in to investigate a
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Nintendo exclusive
Tokai Engineering · NES
Journey to Silius, known in Japan as RAF World, is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed by Tokai Engineering and published by Sunsoft for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990. Journey to Silius was originally based on the
79 rating3 lists
Sega exclusive
BlueSky Software · Sega Genesis
Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition is a side-scroller released in 1994 by Sega for the Sega Mega Drive System and for its American equivalent, the Sega Genesis. It is the sequel to the popular game Jurassic Park.
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Linux, PS4, Windows +2
Rescue yourself from your inexplicable demise in this 2D platformer from tinyBuild.
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Sega console exclusive
Dinamic Software · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
Unusually for Electronic Arts in the early 90s, this was a platform -shooter game with little or no adventuring or strategy elements. The game scrolls sideways, and has sections where precision jumps are required, either to clear rivers or
69 rating4 lists0.5 h main story
Timed NEC exclusive
Winds Co Ltd · PS3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Store TurboGrafx-16 +4
It's been two years since Arnold and Sonya were made into Shockmen. A message from the professor to return to their bodies has them head to his laboratory, but they are ambushed by a mysterious enemy along the way. After narrowly defeating
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Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo Software Planning & Development · Game Boy Advance
After accidentally discovering spin technology, Wario reassembles the developers at WarioWare, Inc. to make a new set of wild minigames. WarioWare: Twisted! maintains the fast-paced style of gameplay from the original WarioWare and introduc
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PlayStation exclusive
Shiny Entertainment · PlayStation
Wild 9 is a 2D platformer with 3D graphics, featuring gameplay similar in vein to the company's Earthworm Jim games. Unique to the game is the The Rig, a weapon the protagonist wields. The Rig functions like an electronic lasso, capable of
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Sega exclusive
Master System, Sega Master System/Mark III
Life isn't always easy for the Crown Prince of Radactian. When the High-Tech World arcade opened up, someone in your castle tore the map into eight pieces! But it's such a cool arcade, you have to go there. It's a challenge worthy of any Ki
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Sega console exclusive
Data East · Arcade, Sega Genesis, Sharp X68000
The player takes the role of Chelnov, a coal miner who miraculously survives the malfunction and explosion of a nuclear power plant. Chelnov's body gains superhuman abilities due to the massive amount of radiation given off by the explosion
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Timed NEC exclusive
PS3, PlayStation Portable, TurboGrafx-16 +3
It's been two years since Arnold and Sonya were made into Shockmen. A message from the professor to return to their bodies has them head to his laboratory, but they are ambushed by a mysterious enemy along the way. After narrowly defeating
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Nintendo exclusive
Taito · NES
Similar to the original Don Doko Don, the player controls a bearded dwarf wielding a hammer to flatten enemies and throw them. But unlike the original, this version is a side-scroller. The game consists of five stages, plus the final boss b
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Nintendo exclusive
NES
G.I. Joe is a NES game from 1991 published by Taxan which later spawned a sequel called G.I Joe the Atlantis factor.
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NEO XYX · Dreamcast, Neo Geo, Nintendo 3DS +1
After the space pilot Vanessa Gaiden defeated the Evil Empire in the events of the game Last Hope, she got missing on her way back and wasn't heard of anymore. Vanessa's husband, Gordian Gaiden, sets out to search for her. Meanwhile, a new
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