My favorite games

"Monty Mole was imprisoned due to his coal theft in Wanted: Monty Mole, and rescued by Sam Stoat in Monty is Innocent. Now he has to get out of Britain while he still can.

Like the original, the game is a flick-screen platformer with puzzly leanings. Learning the movement paths of enemies, and the timing sequence of the crushers, and working out a path across the screen by using the offered ropes and platforms. Not all parts of all screens can be accessed at once.

You will need to collect money and other items along the way. Before starting the game, you must choose five items from a selection of 21 to form your 'Freedom Kit' – correct selections are essential to complete the game, and a degree of trial and error is required to know which ones are correct." --mobygames.com

Ghosts 'n Goblins is a platform game where the player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur, who must defeat zombies, ogres, demons, cyclops, dragons and other monsters in order to rescue Princess Prin Prin, who has been kidnapped by Satan, king of Demon World. Along the way the player can pick up new weapons, bonuses and extra suits of armor that can help in this task.

The game is often considered very difficult by arcade standards and is commonly regarded as one of the most difficult games ever released. The game is considered by Gametrailers.com to be the world's second most difficult game ever made. The player can only be hit twice before losing a life (the first hit takes away Arthur's armor, and the player must continue on in his underwear until completing the level, or finding replacement armor). If the player loses a life, he is returned to the start of the level, or the halfway point if he has managed to get that far. Furthermore, each life can only last a certain length of time (generally around three minutes), the clock being reset at the start of a level. If the clock does run out, the player instantly loses that life. After defeating the final boss, but only with the cross weapon (if the player does not have the cross weapon, they will be prompted that it is needed to defeat the boss and restart at the beginning of level 5 and must repeat round 5 and 6 again regardless if the weapon is obtained immediately or not) for the first time the player is informed that the battle was "a trap devised by Satan". The player must then replay the entire game on a higher difficulty level to reach the genuine final battle.

『アウトラン』(OutRun)は、セガが1986年に稼働開始したアーケード用ドライブゲーム。

セガ・マークIII、MSX2、PCエンジン、メガドライブ、ゲームギアなど多数の家庭用ゲーム機に移植された他、日本国外ではAmiga、Amstrad CPC、Atari ST、ZX Spectrum、コモドール64、PC/AT互換機などにも移植された。

ゲーム誌『ゲーメスト』（新声社）誌上で行われていた「第1回ゲーメスト大賞」において大賞4位、『ゲーメスト』読者の人気投票によるゲーメストムック『ザ・ベストゲーム』では第11位、『ファミコン通信』の「クロスレビュー」においてはメガドライブ版が合計30点でシルバー殿堂入りを獲得した。

The player is put behind the wheel of a stock car (known as the Hornet), with the choice of three tracks as well as an automatic or manual transmission. The player's objectives are to outrun the competing cars, and complete the race before time runs out.

Progress is made through the game by fighting through Death Adder's henchmen, including men armed with clubs and maces, skeleton warriors, and knights. Players are able to attack using their weapon, jump and cast spells that hurt all enemies on the screen. The force of this magic depends on the number of "bars" of magic power currently available. The bars are filled by collecting blue 'magic potions' attained by kicking little sprites who then drop the potions. These sprites appear during regular levels and during bonus stages in between levels. The male warrior Ax is able to cast earth spells. The dwarf Gilius, casts lightning spells and the female warrior Tyris casts fire magic. Each character has a different number of maximum magic bars and varying ranges of attack.

Various steeds known as bizarrians are found in the game. These can be ridden when the enemy rider is knocked off, or if one is found dormant. The least powerful steed is known as the Cockatrice, which can be used to knock down enemies with a swipe of its tail. The more powerful dragon, which can either shoot fireballs or breathe fire, is found later in the game.

The game takes place in the fictional land of Yuria, a Conan the Barbarian-style high fantasy medieval world. An evil entity known as Death Adder has captured the King and his daughter, and holds them captive in their castle. He also finds the Golden Axe, the magical emblem of Yuria, and threatens to destroy both the axe and the royal family unless the people of Yuria accept him as their ruler. Three warriors set out on a quest to rescue Yuria and avenge their losses at the hands of Death Adder. The first is a battle axe-wielding dwarf, Gilius Thunderhead, from the mines of Wolud, whose twin brother was killed by the soldiers of Death Adder. Another is a male barbarian, Ax Battler, wielding a two-handed broadsword, looking for revenge for the murder of his mother. The last is a longsword-wielding Tyris Flare, an amazon, whose parents were both killed by Death Adder.

The warriors rescue the inhabitants of the ransacked Turtle Village, which turns out to be situated on the shell of a giant turtle. The turtle takes the characters across the sea, and they then fly to the castle itself on the back of a giant eagle. Once at the castle they defeat Death Adder, who is wielding the Golden Axe, and save the land. In the Mega Drive and PC versions, and also in other ports, the characters also battle Death Adder's mentor, Death Bringer, as the true final boss. After the final battle, the warriors receive a magical golden axe that imbues the player with immortality.

Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. Debuting in the golden age of video arcade games, it is a time travel themed game that allowed the player's plane to freely move across open air space that can scroll indefinitely in all directions. The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time.

The player assumes the role of a pilot of a futuristic fighter jet, trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. The player must fight off hordes of enemy craft and defeat the mother ship (or "boss") present in every level. The background moves in the opposite direction to the player's plane, rather than the other way around; the player's plane always remains in the center.

This game has the player travel through five time periods, rescuing stranded fellow pilots. The player must fight off droves of enemy craft while picking up parachuting friendly pilots. Once 56 enemy craft are defeated, initially 25 on the MSX platform and increasing by 5 after each game cycle (finishing the last battle against the UFOs), the player must defeat the mothership for the time period. Once she is destroyed, any remaining enemy craft are also eliminated and the player time-travels to the next level. All the levels have a blue sky and clouds as the background except the last level, which has space and asteroids instead. The specific eras visited, the common enemies, and the motherships are the following:

1910: biplanes and a blimp
1940: WWII monoplanes and a B-25
1970: helicopters and a large, blue CH-46
1982 (Konami version)/1983 (Centuri version): jets and a B-52
2001: UFOs
The mothership is destroyed with seven direct hits. Once all the eras have been visited, the levels start over again but are harder and faster. The Game Boy Advance version of Time Pilot in Konami Arcade Classics includes a hidden sixth era, 1,000,000 BC, where the player must destroy vicious pterodactyls in order to return to the early 20th century.

In part two of the "Boulder Dash" series, game design hasn't changed compared to part one, so you still have to mine diamonds while avoiding falling rocks and cave monsters of all sorts. As in part one, later levels become more difficult because many puzzle elements are added.

アーケード版は1989年発売。使用基板は前作の流用なので、続投キャラクターのデザインはほとんど顔グラフィックと色の変更程度になっている。冒頭では前作で救出したマリアンがウィリーに射殺され、ゲームの雰囲気はさながらマリアンの弔い合戦とも言える物であった。攻撃操作は前作と異なり、左右攻撃ボタンとその中央にジャンプボタンを配しているシステムで、アーケード版『熱血硬派くにおくん』に近い物になっている。前作で圧倒的な威力を誇った肘打ちは、よほど接近して出さない限り敵がしゃがんで避けてしまうようになった上に、肘打ちを使う雑魚キャラクターまで存在する。また主人公が武器による攻撃で受けるダメージが前作と比べて軽減されており、特に前作の最終ボスであるウィリーのマシンガンで即死しなくなっている。
ファミコン版は1989年12月22日発売。前作では不可能だった2人同時プレイが出来るようになった。攻撃操作はアーケード版とほとんど同じだが、比較的簡単な操作で出せる必殺技が追加されている（これらの必殺技は後述の『ダブルドラゴン アドバンス』にも登場する）。必殺技は「竜尾嵐風脚」（回し蹴り）・「天殺龍神拳」（アッパーカット）・「爆魔龍神脚」（膝蹴り）の3種類で、敵キャラクターにヒットすると遠くへ吹き飛び、効果音は爽快感がある。アーケード版の前作とデザインが同じだったジェフとウィリーの代わりに、中ボスにクンフー使いの「右腕」とシリーズ初登場の「忍者」が追加された。ファミコン版の最終ボスには「幻殺拳 (げんさつけん)」使いの「謎の格闘家」が登場し、最終ステージでの戦いで流れるBGM「双龍の雄叫び」は、第1作をリメイクした作品である『ダブルドラゴン アドバンス』でも収録されている（『ダブルドラゴン アドバンス』での曲名は「FIGHT OF FATE」）。
日本ではアーケード版ベースのメガドライブ版（1991年12月20日発売）とファミコン版ベースのPCエンジン版（1993年3月12日発売）が発売された。PCエンジン版では音声付きのビジュアルデモが付加され、ビリー（声：堀川りょう）、ジミー（声：神奈延年）、マリアン（声：江森浩子）の喋るシーンがある。
本作ではジミーが白づくめの格好（ファミコン版とPCエンジン版ではベストとズボンは赤色に戻っている）をしていたり、リンダがモヒカン頭になっているなど、キャラクターのデザインが色物じみている。

The destruction of the Barrax Empire...

A Whirling Barra ship darts out from the recesses of a dark spiral cave and attacks from the left. You bank hard to escape, but a "chameleon" attacker suddenly appears on the right. The battle is just beginning and this will become your easiest challenge! The toughest opposition awaits!

The year is 2400 AD. You have led the squadron to the home planet of the Barrax Empire, prepared to avenge their devastating attack on Earth. Armed with weapons specifically designed for this alien environment, you hope your combat skills are up to the task.

Hybris is a vertically scrolling sci-fi shoot 'em up for the Amiga.

Speedball is a futuristic football-like game which takes place on a steel walled floored pitch, 160 feet long by 90 feet wide. There are two teams, and the team scoring the most goals wins. There is a goal at each end of the pitch and a ball warp tunnel in each side of the wall. The warp tunnels can warp a ball from one tunnel to another. The ball is launched from the center of the pit by the automatic launcher in a random direction. There also bounce domes, off of which the ball will be deflected, but over which players are free to move.

The player(s) control one or two fairies called Tam and Rit armed with a magic wand (rod). Following the concept of Taito's Bubble Bobble, the rod doesn't kill the monsters directly, but only leaves them immobilized, crying. To kill them, the rod can grasp them in a magic force-field and the player can smash them down over her head until they disappear and leave a power-up behind.

Each level is only one small screen composed of monsters, platforms, ladders and, later, tunnels. Unlike other games of the genre, the players can never jump, but have to use ladders. They can conjure one custom ladder above or below them in order to go to the appropriate platform. There can be only one such 'custom' ladder; therefore if the fairy summons it again, it will disappear from its previous position in order to appear again next to the fairy. This can be beneficial for the player, if a monster is climbing that ladder to approach her.

The fairies' quest is to rescue their mother, trapped in a tower. In the sequel (part of the original arcade machine) they must venture into a pyramid, to stop an evil demon that is building a mobile fortress. The spirit of their departed father "guides" them at a couple of points. The ending implies that the demon in the pyramid was somehow responsible for their father's death.

Tiki, a sneaker-wearing kiwi who must save his lover Phee Phee and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by a large blue leopard seal. The player has to navigate a scrolling maze-like level, at the end of which they release one of Tiki's kiwi chick friends trapped in a cage.

You take on the role of three brothers wandering through the magical land of Holm. Real-time interaction reminiscent of Ultima 7. An extremely large world, touted at the time as the largest game world ever created, about 17,000 computer screens worth of terrain. The game was first developed for Amiga and after achieving a huge success, the game was ported to more platforms including PC.

1991年至1992年，CAPCOM的格斗、动作游戏狂潮席卷世界各地的游戏厅。1991年推出的《名将》（CAPTAIN COMMANDO）达到了清版动作游戏新的高度。而1992年，CAPCOM更推出了《街头霸王2》的续作《街头霸王2’――冠军争夺战》，也就是“12人街霸”，将由前作引发的格斗之火烧得更加炽烈。当时，在众多玩家的心目中，《街头霸王》就是无与伦比的伟大的神之篇章。CAPCOM凭借此作获得巨大的盈利，其它厂商受此影响，纷纷研发跟风之作，这一切，SEGA自然也是看在眼里。与此同时，BK1的热卖也使得SEGA对这个项目布满了信心，既然有市场，就没有理由不推出续作，而既然要出续作，就必须要对前作进行彻底的修改与进化，使之更“街机化”。古代佑三（YUZO KOSHIRO）兄妹成为这部作品最主要的开发力量。YUZO负责该作的音乐、音效，而他的妹妹AYANO KOSHIRO则负责游戏设计。他们自己有一个叫ANCIENT（古代）的公司，公司的很多成员都参与了该作的开发。可以说，这一作是ANCIENT和SEGA合作的结晶。1992年，《怒之铁拳》的续作终于出现了。日版名叫“BARE KNUCKLE II――死斗者的镇魂歌”，欧美版名叫“STREETS OF RAGE2”。我们把它缩写为BK2和SOR2。许多玩家第一眼看到这部作品时，简直有惊艳的感觉。这已经不是普通意义上的续作，而是一部脱胎换骨的作品。短短一年的时间竟然制作出如此高水准的作品，看得出制作者是在拿街机的标准来要求本作，充分吸收了CAPCOM经典街机动作游戏的精华，并加入自己的许多创意。BK2采用了新技术，游戏容量为16M，这也是当时MD卡带的最高容量。

Synth Riders is a dance-action rhythm game. You'll experience incredible music in a whole new way as your arms soar when riding our unique rail system and your body moves to carefully crafted maps.

Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards.

Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards.