Battle Master is a 1990 fantasy action adventure game designed by Mike Simpson and Simon Jones for PSS and distributed by Mirrorsoft. The game is a fantasy adventure in which the player controls a champion who must battle evil forces to conquer four kingdoms, uniting the four kings’ crowns and presenting them to the Watcher … Read more
The Miracle Piano Teaching System is a MIDI keyboard/teaching tool created in 1990 by The Software Toolworks for the NES and SNES, Apple Macintosh, Amiga, Sega Genesis and PC.
Elemental Master is a top down shoot ’em up video game developed by TechnoSoft for the Sega Mega Drive and released in 1990 in Japan, and in 1993 in North America by Renovation Products.
Bio-ship Paladin, known in Japan as Space Battleship Gomora (宇宙戦艦ゴモラ), is a 1990 horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up arcade game. It was later ported to the Sega Mega Drive. While the game is essentially a standard horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up, it has an innovation that makes it unique in the genre. The player flies … Read more
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II (Japanese: 三國志II, Hepburn: Sangokushi Tsū, lit. “Three Kingdoms II”) is the second in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series of turn-based strategy games produced by Koei and based on the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Ishido: The Way of Stones is a puzzle video game released in 1990 by Accolade and developed by Publishing International. It was designed by Michael Feinberg and programmed by Ian Gilman and Michael Sandige. The game’s producer was Brad Fregger, and Brodie Lockard (the designer of the Shanghai computer game) contributed with graphics.
Hit the Ice is a hockey video game originally released by Williams to arcades in 1990. Featuring a cartoonish representation of the sport, Hit the Ice features games with three players on each team (forward, defense, and goalie). Unlike standard hockey, there are very few rules, as players are encouraged to trip, elbow and kick … Read more
Junction (ジャンクション) is a puzzle video game developed and published by Micronet in 1990 under license by Konami. Using a variety of sliding puzzles, the player rolls a ball (possibly containing a small armadillo character as implied by the game’s introduction) along tracks set on the tiles. Players must align the tracks together and have … Read more
Kyukai Dochuki (球界道中記, Kyūkai Dōchūki, lit. Baseball World Traveler’s Journal) is a baseball arcade game that was released by Namco in 1990 only in Japan; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and is a spin-off of Yokai Dochuki (Namco’s first 16-bit arcade game). The gameplay is similar to that for Namco’s own World Stadium … Read more
Air Diver: F-119 Stealth Fighter Simulation (エアダイバー) is a combat flight simulator video game released by Seismic (Asmik Ace Entertainment in Japan) in April 1990 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console. It is notable as being one of the two first third party published titles for the console in North America. A follow-up, Super Air … Read more
Heavy Unit (ヘビーユニット, Hebii Yunitto) is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game developed by Kaneko and published by Taito in 1988. It was ported to the PC Engine by Taito and was released on December 22, 1989. There was also a Mega Drive port by Toho entitled “Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special” released on December … Read more
Granada (グラナダ) is a 1990 shoot ’em up video game developed by Wolf Team and published by Telenet Japan in Japan first for the Sharp X68000 and later the Sega Mega Drive, with a North American Sega Genesis release by Renovation Products the following year.