Juno First is a kind of overhead shoot ’em up, but with a three-quarters perspective into the screen.
Tag Archives: Konami
Ganbare Goemon, MSX
Ganbare Goemon is the MSX predecessor to the amazing Super Nintendo game Legend of the Mystical Ninja, created by Konami.
Boktai 3: Sabata’s Counterattack, Game Boy Advance
Unfortunately this third instalment in the excellent Boktai series did not recieve a release outside of its native Japan.
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Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django, Game Boy Advance
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django is the 2004 follow-up to the excellent Boktai: The Sun Is Your Hand – a clever isometric adventure designed by Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Koijima.
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Tutankham, Arcade
Konami‘s 1982 arcade game Tutankham is a weird horizontally-scrolling shooter where you play a gun-toting archaeologist, fighting off snakes, mummies, and other meanies, inside a maze-like Egyptian tomb.
Gyruss, Arcade
Time Pilot, Arcade
Konami‘s 1982 cult hit Time Pilot is a multi-directional shoot ’em up with you piloting a plane through various time zones.
Frogger Arcade, Commodore 64
This superb homebrew (unofficial) Frogger, by Hokuto Force, was published (for free of course) around Christmas 2015 for the Commodore 64.
Quarth, MSX
Originally released in arcades in Japan in 1989, Quarth became a cult hit when it was released for the MSX2 in 1990.
Quarth is basically part vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up, and part Tetris.
International Superstar Soccer Deluxe, Super Nintendo
The 1995 sequel to Konami‘s International Superstar Soccer is more refined and detailed than the first game, but still retains its exuberant atmosphere, OTT commentary, and alluring gameplay style.
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