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Atlus, Multimedia Intelligence Transfer, Super Nintendo

Megami Tensei Gaiden: Last Bible III, Super Nintendo

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The third game in the Last Bible series (a subseries of the Megami Tensei games), was developed by Multimedia Intelligence Transfer and published by Atlus – in Japan only – for the Super Famicom in 1995. It is a Role-Playing Game with random encounters and turn-based combat, and features the unique Megami Tensei trait of talking to monsters to try to recruit them, calling them into your party, and fusing them together to make more powerful monsters who will fight with you. This is a Japanese-only release that currently benefits from fan translations into both English and Spanish, which makes this excellent game playable to a good proportion of the Western world.

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FM Towns, LucasArts, Victor Musical Industries

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, FM Towns

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LucasArts‘ classic point-and-click adventure, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, was released for the FM Towns by Victor Musical Industries in 1993, and although it was a Japan-only release it does include the English language version, which makes it perfectly playable to Westerners.

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FM Towns, Kindle Imagine Develop, Success

Raiden Densetsu, FM Towns

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Released in Japan as “Raiden Densetsu” (“Legend of Raiden“), but with a title screen that calls it “Raiden Trad“, this is an authentic port of the Seibu Kaihatsu arcade game Raiden, but with a few extra options.

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Aicom, FM Towns, Sammy, Ving

Viewpoint, FM Towns

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Originally released as an arcade game on Neo Geo MVS hardware, Viewpoint is an isometric bullet hell shooter originally developed by Aicom, ported by Sammy and published by Ving for the FM Towns in 1993. It obviously takes inspiration from Sega‘s Zaxxon, but its aesthetic owes more to Irem‘s R-Type.

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Capcom, FM Towns

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, FM Towns

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The 1994 FM Towns version of Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers is a port of the popular Capcom arcade fighting game of 1993. It is the fourth game in the Street Fighter II sub-series, with four new fighters, adding to the existing roster of twelve characters from The World Warrior.

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Arcade, Capcom, Marvel Comics

Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Arcade

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes is a ‘crossover’ arcade fighting game developed and published by Capcom in 1998. It is the third instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, which features characters from Capcom‘s video game franchises combined with characters from the Marvel Comics universe.

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Arcade, Capcom, Marvel Comics

Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Arcade

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Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter is the sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter and the second instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. The game was first released as an arcade game by Capcom in 1997. It then received ports to the Sega Saturn in 1998 and the PlayStation in 1999.

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Arcade, Capcom, Marvel Comics

X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Arcade

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X-Men vs. Street Fighter is Capcom‘s third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters, following X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes, and is the first instalment in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. It was originally released as an arcade game in 1996, and was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997, the Sony PlayStation in 1998, and Windows PCs in 2001.

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Arcade, Capcom, Marvel Comics

Marvel Super Heroes, Arcade

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Marvel Super Heroes is a one-on-one fighting game developed by Capcom and distributed into arcades in 1995. It is the second Capcom beat ’em up based on characters from the Marvel Comics line and is loosely based on “The Infinity Gauntlet” storyline from the Marvel Universe. The gameplay follows the Street Fighter II template for fighting games and uses six buttons and a joystick for each player. The game can be played in either normal or ‘turbo’ mode.

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Arcade, Capcom, Marvel Comics

X-Men: Children of the Atom, Arcade

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X-Men: Children of the Atom is the first in a series of fighting games from Capcom, based on characters from Marvel Comics. It follows the same conventions, and uses the same controls, as the Street Fighter II series and first came out in arcades in 1994 (1995 in North America and Europe).

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