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Arcade Archives: Super Volleyball

Video System, Hamster Corporation

"Super Volleyball" is a sports game released by Video System in 1989 . It features techniques like delayed attacks and back attacks despite its simple controls, for high-level back-and-forth matches. A title that truly captures the fun of volleyball. The…

F-1 World Grand Prix II for Game Boy Color

Video System

Ojanko Yakata

Video System

Ojanko Yakata is an adult mahjong.

Aero Fighters

Video System, Phoenix, Koei Tecmo Games, Mc O'River

There are eight stages in this game. The beginning stages consists of randomly chosen areas from nations of unselected fighters (assuming those fighters have nations). If Rabio or Lepus is chosen, all four rival nation stages become playable. After completing all rival nation stages, there are four more stages. Player and team-specific endings occur after completing the first loop. After completing the 2nd loop, the ending consists of all pilot pairs giving a speech, with the second pilot in the last pair giving a cheat code.

F-1 World Grand Prix

Paradigm Entertainment, Video System, Lankhor, Eidos Interactive, Tsukuda Original, Nintendo, Gradiente

The game consists of five gameplay modes: Grand Prix, a course-by-course simulation of the 1997 season; Exhibition, a single race; Time Trial, a race against the clock and Challenge, which comprised real scenarios from the 1997 season-examples include trying to win the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix as Damon Hill or beating Jean Alesi as David Coulthard in the 1997 Italian Grand Prix. The final mode allowed 2 players to compete in a single, split-screen race.

F-1 World Grand Prix II

Paradigm Entertainment, Video System

F1 WGP 2 pretty much sports the same features as the first game. The game has 4 modes of play: the championship season mode, the exhibition race, time trials, and the challenge mode. R and Z are used to shift gears, the analog stick is used to steer the car, A is the accelerator and B is the brake. The C-buttons allow for camera changes and backmirror views. It's pretty much the same setup and how these work are pretty much unchanged from the first game to the second.

Arcade Archives: Spinal Breakers

Video System, HAMSTER

“SPINAL BREAKERS” is an action shooting game released by VIDEO SYSTEM in 1991. Players take control of Colonel WAFFLE and battle through stages by defeating enemies infected by the artificial lifeform known as “HILDROID.” Dodge enemy attacks using the rotation button while aiming precisely to take them down. The game features three different endings, which vary depending on your performance throughout the playthrough.

Aero Fighters Special

Video System, Visco Corporation

Sonic Wings Special was ported to arcade as Sonic Wings Limited (Aero Fighters Special in North America). It runs on a Sony ZN-1 JAMMA board.

SD F-1 Grand Prix

Video System

SD F-1 Grand Prix is a Racing game, developed and published by Video System, which was released in Japan in 1995. It features animal versions of real-life drivers such as Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna.

F-1 Grand Prix Part II

Video System

F-1 Grand Prix Part II is a Racing game, developed and published by Video System, which was released in Japan in 1993.

Power Spikes

Video System

Simulation of volleyball with side view and horizontal scrolling.

Karate Blazers

Video System

Karate Blazers is a beat-em-up where four disciples are out to avenge their masters death, retrieve some stolen scrolls and save their masters daughter who has been kidnapped over various levels. The four guys are Mark, Glen, Akira and Gil, and you can choose to play as one of them while up to three other players can choose one as well, as four players can play on screen at the same time. The game is viewed from the side and after a wave of baddies are defeated the screen scrolls to the right a bit further until the end of the stage. At the end of a couple of stages you face a boss who has a energy bar which needs emptying. If you are hit by a baddy then you lose part of your energy bar. When it empties you lose one of two lives. When you lose both lives it's game over but you can continue where you last die and you can choose another character.

Spinal Breakers

Video System

This game is a shooter almost like Cabal, except that your characters are huge and the screen continually scrolls to the right. The object of the game is to help rid the Earth of aliens.

Lethal Crash Race

Video System

A one or two player racing game published and developed by Video System Co., Ltd. in 1993.

Power Spikes II

Video System, SNK

Power Spikes II is a sports game released in 1994 by Video System. It features the Hyper Mode where the world's strongest eight teams compete along with the World Men's and World Women's teams in this futuristic fighting volleyball game. In Hyper Mode, commands for special serves and spikes can be input for an intense battle.

3 on 3 Dunk Madness

Video System

3 On 3 Dunk Madness is a fully playable basketball game for up to four players, what wasn't get official release.

Sonic Wings Special

Video System, Mediaquest, HAMSTER, Phoenix Games, MonkeyPaw Games

Sonic Wings Special is a 1996 vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up that combines the features in Sonic Wings, Sonic Wings 2, and Sonic Wings 3. It was ported to arcade as Sonic Wings Limited. The home console version adds new characters and endings, new bosses, updated graphics and unlockable planes. There are also Time Attack and 2-player modes. The game uses a branching stage system, so it is impossible to see all levels in one sitting. There is a total of 14 playable characters and many different endings (some of which are reused from previous games in the series). Overall the game has a comic feel. As of Summer 2012, the Android version of Sonic Wings Special has only 4 playable characters with 4 endings and 9 stages. However, the publisher is planning to add further elements of the original version.

F-1 Grand Prix

Video System

F-1 Grand Prix is a 1991 Formula One-based arcade racing video game developed and published by Video System exclusively in Japan. It is the first title in Video System's licensed F1 Grand Prix series, which this title is based on the 1991 Formula One season. It was licensed by Fuji Television and FOCA. The arcade game was later ported to the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan on April 28, 1992.

Aero Fighters 3

Video System, SNK

When enemy forces wipe out the jets of the Aero Fighters, they must scramble using heavily-modified World War II warplanes in the third installment of the comical Aero Fighters series.

Idol-Mahjong Final Romance

Video System

An arcade Mahjong game.

Rabbit Punch

Video System, Bally Midway

Shoot' em up arcade game by Video System where round rabbits wearing boxing gloves fly from left to right through scrolling scenery punching, shooting flying enemies with a laser or firing carrot missiles. Power-ups are available in the form of canned carrots.

Aero Fighters 2

Video System

The game is played with two buttons, with the A button firing projectiles from the plane and the B button launching a special bomb attack which uses a bomb from a limited stock of bombs. Power projectiles can be obtained by destroying buildings and armored enemy planes. There are two types of Power projectiles: "P" Power projectiles, that increases the plane's firepower by one level, and "F" Power projectiles, that increases the plane's firepower to the maximum level instantly. The maximum level only lasts for a limited amount of shots. When certain ground enemies and buildings are destroyed, money bonuses appear which give a random amount of points each. When the player reaches the end of the stage, the player has to face a boss ship.

ACA Neo Geo: Aero Fighters 2

Video System, Hamster Corporation, SNK

AERO FIGHTERS 2 is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up released in 1994 by VIDEO SYSTEM. A variety of unique pilots, including a pop singer and an aviation ninja, take place in dog fights at the speed of sound to save the world.