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  • Baby Boomer (NES)

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    Baby Boomer System: NES Release Date: 1989 Developer: Color Dreams Publisher: Color Dreams Genre: Light Gun Shooter/Platformer I decided to include some of the unlicensed NES games on my list, because I don’t want to miss out on Tengen… I probably should have left Color Dreams on the sidelines after playing Baby Boomer. On the…

  • John Elway’s Quarterback (NES)

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    John Elway’s Quarterback System: NES Release Date: March 1989 Developer: Rare Publisher: Tradewest Genre: Sports Oh wow, do I feel bad for the poor kids that got John Elway’s Quarterback. This is basically an Atari game in an NES cartridge. Rare and Tradewest were probably cursing Tecmo for releasing the incredibly superior Tecmo Bowl the…

  • Ultima III: Exodus (NES)

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    Ultima III: Exodus System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: Newtopia Planning Publisher: FCI Genre: RPG The well known Ultima series comes to the home console with Exodus. I was excited to sit down and play through this one. I’ve tried a few times in the past, but didn’t get very far. This time? Not…

  • Tecmo Bowl (NES)

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    Tecmo Bowl System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Tecmo Genre: Sports Finally we come to a real football game with Tecmo Bowl. Let’s be honest, we’ve had what…? 10-Yard Fight and Great Football? Not good games, but Tecmo comes in with a deal with the NFLPA and BAM! We get a great…

  • Friday the 13th (NES)

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    Friday the 13th System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: Atlus Publisher: LJN Genre: Action Jason Voorhees is out to terrorize the counselors and campers of Camp Crystal Lake with his own special brand of murder in Friday the 13th! In fact, Jason has murdered seven films worth of children and teens by the time…

  • Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach (NES)

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    Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: TOSE Publisher: Bandai Genre: Sports TOSE gave us Racket Attack, which was good, and now brings us Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach. It’s a golf game. It’s Pebble Beach. You choose 1 or 2 players and then set your handicap. Then, it’s off…

  • Gyruss (NES)

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    Gyruss System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: Konami Publisher: Ultra Games Genre: Shoot ‘em Up Konami is back with another release under the Ultra Games label with Gyruss. There’s no convoluted backstory or really much of an instruction manual with this one. One page tells you the difference between Attack Control A, where you…

  • Q*bert (NES)

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    Q*bert System: NES Release Date: February 1989 Developer: Konami Publisher: Ultra Games Genre: Puzzle It’s 1989 and we’ve got a much beloved arcade game ported to the NES with Q*bert. This guys got my kind of vocabulary… all the swears! Which is what I uttered many times over the course of my play through. You…

  • WWF Wrestlemania (NES)

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    WWF Wrestlemania System: NES Release Date: January 1989 Developer: Rare Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment Genre: Fighting The biggest spectacle in sports entertainment comes to the NES with WWF Wrestlemania. I played this one frequently as a child and figured I would be able to come to it today and dismantle the computer. I was horribly, terribly…

  • Star Soldier (NES)

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    Star Soldier System: NES Release Date: January 1989 Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Taxan Genre: Shoot ‘em Up I was thinking Star Soldier felt very similar to something I played before and I see it was made by Hudson Soft, just as Star Force was back in 1987. Here, the fearsome Starbrain is threatening the Galactic…