SunSoft 1988
Genre: Action
Rating: 3/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

So you have a car that can shoot, jump and get upgrades to open new ways. Sounds great. And the map is big and branching? It starts to look familiar. Now you'll tell me... What? But it's linear and repetitive? Well, what a shame.

Nintendo 1983
Genre: Puzzle, Action
Rating: 5/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

Donkey Kong is the signature game of NES. While originally developed as an arcade game by Nintendo and later ported to every single console available at that time, NES has been the flagship product of Nintendo, and so it's only natural that it was here that the game was most visible. This game not only started the most successful game franchise of all times, it also transformed a 90-years old game cards company into an electronic entertainment behemoth and in the process set one of the most important legal precedents for the gaming industry.

Capcom 1992
Genre: RPG, Action
Rating: 4/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

The ghoul realms is under attack again. Who is behind this? The same bad guy from the previous one. And that's not the only familiar thing here, taking a closer look this looks more like a remake. So come and try Gargoyle's Quest: Cheap Second Part.

SNK 1989
Genre: Action
Rating: 5/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

Hail the heroes of the revolution who came save the island, which is suspiciously similar to Cuba, from the military dictatorship. Two guys that aren’t Castro and el Che, even when they look exactly like them, but who surely are a pair of one man armies.

Taito 1992
Genre: Action
Rating: 3/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

What to do when the big evil wipes away all your armies? Call the bunch of heroes, of course. And fuse them on a magical item so they can travel faster or something. Ok, who cares? Don’t pay much attention to it, as this is just a Megaman clone.

Konami 1990
Genre: Puzzle, Action
Rating: 5/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

Use your head to break some blocks, move others, while a few enemies try to be annoying to avoid you from solving the many platform puzzles which form this game.

It seems the main character, a walking moai, an Easter Island statue, goes in search of smaller ones with some kind of relation to it. But well, as if one cares with this kind of game, the only impact it have is that you should get them to finish the level, so each one always is the same, but not in the same way. Start somewhere around the place, make your way to them and then reach the big doors to finish the level.

Infogrames 1989
Genre: Action
Rating: 3/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

I suppose everybody knows the famous SAS rescue operation on the Iran embassy. Well, here is your chance to do something similar, as this one is based on it. But don’t expect anything spectacular, or even tactical, as the idea ends just on a small set of action games.

Technos Japan 1989
Genre: Action
Rating: 4/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

Your girl has been kidnapped, and obviously it is up to you rescue her, punching, kicking and throwing anybody who gets in your way, while building up for the final match.

This is a fighting game, a side-scrolling one where you advance while a series of enemies comes towards you to be beaten to a pulp, and you do not need to do this alone, as a friend can be with you, adding fun, and danger as you can hit each other. But it is not in the fighting itself where the novelty lies. You techniques are just punching, kicking, grabing unconscious enemies or weapons and jumping, all of this while finding more powerful enemies as you advance. All this is as usual.

Rare 1989
Genre: Action
Rating: 5/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

This is a curious one, a game where two snakes try to get as big as possible, eating coloured balls that do all that it's possible to flee from your tongue, and jumping around platforms filled with silly dangers.

Rare 1990
Genre: Action
Rating: 4/6
Licence: Commercial
System: NES

Aliens have captured your ship and it now lays in pieces all around the galaxy, so if you want to get it back you will have to travel from planet to planet, exploring inside a capsule. A tough work, as they are not the most manoeuvrable things, nor the best for fighting back.