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Tetris
Tetris () is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sorted into a pile. Once a horizontal line of the playfield is filled with blocks, the line disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from reaching the top. This gameplay has been used in approximately 220 versions across at least 70 platforms. Newer versions frequently add game mechanics, some of which have become standard. , Tetris is the second-best-selling video game series, with ove

Super Mario Bros.
1985 platform video game

Ice Climber
1985 video game developed by Nintendo

Battle City
1985 video game

Paperboy
1985 arcade game

Yie Ar Kung-Fu
1985 video game

Commando
1985 video game

Ghosts 'n Goblins
1985 video game
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1985 arcade game

Hang-On
is a 1985 racing video game developed and published by Sega for arcades. In the game, the player controls a motorcycle against time and other computer-controlled bikes. It was one of the first arcade games to use 16-bit graphics and uses the Super Scaler arcade system board, created with design input from Yu Suzuki, as technology to simulate 3D effects. The deluxe cabinet version also introduced a motion-controlled arcade cabinet, where the player's body movement on a large motorbike-shaped cabinet corresponds with the player character's movements on screen.

Gradius
1985 arcade game

Gauntlet
fantasy-themed hack and slash 1985 arcade game by Atari Games

City Connection
1985 video game

Soccer
1985 video game

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
1985 video game

The Bard's Tale
1985 role-playing video game

The Legend of Kage
1985 video game

Space Harrier
1985 video game

TwinBee
is a 1985 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. Along with Sega's Fantasy Zone (1986), it is credited as an early archetype of the "cute 'em up" subgenre. It was the first game to run on Konami's Bubble System hardware. TwinBee was ported to the Family Computer and MSX in 1986, and has been included in numerous compilations released in later years. The original arcade game was released outside Japan for the first time as part of the Nintendo DS compilation Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits. A mobile phone version with edited graphics was relea

Mach Rider
1985 racing game

Lunar Pool
1985 sports video game

Dig Dug II
1985 video game

Field Combat
1985 video game

Chubby Cherub
1985 NES game

Tag Team Match: MUSCLE
1985 NES game

Winter Games
1985 winter sports video game
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1985 action arcade game developed and published by Atari Games

Ballblazer
Ballblazer is a futuristic sports game created by Lucasfilm Games and published in 1985 by Epyx. Along with Rescue on Fractalus!, it was one of the initial pair of releases from Lucasfilm Games, Ballblazer was developed and first published for the Atari 8-bit computers. The principal creator and programmer was David Levine. The game was called Ballblaster during development; some pirated versions bear this name.

Déjà Vu
1985 point-and-click noir adventure game

Girl's Garden
1984 action game

A Mind Forever Voyaging
1985 video game

Sky Destroyer
1985 video game

Thexder
is a run and gun video game from Game Arts, originally released for the NEC PC-8801 in 1985. It was ported to many systems, including the Famicom, MSX, Apple II, and MS-DOS. It was a commercial success, selling over one million units worldwide.

International Karate
1985 video game

Rambo
1985 video game for Amstrad CPC, C64, Spectrum

Challenger
1985 video game

Xanadu
1985 video game

Balance of Power
1985 video game

Little Computer People
1985 video game

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
1986 video game
A-Train
is a series of business simulation video games developed and published by Japanese game developer Artdink in Japan. The first game in the series was published in 1985. The first release in the United States was Take the A-Train II, published in 1988 by the Seika Corporation under the title Railroad Empire. However, the most well known U.S. release is Take the A-Train III, published in 1992 by Maxis as simply A-Train. There is also the spin-off title C.E.O.

Ninja JaJaMaru-kun
1985 video game

Rescue on Fractalus!
1984 computer game

Ikki
1985 video game

Tiger-Heli
is a 1985 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Toaplan and released for arcades in Japan by Taito and in North America by Romstar. A version for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in 1986. It is the first entry in the Tiger series and the first shoot 'em up from Toaplan. The player controls the Tiger attack helicopter fighting against enemies. The helicopter is equipped with missiles that can hit targets and bombs that destroy any enemy and their bullets within range.

Section Z
1985 arcade game

King's Valley
1985 video game

King's Quest II
1985 video game

Silent Service
1985 video game

Baraduke
renamed Alien Sector in some regions, is a run and gun video game released for arcades by Namco in 1985. A home version was published for the X68000 in 1995.

Alpha Mission
1985 arcade video game

SameGame
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is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally released under the name CHAIN SHOT in 1985 by Kuniaki "Morisuke" Moribe. It has since been ported to numerous computer platforms, handheld devices, and even TiVo, with new versions as of 2016.

Paradroid
Paradroid is a Commodore 64 video game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson Consultants in 1985. It is a shoot 'em up with puzzle elements and was critically praised at release. The objective is to clear a fleet of spaceships of hostile robots by destroying them or taking over them via a minigame. It was remade as Paradroid 90 for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers and as Paradroid 2000 for the Acorn Archimedes. There exist several fan-made remakes for modern PCs. In 2004, the Commodore 64 version was re-released as a built-in game on the C64 Direct-to-TV, in 2008 f

Tehkan World Cup
1986 video game

My Hero
1985 video game

Terra Cresta
1985 video game

Sky Kid
1985 arcade video game

Gun.Smoke
is a 1985 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. Unique from other scrolling shooters games, Gun.Smoke features a human as the shooter instead of a spacecraft, in this case a character named Billie Bob, a bounty hunter going after the criminals of the Wild West. It was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto.

Lot Lot
1985 video game

Back to the Future
1985 video game