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Final Fantasy
1987 role-playing video game originally for the NES

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
1987 video game

Contra
1987 run and gun action game

Metal Gear
1987 video game by Konami

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NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam. The game is a fork of the 1984 game Hack, itself inspired by the 1980 game Rogue. The player takes the role of one of several pre-defined character classes to descend through multiple dungeon floors, fighting monsters and collecting treasure, to recover the "Amulet of Yendor" at the lowest floor and then escape.

Mega Man
1987 video game developed by Capcom

Street Fighter
1987 arcade video game

Maniac Mansion
1987 video game
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1987 video game

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
1987 video game
1943: The Battle of Midway
1987 arcade game

Phantasy Star
1987 role-playing video game

Dragon Quest II
1987 role-playing video game

R-Type
is a 1987 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Irem for arcades. The player controls the R-9 "Arrowhead" starship in its efforts to destroy the Bydo, a powerful alien race bent on wiping out all of mankind. The R-9 can acquire a glowing orb called a "Force", giving limited protection from enemy fire and providing additional firepower.
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1987 arcade video game
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1987 video game

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
1987 video game

Sid Meier's Pirates!
1987 video game
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1987 video game

Rad Racer
1987 racing video game

Punch-Out!!
1987 NES boxing video game
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1987 video game

Guerrilla War
1987 video game

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
1987 video game published by Namco

Haunted Castle
1987 video game
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1987 video game

Wonder Boy in Monster Land
1987 video game

Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished
1987 video game

Faxanadu
is an action role-playing platform video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The name was licensed by computer game developer Falcom and was developed and released in Japan by Hudson Soft in 1987. Nintendo released the game in the United States and Europe as a first-party title under license from Hudson Soft.

Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
1987 video game

Darius
1987 video game

Test Drive
1987 racing video game

Nebulus
1987 video game

Blades of Steel
1987 ice hockey video game by Konami

Bionic Commando
1987 arcade video game

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
1987 platform video game

Alien Syndrome
1987 video game

California Games
1987 sports video game

Alex Kidd: High-Tech World
1987 video game

The Last Ninja
1987 action-adventure game
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1987 video game

Genghis Khan
1987 video game

Mickey Mousecapade
1987 video game

Space Quest II
1987 video game

Side Pocket
1986 video game
Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna
1987 video game
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1987 video game

Psycho Soldier
1987 video game

Heavy Barrel
1987 video game

The 3-D Battles of Worldrunner
1987 video game

Little Computer People
1985 video game

The Goonies II
1987 NES game

Pac-Mania
is a 1987 maze video game developed and published by Namco for Japanese arcades; it was licensed to Atari Games for release in North America. In the game, the player controls Pac-Man as he must eat all of the dots while avoiding the colored ghosts that chase him in the maze. Eating large flashing "Power Pellets" will allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus points, which lasts for a short period of time. A new feature to this game allows Pac-Man to jump over the ghosts to evade capture. It is the ninth title in the Pac-Man video game series and was the last one developed for arcades up until

International Karate +
1987 video game

Shadowgate
Shadowgate is a 1987 point-and-click adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Mindscape for the Macintosh as part of the MacVenture series. The game takes place in the Castle Shadowgate, residence of the evil Warlock Lord. The player, as the "last of a great line of hero-kings", is tasked with saving the world by defeating the Warlock Lord, who is attempting to summon the demon Behemoth out of Hell. The original Macintosh version was only in black-and-white, but color versions of the game were later released for the Amiga and Atari ST, and in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertai

Air Fortress
1989 video game

Sorcerian
is a 1987 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom as the fifth installment in the Dragon Slayer line of games. Originally released for the NEC PC-8801, it has since been released on a wide variety of platforms.

Wizball
Wizball is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (co-founders of Sensible Software) and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and later in the year for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Versions for the Amiga and Atari ST were released in the following year. Wizball was also ported to IBM PC compatibles (for the Color Graphics Adapter) and the Thomson MO5.

Karnov
is a 1987 platform game developed and published by Data East for arcades. A Nintendo Entertainment System port followed, which was released in Japan by Namco the same year and in North America by Data East in 1988. Players take control of the title character Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov" for short. Karnov is a strongman popularly illustrated as being from an unspecified part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics, as shown on the arcade flyer.

Fist of the North Star
1987 video game