1980s

Developed by Nintendo R&D3 and designed by Kazuo Yoneyama, Minoru Arakawa, and Genyo Takeda, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is a NES adaptation of the aracde game Punch-Out!! that added former undisputed…

Developed by Nintendo R&D4 and created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Toshihiko Nakago, Excitebike was a smoothly side scrolling sports game where players controlled a bike racer and tried to complete…

Packaged in at launch with Super Mario Bros, and available for NES bundles that featured the Nintendo Zapper, Duck Hunt, created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, was a light…

Originally released as Pang and Pomping World, Buster Bros is an action puzzle game developed by Capcom and created by Yoshiki Okamoto and Toshihiko Uda for arcades. Essentially a graphically…

Developed by Konami and created by Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear blends action and adventure games with stealth elements to tell a story about a special forces unit named FOXHOUND and…

The arcade classic twin-stick shooter created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar Robotron: 2084 has the player fight off waves of robot enemies as they move around trying to rescue…

Developed by Konami and created by Hitoshi Akamatsu and Akihiko Nagata, Castlevania for the NES was an action platformer whose layout and mechanics helped spawn a subgenre of games called…

Developed and published by Konami and designed by Shigeharu Umezaki, Contra was originally an arcade game designed by Koji Hiroshita before being reimagined for the NES and Home Computer. It…

One of the launch titles for the original Gameboy, Super Mario Land, developed by Nintendo R&D1 with producer Gunpei Yokoi and designed by Hirofumi Matsuoka, was the first main mario…

Developed by the legendary Nintendo R&D4 and Shigeru Miyamoto, Super Mario Bros is a masterclass in creating an engaging 2D platformer. Scored by Koji Kondo the entire experience helped cement…