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Plan power-meter upgrades and protect your options through waves of enemy fire.

Historians and the morbidly curious will find it speaks for its whole class.

Collect capsules and choose speed, missiles, options or shields on the power meter.

The American edition of Taito's egg-shaped odyssey: a kiwi chick bounces through maze-like stages on a bow, dodging enemies and rescuing siblings from caged exits.

The shooter that standardized power-ups: collect capsules and cash them on the meter for speed, missiles, options or the barrier.

Tecmo's clean 1989 diamond: fastball-curve pitching duels, base stealing and just enough arc on the fly ball to keep homers earned.

Bell power-ups, boss punchlines and the strange joy of watching Gradius get roasted by its own maker.

Baseball by way of a crossover brawl: exaggerated heroes swing for the upper deck, bowl over catchers and trigger special plays when the mood strikes.

The alien war escalates: Super C trades base corridors for vertical scrambles and overhead sieges, with the Spread gun still worth its weight in lives.

The sequel doubles down on the parody: more Konami in-jokes, more playable weirdos and a soundtrack recycling classical bangers between boss panic.

Flip floor tiles to sweep enemies off their feet, chain combos and clear wave after wave of Mendel's mansion.

Weapon pickups, spread chaos and the Konami difficulty you remember.

Konami turns its own shmup empire into a comedy: octopus pilots, penguin bosses and bell power-ups over a Gradius-shaped skeleton.

Dig-and-trap arcade action in the Heiankyo Alien lineage: carve pits, lure the chase into them and finish the job before they swarm.

Micronics-built, 1985-vintage vertical shooting: enemy waves in tidy formation, power cycles to memorize and no mercy whatsoever.

Steer through enemy formations and survive the waves in an early Famicom shooter.

The 1986 original that made baseball a Famicom ritual: pick a pro club, swing for the fences and abuse the legendary stop-the-pitch trick your friends swore was fair.

The melee combat predates and predicts the run-and-gun greats.

A proud oddball of 1985 Famicom shooting: chunky sprites, drifting formations and a ship that handles like a bus - in the best way.

Fight through a dystopian New York as a ninja duo in two-player action.

Fight five martial-arts rivals as Lee in the Japanese Famicom edition.

A little-known Famicom action-adventure from 1991: explore connected stages, unlock doors and figure out which items open which path.

Konami's pennant-race baseball: pick a club, survive the long season and take the Japan Series.

Read five opponents and counter with punches, kicks and sweeps.

Bounce a firefighter toward burning windows and bring trapped people to safety.

Swap weapons and take on towering bosses in two-player airborne action.

The eco-superhero's license game does more than expected: platform stages as the Planeteers, then flying firefighting runs as Captain Planet himself.

One of the Famicom's first hockey carts: five-on-five arcade rules, hard checks and brisk period pacing.

A genre blender from the NES's late era: pilot the VMM through side-scrolling caverns, disembark for top-down exploring, then square off in close-quarters boss duels.

Konami's ice classic where the gloves come off mid-game: body checks spark full-team line brawls, and the winner of the fight earns a power play.

Konami's statue with an eyebrow attitude stars in a puzzle-platformer of block-pushing brain teasers.

Two-player action with the pace turned all the way up.

Switch roles on the fly and clear haunted movie sets room by room.

HAL's take on the sequel is smarter than it looks: command a two-buster team from an overhead view - one pins the ghost in the beam while the partner slides the trap.

Compile's genre-hybrid legend: a cyborg Guardian explores a huge alien station Zelda-style, then transforms into a starfighter for pure vertical shoot 'em up corridors.

An honest snapshot of movie-license design in 1990.

Quick rounds make it an easy arcade break between longer games.

Stubborn, vivid and unexpectedly faithful to the film's beats.

The drill-and-pump toolbox, the sinking-landmass kills and the top-down mazes are all intact.

Dig Dug goes topside: stranded on island maps, you pop foes with the pump or trigger fault lines that cleave whole landmasses into the sea.

The infamous Famicom Ghostbusters: buy gear, cruise the city map between jobs, then clear haunted buildings floor by floor - stairs and all - with your proton traps.

Data East's early links outing keeps the scorecard honest: pick clubs, fight crosswinds and chase the birdie the title promises.

Tunnel warfare with a bicycle pump: dig your own maze, inflate Pookas and fire-breathing Fygars until they pop, or drop rocks for multi-kill bonus chains.

A compact Japanese golf entry from 1992: club selection, wind reading and tidy 18-hole loops in the familiar Famicom sim tradition.

Two cavebros with clubs and zero chill: bonk dinosaurs, throw boomerang bones and grill meat mid-level to stay alive across prehistoric stages.

Compile at its shoot 'em up peak: wave after wave of patterned bullets, screen-clearing bombs, and shops between stages where collected cash buys options and speed.

Jaleco's late-Famicom golf story: climb from rookie hopeful toward top-pro status hole by hole, with caddie advice and steady course variety along the way.

Breakout fans chasing high scores will feel right at home.