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Aoi Blink  Hudson Soft (Westone)1990
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Astro Boy: Omega Factor  Sega;Tezuka Productions (Hitmaker)2004Join Astro, the robotic superhero with a human mind, in a quest to reunite the robotic race with humans. Astro uses his seven super abilities to face off against the likes of Atlas, Blue Knight, and more than 40 other characters. The game brings classic 2D gaming to the Game Boy Advance along with an original seven-episode story. Playing as Astro Boy, you'll learn about justice, compassion, evil, courage, and the history of Astro Boy--all while building Astro's Omega Factor and strengthening his character and superhuman abilities.***
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Astro Boy: The Video Game D3Publisher (High Voltage Software)2009In ASTRO BOY: THE VIDEO GAME, players become the iconic hero, Astro Boy, and take to the streets and skies on an epic adventure to save Metro City from the clutches of the evil President Stone and his robot army. Utilizing Astro's entire arsenal of iconic weapons and abilities - Super Strength, Flight, Arm Cannons, Butt Machine Guns and Drill Attacks - players battle hordes of robot enemies and colossal bosses including some never-before-seen enemies across Metro City and the mysterious Surface. Using an intuitive combat system that adds depth to gameplay, players experience classic platform action and exhilarating combat levels as they use Astro’s unique rocket boosters to hover, avoid enemies and zip out of the way of danger. PS2labelimagesubject
Black Jack: Hi no Tori Hen  Sega2006 Nintendo DSlabelimageminimize
Columns GB: Tesuka Ozamu Characters Media Factory1999Columns with characters from Tesuka Ozamu mangas (Astroboy, etc...) GBClabelimageminimize
Hi no Tori: Gaou no Bouken  Konami1987"Hi no Tori" is a well made Konami platform game based on a manga series by Osamu Tezuka (the creator of Astroboy). Killed enemies leave blocks behind which you can collect and then use anywhere else to reach otherwise unreachable places. Graphics and music are well done for an early Famicom game from 1987 and the controls are good as well. Sadly Konami placed a few very hard to find secret doors throughout the game which in the end must be found to warp to other places/time zones of the game. I don't like it to be forced to look into a walkthrough for an otherwise very simple and straightforward game. NESlabelimageminimize
Hinotori  Konami1987A very nice fantasy shoot 'm up game by Konami, inspired by the Japanese manga 'Hi no Tori'. In this game, you have to collect various items in different stages. Some stages have to be played more than once in order to be able to do so. Furthermore, a stage is not just scrolling from start to end, but you have to find your way through various gates, for which you have to find the appropriate key first. Quite an original concept. MSX2labelimageminimize
Mitsume ga Tōru  Natsume1989 MSXlabelimageminimize
Mitsume Gatooru  Tomy (Natsume)1992title means "The Three-eyed One". it is based on anime of the same title.***Game description from [[link:http://www.romhacking.net Romhacking.net]]:

Damn, how much cooler can a game get? Okay, you're this guy that shoots bullets out of this dot in his forehead, and you go around killing those Troll things that were EVERYWHERE back in second grade, remember those? And you even kill helpless puppy dogs! It's a real wonder this game never made it over here. But it still would've been a pretty cool game, even though NOA probably would have changed the dogs into something else.. Probably more Trolls, hopefully. I mean, what else is there to say? It's a pretty fun game. You can charge your shot, and throw this odd trident thing, which you can jump on to get to high places. The monsters drop money when they die, and you can shoot the money and it increases in value, which is just plain neat. It's freaky, and really really cool at the same time, just like all good games should be. OK that's all.

Unofficial English translation available:
[[link:http://www.spoonybard.com/ http://www.spoonybard.com/]]
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Tetsuwan Atom Zamuse1994 SNESlabelimageminimize
Tetsuwan Atom  Zamuse1994 SNESlabelimageminimize
Tetsuwan Atom  Konami (Home Data)1988A platform game from Konami based on Astro Boy... can't go much wrong I thought. Well, sadly I was wrong. Sure there are worse games on the NES/Famicom but for a Konami game it is quite disappointing. Not only doesn't it feature the great graphics of other Konami games of that time (like Contra or Salamander), but it is also not very well playable. Best example is the way how to activate the flight mode. Jump three times at exactly the right time to activate it. Try this in narrow spaces and you won't stop swearing. In some levels you have to figure out how to progress by solving little puzzles or retrieving certain items. Besides that the game is rather linear. NESlabelimageminimize
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