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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Stack-Up	Nintendo	1985	Here's a high-tech, high-strategy juggling act that's loads of fun! Are you up to the challenge? You've got to get R.O.B., the World's first Robotic Operating Buddy, to stack a pile of colored discs to match the colored pattern on the screen. This exciting Robot game can be played several ways. In the Direct mode, you have to match the pattern in the shortest number of moves. In the Memory mode, you can program up to 100 Robot moves as you try to match the pattern. In the Bingo mode, on-screen alien beings keep changing the pattern, preventing you from completing your mission! Inside you'll find five colored discs and five disc holders along with the game pak. Everything you need to play STACK-UP!* [52]Stack-Up is the first of two games that used the Nintendo's R.O.B. hardware. Stack-up is about programming R.O.B. to stack differently colored little discs according to a predefined color-scheme. By jumping on different buttons you give R.O.B. commands. In a different game mode called Bingo you have to stack discs on a holder with two creatures trying to disturb your plans. What surprised me most was that the game features little speech samples for the R.O.B. commands like "down", "open" etc. In contrast to the other game supporting R.O.B. ([game=#7850]Gyromite[/game]), Stack-Up is not really playable without the robot add-on, so I couldn't figure out if it would actually be fun to play the game as it was meant to be. But apart from the innovative R.O.B. itself it doesn't look that this game is very motivating to play.**Japanese release date was 1985-07-26 North American NES-SK-USA release was 1985-10-18 The Title Screen says "Robot Block" rather than matching the package and cart label. Meant to be used with R.O.B. Came with 2 foam hands for holding blocks, 5 trays to rest blocks on, and 5 cylindrical blocks. [Zerothis]
Tenka no Goikenban: Mito Koumon	Sunsoft	1987	This game is based on a long-running television series playing in Japan taking place during the Edo period. It's one of those games where its really difficult to figure out what you actually have to do. You run around in a Japanese town hitting people, talking with people, collecting items. But for what purpose I couldn't find out. And information about this is sparse. The game features lots of text for an "action" game. The towns are detailed enough and set the right atmosphere for the historical setting. It even features some speech-samples, all thanks to being one of the first 2Mbit cartridges for the Famicom. However that lack of direction and being clueless of what to actually do in this game made it unplayable for me.
Mito Koumon II: Sekai Manyuu Ki	Sunsoft (Tose)	1988
RoboDemons	Color Dreams	1989	A splendid adventure of terror, struggle, and danger! The evil demon King Kull has created a machine to transplant the souls of demons into the body of machines. With his army of ROBODEMONS he has cast a dark shadow over the region of Earth. You are a great warrior armed with your magical Boomerang. With it, you must penetrate the 7 gates of Hades that lead you to a confrontation with this demon king. Along the way you will free the condemned soul captives of Kull, wipe out his demons in their own living quarters, and destroy his Robodemon machine!* [52]* [36]***This game was published in the USA, France, and Germany.
Pin Bot	Nintendo (Rare)	1990	DARES YOU TO SURVIVE. If you think arcade pinball is fun, wait til you try video Pin Bot. The outerworld sound effects and fast-as-light action will blow you away. Live action flippers move with lightning speed. Bumpers and chutes jet your ball across the galaxy. Pin Bot himself growls out messages of doom, daring you into battle, flashing light and color in a menacing attempt to stun you into confusion. And just when you think you have it down, here comes another ball a chance to earn bonus points, sure, but an extra challenge too! Master that, and Pin Bot tosses another evil shock an unpredictable, ball gobbling monster that wants to end your turn NOW. Its the best of pinball action! Its Pin Bot! Live action pinball for one to four players.* [64]* [37]*** [27]
High Speed	Tradewest;Metro (Rare)	1991
Ski or Die	Ultra Games	1991	Welcome to Rodney's Winter Wonderland of tasty tournaments. A gnarly snow sport spectacular of five events - Snowboard Half Pipe, Snowball Blast, Inner Tube Thrash, Downhill Blitz, and Acro Aerials. Whether you're trying to win points or the judges' hearts, it's a torture test of slope-slicing skill for up to six skiers. But Rodney warns you the mountain's crawlin' with contest crashers like punk penguins, abnormal abominables, chainsaw-toting rabbits and bodacious polar bears. Frenzied freaks of nature who want you to cash it in on a snow bank. But buckle down and you'll rack up points for pulverizing all kinds of ski shack scum. Assuming, of course, you can swoosh past bear traps, trees and other ouch-inducing obstacles. And when you're not engaged in wild tubular warfare with twisted slope slime like Lester or the iglooheads, you must blind the keen-eyed judges with your brilliant backflips, ollies, pikes, hand plants, daffies and helicopters. Just stay cool while you hone your skills in practice or hot-dog it in competition. Because one bogus move and you'll be plowing the slope with your chin.* [37]* [29]* [27]1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive, 1-6 players turn based competitive. Compete in winter events:[list][]Snowball Blast []Downhill Blitz []Acro Aerials []Intertube Thrash (up to 2 players simultaneous) []Snowboard Halfpipe[/list] [Zerothis]
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants	Acclaim (Imagineering)	1991	[66]* [63]* [37]* [29]* [27]***You are Bart Simpson, and you must stop the Space Mutants from invading Springfield! The Space Mutants plan to create a machine that will help take over Springfield, but this wont happen if you, Bart Simpson, can paint or hide all purple items before the Space Mutants can find them!

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