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2D Games 80-90's

by shnederlino • Created 4 years ago • Modified 1 week ago
The best 2D video games of 80-90's
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  • Chrono Trigger (1995)

    1. Chrono Trigger

    1995EVideo Game
    9.4 (3.5K)
    Crono, a young boy, is thrust to adventure by destiny to destroy an oncoming threat that will destroy the world in 1999.
    DirectorsYoshinori KitaseAkihiko MatsuiTakashi Tokita
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)

    2. Super Mario Bros. 3

    1988EVideo Game
    9.2 (6.2K)
    King Koopa has kidnapped Princess Toadstool, taken over all seven kingdoms in the Mushroom World, and put his seven kids in charge of all of them. It's the Mario Brothers to the rescue.
    DirectorsShigeru MiyamotoTakashi Tezuka
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991)

    3. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

    1991EVideo Game
    9.2 (4.1K)
    The wizard Agahnim has abducted seven maidens, intent on using their power to open a portal to the Dark World. Armed with a trusty sword and shield, Link begins a great and treacherous journey.
    DirectorsTakashi TezukaHidemaro FujibayashiStarFujiko Takimoto
  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

    4. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

    1997TVideo Game
    9.2 (2K)
    In 1797, Shaft manages to regain power through a curse placed on Richter Belmont. Four years later, Dracula's son Alucard awakens from his eternal slumber, intent on destroying his evil father once and for all.
    DirectorToru HagiharaStarsRobert BelgradeRamsay ScottKimberly Forsythe
  • Super Metroid (1994)

    5. Super Metroid

    1994EVideo Game
    9.1 (2.6K)
    Samus Aran returns to the brooding planet Zebes to recover the last metroid from the Space Pirates.
    DirectorYoshio SakamotoStarsKenji YamamotoDan Owsen
  • The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)

    6. The Curse of Monkey Island

    1997K-AVideo Game
    9.1 (2.9K)
    After unwittingly turning his true love Elaine into solid gold with a cursed engagement ring, Guybrush Threepwood must find a map, a ship and a crew, sail to Blood Island and track down an uncursed diamond ring to reverse the curse.
    DirectorsJonathan AckleyLarry AhernStarsDominic ArmatoAlexandra BoydEarl Boen
  • The Neverhood (1996)

    7. The Neverhood

    1996TVideo Game
    8.9 (689)
    Long ago, a mysterious being known as Hoborg created a world called the Neverhood, made entirely of an odd substance known as "Klay." However, Hoborg was lonely and, using a mystical "life seed", created a "Klay man" that he called Klogg.
    DirectorDoug TenNapelStarsMark LorenzenEdward SchofieldDoug TenNapel
  • Full Throttle (1995)

    8. Full Throttle

    1995TVideo Game
    8.6 (1.8K)
    Framed for murdering a motorcycle magnate, a biker gang leader tries to clear his name and take revenge on the scheming businessman responsible.
    DirectorTim SchaferStarsRoy ConradMark HamillHamilton Camp
  • Donkey Kong Country (1994)

    9. Donkey Kong Country

    1994K-AVideo Game
    8.6 (3.5K)
    Waking to find his banana hoard clean gone, Donkey Kong sets out with his nephew Diddy Kong through jungle and cavern, past temples and reef, across pine forests, factories, and mountains to rid the island of the wicked Kremlings and reclaim his bananas.
    DirectorTim Stamper
  • Snatcher (1988)

    10. Snatcher

    1988TVideo Game
    8.6 (286)
    Set in the mid-21st century, Gillian Seed and his trusty robot sidekick Metal Gear investigate the mysterious infiltration of deadly snatchers into the general population of Neo Kobe City.
    DirectorsHideo KojimaShinya InoueYoshinori SasakiStarsYûsaku YaraMami KoyamaKikuko Inoue
  • Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)

    11. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

    1995K-AVideo Game
    8.5 (2.3K)
    When the evil magikoopa Kamek knocks Baby Mario from the grasp of his delivery stork and lands him on the remote Yoshi's Island, the plucky green dinosaur sets out on a mission to carry the baby to his parents.
    DirectorsShigefumi HinoHideki KonnoToshihiko Nakago
  • The Dig (1995)

    12. The Dig

    1995K-AVideo Game
    8.5 (1K)
    Three humans trapped on a distant planet discover its deadly secret which could be their undoing.
    DirectorSean ClarkStarsRobert PatrickMari WeissSteve Blum
  • Mitsume ga tooru (1992)

    13. Mitsume ga tooru

    1992Video Game
    8.4 (16)
    Mitsume ga Tooru is a video game for the Family Computer that was developed by Natsume and published by Tomy. It is based on the manga and anime called The Three-Eyed One.
    DirectorToshiyasu Miyabe
  • Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror (1997)

    14. Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror

    1997TVideo Game
    8.4 (898)
    George Stobbart is an eyewitness to the kidnapping of his girlfriend Nicole Collard. While searching for her, George stumbles into an uneven adventure with no way out.
    DirectorCharles CecilStarsRolf SaxonFlaminia CinqueDennis Chinnery
  • Streets of Rage 2 (1992)

    15. Streets of Rage 2

    1992EVideo Game
    8.3 (1.2K)
    Mr. X kidnaps Adam and sends gang punks into the streets. Axel and Blaze, along with Adam's brother Skate and Axel's friend, set out once again to stomp Mr. X and his baddies into the ground.
    DirectorNoriyoshi Ôba
  • Sonic & Knuckles (1994)

    16. Sonic & Knuckles

    1994EVideo Game
    8.3 (1.8K)
    Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles the Echidna, once enemies, now allies. Teamed together to stop that evil scientist, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, from taking control of the world with his crazed hover crafts and mad robots.
    DirectorHirokazu Yasuhara
  • Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! (1996)

    17. Discworld II: Mortality Bytes!

    1996Video Game
    8.3 (278)
    Rincewind, the wizard, is recovering from the adventure he had in the first game but all too soon he is called in to solve another mystery.
    DirectorGregg BarnettStarsEric IdleNigel PlanerKate Robbins
  • Policenauts (1994)

    18. Policenauts

    1994Video Game
    8.3 (174)
    Johnathan Ingram is one of "policenauts" assigned the task of upholding the law on a space station called "Beyond Coast". Ingram was lost in the space after an accident left himn out of control in his spacesuit. But the suit was equipped with a cryogenic-life sistem and 25 year later his frozen body was recovered. The new world arround him is very different, all his friends are old men and his wife has remarried and had a daugther. Johnathan returns to the Earth and become in a private eye but when is ex-wife's new husband goes missing and she visiting Johnathan to ask for his help, Ingram returns to "Beyond Coast". Helped by is old friend Ed Brown, he will discover many things about is past and the tragic accident that changed his life...
    DirectorsHideo KojimaHideki TonokatsuStarsHideyuki TanakaShôzô ÎzukaKikuko Inoue
  • Mortal Kombat II (1993)

    19. Mortal Kombat II

    1993MVideo Game
    8.2 (3.2K)
    When emperor Shao Kahn invokes a Mortal Kombat tournament rematch, Raiden gathers his Earthrealm warriors and takes them into Outworld.
    DirectorsEd BoonJohn TobiasStarsRichard DivizioHo-Sung PakCarlos Pesina
  • Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997)

    20. Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

    1997TVideo Game
    8.2 (1.1K)
    After Abe, a Mudokon slave worker born into captivity finds out the horrible truth that the food products being created in the factory he works in are made out of Mudokon, he sets out to save the other Mudokon's and tries to escape.
    DirectorLorne LanningStarsJosh GabrielLorne Lanning
  • The King of Fighters '97 (1997)

    21. The King of Fighters '97

    1997TVideo Game
    8.1 (276)
    This version introduces the dual mode play system: Advanced and Extra. Advanced allows for a faster, offensive play while Extra allows for a more defensive, special-intensive play.
    DirectorToyohisa TanabeStarsMasahiro NonakaMonster MaetsukaMasaki Usui
  • Prince of Persia (1989)

    22. Prince of Persia

    1989EVideo Game
    8.1 (1.4K)
    In ancient Persia, the sultan's vizier, Jaffar, seizes power. With his only obstacle to the throne being the sultan's daughter, he locks her up. In order to free her, you must escape dungeons, get to the palace tower and defeat Jaffar.
    DirectorsJordan MechnerKeisuke Yasaka
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (1998)

    23. Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

    1998TVideo Game
    8.1 (801)
    The evil Onslaught has become too powerful, so the Marvel universe is assisted by the Capcom universe to destroy him before he is unstoppable.
    StarsTomomi FubeKaoru FujinoYayoi Jinguji
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future (1999)

    24. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future

    1999TVideo Game
    8.1 (649)
    Fight your way through ten opponents and character-specific rivals before facing the final boss to become the ultimate street fighter.
    StarsTôru ÔkawaYûji KishiMitsuo Iwata
  • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (1993)

    25. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

    1993EVideo Game
    8.1 (245)
    A side-scrolling beat-em-up featuring the usual gameplay only with the bizarre inclusion of, as the title suggests, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
    StarJames Goddard

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