The most interesting arcade games released in 1990 (2024)

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Arcade 12 March 1990

Klax is an arcade and logic game, which debuted on coin-up machines for the first time in 1989, thanks to the Atari concern. The main goal of the game is to create hands from blocks of the same color, moving towards the player on a horizontal platform.

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Arcade 04 April 1990

Nightbreed is an arcade game based on the plot of the film under the same title, which was directed by Clive Barker, an outstanding creator of horror films. It tells the story of Aaron Boone, suspected of a series of murders of a young man who, tormented by nightmares, ends up in a gloomy and devastated cemetery.

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Arcade 16 April 1990

An arcade game in which the player takes control of a frog-like creature and tries to get a dry foot from one end of the screen to the other. Perestroika was written in Borland C++ language and surprises with an unusual for 1990 visuals in high resolution (640 by 350 pixels).

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Arcade 20 April 1990

Arcade game based on a series of popular cartoons created by the Hanna-Barber label in the early forties of the last century. As far as the plot is concerned, the program refers to the episode called "The Yankee Doodle Mouse" (1943), in which Tom and Jerry's cat and mouse are fighting a duel to death and life in the basem*nt.

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Arcade 03 May 1990

Arcade game with the title egg in the lead role. The player's task is to get out of the ocean floor to the surface, defeat Captain Blackheart and give away the stolen necklace of his beloved.

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Arcade 05 May 1990

Prince of the Yolkfolk is a classic platformer with strong adventures, about the adventures of an egg-shaped creature looking for a way to save his beloved.

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Arcade 12 May 1990

Arcade game based on the once-popular animated series by Disney. The game features all the key characters we've seen in the animated prototype, including the aforementioned millionaires and Huey, Dewey and Louie, Launchpad McQuack and Gyro.

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Arcade 11 June 1990

Dangerous Dave is an arcade game that will allow you to play the role of the title character. The main task of the program is to break through ten complex levels and recover all the jewels once plundered by the dangerous pirate Clyde.

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Arcade 11 July 1990

During a picnic in New York's Central Park, gangsters killed his family: his wife and two children. Now Frank Castle, as the ruthless guardian of the law, The Punisher fights crime.

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Arcade 06 August 1990

Before 21st Century Entertainment began to achieve significant success in the field of computer flippers, many companies tried to create their own flippers. Among them was Pinball Magic, presented by the French company Loriciel, which in the electronic entertainment market was mainly known for its simple and pleasant arcade.

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Arcade 21 August 1990

Although the title of the programme evokes clear associations with the famous brand of RPG products taking place in post-nuclear reality, Brad Taylor's work has nothing to do with them. Fallout! is a simple arcade and logic game of the "Tetrisidae" species, which represents a large family of clones of the Russian prototype.

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Arcade 20 November 1990

Gremlins 2: The Elite New Batch is one of two arcade games, based on the story of a fantasy comedy popular in the early nineties. The action of the program throws us to New York, where, due to an unfortunate coincidence, extremely malicious creatures hatch.

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Arcade 14 December 1990

Marooned on Mars is the first edition of the famous Commander Keen series, which was developed by id Software in 1990. We play the role of an eight-year-old genius, who secretly constructed a spacecraft, and then used it to go to Mars. The game is a 2D platformer in which we jump from platform to platform and murder enemies with a gun.

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Arcade 14 December 1990

The third episode of Billy Blaze's adventures - a little boy who accidentally witnessed an invasion of a foreign race on Earth and decides to remedy it.

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Arcade 14 December 1990

The second installment of a funny series of platformers about the adventures of the title character. In the first part the daredevil repaired his ship and returned home. Unfortunately, during his absence the planet was attacked by aliens. Again, we stand up to fight enemies. The creators did not change too many elements of the game. We can still select levels in any order. Each of them is a real labyrinth filled with traps and enemies.

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