• Thexder [12/19/85]
  • King's Knight [9/18/86]
  • Deep Dungeon [12/19/86]
  • Dragon Crystal [12/15/86]
  • Tobidase Daisakusen [3/12/87]
  • Apple Town Story: Little Computer People [4/3/87]
  • Hao-kun's Mysterious Journey [5/1/87]
  • Deep Dungeon II: Hero's Crest [5/30/87]
  • Jikai Boys Met & Mag [7/3/87]
  • Magic of Cleopatra [7/24/87]
  • Highway Star [8/7/87]
  • Sword of Karin [10/2/87]
  • JJ: Tobidase Daisakusen Part II [12/7/87]
  • Final Fantasy [12/18/87]
All of them were for the Famicom or the Famicom Disk System, and they were mostly very creative games that unfortunately just weren't very fun. Thexder was an action game with a hero that could spontaneously transform into a spaceship, which is a great concept, but the controls were extremely erratic. King's Knight was a vertically-scrolling shooting game, but instead of a spaceship, you had a knight, a wizard, a monster, and a boy thief automatically roving along Medieval landscapes with destructible environments; again, the concept is good, but the characters just weren't agile enough, making the game needlessly difficult.

The Deep Dungeon games were first-person pseudo-3D dungeon-crawler RPGs comparable to ShadowGate or the original Phantasy Star. The Tobidase Daisakusen games were like SEGA's Space Harrier in their wide open, automatically-scrolling, pseudo-3D playing fields, but instead of flying around and shooting enemies like in Space Harrier, the object was simply to avoid the obstacles in your path, deliberately run into item-yielding columns, and jump over the occassional black void; the only shooting to speak of came during the boss battles and with the acquisition of a power-up. The Highway Star games were rather bare-bones racing titles similar to Pole Position, whose main draw were their--yes, again--pseudo-3D graphics; plenty of people seem to like them, though, so maybe it's just that I don't like racing games.

Those are the only ones with which I've personally spent any time, though. I seem to recall Apple Town Story being some kind of simulation game, and I believe the rest are action games or RPGs.