HAL Laboratory Games - LaunchBox Games Database

Adventures of Lolo

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

April 1, 1989

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 128

3.8

Prince Lolo of Gentryland visited Eden, a country of Love and Peace, and enjoyed many pleasant days with Princess...

Adventures of Lolo 2

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

January 6, 1990

Community Rating: 4.03
Total Votes: 101

4.0

Our Hero Lolo has charmed and enchanted puzzle-loving game players around the world with his unfailing courage and...

Adventures of Lolo 3

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 26, 1990

Community Rating: 3.88
Total Votes: 100

3.9

This time, Lolo has a red friend who will do for him some of the work. Unlike the two previous Lolo games, here you...

Balance

Microsoft MSX

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

Bowling

Commodore MAX Machine

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.90
Total Votes: 5

3.9

Bull and Mighty's Slim Chance

Microsoft MSX

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 3

3.5

The Inspecteur Z has to find a design diagram of the ultimate weapon that will destroy the world. This secret...

Butamaru Pants

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.80
Total Votes: 5

3.8

Our hero is a piglet named Pig Mock. He has to catch all the eggs that mean Thunder Pants hurl at him and throw...

Championship Rally

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

January 1, 1991

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 23

4.0

Championship Rally brings you all the thrills and chills of high-stakes motor racing! A choice of courses, a...

Custar

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

Custar is an edcational game, published in 1984 by Hal Laboratory, and conceived as initiation to Kanji.

Day Dreamin' Davey

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

June 1, 1992

Community Rating: 3.24
Total Votes: 37

3.2

The game starts out with the main protagonist, Davey, arriving at school. Then a bully (Lumpy) takes his pencil....

Defender II

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

September 24, 1987

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 56

3.7

Alien marauders are attacking your planet. They're kidnapping resident humanoids and turning them into mutants! You...

Dragon Attack

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 3

4.2

Dragon Attack is a vertical shoot-em-up for the Sord M5 and MSX computers. The game seems a mix between Space...

Dunk Shot

Microsoft MSX

February 2, 1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

DUNKSHOT is the ultimate basketball game. You choose the colour of the court. You choose the colour of the...

Eddy II

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Egger Land

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Released

January 29, 1987

Community Rating: 4.04
Total Votes: 14

4.0

Eggerland is the first Eggerland game for a Nintendo console and the third game in the series overall, after...

Egger Land: Souzou e no Tabidachi

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Released

August 20, 1988

Community Rating: 3.22
Total Votes: 9

3.2

Eggerland: Souzouhe no Tabidachi ("Eggerland: Journey to Creation") is the third Eggerland game made for a Nintendo...

Eggerland 2

Microsoft MSX

Released

1986

Community Rating: 2.67
Total Votes: 3

2.7

The Eggerland series consists of several puzzle games. This game is a sequel to Eggerland Mystery. Again you play...

Eggerland Mystery

Microsoft MSX

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 6

4.2

The Eggerland series consists of several puzzle games. You play Lolo, a blue ball-like character with eyes, arms,...

Eggerland: Meikyuu no Fukkatsu

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 9, 1988

Community Rating: 4.05
Total Votes: 21

4.0

Eggerland: Meikyuu no Fukkatsu, which translates to Revival of the Labyrinth, is a game in the Eggerland series...

Fire Bam

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Released

February 1, 1988

Community Rating: 2.94
Total Votes: 8

2.9

Bam must explore a world and "unfold" it into its full size by exploring towers and defeating boss characters...

Fruit Search

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

Fruit Search is a clone of Mastermind, however instead of your traditional round balls or pegs, you use colored...

Gall Force: Eternal Story

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Released

December 10, 1986

Community Rating: 3.82
Total Votes: 11

3.8

Gall Force: Eternal Story is a game that tells an additional tale from the Gall Force anime series, a series which...

Ghostbusters II

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

October 16, 1990

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 23

3.7

Loosely based on the movie of the same name, Ghostbusters II sees Virgo the Carpathian appear in New York city. He...

Gozonji: Yaji Kita Chin Douchuu

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

November 17, 1989

Community Rating: 3.27
Total Votes: 11

3.3

Gozonji: Yaji Kita Chindouchuu ("Acquaintance: Yaji and Kita's Eventful Journey", though Gozonji can also mean "Do...

Heavy Boxing

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Enter a heavyweight title match! Fend off your opponent's attack with footwork and fast ducking, while...

Hole in One

NEC PC-8801

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

HAL's Hole in One is a standard 18-hole golf game, played from a top-down perspective. You can compete in stroke...

Hole in One

Sharp X1

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

HAL's Hole in One is a standard 18-hole golf game, played from a top-down perspective. You can compete in stroke...

Hole In One

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 3

4.3

HAL's Hole in One is a standard 18-hole golf game, played from a top-down perspective.

Hole in One Professional

Microsoft MSX

1985

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 3

3.0

The grandiose and yet elegant course layout - the beatiful Hal Country Club. The clear-to-see display and...

Hole in One Special

Microsoft MSX2

1987

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 2

2.5

After the huge success of the first two releases HAL Laboratory released a third golf simulation game. Again it is...

HyperZone

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 31, 1991

Community Rating: 3.13
Total Votes: 42

3.1

The year - 2089. The place - the desolate surfaces of the asteroids in the HyperZone Asteroid Belt. The enemy -...

Joust

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 30, 1987

Community Rating: 3.69
Total Votes: 54

3.7

In Joust, players take control of a knight with a lance who rides their flying ostrich (or stork, for Player 2) to...

Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

February 1, 1988

Community Rating: 4.07
Total Votes: 7

4.1

HAL's Jumbo Ozaki no Hole in One Professional is a standard 18-hole golf game, played from a top-down perspective....

Jupiter Lander

Commodore MAX Machine

Released

1982

Community Rating: 2.40
Total Votes: 5

2.4

You have to try to slowly land a spaceship on Jupiter. For this you have three landing platforms. If you make it to...

Kabuki Quantum Fighter

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 21, 1990

Community Rating: 4.19
Total Votes: 66

4.2

The setting - Earth, the future. The defense computer protecting the entire planet has been invaded by a constantly...

Karamaru

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In this educational game the player controls Karamaru, a bird that flies over the map of Japan while avoiding enemy...

Metal Slader Glory

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 30, 1991

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 13

3.0

Eight years after a great war was waged between colonies in outer space, peace has finally settled back onto the...

Millipede

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 1, 1987

Community Rating: 3.38
Total Votes: 33

3.4

You are lost in a dark, perilous, and enchanted forest. Dark dangerous mushrooms push up through the squishy forest...

Mingle Magnet

WonderSwan

Released

November 2, 1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Mingle Magnet is a simple puzzle game of the falling block variety. The player oversees a 10 x 10 square field...

Mobile Planet Stylus: Approach from the Westgate

Microsoft MSX

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

Mole Attack

Commodore MAX Machine

Released

1982

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 1

2.5

Mole Attack is one of the earliest computerized Whac-a-Mole variants. Gameplay should be clear: Moles randomly pop...

Mr. Chin

Microsoft MSX

Community Rating: 3.33
Total Votes: 3

3.3

Mr. Chin is a Chinese circus performer who specializes in balancing spinning plates on poles. Each stage consists...

New Ghostbusters II

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 26, 1990

Community Rating: 3.76
Total Votes: 46

3.8

The world-wide hit movie is now available on the Nintendo Entertainment System! Capture the ghost that haunted New...

Ninja-kun: Asura no Shou

Microsoft MSX2

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.17
Total Votes: 6

4.2

The game tells another story in Ninja-kun series. This time it’s a platform game with some twists. There are two...

Oyoide Tango

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

An english learning game.

Pachipro Densetsu

Microsoft MSX2

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.83
Total Votes: 3

3.8

Pachipro Densetsu is a Pachinko game for one player.

Picture Puzzle

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 5

2.5

Picture Puzzle is a puzzle game. The player has to reconstruct an image that is cut out in 16 pieces and one of...

Revenge of the 'Gator

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

October 18, 1989

Community Rating: 3.34
Total Votes: 34

3.3

'Gators galore! Eight scrolling screens - secret entrances to bonus areas - hungry 'Gators that unexpectedly...

Road Race

Commodore MAX Machine

Released

1982

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

Road Race is Commodore's attempt at a clone of Night Driver for the Commodore MAX Machine. It was released in 1981...

Roller Ball

NEC PC-8801

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Rollerball is a pinball simulation for one to four players. There are two different game variations included....

Rollerball

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 5

3.5

Rollerball is a pinball simulation for one to two players.

Satsui no Kaisou: Soft House Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

January 7, 1988

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 5

3.4

Satsui no Kaisou: Soft House Renzoku Satsujin Jiken is a menu-based adventure game by Hyperware in which the player...

Space Maze Attack

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Space Maze Attack is a top-down shooter in which the player navigates a white spaceship in search of treasure...

Space Trouble

Microsoft MSX

Released

1984

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

On the surface, Space Trouble looks like an orthodox shooter, but it has an unorthodox twist: Don't shoot! You...

Step Up

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Step Up is a platform game in which you control an alien that has to reach his space ship at the roof of the...

Super Billiards

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Super Billiards is a pool simulations game. Basic pool, one of the most famous versions of billiards in the world...

Super Snake

Microsoft MSX

Released

1983

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Super Snake is an Action game, published by HAL Labs, which was released in Japan in 1983.

Tashiro Masashi no Princess ga Ippai

Microsoft MSX2

Released

May 26, 1989

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 2

2.8

The story is about the hero Masashi Tashiro who has to rescue the four princesses in distress. One happy ending and...

Tetsuman

Microsoft MSX

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

The Roving Planet Styllus

Microsoft MSX

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Uchuu Keibitai SDF

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

September 7, 1990

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 10

3.5

A meteorite group floats in space, full of mystery. Near the sand filled planet, a battleship looms. Space colonies...

Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsu Douchuu

Microsoft MSX2

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.75
Total Votes: 2

2.8

Zukkoke Yajikita Onmitsu Douchuu is an Action game, developed and published by HAL Laboratory, which was released...

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Adventures of Lolo

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April 1, 1989

3.8

Adventures of Lolo 2

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January 6, 1990

4.0

Adventures of Lolo 3

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December 26, 1990

3.9

Balance

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1985

3.8

Bowling

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1983

3.9

Bull and Mighty's Slim Chance

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1986

3.5

Butamaru Pants

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1983

3.8

Championship Rally

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January 1, 1991

4.0

Custar

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1984

2.0

Day Dreamin' Davey

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June 1, 1992

3.2

Defender II

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September 24, 1987

3.7

Dragon Attack

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1983

4.2

Dunk Shot

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February 2, 1986

Eddy II

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1984

5.0

Egger Land

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January 29, 1987

4.0

Egger Land: Souzou e no Tabidachi

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August 20, 1988

3.2

Eggerland 2

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1986

2.7

Eggerland Mystery

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1985

4.2

Eggerland: Meikyuu no Fukkatsu

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August 9, 1988

4.0

Fire Bam

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February 1, 1988

2.9