Data East USA Games - LaunchBox Games Database

ABC Monday Night Football

Commodore Amiga

Released

1990

Community Rating: 2.95
Total Votes: 10

3.0

ABC Sports and Data East team up to take you to the gridiron! Strap on your helmet, put that black stuff under your...

ABC Monday Night Football

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 2.62
Total Votes: 8

2.6

ABC Sports and Data East team up to take you to the gridiron! Strap on your helmet, put that black stuff under your...

ABC Monday Night Football

Commodore 64

Released

1990

Community Rating: 4.60
Total Votes: 15

4.6

ABC Sports and Data East team up to take you to the gridiron! Strap on your helmet, put that black stuff under your...

ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 10

3.5

STORY You play a rookie boxer trying to fight your way to the top. Fight bouts to win money, to pay for your...

Acrobatic Dog-Fight

Arcade

Released

1984

Community Rating: 3.57
Total Votes: 82

3.6

A colorful horizontal-scrolling air battle game from Technos. Released by Data East in North America. Acrobatic...

Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

January 31, 1989

Community Rating: 3.36
Total Votes: 68

3.4

Get ready for racing action like you've never experienced it. Because Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing is so much more...

Bad Dudes

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

July 14, 1989

Community Rating: 3.27
Total Votes: 113

3.3

The game starts in New York City, where President Ronnie (based on former U.S. President Ronald Reagan) has been...

Bad Dudes

Commodore 64

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.76
Total Votes: 17

3.8

Bad Dudes is a six-level action game originating in the arcades. The gameplay involving beating a succession of...

Bad Dudes

Commodore Amiga

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.57
Total Votes: 25

3.6

Bad Dudes is a six-level action game originating in the arcades. The gameplay involving beating a succession of...

Bad Dudes

Apple II

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 21

3.6

Bad Dudes is a six-level action game originating in the arcades. The gameplay involving beating a succession of...

Bad Dudes

MS-DOS

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.56
Total Votes: 10

3.6

Bad Dudes is a six-level action game originating in the arcades. The gameplay involving beating a succession of...

Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja

Arcade

Released

August 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.79
Total Votes: 195

3.8

The game starts in New York City, where President Ronnie has been kidnapped by the nefarious DragonNinja. The...

Batman

Commodore 64

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 25

3.8

Based on the 1989-Batman movie. The game consists of five different parts, each resembling well known game types....

Batman: The Caped Crusader

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.15
Total Votes: 14

3.2

Batman: The Caped Crusader is a combination of an arcade and adventure game. The game is played with a side...

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Commodore Amiga

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.28
Total Votes: 18

3.3

Batman: The Caped Crusader is a combination of an arcade and adventure game. The game is played with a side...

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Apple II

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.21
Total Votes: 14

4.2

Batman: The Caped Crusader is a combination of an arcade and adventure game. The game is played with a side...

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Atari ST

Released

March 1, 1989

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 5

3.5

Batman: The Caped Crusader is a combination of an arcade and adventure game. The game is played with a side...

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Commodore 64

Released

September 8, 1988

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 19

3.2

The Penguin is back, and he’s set himself up as a respectable umbrella merchant. Or has he? Could the umbrella...

Batman: The Movie

Commodore Amiga

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.98
Total Votes: 42

4.0

Batman also known as Batman: The Movie is an action video game developed by Ocean Software based on the 1989 film...

Battle Chess

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

July 1, 1990

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 62

3.0

Did someone tell you chess is a civilized game played by civilized people? Forget it. Chess is war - a ruthless,...

BreakThru

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

November 1, 1987

Community Rating: 3.52
Total Votes: 54

3.5

BreakThru is a 2D side-scrolling vehicle shooter. Your mission: race, jump, and blast your way through five levels...

BreakThru

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 3.51
Total Votes: 62

3.5

Pilot a military vehicle, equipped with super jump capability, through enemy territory. You must traverse dangerous...

BurgerTime

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

November 27, 1985

Community Rating: 3.41
Total Votes: 85

3.4

You play as Chef Pepper and your goal is to make giant hamburgers while evil eggs, sausages and pickles chase you...

Caveman Games

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 1, 1990

Community Rating: 3.48
Total Votes: 42

3.5

Olympic Games set in the stone age. Events include clubbing, dino-racing, fire-making, mate-tossing, saber racing...

Caveman Ugh-lympics

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 12

3.5

Olympic Games set in the stone age. Events include clubbing, dinoracing, firemaking, matetossing, saber racing and...

Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 9

3.0

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Chamber of The Sci-Mutant Priestess casts you as Raven, a young "Tuner" (psionic...

Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

Commodore Amiga

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.07
Total Votes: 5

4.1

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Chamber of The Sci-Mutant Priestess casts you as Raven, a young "Tuner" (psionic...

Clash-Road

Arcade

Released

1986

Community Rating: 2.58
Total Votes: 43

2.6

Clash-Road is a bicycle racing game produced by Wood Place in 1986. It was published by various companies in...

Cobra Command

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 21, 1988

Community Rating: 3.40
Total Votes: 50

3.4

The most advanced Cobra attack helicopter ever built is at your command! You'll fly alone into a deadly no man's...

Commando

Commodore 64

Released

1985

Community Rating: 4.16
Total Votes: 28

4.2

You are Super Joe the cracked combat soldier of the eighties battling against all odds to defeat the advancing...

Commando

MS-DOS

Released

1986

Community Rating: 2.36
Total Votes: 8

2.4

Several levels await your super-tough Commando in this vertical scrolling game. Armed with only a standard rifle...

Commando

Apple II

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.06
Total Votes: 9

4.1

Several levels await your super-tough Commando in this vertical scrolling game. Armed with only a standard rifle...

Continuum

Commodore Amiga

Released

1991

Community Rating: 2.67
Total Votes: 3

2.7

Alpha Waves is a 3D game viewed from third-person perspective. The player pilots a "Mobile", a craft which bounces...

Creature Shock: Special Edition

Sega Saturn

Released

January 19, 1996

Community Rating: 2.41
Total Votes: 17

2.4

Creature Shock is a first-person rail shooter with Full Motion Video and arcade-like elements. Aliens of all sizes...

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

February 1, 1990

Community Rating: 2.77
Total Votes: 30

2.8

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum was an action game for the Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1990...

Destiny: The Fortuneteller

Arcade

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 8

3.8

Guerrilla War

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 4

3.0

A tropical island (specified as Cuba in the Japanese original) is being oppressed by a dictator, but fortunately...

Heavy Barrel

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.29
Total Votes: 8

3.3

Heavy Barrel is a shooter with a top-down view similar to Commando and Ikari Warriors. Terrorists have seized the...

Heavy Barrel

Apple II

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 4

4.2

Heavy Barrel is a shooter with a top-down view similar to Commando and Ikari Warriors. Terrorists have seized the...

Heavy Barrel

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

March 2, 1990

Community Rating: 3.73
Total Votes: 61

3.7

The impossible, and unthinkable has happened. Terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear...

Ikari Warriors

Apple II

Released

February 1, 1986

Community Rating: 3.67
Total Votes: 3

3.7

Ikari Warriors is a vertically scrolling, run & gun shoot 'em up arcade game developed by SNK, published in North...

Ikari Warriors (Quicksilver Software)

Commodore 64

Released

1987

Community Rating: 1.38
Total Votes: 4

1.4

Ikari Warriors is a vertically scrolling action game where one or two players fight their way through a variety of...

Karate Champ

Commodore 64

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.99
Total Votes: 5

4.0

Karate Champ is an action fighting game for one or two players. The players compete against each other at nine...

Karate Champ

Apple II

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

Karate Champ is an action fighting game for one or two players. The players compete against each other at nine...

Karate Champ

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 1, 1986

Community Rating: 2.88
Total Votes: 44

2.9

Your karate championship is at stake. Can you master all the lunges, kicks, spins, somersaults, foot sweeps,...

Karnov

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 18, 1987

Community Rating: 3.62
Total Votes: 73

3.6

Jinborov Karnovski (also known as the titular Karnov), is a Russian circus strongman who is collecting all of the...

Karnov

Commodore 64

Released

July 1, 1988

Community Rating: 1.67
Total Votes: 4

1.7

The game puts the bulging-muscled, fire-breathing, ex-circus strongman east-Russian hero on a quest through nine...

Karnov

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.33
Total Votes: 4

2.3

Jinborov Karnovski (also known as the titular Karnov), is a Russian circus strongman who is collecting all of the...

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 2, 1987

Community Rating: 3.53
Total Votes: 45

3.5

KID NIKI is truly AWESOME! This rad and bad punk dude is out to rescue his spike-haired girlfriend, Princess Margo,...

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja

Apple II

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

In this side scrolling action game, Kid Niki must rescue his beloved Princess Margo who has been kidnapped by the...

King of Boxer

Arcade

Released

June 17, 1985

Community Rating: 3.63
Total Votes: 26

3.6

Ring King is a boxing game in which the action in the ring is viewed in a 3D top-down view and a full range of...

Kung-Fu Master

Apple II

Released

November 1, 1985

Community Rating: 2.25
Total Votes: 2

2.2

Loosely based on a movie, Kung-Fu Master is a side scrolling action game for one or two players, who alternate...

Lock n' Chase

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

May 11, 1990

Community Rating: 3.44
Total Votes: 31

3.4

Despite the title, this is a sequel to the classic arcade game. Players take control of the thief Lupin as he runs...

Lock-On

MS-DOS

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 6

2.0

You are a fighter pilot going through wave after wave of enemies from a 1st Person Perspective. You control a...

Nail 'n Scale

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

December 13, 1990

Community Rating: 4.03
Total Votes: 15

4.0

TOUGH AS NAILS! Entrapped within the lair of the evil dragon "Lore," you must use your greatest skill to...

Platoon

Commodore Amiga

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 9

3.2

The film Platoon featured a squad of five soldiers on their mission for the US Army in Vietnam. In this action game...

Rampage

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

December 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.68
Total Votes: 77

3.7

The game where the nice guys don't get a look in. Grab your way through Chicago, punch up New York, and jump on San...

Ring King

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

June 19, 1987

Community Rating: 2.98
Total Votes: 49

3.0

Challenge your friends or your computer to the Data East Championship Title Bout! Challengers from around the...

RoboCop

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

August 25, 1989

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 60

3.3

A sadistic crime wave is sweeping through old Detroit. The situation is explosive - in fact, it is so bad, a...

RoboCop

Commodore 64

Released

July 1, 1988

Community Rating: 3.20
Total Votes: 12

3.2

Based on the 1987 movie of the same name, RoboCop allows the player to control RoboCop. The majority of the game is...

RoboCop

MS-DOS

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 8

3.8

Patrolman Alex Murphy was killed on the streets of Detroit. The major corporation there, Omni Consumer Products...

RoboCop

Apple II

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.92
Total Votes: 6

3.9

Patrolman Alex Murphy was killed on the streets of Detroit. The major corporation there, Omni Consumer Products...

RoboCop 2

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

April 2, 1991

Community Rating: 3.14
Total Votes: 58

3.1

Seven levels of muscle-straining, reflex-testing, sideways scrolling fury! Destroy the lethal drug Nuke, face a...

Shackled

Commodore 64

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 1

A multi-player, multi-level labyrinth/maze game in the genre of Gauntlet; originally an arcade game. Players take...

Shanghai Kid

Arcade

Released

1985

Community Rating: 2.94
Total Votes: 40

2.9

Shanghai Kid was developed by Nihon Game (now known as Culture Brain) in 1985. It had several publishers including...

Side Pocket

Sega Game Gear

Released

1994

Community Rating: 3.45
Total Votes: 11

3.5

Chalk up your cue stick and rack up those balls. Now get ready, get set, break! The balls scatter and the match is...

Side Pocket

Nintendo Game Boy

Released

September 21, 1990

Community Rating: 3.09
Total Votes: 16

3.1

Chalk up your cue stick and rack up those balls. Now get ready, get set, break! The balls scatter and the match is...

Side Pocket

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

October 31, 1987

Community Rating: 3.63
Total Votes: 41

3.6

Chalk up your cue stick and rack up those balls. Now get ready, get set, break! The balls scatter and the match is...

Speed Buggy

Commodore Amiga

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.15
Total Votes: 20

4.2

Buggy Boy is a race game, but not just an ordinary race game. There are five different routes, offroad, north,...

Speed Buggy

Commodore 64

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.62
Total Votes: 15

4.6

Speed Buggy (Buggy Boy in Europe) is a racing game, but not just an ordinary race game. There are five different...

Speed Buggy

Atari ST

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.46
Total Votes: 12

4.5

Speed Buggy (Buggy Boy in Europe) is a race game, but not just an ordinary race game. There are five different...

Super Hang-On

MS-DOS

Released

1988

Community Rating: 2.92
Total Votes: 8

2.9

In Super Hang-On you race a motorcycle around the world, completing each section of track within a time limit....

Super Hang-On

Atari ST

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 5

4.3

In Super Hang-On you race a motorcycle around the world, completing each section of track within a time limit....

Tag Team Wrestling

Commodore 64

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 2

3.5

A wrestling game that is primarily focused on tag team teamwork. You can either play as a the good guys (face team)...

Tag Team Wrestling

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

April 2, 1986

Community Rating: 3.14
Total Votes: 38

3.1

You are challenged to match the awesome skill of your opponents...to gain the Title in World Super Championship of...

Tank (Ocean/Data East)

Commodore 64

Released

1987

Community Rating: 3.55
Total Votes: 4

3.6

Your country has been taken over by a brutal dictator, and you must wipe out his forces and defenses. You control a...

The Dream Team 3 on 3 Challenge

Commodore 64

Released

1991

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

Three-on-three basketball game featuring Patrick Ewing, Joe Dumars and Dominique Wilkins. Play as the 'Dream Team'...

The Dream Team: 3 on 3 Challenge

MS-DOS

Released

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Three-on-three basketball game featuring Patrick Ewing, Joe Dumars and Dominique Wilkins. Play as the 'Dream...

Victory Road: Ikari Warriors Part II

Commodore 64

Released

1987

Community Rating: 2.67
Total Votes: 3

2.7

Heavy on the action, Ikari Warriors became a favorite both in the arcades and on home consoles. To fuel that...

Vigilante

Commodore 64

Released

1989

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 4

3.2

Vigilante is a side-scrolling beat-em-up. It features an anonymous tough hero that roams the streets to beat up The...

Werewolf: The Last Warrior

Nintendo Entertainment System

Released

November 1, 1990

Community Rating: 3.72
Total Votes: 30

3.7

He's BAD, RAD and extremely MAD - because to a WEREWOLF, there's nothing like revenge! The world's been destroyed...

Data East USA

ABC Monday Night Football

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1990

3.0

ABC Monday Night Football

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1989

2.6

ABC Monday Night Football

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1990

4.6

ABC Wide World of Sports Boxing

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1991

3.5

Acrobatic Dog-Fight

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1984

3.6

Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing

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January 31, 1989

3.4

Bad Dudes

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July 14, 1989

3.3

Bad Dudes

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1988

3.8

Bad Dudes

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1989

3.6

Bad Dudes

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1989

3.6

Bad Dudes

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1988

3.6

Bad Dudes Vs. DragonNinja

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August 1, 1988

3.8

Batman

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1989

3.8

Batman: The Caped Crusader

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1989

3.2

Batman: The Caped Crusader

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1988

3.3

Batman: The Caped Crusader

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1989

4.2

Batman: The Caped Crusader

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March 1, 1989

3.5

Batman: The Caped Crusader

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September 8, 1988

3.2

Batman: The Movie

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1989

4.0

Battle Chess

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July 1, 1990