Release date: 1986
Genres: Action
Platforms: Nintendo Nes, Commodore 64, Arcade
Publishers: Konami
Jackal, also distributed under the title of Top Gunner, is an overhead run'n gun-style shoot-'em-up video game by Konami released for the arcades in 1986. The player must maneuver an armed jeep in order to rescue prisoners of war (POWs) trapped in enemy territory.
Release date: 1975
Genres: Shooter, War
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers:
Jet Fighter is a 2 player arcade game by Atari, originally released in 1975.
Release date: 1994
Genres: Action
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Sega
Jurassic Park is a rail shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega in 1994. It is based on the 1993 film of the same name. The game cabinet resembles the rear of the Ford Explorer tour vehicles used in the film. The player, equipped with a joystick, must shoot dinosaurs that appear on-screen throughout the game. The game is notable for having a moving seat, also used in Sega's previous 1991 light gun shooter Rail Chase. The seat is powered by hydraulic pistons to move the seat according …
Release date: 2009
Genres: Puzzle
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Sega
Jewelpet: The Glittering Magical Jewel Box (ジュエルペット 〜キラキラ魔法の宝石箱〜, Juerupetto: Kirakira Mahō no Hōseki-bako) is a Puzzle game for the arcades developed and published by Sega. It's the second spiritual sequel of Columns and the first title not to use the Columns name. It is released on October 27, 2009. Production of the arcade machines ended in November 2011.
Release date: 1982
Genres: Platform
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Cinematronics, Hara Industries
Jack the Giantkiller is a 1982 arcade game developed and published by Cinematronics. It is based on the 19th-century English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. In Japan, the game was released as Treasure Hunt. There were no home console ports. The player controls Jack, who must climb the beanstalk to reach the castle, steal a series of treasures from the giant, and escape. The game used hardware licensed from Hara Industries of Japan, with raster graphics instead of the vector displays Cinematro…
Release date: 1994
Genres: Football, Sports
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Namco
J-League Soccer V-Shoot (JリーグサッカーVシュート, J-Rīgu Sakkā V-Shūto), commonly referred to as just V-Shoot, is a soccer arcade game that was released by Namco in 1994 only in Japan; it runs on their NB-1 hardware, and features the twelve (then-current) teams from the J-League (the Kashima Antlers, JEF United, the Urawa Red Diamonds, Tokyo Verdy, the Yokohama Marinos and Yokohama Flügels, Shonan Bellmare, Shimizu S-Pulse, Júbilo Iwata, Nagoya Grampus Eight, Gamba Osaka and Sanfrecce Hiroshima). All the …
Release date: 2009
Genres: Beat'em-up
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Global VR
Justice League Heroes United is an arcade game based on the Justice League comic book.
Release date: 1986
Genres: Action
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Williams Electronics
Joust 2: Survival of the Fittest is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1986. It is a sequel to Williams' 1982 game Joust. Like its predecessor, Joust 2 is a 2D aerial combat game with platforms to land on. The player uses a button and joystick to control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The object is to progress through levels by defeating groups of enemy knights riding buzzards. Joust 2 features improved audio-visuals and new features such as mutant buzzards creat…
Release date: 2001
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Konami
Jurassic Park III is a light gun arcade game based on the 2001 film of the same name. The game was developed by Konami and was first unveiled at the Japan Amusement Machinery Manufacturers Association in September 2001. The game had been released in Japan by November 2001, and was later released in the United States in March 2002. The game uses the same cabinet and motion sensor technology as Police 911, requiring players to dodge the oncoming dinosaur attacks. Alternatively, the standard cabin…
Release date: 1983
Genres: Action
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Bally Midway
Journey is an arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1983. Rock band Journey had enjoyed major success in the early 1980s, and Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity by creating an arcade game based on the group. Its release was intended to coincide with a US tour by the band.This game features digitized photographs of the members of the band at the time of release: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory.
Release date: 1999
Genres: Adventure, Racing
Platforms: Wii, Nintendo DS, Arcade
Publishers: Sega
Jambo! Safari is a video game first released by Sega in 1999. The original arcade version of the game used the Naomi board, arcade hardware which was based on Sega's Dreamcast video game console. Despite the fact that other Naomi-based arcade games were released for the Dreamcast, Jambo! Safari was never ported to the Sega console. The UK version of the Official Dreamcast Magazine reported that the game was to be released in a 3-in-1 compilation along with other games in Sega's "Real Life Career…
Release date: 1981
Genres: Platform, Shooter
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers:
Jump Bug is a scrolling platform shooter developed by Alpha Denshi under contract for Coreland, and published in arcades by Sega in Japan and Rock-Ola in North America in 1981. It was the first platform game to include smooth horizontal and vertical scrolling. Jump Bug was ported to the Emerson Arcadia and the Leisure Vision system.
Release date: 1997
Genres: Action, Shooter
Platforms: Arcade
Publishers: Activision Blizzard
Judge Dredd is a light gun shooter video game developed by Gremlin Interactive, based on the comic book of the same name. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment for the arcades, and for the PlayStation by Gremlin Interactive in Europe and Activision in North America, respectively. The PlayStation emulated version was re-released by Urbanscan for the PlayStation Network on 24 January 2008.
Release date: 1998
Genres: Action, Combat
Platforms: XBox 360, PlayStation 3, Sega Dreamcast, Arcade
Publishers:
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Japanese: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険, Hepburn: JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken) is a fighting video game developed by Capcom based on Hirohiko Araki's manga of the same title. The game was developed by the same team who are responsible for the Street Fighter III series. It was originally released in the arcade in 1998 on the CPS-3 arcade system; this version was known outside Japan as JoJo's Venture. An updated version of the game was released in 1999 as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for t…
Release date: 1982
Genres: Side-scroller
Platforms: Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Arcade
Publishers: Taito, Atari, Inc., Atarisoft
Jungle Hunt (ジヤングル・ハン卜) is a right-to-left side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. It was initially released as Jungle King, but changed as a result of copyright dispute. Published the same year as Moon Patrol, Jungle Hunt is one of the first video games to use parallax scrolling. The player controls an unnamed explorer, sporting a pith helmet and safari suit, attempting to rescue his girl from a tribe of cannibals by swinging from vine to vine, swimming a crocodile-i…
Release date: 1983
Genres: Shooter
Platforms: Commodore 64, Arcade
Publishers:
Juno First (ジュノファースト) is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1983. It was licensed to Gottlieb in the United States. Juno First combines elements of vertically scrolling shooters and fixed shooters, using a slightly tilted perspective similar to Nintendo's Radar Scope from 1979.Juno First was ported to the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family by Greg Hiscott and published by Datasoft in 1983 and 1984 respectively.
Release date: 1988
Genres: Football, Sports, Simulation
Platforms: Nintendo Nes, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Arcade
Publishers: Virgin Games, Tradewest
John Elway's Quarterback, also known as John Elway's Quarterback Challenge and John Elway's Team Quarterback, is a 1987 football video game.
Release date: 1983
Genres: Adventure, Maze
Platforms: Microsoft Dos, Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Arcade
Publishers:
Jr. Pac-Man is an arcade game, released by Bally Midway on August 13, 1983. It is based on Pac-Man and its derivatives but, like Baby Pac-Man, and Pac-Man Plus, was created without the authorization of Namco. This was one of several games that eventually led to the termination of the licensing agreement between Namco and Bally Midway in 1984. Unlike prior games in the series, the maze in Jr. Pac-Man scrolls horizontally and has no escape tunnels.
Release date: 1982
Genres: Action
Platforms: Atari ST, Apple Mac, Nintendo Nes, Atari 2600, Arcade
Publishers: Williams Electronics
Joust is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982. It popularized the concept of two-player cooperative gameplay by being more successful at it than its predecessors. The player uses a button and joystick to control a knight riding a flying ostrich. The objective is to progress through levels by defeating waves of enemy knights riding buzzards. John Newcomer led the development team, which included Bill Pfutzenreuter, Janice Woldenberg-Miller (former surname: Hendric…
Release date: 1991
Genres: Platform
Platforms: Amiga, Nintendo Switch, Super Nes, Microsoft Dos, Nintendo GameBoy, Sega Mega Drive, Arcade
Publishers: Data East, Takara, New World Computing, Elite Systems, Motivetime Ltd., Tec Toy, Flying Tiger Development, G-Mode
Joe & Mac, also known as Caveman Ninja and Caveman Ninja: Joe & Mac, is a 1991 platform game released for arcades by Data East. It was later adapted for the Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Amiga, Zeebo, Nintendo Switch, and PC.