W13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is a video game developed by Vanillaware and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 4. It was released in Japan in November 2019 and worldwide in September 2020. The game is divided between side-scrolling adventure segments and real-time strategy (RTS) battles, and follows thirteen high-school students in a fictionalized 1980s Japan who are dragged into a futuristic war between mechas and hostile Kaiju in a non-linear narrative.
W198X is an arcade video game developed by Swedish team Hi-Bit Studios and published by Sonka. Released worldwide on January 23, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, the game received a Metacritic rating of 65. An homage to arcade gaming in the 1980s, 198X's coming-of-age story follows an unnamed "Kid" as he discovers a video arcade in an abandoned factory and falls in love with video gaming. The gameplay of 198X's 5 chapters are each based around different arcade game genres that were popular at the time, such as beat 'em ups and horizontally-scrolling space shooters.
WALF (アルフ) is an action-adventure video game developed by Nexa and released by Sega for the Master System in 1989. It is based on the American television series ALF. Players control the title character as he attempts to locate parts with which to repair his spaceship, so he can meet up with his friends Skip and Rhonda on the planet Mars.
WALF: The First Adventure is an action video game that was released in 1987 for the Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. It is based on the television series ALF.
WApollo 18: Mission to the Moon is a 1987 video game published by Accolade and developed by Canadian studio Artech.
WBionic Commando, originally released as Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret in Japan, is a platform game released by Capcom for the Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System in 1988. It is based on the 1987 arcade game Bionic Commando.
WThe Black Mirror is a third-person point-and-click horror adventure game developed in 2003 by Czech company Future Games. Its original name is Posel Smrti. The game features 150 locations and 5 hours of spoken dialogue. The Black Mirror became a commercial success, with 500,000 units sold worldwide by 2008. It was particularly successful in Germany, under publisher DTP Entertainment. Two sequels, Black Mirror II: Reigning Evil and Black Mirror III: Final Fear, were released. Additionally, a reboot titled Black Mirror was released on November 28, 2017.
WBrian Bloodaxe is a British platform game written by Charles Bystram for the ZX Spectrum and released by The Edge Software in 1985. It was ported to the Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC 464 by Trevor Inns.
WBusiness Wars (ビジネスウォーズ) is a text adventure video game released for Japan's Family Computer.
WCall of Duty: Black Ops II is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and the Xbox 360 on November 12, 2012, and for the Wii U on November 18 in North America and November 30 in PAL regions. Black Ops II is the ninth game in the Call of Duty franchise of video games, a sequel to the 2010 game Call of Duty: Black Ops and the first Call of Duty game for the Wii U. A corresponding game for the PlayStation Vita, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, was developed by nStigate Games and also released on November 13.
WCommand HQ is a real-time strategy world domination game. It was released in 1990 by MicroPlay software and was created by designer Dan Bunten.
WCrisis in the Kremlin is a 1991 strategy video game with managerial aspects in which the player acts as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 2017. The player assumes the role of the reformist Mikhail Gorbachev, the nationalist Boris Yeltsin, or the hardliner Yegor Ligachyov. Actual jokes recorded by the KGB can be found in the gameplay, depicting the concerns of the Soviet people in a humorous light. The game was developed and released at a time when the Soviet Union was collapsing and breaking apart with the game's events making reference to that. Indeed, the Soviet Union dissolved in the same year as the game's release. A remade version of this game was published in 2017 on the game platform Steam.
WCryostasis: Sleep of Reason is a psychological horror video game developed by Action Forms for Microsoft Windows.
WCursed Mountain is a 2009 video game co-developed for the Wii by Sproing Interactive and Deep Silver Vienna, and published by Deep Silver. A Europe-exclusive port for Microsoft Windows was developed and released by Deep Silver in 2010. The story follows mountaineer Eric Simmons's trek up Chomolonzo to rescue his brother Frank, who unleashed hostile ghosts and monsters onto the surrounding lands. The gameplay, combining elements of survival horror and action-adventure, follows Eric as he ascends Chomolonzo, collecting items and fighting hostile ghosts.
WThe Dallas Quest is a graphic adventure game based on the popular soap opera Dallas created by David Jacobs. The game was programmed by James Garon for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Datasoft in 1984. It was ported to the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64.
WDevotion is a first-person psychological horror video game created and developed by Taiwanese game developer Red Candle Games for Steam. It is set in Taiwan in the 1980s, with a majority of the game happening in an apartment complex in Taipei. The game also incorporates elements based on Taiwanese culture and folk religion. The game was released on February 19, 2019, but was removed from Steam shortly afterwards on February 26, after the game was review bombed by Chinese players due to a controversial reference to Xi Jinping, then-General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
WErika to Satoru no Yume Bōken is a 1988 Japan-exclusive adventure video game for the Family Computer. The setting of this game is 20th century Japan.
WF-19 Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator developed and released in 1988 and 1990 by MicroProse, featuring a fictional United States military aircraft. It is the 16-bit remake of the 8-bit game Project Stealth Fighter, which was released for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1987. It was also ported to the NEC PC-9801 in Japan only, and the DOS version was re-released on Steam distribution platform in 2015.
WHarrier Combat Simulator is a computer game developed by Mindscape for the Atari ST in 1987 along with Amiga, IBM PC, and Commodore 64.
WHyperdimension Neptunia Victory is an action role-playing game developed and published by Idea Factory with the assistance of Compile Heart. It is the third installment in the Hyperdimension Neptunia franchise. Set in the year 1989, the story takes place after Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2 in an alternate dimension to Gamindustri, bringing more insight to the "Console War" story arc. The game was released in Japan on August 2012 and in North America and Europe in 2013.
WKnight Rider is a racing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that is very loosely based on the television show of the same name.
WKnight Rider Special is a video game for the PC-Engine based on the 1980s television series Knight Rider. It was produced by and published by Pack-In Video Co. Ltd, who also developed the NES version on December 16, 1994 in Japan only. The game features sound bites by KITT's voice actor, Akio Nojima, straight from the show's Japanese dub.
WKremlingames is an indie game development cooperative founded in 2014. They specialize in making geopolitical strategy games in which the player is given the opportunity to rewrite the history of the Soviet Union (USSR) and other countries. The studio is co-owned by Maxim Chornobuk and Vasiliy Kostylev, with other members contributing to important decisions.
WLeading Company (リーディングカンパニー) is a construction-oriented strategy video game that was released for both the Super Famicom, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000 and FM Towns.
WThe Medium is a psychological horror video game developed by Bloober Team that was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S on January 28, 2021 and Nintendo Switch on 2022.
WMother, officially known outside of Japan as EarthBound Beginnings, is a role-playing video game developed by Ape and published by Nintendo for the Famicom. The first entry in the Mother series, it was first released in Japan on July 27, 1989. It is modeled on the gameplay of the Dragon Quest series, but is set in the late 20th-century United States, unlike its fantasy genre contemporaries. Mother follows the young Ninten as he uses his great-grandfather's studies on psychic powers to fight hostile, formerly inanimate objects and other enemies. The game uses random encounters to enter a menu-based, first-person perspective battle system.
WMother Russia Bleeds is a beat 'em up video game developed by France-based indie development studio Le Cartel Studio and published by Devolver Digital. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on 5 September 2016, PlayStation 4 on 3 December 2016 and for Nintendo Switch on 15 November 2018.
WNaughty Bear is an action-adventure video game released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS. Players control the eponymous bear as they use various things to earn "Naughty Points", with extra points being given for random missions.
WNew Retro Arcade: Neon is a virtual reality first-person video game developed and published for the PC by independent developer Digital Cybercherries. It was released on Steam on August 1, 2016. The game is compatible with the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
WPolice Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is an adventure game produced by Jim Walls for Sierra On-Line, and originally released in 1987 built on their AGI. It was remade in 1992 using 256 color VGA graphics and the SCI engine, which dramatically improved the appearance and audio of the game, and replaced the command line interface with point and click.
WQuake Minus One is a real-time strategy video game published for the Commodore 64 by Monolith/Beyond in 1985 and was written by Warren Foulkes and Mike Singleton.
WRetro Game Challenge is a Nintendo DS game developed by indieszero and published by Namco Bandai Games. It is based on the television series GameCenter CX and Shinya Arino gave much input into the game creation process. The game was released on November 15, 2007 in Japan, and in North America from Xseed Games on February 10, 2009. The game received a score of 33/40 from Famitsu. On February 26, 2009, a sequel, GameCenter CX 2, was released in Japan. Xseed Games announced that the game was not likely to be translated into English.
WShadow of Memories is a Mystery adventure game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. Originally released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001, it was later ported to Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2002. A PlayStation Portable version was released on October 1, 2009 in Japan and on January 26, 2010 in North America.
WStealth ATF is a stealth fighter video game released by Activision in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The object of the game is to take out aircraft that are trying to destroy the player's stealth fighter. The game supports up to two players.
WStreet Fighter , commonly abbreviated as SF or スト (Suto), is a Japanese fighting video game franchise developed and published by Capcom. The first game in the series was released in 1987, followed by five other main series games, various spin-offs and crossovers and numerous appearances in various other media. Its best-selling 1991 release Street Fighter II is credited with establishing many of the conventions of the one-on-one fighting genre.
WTop Management II (トップマネジメントⅡ) is a multiplatform video game that emphasizes strategy and economic expansion.
WVisage is an independent psychological horror video game by SadSquare Studio. Set in a strangely-structured house with a somber history, players control Dwayne Anderson as he explores the backstories of the inhabitants that once lived there. Mainly inspired by the cancelled project of P.T., the game ran Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns. It was later released on October 30, 2020, and received positive reviews.
WWorld of Horror, also known by its Japanese title Kyōfu no Sekai, is an indie role-playing video game with a 1-bit retro graphical style, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Junji Ito. The game was created by Polish developer Paweł Koźmiński, and published by Ysbryd Games. It was released into early access on February 20, 2020 on Steam, GOG.com, and Microsoft Store.
WZak McKracken: Between Time and Space is a point-and-click adventure game by German studio Artificial Hair Bros., originally released in 2008. It is an unofficial fan sequel of the 1988 adventure game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and was developed without the involvement or license of LucasArts. It contains numerous references to the original game, including easter eggs. The game took more than seven years to complete and has since been further developed, with a director's cut released in May 2015.
WZaku is a homebrew scrolling shooter video game developed by PenguiNet and published by Super Fighter Team exclusively for the Atari Lynx on 24 October, 2009. Taking place on a futuristic setting where Captain Bran and his minions plan to oversaturate the worldwide market with poor quality software using the "Rarity 9" programming tool, players assume the role of the titular character in an effort to retrieve the stolen tool from Bran.