Sunsoft Games

All major Sunsoft NES, Famicom, SNES, and Game Boy titles - with year, platform, design notes, and composer credits. Filter by platform below.

Box Art Title Year Platform Composer Notes
Batman NES box art Batman: The Video Game 1989 NES Famicom Naoki Kodaka Tim Burton film licence; wall-jump mechanic; Gotham atmosphere; five distinct stage themes. Sunsoft's international flagship.
Blaster Master / Metafight Famicom box art Blaster Master 1988 NES Famicom Naoki Kodaka, Nobuyuki Hara Dual-mode gameplay (side-scrolling tank + top-down on-foot). JP: Chō Wakusei Senki Metafight. North American story differs substantially from Japanese original.
Journey to Silius NES box art Journey to Silius 1990 NES Famicom Naoki Kodaka Originally a Terminator 2 tie-in; re-skinned after losing licence. JP: Rough World (ラフ・ワールド). Kodaka's hard-rock NES score is frequently cited as his finest work.
Fester's Quest NES box art Fester's Quest 1989 NES Famicom Naoki Kodaka Top-down action shooter; The Addams Family TV series licence. Notoriously difficult. Kodaka score highly regarded.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch NES box art Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 NES Game Boy Naoki Kodaka Warner Bros film licence (1990). Side-scrolling action; NES and Game Boy versions released simultaneously.
Batman Return of the Joker NES box art Batman: Return of the Joker 1991 NES Game Boy Naoki Kodaka Sequel to the 1989 Batman NES; independent of any film. Game Boy version released 1992. Different from Mega Drive's Revenge of the Joker.
Ufouria: The Saga / Hebereke NES box art Hebereke / Ufouria: The Saga 1991 Famicom NES (PAL) Naoki Kodaka Four playable characters with distinct abilities. PAL NES as Ufouria: The Saga; no NA NES release. Cult classic status.
Super Spy Hunter NES box art Super Spy Hunter 1992 NES Famicom - Vehicular combat scrolling shooter; sequel to Midway/Williams arcade classic Spy Hunter. JP: Battle Formula (1991).
Aero the Acro-Bat SNES box art Aero the Acro-Bat 1993 SNES - Published by Sunsoft; developed by Iguana Entertainment. Mascot platformer. Mega Drive version followed in 1994.
Pac-Land Famicom box art Pac-Land 1989 NES - NES port developed by Sunsoft; original arcade by Namco (1984). Side-scrolling platformer with narrative arc; one of the genre's precursors.