Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy-themed hack and slash arcade game by Atari Games.[3] It is noted as being one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games.[4][5] The core design of Gauntlet comes from Dandy, a 1983 Atari 8-bit family dungeon crawl, which resulted in a threat of legal action.[6]

Dyger was produced by Philko in 1989.

Atomic Runner Chelnov[b] is a Japanese runner arcade game developed and published by Data East in 1988.

Wardner[a] is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Toaplan and published in arcades worldwide by Taito in 1987.[2][4][5] In Wardner, players assume the role of a young child named Dover on a journey to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend Mia from the titular warlock. Initially released for the arcades, the title was later ported to other platforms by different third-party developers including the Famicom Disk System and Sega Genesis, with each one featuring several changes and additions compared to the original version. Conversions for both the Nintendo Entertainment System and PC Engine were also in development but never released.