Bandai's 1989 Zapper game "Separates The Hot Shots From The Pot Shots," or so it aims to.

The arcade triumph Q*bert jumps onto the Nintendo Entertainment System, courtesy of Ultra Games.

Short and tough, Gumshoe is a "quick-on-the-trigger Light Gun game!"

A karate-themed episode with a pair of early NES games closer to white belts than black belts.

"Tanks for saving Earth."

Tengen's late-80s port of the mid-80s racer from Atari is fleeting fun on NES

Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart endorsed this arcade smash. A gritty NES version with 4-player support later arrived (ported by Rare).

8-bit video pinball with a twist

Two mid-'80s arcade shooters became late-'80s NES ports.

Who is Cirque Verte? Season 7 of Absolute Nintendo begins, curious how Nintendo ended up publishing a Zapper game that was this "NES hard" in 89/90.