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I've never played this game but...

Press X to not die?

As it is late here I'll let anyone who's interested to steal my turn.

Lemmings?

The Fly 2?

Looks a bit like one of the Wonderboy games, but the art style isn't similar.

I saw the similarity too, so I initially thought it was Cannon Dancer/Osman, but apparently from screenshots they didn't match.

Buck Rogers?

Doom on whatever underpowered ancient system

D2?

Exorcist?
_{I thought this just couldn't be correct though, as it would be too easy.}

Sega Rally?

It's actually Sega Rally 2, but this answer is close enough so I'll give the win to you.

Its connection with the last game was that late Iino Kenji (or Kenji Eno), the creator of Enemy Zero (and D, D2 for that matter) was one of the composers for this racing game.

Not putting much effort into it, I just stole borrowed a screenshot quickly from another site:
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/11QSLFR.jpg[/imgzoom]

I don't know. This may be easy, maybe not. Hint: It was somewhat related to the last entry.

Enemy Zero?

Not familiar with the comic, it took me a long while to understand what happened though. I had to look very carefully at the scenes. Having mistaken the character as an octopus didn't help either.

Golden Axe

*Ding ding ding* A winner is you!

It was actually taken from the arcade version. In the original Japanese version there was a brief scene in the attraction mode where the player decapitated a thug, which was removed for the other versions. The even more popular Mega Drive version (and most other ports as well) also had this removed for obvious reason.
For this reason, I bet not many people here might have seen this and this was intended to be the tricky part.

The reason it appeared high res was because the head zoomed towards the screen and it was quite large compared to the head of a typical character sprite.

Anyway, your turn!

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I may post some more pics if there are more wrong guesses, but I think posting any other shots might have spoiled it already.

Hint: This is a not so obscure (I think, could probably be considered quite popular) action game. The posted image was from a certain scene that many people never got to see for some reasons.

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[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/A46TLoY.png[/imgzoom]

Langriser, just too obvious. (And judging from those horribly mangled portraits it's the western version known as Warsong or whatever)