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Mortal Kombat 2

• Fighting

500 years ago, Shang Tsung was banished to the Earth Realm. With the aid of Goro he was to unbalance the furies and doom the planet to a chaotic existence. By seizing control of the shaolin tournament he tried to tip the scales of order towards chaos. Only seven warriors survived the battles and Shang...

Judge Dredd

• RolePlaying

Judge Dredd is an action video game for the Super NES, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Game Gear and Game Boy originally released in 1995. The game is loosely based on the 1995 film Judge Dredd, which was a spin off from the Judge Dredd strip from 2000AD.

Samurai Shodown

• Action
• Fighting
• Simulation

Despite the name of the series, most of the characters are not samurai in the true sense of the word. The stories in the series take place in 18th-century Japan, during the Sakoku or seclusion period of Japan with great artistic license so that foreign-born characters and fictional monsters can also...

Streets Of Rage

Streets of Rage is trilogy of a beat 'em up video games developed and published by Sega in the first half of the 1990s. The series centers on the efforts of several heroes to rid a troubled city from the rule of a crime syndicate. The dance music-influenced soundtracks of the games, scored by Yuzo Koshiro...

Gunstar Heroes

• RunAndGun

On February 23, 2006, Gunstar Heroes was released as part of the Gunstar Heroes: Treasure Box Collection for the Playstation 2. In addition to the weapons, the player can engage enemies in close quarters combat. Death to a player requires multiple hits but just one death will issue the option to continue...

Space Harrier

• Shooter

Produced for arcades, the title has been ported to over twenty different home computer and gaming platforms in Japan, North America and Europe. Two home-system sequels followed in Space Harrier 3-D and Space Harrier II , as well as an arcade spinoff, Planet Harriers, in 2000. I calculated the position,...

Sonic The Hedgehog 2

• adventure
• Platform

The game is the second main entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and the first to feature Miles "Tails" Prower, a flying two-tailed fox. The staff increased the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in comparison to its predecessor. It has sold over six million copies, making it the second-best-selling...

Earthworm Jim

• Platform
• Shooter

Earthworm Jim is a 1994 run and gun platforming video game developed by Shiny Entertainment, featuring an earthworm named Jim in a robotic suit who battles evil. It was well received by critics, and received a sequel, Earthworm Jim 2, in 1995. The game plays as a 2D sidescrolling platformer with elements...

Mortal Kombat 3

• Fighting

Mortal Kombat 3 is a fighting video game developed by Midway Games and first released into arcades in 1995 as the third game in the Mortal Kombat series. The third installment of Mortal Kombat retains the blood and gory attacks that defined the series. Some characters from the previous games returned...

Ecco The Dolphin

• adventure

Life was an adventure for Ecco, the young dolphin. The ocean seemed endless with rolling breakers to race through! At high speed Ecco could burst through the waves leaping through the air – almost flying! Until one day, all of that changed. A freak whirlpool of air and water tore the life from...

Sonic The Hedgehog Spinball

• Action

Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball, or Sonic Spinball , is a pinball video game developed by Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. The term "Spinball" is a portmanteau on pinball and "spin dash", a move Sonic performs. Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball is a pinball game in which the...

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade: The Action Game

• Platform

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game was released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games, based on the film of the same name. As in the movie, the player's quest is to find the Holy Grail. The review praised the graphics and sound, but found the fight sequences both too easy and too short, since all...

Beavis And Butt-Head

• Action

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV from October 27 to December 29, 2011. They also apply these judgments to other things that they encounter, and will usually deem something "cool" if it is associated with violence, sex, or the macabre. Beavis and Butt-Head are in ninth...

Dynamite Headdy

• Platform

The game received positive reception for both its graphics and gameplay, and has been called one of the best platform and action games on the Genesis. Dynamite Headdy is a platform game in which the player controls Headdy, a puppet with a detachable head. By finding the Liberty Head, players can enter...

The Addams Family

• adventure
• RunAndGun

The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family: an eccentric wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are seemingly unaware that other people find them bizarre or frightening. The...

Battletoads

• adventure
• Action
• HackAndSlash
• Platform

Released in 1991 for the NES, Battletoads is a beat-em-up/platformer/obstacle course game starring two radical fighting frogs, Rash and Zitz, who set out to save their third member, Pimple and his girlfriend, Angelica, from the clutches of the villainous and seductive Dark Queen. However, that's easier...

G-LOC: Air Battle

• Arcade

Once the player takes too many hits or the game-timer runs out the game is over. Players choose what targets to destroy, like ships, jet fighters, or tanks. During the game the player is attacked from the front and back. The game was released in three arcade cabinet versions: a standard stand-up version,...

Sonic Blast

• Platform

Sonic Blast is a video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series developed by Aspect and published by Sega for the Game Gear. While this game was released in conjunction with the similarly named Sonic 3D Blast in North America, the games have little in common. Unlike its pseudo-3D counterpart, Sonic Blast...

Mortal Kombat II

• Fighting

Mortal Kombat II is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in 1993. Mortal Kombat II was the second game in the Mortal Kombat series, improving the gameplay and expanding the mythos of the original Mortal Kombat, notably introducing more varied Fatality finishing...

WWF Raw

• Sports

Rawâ„¢ slams your senses with 24 megs of the most ruthless mat mayhem ever! The hottest superstars, all new superhumans megamoves and more in-and-out-of-the-ring action stand between you and the championship belt. This Rawâ„¢...and RAW IS WAR!

Urban Strike

• Shooter
• Simulation

It was initially released for the Sega Genesis in 1994, with ports to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Gear in 1995 and to the Game Boy in 1996. Urban Strike takes place in 2001 and centers around the antagonist H. As the plot begins, one of Malone's men is revealed to be "Agent...

Road Rash

• racing
• VehicularCombat
• combat
• vehicle

Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts in which the player participates in violent, illegal street races. Six different games were released from 1991 to 2000, and an alternate version of one game was developed for the Game Boy Advance. A port of the game wound...

Mappy

• Action
• Arcade
• Platform
• Puzzle

First introduced in 1983, it was distributed in the United States by Bally/Midway. The player guides Mappy the police mouse through the mansion of the cats called the Mewkies to retrieve stolen goods. If the player waits too long after this, the "Gosenzo" coin will drop onto the top-middle...

Garfield: Caught In The Act

• Platform

Garfield: Caught in the Act is a platform game starring the comic strip cat, Garfield. In a rushed effort to repair the television before Jon catches them, Garfield and Odie attempt to put the banged up and broken pieces together. The game is a platformer, with Garfield being able to attack enemies up...