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Donkey Kong Country

• adventure
• retro
• Platform
• pixel

Donkey Kong Country is a side scrolling platformer by British developers Rareware in 1994. It featured revolutionary pre-rendered 3D graphics that give the game a very unique look compared to most other games on consoles at the time. The two playable characters featured in the game are the titular character,...

Super Mario Bros.

• Platform

[game]Super Mario Bros.[/game][a] is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pseudo-sequel to the 1983 game, Mario Bros. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games. In 2005, IGN's poll named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as the "greatest...

Star Fox

• Shooter

The games follow an independent mercenary unit of anthropomorphic animals called Star Fox, led by chief protagonist Fox McCloud, and their adventures around the Lylat system. The Super FX Chip was an additional math co-processor that was built into the cartridge and helped the Super NES better render...

F-Zero

• racing

F-Zero is a series of futuristic racing video games originally created by Nintendo EAD with multiple games developed by outside companies. Since then, the series has been represented in other Nintendo media, including in the Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. The first game in the series and a launch game...

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...

Tetris Attack

• Puzzle

It is the first game in the Puzzle League series. Despite using the Tetris name, this game has no resemblance to its Russian namesake. Playing as Yoshi, the player must defeat each of his friends in order to remove the curse. Blocks are stacked on top of one another and rise steadily toward the top of...

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.

Star Ocean

• Action
• RolePlaying

As fans of science fiction and space travel, the developers at tri-Ace created the Star Ocean series with a sci-fi setting in mind and have cited Star Trek as one of their main influences for the visuals of the games as well as being an underlying, but noticeable, influence to the series as a whole....

Top Gear

• racing

Mario Paint

• music
• Puzzle

Mario Paint is a video game released in 1992 by Nintendo for use with the Super Famicom/SNES. Aside from being a basic drawing utility, Mario Paint allows the user to make custom stamps pixel-by-pixel. The player controls a gloved hand holding a flyswatter, which must swat flying insects on the screen,...

Super Mario Bros 3

• adventure
• Platform

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a platform video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console. Mario and Luigi embark on a quest to save Princess Toadstool and the rulers of seven different kingdoms from the antagonist Bowser and his children, the Koopalings. The player, as Mario or Luigi,...

ActRaiser

• Fighting
• Simulation

ActRaiser is a 1990 platform and city-building simulation game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System developed by Quintet and published by Enix, combining traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban planning god game sections. According to the instruction booklet, The Master was defeated...

Yoshis Cookie

• Puzzle

Yoshi's Cookie is a 1992 tile-matching puzzle video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the NES and Game Boy platforms in 1992. The player controls a cursor on the grid that is used to rotate individual lines in a manner similar to a Rubik's Cube. The grid grows in size from cookies...

Chrono Trigger

• multipleending
• timetravel
• RolePlaying

Chrono Trigger is a Japanese Role Playing Game released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and then later released on multiple other devices. It's unique in that the game has several different endings which all rely on the time travel feature of the game.

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...

Wizardry: Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord

• RolePlaying

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the first game in the Wizardry series of role-playing video games. Starting in the town, which is represented only as a text-based menu, the player creates a party of up to six characters from an assortment of five possible races , three alignments , and...

MechWarrior

• Shooter

MechWarrior: Living Legends was the recipient of the ModDB 2009 Mod of the Year and - due to rules preventing one mod from winning the same award twice - an Honorable Mention in 2010. Instead, you choose a classification of mech to equip, and are then given the option to change out weapons and armor...

Mega Man 7

• Platform
• Shooter

It is the seventh game in the original Mega Man series and the first and only title in the main series to be featured on the 16-bit console. Picking up directly after the events of Mega Man 6, the plot involves the protagonist Mega Man once again attempting to stop the evil Dr. According to its creators,...

Popful Mail

• Platform

Popful Mail was developed by [publisher]Nihon Falcom[/publisher] for the NEC PC-8801 computer in 1991 and for the PC-9801 in 1992. It was later ported to PC Engine CD-ROM by NEC Home Electronics and to the Sega CD by "Sega Falcom", an alliance of the two game companies Sega and Falcom. The...

No Escape

• Platform
• Shooter

Based on the 1994 movie of the same name starring Ray Liotta, the player takes control of Liotta's character, Capt. J.T. Robbins, whose only objective of the game is to escape an island. After shooting his commanding officer, Robbins is imprisoned and eventually sent to the island Absolom as a war criminal,...

Illusion Of Gaia

• Action
• RolePlaying

"The Fantasy Chronicles of Gaia"), known in Europe and Australia as Illusion of Time, is an action role-playing game that was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, in Japan on November 27, 1993, and in North America on September 1, 1994. Moto Hagio, the influential manga artist,...

Street Fighter II

• Fighting
• Platform

A sequel to Street Fighter, Street Fighter II improved upon the many concepts introduced in the first game, including the use of command-based special moves and a six-button configuration, while offering players a selection of multiple playable characters, each with their own unique fighting style and...

Shadowrun

• Action
• RolePlaying

Shadowrun is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in a near-future fictional universe in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. A Shadowrun – a successful data theft or physical break-in at a rival corporation or organization – is one of the main tools employed...

Rise Of The Phoenix

• Strategy

The gameplay and control are quite unlike the similarly themed Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Nobunaga's Ambition series. The player plays as either Liu Bang or Xiang Yu. Liu Bang has below average stats for Politics and Skills however his Charisma is high and hence it is easy for him to make allies,...