Instead of continuing to use the side-scrolling perspective introduced to the series by Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past reverts to an overhead perspective similar to that of the original. While A Link to the Past still uses mechanics and concepts from the original game, it also introduces...
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...
The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield. The player controls a marker that can move around the edges of the rectangle. The player's marker can move at two different speeds; areas drawn exclusively at the slower speed are worth double points. In addition, if the...
It was later ported to the Atari Lynx by Atari and released in 1993 in North America and Europe, the European version retaining the North American Ninja Gaiden III title. The game is the third installment of the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, in which the events take place between the first two games in...
The game was first published in 1989 as SimCity, and it has spawned several different editions sold worldwide. The residential zones, in green, provide housing for SIMS; the commercial zones, in blue, provide shops and offices; and the industrial zones, in yellow, provide factories, laboratories and...
It is the second and the final arcade game in the Shinobi series, following the original Shinobi itself. Shadow Dancer was developed on the Sega System 18 motherboard hardware and its generally well received home versions were released for the Master System console and several home computer systems in...
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...
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ToeJam & Earl's design was heavily influenced by the role-playing video game Rogue, and took from it such features as the random generation of levels and items. ToeJam & Earl was followed by two sequels: ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron and ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, released...
Sunset Riders is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed and released by Konami as a coin-operated video game on the JAMMA arcade platform in 1991. The coin-op version was released in two variants: a two-player version and a four-player version. The game, which is set in a fanciful version...
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...
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...
Released in 1991 and one of the longest-running series in the fighting-game genre, this title introduced players to Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi. Select one of the three and visit many locations as your chosen fighter engages in numerous street fights around the fictional city of South Town....
Columns is a puzzle based game released on Arcade and SEGA systems. Following the like system of Tetris. In Columns, There are three different symbols (such as differently-colored jewels) that appear, one at a time, at the top of the well and fall to the bottom, landing either on the floor or on top...
The second installment and the first handheld title in the Metroid series, it was released in North America in November 1991, and in Japan and Europe the following year. Metroid II was developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 and produced by Gunpei Yokoi, who both worked on the first Metroid...
It was designed by Will Wright, maker of other 'Sim' games such as SimCity and The Sims. Wilson's study of ant colonies. The game consists of three modes: a Quick Game, a Full Game, and an Experimental Game. In SimAnt, the player plays the role of an ant in a colony of black ants in the back yard of...
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...
A retelling of the events of the original Castlevania, the game takes place in 1691 Transylvania, where the vampire hunter Simon Belmont must defeat the vampire Dracula. It features expanded play control, 16-bit graphics featuring SNES Mode 7, and a soundtrack featuring brand new pieces and remixes based...
California Games is a 1987 Epyx sports video game for many home computers and video game consoles. The game sold very well, topping game selling charts for winter months. Chuck Sommerville, the designer of the half-pipe game in California Games later developed the game Chip's Challenge, while Ken Nicholson...
Super R-Type is a shooter game for the SNES, developed and published by Irem in 1991. The game is known for its high difficulty , particularly because of its lack of checkpoints, since dying means restarting the level from scratch. Also, this game suffers from slowdown, which was also a problem in many...
The word "gaiden" in the North American Ninja Gaiden title means "side-story" in Japanese, even though the Ninja Gaiden series is not a spinoff of a previous series. A new game, titled Ninja Gaiden, was released in 2004 as a 3D action game on the Xbox, developed by Team Ninja, the...
