Set in a dystopian future, the player assumes the role of Robert Foster, who was stranded in a wasteland known as "the Gap" as a child and adopted by a group of local Aboriginals, gradually adjusting to his life in the wilderness. The game has a serious tone, but features humour-filled dialogue,...
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,...
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...
Super Metroid is an 2D, side-scrolling action-adventure game, which primarily takes place on the fictional planet Zebes—a large, open-ended world with areas connected by doors and elevators. The player controls Samus Aran as she searches the planet for a Metroid that was stolen by Ridley, the...
Mega Man X , known in Japan as Rockman X , is a Mega Man series of action platform games released by Capcom. X was a new type of robot with the ability to make his own decisions. Reploids were dubbed "Mavericks" , and a force called the Maverick Hunters was formed to combat them. There are...
The third main game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, it was released for the Sega Genesis worldwide in February 1994, and in Japan three months later. It was developed simultaneously with Sonic & Knuckles; as the games were originally developed as a single title until time constraints and cartridge...
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...
Welcome to Descent™ - 30 levels of the most mind-bending, stomach-churning action game ever. Featuring true 3-Dimensional worlds with light source shading, texture mapping, 3-D morphing, directional sound effects and sizzling music, this is technology taken to the limit.You begin deep below the surface...
The game was released in North America in June 1993, in Europe in October 1993 and in Japan on January 7, 1994. The game follows two Battletoads, Rash and Pimple, on a quest to stop Silas Volkmire and the evil Dark Queen from ruling over the world. Battletoads in Battlemaniacs is an action-platform beat...
The series debuted in 1987 on the Sega Master System with Phantasy Star, and continues into the present with Phantasy Star Online 2 and other extensions of the Phantasy Star Online sub-series. The first four games in the series are set in or related to the fictional planetary system of Algol, and are...
Cruis'n USA is an arcade racing game originally released in 1994. Although Cruis'n USA was advertised as running on Ultra 64 hardware , it was actually implemented on the Midway V-unit hardware. Along with Killer Instinct, it was planned as a launch title for the Nintendo 64. It was released on Wii's...
It is the fifth and final game in the Game Boy version of the original Mega Man series. Mega Man V is an action platformer in which the player selects stages in a non-linear fashion and acquires the weapon of each boss defeated to use as their own. The game opens in an unspecified year in the 21st century...
Contra: Hard Corps is a side-scrolling run and gun-style shoot-'em-up video game released by Konami for the Sega Genesis in North America and South Korea in 1994. Instead of the traditional Contra heroes of Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, a new task force known as the Hard Corps are sent to deal with the...
You know those punk highway gangs that think they're in charge of the road? Don't you simply despise them? 'Somebody needs to do something about those criminal highway gangs!' you remark. 'Oh yeah?!' we exclaim. So, mister big-mouth, why don't YOU do anything!' You don't have a car, do you? We'll hand...
It is the third game in the Megami Tensei series and the first in the central Shin Megami Tensei series. Transported with two other supporting characters thirty years into the future, the protagonist finds the Earth ruined by a demon invasion, which is now the stage for an escalating conflict between...
Tokimeki Memorial (ã¨ãã‚ãメモリアル, Tokimeki Memoriaru?, lit. In the middle of the game, when the number of known girls was high, these "bombs" became the primary concern of the player, forcing careful planning and strategies like round-robin dating....
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...
ActRaiser 2 . Ripped and torn, the slain body of Tanzra fell to the underworld.
Dragonsphere is a point-and-click graphic adventure game developed and published by MicroProse in 1994. The game was the third graphical adventure game developed by MicroProse, following Rex Nebular and Return of the Phantom. It was designed by Douglas Kaufman and developed using the MicroProse Adventure...
The series is made up of five core games: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Of these games, no expansion sets were released for Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, but Warcraft II was accompanied...
The player is put behind the wheel of a stock car (known as the Hornet), with the choice of three tracks as well as an automatic or manual transmission. The player's objectives are to outrun the competing cars, and complete the race before time runs out.
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...
KOF '94 is a crossover featuring characters from SNK's previous fighting game properties Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting. It also includes revised versions of characters from their pre-Neo Geo games Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldier, as well as original characters created specifically for the game. The...
