Zool: Ninja of the Nth Dimension is a platform game originally produced for the Amiga by Gremlin Graphics in 1992. Its protagonist is Zool, a gremlin "Ninja of the Nth Dimension" who is forced to land on Earth; in order to gain ninja ranking, he has to pass seven lands, beating a boss at the...
Hillsfar is a role-playing video game released for MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 in 1989, and NES in 1993. It features a combination of real-time action and randomly generated quests. It also includes standard gameplay elements of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, upon...
Battle Chess is a video game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. Battle Chess was critically acclaimed and commercially successful, resulting in two official follow-ups as well as several inspired games. Since there are six types of pieces for...
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...
A licensed game based on the live action/animation movie "Cool World" You play Frank Harris and your task is to stop Holli Would from entering the real world. You accomplish the levels by shooting doodles and collecting coins. Gameplay is set by 4 World with 4 levels each. Same as the movie,...
A 3-player, Indy style racing game with 5 cars that each race around 15 of Danny Sullivan's favorite tracks. Players can turbo, crash, catch fire, and lose fuel, but they may pit stop for repair. Danny himself always races (yellow car) and players can earn money for more turbo, faster pit crew, acceleration,...
Defender of the Crown is a strategy computer game designed by Kellyn Beck. In 1987 it was ported to DOS, the Nintendo Entertainment System , Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Macintosh and finally, the Apple IIGS in 1988. The player assumes the role of a Saxon and tries to fight off the...
The game was released at the time when there were many Commando clones on the market. The player characters in Ikari Warriors are Colonel Ralf and Second Lieutenant Clark of the later King of Fighters series battling through hordes of enemies. The player takes the role of commando-like warriors named...
When we last saw Paul and Vince, they had saved the Colonel and were about to head for home in a special plane given to them by the General. But then, while in flight over the ocean, the sky suddenly blackens - the ocean begins to churn - and the plane goes spinning! A booming voice fills the cockpit:...
As a licensed product for the McDonald's fast food franchise, the game occasionally features the various logos and characters from McDonald's restaurant signage and television advertisements, for the purposes of plot advancement and power-ups. Kids was also released for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari...
Rampage is a game where players control giant monsters/mutated humans. Players must smash buildings while destroying vehicles such as tanks, planes, and trains to advance to the next level. Smashing windows will sometimes reveals items of interest that the player may use.
However, the destruction of the vehicle will subtract a small amount from the player's fuel tank. At this point, the amount of fuel in the main tank is restored to what it was at the beginning of the rally . When a player gets low on fuel in their main tank, a fuel light will blink on and an alarm will...
RoboCop 2 is a series of video games published in the 1990s by Ocean and Data East for various home computers and video game consoles. They are based on the movie of the same name. Three different games were produced, each produced on two systems. The version for the Commodore 64 and NES was a simple...
F29 Retaliator authors DID developed this particular use of the Robocop license, and produced something different from most film licenses. While it featured a succession of levels based around sections of the movie, these were highly varied and presented in polygon 3D graphics. These can be played in...
Moving from one room to the next within the studio/arena, players have to shoot down hordes of enemies as they advance from all sides, while at the same time collecting weapons, power-up items, and assorted bonus prizes until a final show down with the show's host where you are finally granted your prizes,...
The game takes place in a very complex world, featuring 13,000 screens of map according to the promotional material. The Commodore 64 version features high-res overlays for the sprites, a technique that employs two sprites on top of each other one being a low resolution multi-colour sprite the other...
Winter Games was ported to the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and DOS computer platforms, and to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. The reviewers gave the game 3½...
Lemmings 2: The Tribes is a puzzle video game released in 1993, the sequel to Lemmings. As with the original, it was developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. This prophecy tells that the only way the lemmings can live is by getting off their island, using the power of the Lemming Talisman....
Played from an isometric perspective, the game consists of more than 500 levels, with each level being a piece of land which contains the player's followers and the enemy's followers. The game received critical acclaim upon release, with critics praising the game's graphics, design, sounds and replay...
It was later released on the Super Famicom in 1992 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993 by ASCII Entertainment and on the Sharp X68000 and the NEC PC-9801 in 1992 by Arsys Software as Spindizzy II. Falling from a height onto a surface, falling off the bottom of a stage, or contact with...
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...