Donkey Kong is a series of video games featuring the adventures of a gorilla character called Donkey Kong, conceived by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981. In 1994, the series was revived as the Donkey Kong Country series, featuring Donkey Kong and his clan as protagonists in their native jungle setting versus...
It is one of several sub-series in the Backyard Sports series, and is the first to feature professional players as kids, examples being Steve Young and Barry Sanders. At the single game screen the player can select the field on which he wishes to play, the weather , and the level of difficulty , among...
It is part of the Mario franchise, but originally began as a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series. The arcade and Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros. such as spinning bonus coins, turtles which can be flipped onto their...
It was written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo until the death of Goscinny in 1977. The "ix" ending of both names alludes to the "rix" suffix present in the names of many real Gaulish chieftains such as Vercingetorix, Orgetorix, and Dumnorix. There have also...
The terrain is modeled after the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu that features some 1,000 miles of roads and highways.Test Drive Unlimited is the ninth main installment of Test Drive, one of the longest running racing game franchises. It is possible to drive on small islands outside of the main island, and...
It is set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe and is playable solo or with up to four players. They traveled to Kaedin's castle and killed him. As Kaedin died, he cast a final spell that killed the four heroes. With Kaedin dead, the heroes were buried with full honors and the Gems were banished to...
The game's story focuses on players assuming the role of John Tanner, an undercover FBI agent, as he investigates a car-smuggling ring across three countries, in order to identify and arrest its boss and learn who they are planning to sell a cache of stolen cars to. The game consists of primarily single-player...
Pole Position was an evolution of Namco's earlier arcade racing electro-mechanical games, notably F-1 , whose designer Sho Osugi worked on the development of Pole Position. The game was a major commercial success in arcades. After becoming the highest-grossing arcade game of 1982 in Japan, it went on...
The first game is for one player, and the remaining two are for two players. The second game has the two players, one player playing the role of the player's car, alternating turns. In the third game, one player plays one car the other player controls the other car at the same time, alternating turns. ...
It uses the same pseudo-3D overworld system for which the series is most famous. Action occurs on a widescreen display, with a large panel displaying character and enemy information taking up the lower third of the screen. Gameplay in this mode is reminiscent of Zelda II for the Nintendo Entertainment...
Using the same rotate-and-thrust controls as ASteroids, Gravitar was known for its difficulty. It was the first of over twenty games Mike Hally designed and produced for Atari, including Star Wars. If the player moves his ship into a planet, he will be taken to a side-view landscape. The player has five...
The game features the same premise as the original game, and involves controlling an army of worms and using a collection of eclectic weaponry such as bazookas, dynamite, grenades, cluster bombs, homing missiles, banana bombs and the holy hand grenade. Are among the basic weapons used to eliminate the...
Ballblazer is a futurist sports game similar to basketball and soccer. Each side has a craft called a "rotofoil" controlled by either the human or computer. The computer has ten levels of difficulty. The main goal is to score points by firing or carrying the a floating ball into the opponent's...
It is the fourth major installment in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. Unlike RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, the game will not include any micro-transactions. Similar to Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, the game features 3D graphics instead of the 2D isometric style of the first two installments in the series....
The game set a record for the number of downloads when the demo was released, which is a reflection of the popularity of the original UT. In addition, the game engine has been widely licensed for games such as the Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series, Splinter Cell, and America's Army. Starsky Partridge was...
It was published by Infogrames and released for the Xbox.Unreal Championship is essentially a console version game of the PC-based Unreal Tournament 2003, developed specifically to take advantage of Xbox Live, Microsoft's online gaming service.
It was written by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer, and is an expansion of an earlier Gygax module, The Village of Hommlet .The Temple of Elemental Evil is also the title of a related 2001 Thomas M. The module is recommended for first-level characters, who begin the adventure "weary, weak, and practically...
The single player mode has also been expanded to include Riddick escaping onto a mercenary ship called Dark Athena. Using the same stealth tactics as he did in Butcher Bay, Riddick sneaks and hides throughout the ship seeking to escape, killing the guards and mercenaries he encounters along the way....
However, in the push-off events, in which the event takes place on a raised platform, the player may make twice as much points by pushing cars off, instead of just wrecking them. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox version 74.70% and 72/100 and the Playstation 2 version...
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