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Asmodeus: Tajemný kraj Ruthaniolu is the final game of the Czech studio NoSense, released in 1997, blending a first-person action RPG with adventure. The player takes the role of Mot, who must gather three magical stones - the Eterons - for his master in order to summon the ancient demon Asmodeus. He explores the land of Ruthaniolu, enemy-filled dungeons... 5

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1993 movie tie-in based on Coppola's 1992 film (itself adapted from Bram Stoker's novel). It is less a single game than a family of markedly different ports: on consoles and handhelds (NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy) it is an action platformer, on the Amiga and Sega CD a beat 'em up, and on MS-DOS... 10

The Four Crystals of Trazere (released in Europe as Legend) is a 1992 isometric fantasy RPG by the British group TAG (Anthony Taglione and Pete James), the creators of Bloodwych. The player leads a party of four heroes across the world of Trazere, overrun by hordes of mutants, facing a re-awakening ancient evil with the help of an elaborate spell-crafting... 3

Alien Legacy is an excellent space strategy game with a good dose of adventure and action elements thrown in. In the tradition of Starflight, explore and build new colonies on distant planets while researching alien technologies. The cliche plot at the start soon evolves into an interesting mix of alien espionage, mysteries, and intergalactic conflicts.... 8

Mutation of J.B. (Mutácia Johnyho Burgera) is a classic hand-drawn point-and-click adventure and the first Slovak game released on CD-ROM with complete Slovak voice acting (Riki Computer Games, 1996). Its characters were voiced by well-known actors and comedians such as Jozef Pročko and Ladislav Kočan, and the game is full of humour. The hero is a... 8

Reach for the Skies is a World War II combat flight simulator set during the Battle of Britain. In the game, you have the option to participate in the battle either as the Royal Air Force or the German Luftwaffe. In addition to piloting an aircraft, you can also take charge of planning which aircraft to deploy where on any given day, while trying to... 57

Dungeon Master is considered to be the first 3D realtime action computer role-playing game. Dungeon Master introduced some novel control methods including the spell casting system, which involved learning sequences of runes which represented the form and function of a spell's effect. Many reviewers considered Dungeon Master as the best example of its... 133

Yendorian Tales: The Tyrants of Thaine is the third and final entry in the fantasy RPG trilogy from the Texas-based family-run shareware studio SmithWare / SW Games, released in 1999 through the Australian publisher Spectrum Pacific Publishing. The game continues in the 1st-person grid-based dungeon crawler style established by the second instalment,... 30

Yendorian Tales: Book I – Chapter 2 (Yendor 2) is the second instalment in the fantasy RPG trilogy from the Texas-based family-run shareware studio SmithWare / SW Games, released in 1996 through the Australian publisher Spectrum Pacific Publishing. The game makes a significant shift from the original – moving from a top-down Ultima-clone perspective... 16

Yendorian Tales Book I is an overhead view fantasy role-playing game. The player can create and control a party of up to six characters belonging to a variety of classes. Interaction with the NPCs is performed by typing in conversation themes, similarly to Ultima games. Combat takes place on separate screens; the player-controlled party and the opponents... 52

Fragile Allegiance is a 4X real-time strategy set in deep space, released in 1996 by Gremlin Interactive for MS-DOS and Windows 95. The game is essentially a modernised remake of the Amiga title K240 (1994, Celestial Software) – the same mechanics ported into a PC environment with improved graphics, isometric viewpoints, and a far more sophisticated... 61

Legend of Faerghail is a party-based RPG developed by the Hannover-based German studio Electronic Design and published in 1990 by reLINE Software (and internationally through Rainbow Arts and Electronic Zoo). It shipped for the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC DOS. Mechanically the game leans heavily on Interplay's The Bard's Tale – first-person grid-based... 109

Arcade Volleyball is a simple single-screen action game for one or two players, in which the players themselves are represented by figures with large, ball-like heads. The original version of the game was created by Rhett Anderson, and the complete source code for the Commodore 64 was first published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazine in June 1988. The... 63

Ramonovo kouzlo (Ramon's Spell) is a Czech point-and-click adventure game released in 1995 by Vochozka Trading for PC DOS. Development was led by Michal Janáček, later co-founder of the Pterodon studio. The game belongs to the first wave of Czech adventures kicked off by Tajemství Oslího ostrova, and stands out technologically by replacing hand-drawn... 29

RPG in which four heroes must save their world, Kalynthia. You must control the lives of the four heroes selected to fight the evil threatening Kalynthia as they emerge from the rock that has been their prison for 900 years... 15

KKnD: Krush, Kill 'n' Destroy is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game from Australian developer Beam Software, released in 1997. The player commands one of two factions battling for the last oil reserves of a radioactive wasteland in 2140 – either the technologically advanced Survivors, who weathered the nuclear war in underground bunkers, or... 66

Magicland Dizzy (Dizzy IV) is the fourth main adventure starring the egg-shaped hero Dizzy, published by Codemasters in 1990. The evil wizard Zaks returns from the dead and traps six Yolkfolk in a world full of fairy-tale references — Dizzy must free them all and finally destroy Zaks for good... 110

Fantasy World Dizzy is an platform action - adventure for ZX Spectrum designed by the Oliver Twins with music by David Whittaker. The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was developed under the name Dizzy III. Fantasy World Dizzy featured many elements which later became standard for the series, such as having three lives, an improved... 51

The Games: Summer Challenge is a well-known sports game inspired by the Summer Olympics, developed by MindSpan in 1992 and published by Accolade during the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The sequel to the successful Winter Challenge offers 8 summer disciplines—from archery, javelin, hurdle racing, and show jumping to cycling and water slalom—with support... 45

The world's first graphical MMORPG. Launched in March 1991 on America Online as an online evolution of SSI's legendary Gold Box series. Set in the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, it combined AD&D rules with real-time interaction of hundreds of players, guilds, and PvP combat... 31