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A 1995 point-and-click adventure by the British company Adventure Soft and the sequel to Simon the Sorcerer. The evil wizard Sordid returns from the dead and sends a magic wardrobe to fetch Simon, but it breaks down on the way and drops the hero back in the fairy-tale world, where he has to find fuel to get home. The 12 verbs of the first game shrink... 1

Simon the Sorcerer is a point-and-click adventure released in 1993 by the British company Adventure Soft, previously known for horror games as Horror Soft. Twelve-year-old Simon follows his dog through a portal in the attic into a fairy-tale world, and before he can rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil Sordid he has to become a wizard himself. The... 4

Bloodwych is a 1989 real-time dungeon crawler RPG inspired by Dungeon Master. It was created by the British duo TAG (Anthony Taglione and Pete James) for the Image Works label. The player leads a party of champions of Trazere through a keep and 4 towers to gather the crystals, destroy the evil Zendick and banish the Lord of Entropy. The game's standout... 5

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is a real-time dungeon crawler by FTL Games and the sequel to Dungeon Master, released first in Japan in December 1993 and in the West only in 1995 by Interplay. The soldier Torham Zed and 3 champions must find the 4 keys to the fortress of Skullkeep in the storm-swept province of Zalk and start up the Zo... 10

A science fiction point-and-click adventure about time travel, the 1989 game with which the Paris studio Delphine Software entered the genre. Paul Cuisset designed and programmed it, Eric Chahi, later the author of Another World, drew the graphics. An ordinary window cleaner stumbles into a war between mankind and the alien Crughons and travels from... 17

Capcom made this sequel to its arcade brawler Final Fight in 1993 directly for the Super Famicom and SNES, with no arcade original behind it. Of the old crew only Mayor Mike Haggar is left, and with newcomers Maki and Carlos he chases the remnants of the Mad Gear gang, who have kidnapped Guy's fiancée Rena and her father. Its 6 rounds lead from Hong... 91

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 1

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 59

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 13

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 26

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 26

Wacky Funsters! The Geekwad's Guide to Gaming is a collection of 5 comic arcade mini-games released in 1992 by Tsunami Media, the company behind the adventure Ringworld. King Wacky sends a bespectacled hero, the Geekwad, through tennis against a robot, an Asteroids parody in which the ship is his own body, a shooting gallery in an enchanted forest,... 3

The third instalment of Sega's street brawler came out for the Mega Drive in 1994, again with music by Yuzo Koshiro. Axel, Blaze, Skate and the cyborg Zan track down the RoboCy firm, behind which Mr. X and his robots hide, alone or as a pair. The fighters can dash and roll, special attacks drain a strength gauge and 2 players can also fight each other... 39

Streets of Rage 2 is a beat 'em up Sega released for the Mega Drive in December 1992, made largely by outside studios, with graphic artist Ayano Koshiro of Ancient and composer Yuzo Koshiro. Mr. X has kidnapped Adam, and Axel, Blaze, Adam's brother Skate and the wrestler Max go after him, alone or in pairs, through 8 stages up to the Syndicate stronghold.... 21

Streets of Rage is a beat 'em up with which Sega answered Capcom's Final Fight in 1991, developed in-house for the Mega Drive. Three former police officers, Adam, Axel and Blaze, clean the city of the mysterious Mr. X's syndicate, alone or as a pair, over 8 rounds from the streets to the gang's headquarters. Each character has different power, jump... 11

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comedy Wild West point-and-click adventure designed for Sierra On-Line in 1993 by Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry, and Josh Mandel. Former gunslinger Freddy, who lost an ear to Kenny the Kid, has opened a pharmacy in the little California town of Coarsegold and now has to save it from a string of... 16

The Black Cauldron is a graphic adventure based on the Walt Disney animated film and Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain books, designed by Al Lowe and Roberta Williams and released by Sierra On-Line in 1986 on its AGI engine. The player is Taran, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper at Caer Dallben, whose pig Hen Wen turns out to have magical powers... 5

Space Quest: The Lost Chapter is a fan-made text parser adventure created by Vaughn Gosine under the alias Vonster D Monster and released as freeware for PC DOS in 2001. It runs on Sierra's original AGI interpreter, so it looks and plays like the first two Space Quest games. The story fills the gap between Space Quest II and III: Roger Wilco's escape... 6

King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! is a point-and-click adventure by Roberta Williams, published by Sierra On-Line in 1990 as the fifth instalment of the King's Quest series. King Graham returns from a walk to find empty ground where his castle and family stood, and sets off with Cedric the owl to the land of Serenia in search of the... 21

Duke Nukem II is a side-scrolling action platformer developed and published by Apogee Software for PC DOS in 1993. During a TV interview Duke is abducted by the alien Rigelatins, who want to drain his brain, and he fights his way out of their prison with a default gun, a laser, rockets and a flamethrower that lifts him up like a jetpack. The game runs... 12