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Catacomb is a top-down action maze shooter programmed by John Carmack and published by Softdisk Publishing in 1990. The magician Petton Everhail explores the catacombs beneath the palace of the fallen Kieralon Empire, collecting keys and treasure, blasting goblins, ogres and dragons with fireballs and shooting through walls that hide secret passages.... 2

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 6

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 7

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 5

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 7

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 3

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 3

RoboCop 3D is a 3D action game based on the film RoboCop 3, developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in December 1991. Running on a modified F29 Retaliator engine, it alternates a police car chase, first-person shootouts, a jet pack flight and a duel with a robot ninja, all in filled polygons.... 4

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is the first real-time strategy game from Blizzard Entertainment, released for DOS late in 1994 and later for the Macintosh and the Japanese PC-98. Humans and the orcish Horde meet in the fantasy kingdom of Azeroth, and the war is told from both sides with 12 scenarios each. Players mine gold and chop lumber, raise a base and... 54

Command & Conquer, now distinguished by the subtitle Tiberian Dawn, is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive for PC DOS in 1995. The player commands one of two sides in a war over an alien mineral called tiberium: the UN-backed Global Defense Initiative, or the secretive Brotherhood of Nod led by... 211

Wing Commander: The Secret Missions is the first data disk for the space combat simulator Wing Commander, released by Origin Systems in December 1990. The Kilrathi wipe out the Terran colony of Goddard with a new secret weapon, and the carrier TCS Tiger's Claw sets off after the strike fleet deep into enemy space, without reinforcements and with no... 59

Wizardry 2: The Knight of Diamonds is the second scenario in the Wizardry series, published by Sir-tech Software in 1982. Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead built it as a direct continuation of the first game: the original Apple II release offered no character creation at all, so the party had to be transferred from a Proving Grounds disk, ideally... 136

Ancient Fighters is a grid-based dungeon crawler released in 1994 by the Slovak label Extra Vision for the ZX Spectrum, followed shortly after by a SAM Coupe conversion. Seen from a first-person view, the player works through the catacombs beneath ancient Rome while switching between three warriors, each with his own map, his own weapon and his own... 185

Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is the sequel to Bullfrog's god game, released in November 1991 for the Amiga and gradually ported to other computers and consoles. Peter Molyneux insisted the game be written from scratch, and moved it out of a vague medieval world into Greek myth: the player is a demigod, son of Zeus by a mortal woman, who... 91

The Fellowship of the Ring is an illustrated text adventure based on the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, built in 1985 by the Australian studio Beam Software for the publisher Melbourne House. In Europe it was sold as Lord of the Rings: Game One, and it is the follow-up to the same studio's earlier The Hobbit. The player leads Frodo and his... 175

The Hobbit is an illustrated text adventure based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in 1982 by Veronika Megler and Philip Mitchell at the Australian studio Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. The player takes the role of Bilbo Baggins, travelling with Gandalf and Thorin across Middle-earth towards the Lonely Mountain, where the... 75

Deja Vu I & II: The Casebooks of Ace Harding bundles both detective adventures starring Ace Harding, originally released separately on the Macintosh in 1985 and 1988. Mindscape first packaged the two ICOM Simulations cases together for DOS and Windows 3.x in 1992, selling both for the price of one game. A reworked Game Boy Color port followed in 1999,... 62

Deja Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas is a 1988 sequel to ICOM Simulations' debut Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! and the final entry in the MacVenture series, which had grown to include Uninvited and Shadowgate along the way. The player again takes on private eye Ace Harding, who wakes up in Las Vegas with a splitting headache and finds himself accused... 93

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! is a 1985 debut from ICOM Simulations and the very first entry in the MacVenture series, later joined by Uninvited and Shadowgate. The player takes on private eye Theodore "Ace" Harding, who wakes up with no memory in the toilet stall of a smoky Chicago bar, a revolver in his pocket and a dead body one floor up. It... 207

Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games is a 1996 turn-based tactical game and a standalone follow-up to the first part, developed and published by Sir-Tech Software. It runs on the same engine, but instead of liberating a single island it offers a chain of self-contained missions handed out by an anonymous employer and capped by a number of turns. Mercenaries... 29