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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... 27

Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of a trio of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. Warner Bros. currently owns all rights to the property via their purchase of Midway Games and inspired by monster... 226

Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling run & gun shooter arcade game by Capcom in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. This Western-themed game was designed by... 221

Strider (Strider Hiryū in Japan) is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. Strider is set in a dystopian future in the year 2048, where a mysterious dictator known as the "Grandmaster" rules over the world. Hiryu, the youngest ever Super A Ranked member of an organization of high-tech ninja-like agents... 179

The Great Escape is a video game which shares a title and similar plot to the movie The Great Escape. The player controls an unnamed prisoner of war who has been interred in a P.O.W. camp somewhere in northern Germany in 1942. The camp itself is a small castle on a promontory surrounded on three sides by cliffs and the cold North Sea. The gaming environment... 460

10th Frame is a ten-pin bowling is simulation game created by Access Software in 1986, as a follow-up to the hugely successful Leader Board golf game. Up to 8 players could take part in Open bowling or a Tournament. There was a choice of 3 different difficulty levels - Kids, in which the ball always went straight, Amateur, and Professional... 478

Star Control is a science fiction competitive shooter developed by Toys for Bob. The game featured the basic Spacewar!-style combat engine and wraparound screen, Mêlée (as it was called due to the close combat involved, even though the ships actually fired projectile weapons at each other and engage one by one), as well as a strategic game engine with... 66

Terramex (Cosmic Relief: Prof. Renegade to the Rescue in US) is an action platform adventure game developed by Teque Software and released in 1987 for home computers. The goal is to find Professor Eistrain (Eyestrain - `eye strain`) in his secret laboratory. The professor predicted that a meteor was moving towards Earth and its course was threatened... 83

Dragon Breed (Doragon Burīdo) is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game produced by Irem and released in arcades in 1989. It runs on M72 and M81 hardware. Activision released home computer ports in 1990. The player controls King Kayus, who rides a large dragon named Bahamoot. Bahamoot is immune to enemy attacks, capable of blocking most projectiles... 151

Titanic is an scuba-diving action game developed by Spanish software house Topo Soft in 1988 for 8-bit home computers ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MXS. The game was later ported on PC DOS with two extra stages, VGA graphics and AdLib sounds. Titanic is an exploration game which is divided into two parts. In the first part, you must find the Titanic... 107

Dizzy, or Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, was the first video game featuring the character Dizzy, an anthropomorphic egg. The game was designed by two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, published by Codemasters. The game is a platform adventure where Dizzy must search the fairy tale land of Katmandu for a Leprechaun's Wig, a Cloud's... 1394

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 322

Wonder Boy (Wandā Bōi) is a 1986 platform game published by Sega and developed by Escape (now known as Westone Bit Entertainment). Originally designed for arcades, it was later ported to the SG-1000, Master System and Game Gear consoles by Sega, and to the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers by Activision. The titular Wonder Boy... 775

Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makai-mura) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs. The player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur,... 1399

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 161

Gunboat is a combat simulator of Patrol Boat Riverine (PBR). The game starts out in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. When the player earns a second lieutenant's bar, the game moves on to battle the drug kingpins of Colombia. After making the grade of lieutenant commander, the player begins patrolling the Panama Canal Zone. Game is using a mix of sprites... 122

Batman is a 1986 3D isometric action-adventure game by Ocean Software for the Amstrad CPC, MSX, ZX Spectrum and the first Batman game developed. The object of the game is to rescue Robin by collecting the seven parts of the Batcraft hovercraft that are scattered around the Batcave. The gameplay takes place in a 3D isometric universe, which programmer... 2476

Tetris (The Soviet Challenge) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is the version ported to home computers by Mirrorsoft and Andromeda Ltd and distributed by Spectrum Holobyte in 1987. Tetris is primarily composed of a field of play in which pieces... 369

Street Fighter is a 1987 arcade game developed by Capcom. It is the first competitive fighting game produced by the company and the first installment in the Street Fighter series. While it did not achieve the same worldwide popularity as its sequel Street Fighter II when it was first released, the original Street Fighter introduced some of the conventions... 393

1943: The Battle of Midway is a 1987 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Capcom. It was the first followup to Capcom's earlier 1942. The game's name is a reference to the Battle of Midway, which in actuality happened in June of 1942. The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal... 665