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Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax (known as Axe of Rage in North America) is a fighting video game developed by Palace Software and published by Palace in Europe and by Epyx in North America. It was released in 1989 for various home computers and is the sequel to Barbarian / Death Sword... 972

Barbarian (Death Sword) is a one or two-player fighting game. As the name suggests, the fighters are barbarians. The game offers sword combat in various locales. The game has also a one-player plot mode, where the player has to defeat several fighters to fight evil wizard Drax to rescue princess Mariana. The game was greatly inspired by sword and sorcery... 1424

Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure is an side-scrollig action platformer adventure, originally designed for the Amiga by a professional animator, Lindsay Whipp of Animation FX. It is considered very rare since the registered version was only sold in the Australian territory by Electronic Arts Australia. The story of Baron Baldric takes place under Castle... 74

Batman Returns is a DOS point-and-click adventure game developed by Park Place, co-published by Spirit of Discovery and distributed by Konami. Due the open ended nature of the game, it was delayed during development and released in December of 1992, rather the June. Based on the movie of the same name, the game has a stronger focus on detective work... 336

Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is an action platformer developed and published by Ocean Software based on the 1989 film of the same name. The game consists of five levels based on events from the movie. Each stage has a time limit and a health gauge (represented by Batman's face turning into the Joker's), with Batman losing a life if he runs... 526

Battle Arena Toshinden is a weapons-based fighting game. It was one of the first fighting games to boast polygonal characters in a 3D environment. It was an early killer game for the PlayStation, and Sony promoted it eagerly. Each character has its own unique set of moves and a desperation attack that can only be used when the player has low energy... 265

Beneath a Steel Sky is a British 1994 science fiction point and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. It featured comedy elements and was developed by Revolution Software and the backstory is introduced through a comic book, drawn by comic artist Dave Gibbons, which tells the story of a young boy called Robert who is the sole survivor of a plane... 179

Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels. The game is designed to resemble a book, separated into chapters and narrated in the third-person with a quick-save bookmark feature. Gameplay occurs mainly from a first-person perspective while traveling in the overworld, dungeons,... 403

Blackthorne (Blackhawk in some European countries) is a computer and video game, a cinematic platformer. The game focuses around protagonist Kyle Vlaros who is known as the Blackthorne, out for revenge on Sarlac and his minions. The gameplay involves large platforming sequences similar to the 2d Prince of Persia games, in which Kyle can run and climb... 147

Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold is a first-person shooter computer game based on the Wolfenstein 3D game engine, created by JAM Productions and published by Apogee Software in 1993. The gameplay of Aliens of Gold is very similar to Wolfenstein 3D. Playable areas are single-leveled, with orthogonal walls and textured floors and ceilings, and have a wide... 371

Blockout (Block Out) is the logical extension of Tetris into the third dimension. In regular Tetris, the player manipulates a set of tetrominoes which fall into a two-dimensional pit (seen from the side). The aim is to solve a real-time packing problem by forming complete rows, which then disappear and score points. Poor play leads to incomplete rows,... 205

Blood utilized the first Build engine from Ken Silverman to feature voxels. The game falls in the first-person shooter category and has an arsenal of curious weapons, numerous enemies and liberal amounts of gore... 1393

Boulder Dash, aka Rockford, was originally created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The hero of the game, whom the player controls, is the brave prospector "Rockford". He must dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds, while avoiding various types of dangerous creatures as well as obstacles like falling rocks and the constant danger of being crushed... 1658

Budokan is a versus fighting game, pitting the player against other martial arts practitioners in a great tournament known as the Budokan (taking place at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo). The player begins the game as a martial arts apprentice, and initially practices skills in four dojos, either Shadow Fighting or sparring with an instructor... 1384

Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure / RPG game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in August 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS. In the original Cadaver, Karadoc, who is a gold-hungry dwarf and really just hopes to find a treasure, is on a mission to seek out and kill the necromancer Dianos, the sole remaining inhabitant... 217

Caesar is a city-building computer game where the player undertakes the role of a Roman governor, building ancient Roman cities. The game was effectively a clone of SimCity, developed by Maxis, but with a Roman setting. In addition to similar graphics and user interfaces, it also came with issues of micromanagement, including complicated city-planning... 217

War has never been so much fun. Cannon Fodder is war themed action/startegy game in top-down view. the player is in charge of a squad of between one to eight men that can be, for command purposes, split up to three groups. All men have a machine gun with unlimited ammunition, as well as limited caches of grenades and rockets that can be found on the... 599

Castlevania (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Konami, originally released for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986. It is the first game in Konami's Castlevania video game series. Castlevania uses platform gameplay and is divided into six blocks of three stages each, for a total of 18 stages. Players... 341

Catacomb by John Carmack was released for the Apple II and PC. This is a two-dimensional game utilising a third-person view from above, released in 1989-1990. It was followed up with Catacomb II (The Catacomb), which used the same game engine with new levels... 172

The Catacomb Abyss is a first-person shooter game introduced the concept of showing the player's hand in the three-dimensional viewport, and an enhanced version of its technology was later used for the more successful and well-known Wolfenstein 3D... 295