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B.A.T.2: The Koshan Conspiracy is the sequel to the cyberpunk adventure-RPG by the French studio Computer's Dream, released by Ubi Soft in 1992 for the Amiga and PC, with an Atari ST version a year later. The action moves to the metropolis of ROMA II on the planet Shedishan, where the player, as B.A.T. agent Jehan Menais, investigates the murder of... 48

B.A.T.: The Bureau of Astral Troubleshooters is a cyberpunk mix of adventure and RPG, developed by the French studio Computer's Dream and released by Ubi Soft between 1989 and 1991 for the Atari ST, Amiga, PC, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. The player becomes a secret agent of the B.A.T. organisation in the 22nd century, with just 10 days to track down... 59

Azrael's Tear is a first-person adventure with RPG and action elements, developed by Intelligent Games and released by Mindscape in 1996 for MS-DOS. The player takes on the role of a "raptor" - a futuristic raider of ancient sites - who breaks into the freshly uncovered underground complex of Aeternis in northern Scotland, where the Knights Templar... 80

Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space (BARIS) is a strategy simulation of the Cold War space race by the studio Strategic Visions, published by Interplay in 1993. The player takes charge of either the American NASA or the Soviet space program with the goal of being the first to land a human on the Moon - allocating the budget for rocket development, recruiting... 99

Caesar II is the sequel to Impressions Games' Roman-province city-builder, released in 1995 for PC DOS and Windows (1996 for Macintosh) by publisher Sierra On-Line. As a governor the player civilizes provinces on three levels - a province map with mines and roads, a city with aqueducts, baths and temples, and a new tactical combat module for battles... 162

Battle Chess is a computer game version of chess in which the chess pieces come to life and battle one another when capturing. The game itself was inspired by the 3D chess sequences from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Futureworld. There are 35 animations, including movement, prelude to battle, and the combinations of battle itself (the latter... 297

Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (also known as Arkanoid 2) is the direct sequel to Taito's arcade hit, released in June 1987. To the proven brick-breaking with the Vaus paddle it adds warp gates with a choice of route - a single playthrough covers 34 of the total 64 rounds - regenerating silver bricks, moving blocks, new power-ups and boss fights including... 76

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... 23

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1993 licensed action game based on Coppola's film, published by Sony Imagesoft on consoles and by Psygnosis on computers. The name covers several separately designed games: on the NES, Master System, Game Gear, Game Boy, SNES and Mega Drive it is a side-scrolling platformer, on the Sega CD an action game with digitised actors,... 66

An isometric fantasy RPG by the British duo TAG (Anthony Taglione and Pete James, the makers of Bloodwych), published by Mindscape in 1992. A party of 4 heroes, one of each class, defends the land of Trazere from the hordes of chaos: on the strategic map it dodges or ambushes enemy armies, and in the isometric dungeons it fights in real time. Its most... 17

Alien Legacy is a 1994 space strategy game by the American studio Ybarra Productions, published by Sierra On-Line for PC (MS-DOS). As captain of the seedship UNS Calypso, the player settles the unknown Beta Caeli star system: surveying planetary surfaces, building colonies and orbital stations, setting up supply routes and researching new technologies.... 25

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... 26

A Battle of Britain flight simulator from Rowan Software, published by Virgin Games in 1993. The player fights for the Royal Air Force or the Luftwaffe and chooses between flying as a pilot and serving as the controller who assigns squadrons from the radar room, runs aircraft production and watches pilot morale. Pilots pick from 8 aircraft, from the... 122

Dungeon Master is a real-time dungeon crawler RPG released by FTL Games for the Atari ST in 1987. The player leads a party of 4 heroes through the dungeon in first person, picking up, throwing and slotting items into locks directly with the mouse. Spells are built from runes, and characters improve at whatever they actually do: fighting makes a better... 337

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,... 38

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... 20

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... 59

Fragile Allegiance is a 1996 real-time space strategy game developed by Cajji Software for Gremlin Interactive as a PC remake of the Amiga game K240. As a colony director of the TetraCorp mega-corporation, the player settles asteroids in the Fragmented Sectors, covers them with mines, power plants and living quarters and sells the ore to the Federation.... 89

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... 135

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... 87