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System Shock is an action role-playing game developed by Looking Glass Technologies and published by Origin Systems. Released in 1994, the game is set aboard the fictional Citadel Station in a cyberpunk vision of 2072. Assuming the role of a nameless hacker, the player attempts to hinder the plans of a malevolent artificial intelligence... 319

Cruise for a Corpse (orig. Croisière pour un cadavre) is an adventure game from Delphine Software International, made for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC in 1991. The game is designed as a murder investigation. The player assumed the role of Raoul Dusentier, a man invited to spend some time on Niklos Karaboudjan's boat. Quickly after arriving, Karaboudjan... 161

Spear of Destiny: The game consists of one 21-level episode, 19 of which need to be completed in order to win the game; graphics, gameplay, etc., are very similar to those of Wolfenstein 3D. The game's levels can be divided into four blocks, each ending with the player having to defeat a "boss" in the final level... 187

Shadow Warrior is a first-person shooter similar to Duke Nukem 3D as both use the Build engine. Players navigate the protagonist, Lo Wang, through three-dimensional environments or "levels". Throughout levels are enemies that attack Lo Wang, these are killed by the player using weapons such as a katana. Bosses are usually present at the end of a level.... 591

Rise of the Triad: Dark War (ROTT) is a first-person shooter developed by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms). The members of the development team involved referred to themselves as `The Developers of Incredible Power`. The engine is an enhanced variant of the Wolfenstein 3D engine. The level design is chiefly characterized by 90 degree walls and unvarying... 356

Redneck Rampage is an first-person shooter game, features some songs by Mojo Nixon, Reverend Horton Heat, Beat Farmers and other Psychobilly artists. It uses the same Build engine as Duke Nukem 3D. The plot revolves around two brothers, Leonard and Bubba, fighting through the fictional town of Hickston, USA , to rescue their prized pig Bessie and thwart... 988

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,... 555

PowerSlave (Exhumed in European) is a first-person shooter, developed by Lobotomy Software. PowerSlave is set in an area around the ancient Egyptian city of Karnak in the late 20th century. The city has been seized by unknown forces, with a special crack team of hardened soldiers sent to the valley of Karnak, to uncover the source of this trouble.... 517

Reunion (also known as Merit's Galactic Reunion) is a space strategy game from Hungaria. In the 27th century, centuries of peace have allowed great scientific progress in the development of the first interstellar warp drive. Two research ships, designated Explorer-1 and Explorer-2, are outfitted with the experimental drives and sent to find new planets... 305

MDK is a third-person shooter, one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor. The game tells the story of its protagonist, Kurt Hectic, and his attempts to rescue Earth from an alien invasion of gigantic strip mining city-vehicles named 'Minecrawlers', which are not only removing all of earth's natural resources but are also... 905

Magic Carpet 2 fixed many of the design complaints present in the first Magic Carpet. The basic concept of the game remains the same as Magic Carpet, with the player being able to build a castle, collect mana, destroy creatures for their mana and battle rival sorcerers. It featured the addition of night-time levels, and underground levels, which not... 194

Magic Carpet is a video game released by Bullfrog in 1994. Its graphics and gameplay were considered innovative and technically impressive at the time. The player plays a wizard (on a magic carpet) flying over water, mountains, and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards (which are controlled by the computer) and collecting mana...... 305

Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter DOS game, released in 1993 by Epic Megagames. It was mostly coded by Ken Silverman, who went on to design the Build engine that was used for rendering a first-person viewpoint in Apogee Software's Duke Nukem 3D. It consists of three episodes, the first of which was released as shareware. Ken's Labyrinth is... 95

In Pursuit of Greed (also known as "Assassinators") is a science fiction-themed first-person shooter (FPS) game released in 1995 on DOS, developed by Mind Shear Software and published by Softdisk. Greed was written in C and Assembly and based on the Raven Engine (also used in Shadowcaster) by Id Software. This engine was roughly between Wolfenstein... 176

Hovertank 3D is sometimes claimed to be the first first-person shooter or even the first 3D game for MS-DOS. The game used the same combination of scaled sprites and drawn walls that would later show up in Catacomb 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, but the walls in Hovertank 3D were in solid color, without any textures... 166

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 116

Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark is a horror RPG, starring the actress Cassandra Peterson. The player's character has been called upon to rescue Elvira, for she has been kidnapped and is being held in her own castle. In the beginning of the game the player is captured, and then rescued by Elvira... 490

Released in 1994 for DOS this first game of the series tasks the player with freeing the island of Metavira from the greedy Santino. The player must recruit mercenaries as they explore, capture, and hold new territory. The natives harvest the valuable trees from which a revolutionary medicine can be extracted; a result of the island having been used... 369

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... 390

FX Fighter was an early realtime 3D fighting game to be developed for the PC. The game features 8 different characters, eight different arenas, movie cut scenes, and 40 attacks per fighter. The player selects a character to face against eight of the best fighters in the universe for a prize consisting of the most powerful weapon in the universe... 156