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The Games: Summer Challenge is a multi-event sports game inspired by the Summer Olympics, developed by the Canadian studio MindSpan and published by Accolade in 1992, the summer of the Barcelona games. It follows on from Winter Challenge and reuses its engine, which pairs polygonal venues with bitmap athletes. Eight events are on offer, running from... 108

Neverwinter Nights (1991) was the first graphical MMORPG ever made. It launched in March 1991 on America Online, built on SSI's Gold Box engine and the AD&D 1st Edition ruleset. Players controlled a single character in and around the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, founded guilds, fought in PvP matches and could meet up to twelve at a time on... 62

Dylan Dog: The Murderers (Dylan Dog: Gli Uccisori) is a classic 2D platform game with elements of survival horror, created by Simulmondo based on the Italian cult horror comics from Tiziano Sclavi. The player is in the role of Dylan - detective investigating the of paranormal activity and mysterious crimes - after one visit to the mystery mansion,... 494

Husita (Hussite) is Czech real-time strategy from Phoenix Arts, set in the glorious period of Czech history in the first half of the 15th century. After the death of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, riots began and the "Chalice" Hussite movement spread. Sigismund, heir to the Bohemian throne, responded to this revolution by sending five crusades,... 386

Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust's success and polished implementation popularized the concept. Players assume the role of knights armed with lances and mounted on large birds (an ostrich for Player 1, a stork for Player 2), who must... 317

The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki is a first-person shooter developed by Maelstrom Software and Future Visionary. It was released in 1994 for DOS by Merit Studios. The game uses a 2.5D graphic engine, similar to the one used in Wolfenstein 3D. The plot of the game is that a mad scientist named Dr. Radiaki is going to destroy the world if an amount of $1... 285

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... 343

Falcon is a combat flight simulator video game and the first official entry in the Falcon series of the F-16 jet fighter's simulators by Spectrum HoloByte. Originally developed by Sphere for Macintosh and MS-DOS in 1987 and ported to several platforms between 1988 and 1992, the game earned commercial success and critical acclaim. The players have their... 355

Retaliator is a flight simulation program based upon two of the most revolutionary aircraft designs ever conceived: The Lockheed F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter and Grumman F-29, aka X-29. The graphics were detailed by the standards of the period, with cities, bridges, roads, islands, mountains and moving vehicles... 1823

Loom is a graphical adventure game by Brian Moriarty. A departure from other LucasArts adventure games in many senses, Loom is based on a serious and complex fantasy story. With its experimental interface, it eschewed the traditional paradigm of graphical adventures, where puzzles usually involve interactions between the game character, the environment,... 327

Mixed-Up Mother Goose is a computer game first released by Sierra On-Line in 1987. It is, in essence, an edutainment title, directed specifically at young gamers, as well as an adventure game. This edition came out as a CD-ROM (Multimedia PC) version, based on SCI1 engine, featuring enhanced MIDI soundtrack, VGA graphics, complete digitized speech... 320

Kilosoft Pacho '98 is a classic 2D action platformer from the Slovak developer Jozef Šebo alias KiloSoft, based on the film comedy by Martin Ťapák - Pacho the Brigand of Hybe, parodying the Jánošík myth. The game contains 4 large levels, each of which is situated in a unique environment and always starts with a Slovak-dubbed introduction. Pacho fighting... 122

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... 507

RoboCop is an action game based on Paul Verhoeven's film, developed for 8-bit home computers and released in 1988 by the British publisher Ocean Software. It loosely follows the Data East coin-op, but breaks up the patrols through Detroit, the drug factory and the OCP tower with sections of its own: first-person hostage scenes and a photofit puzzle... 169

RoboCop is an action game between a beat 'em up and a run-and-gun, developed by Data East after Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film and released to arcades in 1988. The player walks the cyborg RoboCop side-on through Detroit, punching, shooting, collecting stronger weapons and facing bosses such as the ED-209 robot, with a first-person target range between... 541

Little Big Adventure: Twinsen's Adventure (released in North America as Relentless) is an isometric action-adventure by the French studio Adeline Software, published by Electronic Arts in 1994 and directed by Frédérick Raynal, the creator of Alone in the Dark. The player becomes Twinsen, a young inhabitant of the planet Twinsun who rises against the... 303

Fascination is a good murder mystery, with interesting plot and some good puzzles. You play a woman in this game, but in this case it seems as if the designer made the choice only as an excuse to flaunt mildly erotic, useless scenes such as you taking a shower... 115

The Prophecy (known in Europe as Ween: The Prophecy) is a point-and-click adventure game in a fantasy setting, developed by Coktel Vision and MDO, released in Europe in 1992 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. It was published by Sierra On-Line in North America in 1993. The game takes a fantasy setting, in which you play a Wizard deemed to be ‘good’ taking... 116

Metal Mutant is a side-scrolling Action-adventure game. It is similar to Sierra's Thexder in that it allows you to transform at any time into three different robot forms (Cyborg, Dinos and Tank), each with its own weapons, which include torpedoes, axes, and a remote-controlled flying robot... 327

Mario Teaches Typing was released on personal computers and was designed to teach typing skills to children. The game was developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was first released for MS-DOS in 1992 and then for Windows and Macintosh in 1994. Mario is voiced by Ronald B. Ruben in the floppy disk version and by Charles Martinet in the... 1670