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Gods is a 1991 video game by The Bitmap Brothers where the player is cast as Hercules in his quest to achieve immortality. The game was first made for Amiga and Atari ST computers and then ported for various other platforms. Not unlike other Bitmap Brothers' games, Gods was highly praised by critics thanks to the quality graphics and music... 211

Gorillas, also known under the source code's file name GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation. It is a turn-based artillery game. With allusions to King Kong, the game consists of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle... 1153

500cc Grand Prix was one of the first French-made games for the Atari ST. It is a motorcycle simulator game viewed from behind the bike. It was developed by Microïds in 1986 as their first game. It lets players ride on 12 circuits all around the world either alone or against a friend with vertically-split screen. GP 500cc contains two game modes -... 100

Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders is a fantasy first-person shooter, using a modified Doom engine, Heretic was one of the first first-person games to feature inventory manipulation and the ability to look up and down. It also introduced multiple gib objects spawned when a character suffered a death by extreme force or heat... 5842

The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated. You take control of a wizard, a dwarf, a barbarian and an elf, each with different strengths and weaknesses, who each start the 14 missions from opposite sides of the board. Strict turn-based movement rules... 1922

Sequel to Heretic, Hexen uses a modified version of the Doom engine, which allows jumping, network play with up to 8 players and the choice of three character classes. It also popularized the `hub system` of level progression in the genre of first-person shooter games... 2511

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... 75

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... 69

It's 1939, at the eve of World War II. Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., at the request of a certain Mr. Smith, retrieves a strange idol from the Barnett College museum to him and his friend Marcus Brody. However, when Indy presents it to Smith, he holds him and Marcus at gunpoint, takes the statue and escapes... 408

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... 103

Jazz Jackrabbit is similar in gameplay to the Sonic the Hedgehog games, with some differences. The game features six episodes; each episode consists of three worlds, with two levels and one 3D bonus level (reached by finding a special gem hidden in one of two standard levels) per world, a secret level on each episode hidden in a particular planet and... 189

Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare 1994 in the first of two special episodes developed and published by Epic MegaGames, Inc. starring everybody's favorite hare, Jazz Jackrabbit. Jazz must survive three areas of Holidaius using his own weapons to fight mongrels, monkeys, hands, ski turtles, and devils. The graphics have a `Christmas` theme to them, and that... 223

Jill of the Jungle is a 2D scrolling action platform game released in 1992 by Epic MegaGames. It was intended to rival platform games previously released as shareware by id Software and Apogee Software. Jill of the Jungle is the first episode of a shareware series. Player takes the role of an Amazon woman who can use various types of weapons and enhancements... 199

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... 54

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... 55

The Kroz series is a series of video games created by Scott Miller. The first episode in the series, Kingdom of Kroz, was released in 1987 as Apogee Software's first game. The story of the game places the player as an archeologist searching for the priceless Magical Amulet of Kroz in the mystical Kingdom of Kroz. The object of the game is to survive... 126

Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a basketball video game developed by Electronic Arts. The game would be the first team basketball game to acquire full players names and rights without actually relying on the NBA Players Association. Established stars in the game include Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and... 1104

Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time. Lemmings is divided into a number of levels, grouped into four difficulty levels. Each level comprises both destructible landscape elements such as rocks, indestructible sections such... 1666

Little Big Adventure is Action Adventure viewed from a pseudo 3D isometric perspective. All characters and vehicles in the game, including some props in the world, are real 3D polygon-based objects, allowing for full rotation and movement abilities. The game takes place on Twinsun, a strange planet (not to be confused with Twinsen, the game's protagonist)... 150

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,... 216