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Descent II is a 3D first-person shooter video game noted for popularizing the use of true 3D rendering technology and providing the player with six full degrees of freedom (often abbreviated `6DOF`) to move and to look around. Originally planned as an expansion (and not a sequel) to Descent, Descent II added more weapon types, vastly improved robot... 697

3D first-person shooter has a strong following due to its unique "six degrees of freedom" gameplay. However, because this gameplay can be challenging and strongly favors the use of a joystick, Descent never gained the popularity of more conventional ground-based 3D first-person shooter games... 249

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter computer game developed and published by Capstone Software. It was widely ignored for its outdated Wolfenstein 3D engine, which was technologically surpassed by Doom at the time... 203

Corporation (originally released for Amiga in 1990) is one of the earliest 3D first-person shooter games, predating ID Software's Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It was also the first of its kind to utilize dynamic lighting. Gameplay was very complex for its time, featuring role-playing, stealth and hacking elements, similar to the later System Shock and Deus... 94

Chasm: The Rift is a first-person shooter game developed by Action Forms. The game uses an original engine capable of weather effects and ambient sounds. Though the engine is capable of rendering 3D objects. The player takes on the role of an unnamed Marine whose mission is to stop the so-called Time Strikers, mutant beings invading different time... 335

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... 363

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... 1620

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... 415

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... 313

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... 798

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... 445

Tubular Worlds is a classic arcade side-scrolling (from left to right) shooter similar to R-Type distributed by Dongleware as shareware in 1994. The game featuring modern design, beautiful graphics, the possibility of mouse control, imaginative levels, variety of weapons, enemies, big bosses and small details. Quality sounds and the possibility of... 64

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... 264

Z is a 1996 real-time strategy computer game by The Bitmap Brothers. It is about two armies of robots (red and blue) battling to conquer different planets. Unlike traditional real-time strategy (RTS) games, collecting resources or building specific structures is unnecessary for creating an army - the same principle that was introduced by Nether Earth,... 1269

Pinball Fantasies is an Amiga pinball game developed by Digital Illusions in late 1992, as a sequel to Pinball Dreams. Like Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies contains four themed tables with various difficulty levels: Party Land, Speed Devils , Billion Dollar Gameshow, Stones 'N Bones. Each of the pinball tables was now three screens high (instead... 779

Epic Pinball is a 1993 pinball video game developed by James Schmalz and published by Epic MegaGames. The game is played seen from a 2D top-down view within a scrollable window with plain raster graphics in 320x200. It was noted for being programmed entirely in assembly language. It is written for the x86 computer family for MS-DOS. The game was originally... 275

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan.... 283

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a side-scrolling platform game for the NES by Konami. loosely based on the 1987 cartoon series of the same name. The Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) are on a mission to retrieve the Life Transformer Gun from Shredder, a device that could restore their sensei Splinter back to his human form.... 491

Xenon 2 Megablast is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. Unusually for the genre, the player's spaceship can reverse the scrolling of the play area for a limited distance, which is useful for escaping from dead ends. This game consists of five levels which are each divided into two sections. It is the sequel to Xenon, it was designed by the Bitmap... 523

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... 270