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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,... 226

The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling puzzle/platform video game, originally released for the SNES in 1992. The main characters are three Vikings, Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout. The goal is to guide all Vikings safely through each level. The game's originality is due to the fact that the player controls three different characters... 146

Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the... 42

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... 167

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... 108

Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte. It is the first game in the Miner Willy series and among the pioneers of the platform game genre. Miner Willy, while prospecting down Surbiton way, stumbles upon an ancient, long forgotten mine-shaft. On further exploration, he finds evidence... 921

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... 519

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... 381

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... 131

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... 163

Monster Bash (called Graveyard during development) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software on 9 April 1993 for DOS. The game features 16-color EGA graphics and IMF AdLib compatible music. It was developed by Frank Maddin and Gerald Lindsly. The game is divided into three episodes. The first episode of the... 62

Mystic Towers is an isometric action game with RPG elements from Australian developers Animation FX and published by Manaccom domestically and Apogee Software internationally. It is a sequel to Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure, a platform game in which Baron Baldric battled an evil sorcerous ancestor. The player as Baron Baldric must explore 6 grand... 58

Ninja Gaiden, released in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword) and as Shadow Warriors in Europe, is a side-scrolling cinematic action-platformer. Tecmo developed and published it for the NES; its development and release coincided with the beat 'em up arcade version of the same name. The story follows a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa... 63

Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito as coin-op cabinet and was one of the most ported arcade games of all time. The game is controlled with a fixed swivel mounted light gun controller attached to the cabinet, with force feedback to simulate recoil. The object of the game is to rescue the five hostages in the concentration... 941

The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 on an HP 2100 minicomputer. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers... 510

Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan. Pac-Man is universally considered as one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of the 1980s popular culture. Pac-Man's goal is continually challenged by four ghosts: The shy blue ghost... 2271

Panzer General is a computer wargame published by Strategic Simulations in 1994 and set in World War II. Panzer General is turn-based, set on operational level hex maps. One plays lone scenarios from either Axis or Allied side and against a computer or human opponent. In Campaign Mode, the player assumes the role of a German general against the Allied... 1307

Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian video game released in 1989 by a small software developer called Locis (currently - Nikita online) in the Soviet Union in 1990, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. The game consists of controlling a small frog-like creature which jumps from one lily pad to another, trying to collect... 1071

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... 382

Pipe Mania is a puzzle game developed in 1989 by The Assembly Line for the Amiga. It was ported to several other platforms by LucasFilm Games, who gave it the name Pipe Dream. Using a variety of pipe pieces presented randomly in a queue, the player must construct a path from the start piece for the onrushing sewer slime, which begins flowing after... 782