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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... 362

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... 991

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... 216

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...... 324

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... 98

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... 187

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... 182

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... 132

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1990 horror game developed by the British studio Horrorsoft and published by Accolade. The player arrives at Killbragant Castle, where the famous TV horror hostess Elvira is held captive by the servants of her distant ancestor, Lady Emelda. The goal is to find six keys, reach a magical dagger and scroll, and stop Emelda... 516

Jagged Alliance is a 1995 turn-based tactical game with role-playing elements, the first part of the series, made by the Montreal studio Madlab Software and published by Sir-Tech Software. The player is tasked with freeing the island of Metavira from Lucas Santino by hiring mercenaries through the A.I.M. agency and taking the island back sector by... 385

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... 419

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... 162

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms that moved its muscle-bound hero from two 2D platformers into first person. It runs on Ken Silverman's Build engine, which allowed looking up and down, jumping, swimming and flying with a jetpack, and it became known above all for how much of its environment the player can actually use. The... 2477

CyberMage: Darklight Awakening is a cyberpunk first-person shooter with role-playing elements, published by Electronic Arts for PC DOS in 1995. It was built by ORIGIN Systems to a design by D. W. Bradley, creator of the Wizardry role-playing series, and alongside conventional guns the player wields the powers of a Darklight crystal embedded in his... 147

Another World, known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was composed by Jean-François Freitas. The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester... 562

Fade to Black is the sequel to Delphine Software's Flashback, released by Electronic Arts in 1995. It takes the series from 2D platforming into full 3D: players again control agent Conrad B. Hart, now viewed over the shoulder through fixed camera angles reminiscent of Alone in the Dark. Fifty years after destroying the Morph homeworld, Conrad awakens... 133

Flashback, released in the US as Flashback: The Quest for Identity, is a 1992 cinematic platformer by France's Delphine Software and a spiritual successor to Another World. Players control Conrad B. Hart, an agent who wakes up amnesiac on Saturn's moon Titan and uncovers a plot by shape-shifting aliens - the Morphs - who have infiltrated humanity.... 308

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... 719

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... 259

Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter released in March 1994 for PC DOS by the American studio Capstone Software. It runs on the licensed Wolfenstein 3D engine, which made it look technically dated just 3 months after Doom. The player is a Special Forces soldier clearing the underground Delta Base floor by floor of the aliens that reached... 219