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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... 101

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as being the seminal god game. In this game, the player adopts the role of a deity and assumes the responsibility to shepherd people by direction, manipulation, and divine intervention. The player has the ability to shape the landscape and grow their civilization with... 57

Primal Rage is a traditional two-dimensional fighting game in which two players select characters to battle each other in one-on-one combat, or a single player finishes a campaign of fights against the CPU, over increasing difficulty. The final battle of the single-player game consisted of fighting all the other CPU monsters with an increased power... 145

The game starts with the Sultan of Persia being called away for a war in a foreign land. Sensing opportunity, the evil Vizier Jaffar seizes the throne for himself. The Prince is imprisoned, since Jaffar has designs on the Princess. The Princess is also imprisoned and is given an hour to decide: she would have to either marry Jaffar or else, die. The... 568

R-Type is a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987, first published by Nintendo on Arcade coin-op machines. The player controls a space fighter named the R-9 to defend humanity against a mysterious powerful alien life-form known as the Bydo. The game is made up of several sequential levels, with a boss enemy at the end of each.... 130

Road Rash is a motorcycle-racing video game, in which the player participates in violent illegal street races. The game was originally released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, but was ported to several other systems. Presented in a third-person view similar to Hang-On, the player competes in illegal road races and must finish in the top 3 places in... 45514

Ocean's version of RoboCop for 8-bit machines loosely adapts the Data East arcade game, with stages inspired by those from the coin-op, but also entirely new gameplay elements. New challenges from the arcade include hostage scenarios: in these, seen from a first-person perspective, a criminal holds an innocent person. Moving crosshairs and firing precisely,... 165

RoboCop 2 is a platform shooter based on the 1990 film of the same name. The game was released for several home computers / consoles developed and published by Ocean Software, and Data East manufactured an arcade version. Detroit cyborg cop known as RoboCop must stop a drug distributor, Cain, from spreading a new drug known as Nuke. The game follows... 485

Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible. In designing the game, Nishikado drew inspiration from popular media: Breakout, The War of the Worlds, and... 283

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 95

Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in 1991. It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in 1987 and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware. Street Fighter II improved upon the many concepts introduced in the first game, including... 920

Super Breakout features similar gameplay to the original, but with several new game variations. In Super Breakout, there are three different and more advanced game types from which the player can choose: Double, Cavity and Progressive. Super Breakout is very similar to Breakout – the layout, sound, and general behavior of the game is identical – Super... 91

Super Mario Land marked Mario's first appearance on the Nintendo Game Boy and was a launch title for the Game Boy. The gameplay of Super Mario Land is similar to that of Super Mario Bros. and its Japanese successor for the Nintendo Entertainment System. As in the previous games, the player takes the role of Mario. The ultimate objective is to defeat... 1693

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a run and gun platformer released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third and final game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The game follows closely the standard set by the previous two Super Star Wars games, with the return of selectable... 56

A light gun arcade game loosely based on the film of the same name. The home console versions are called T2: The Arcade Game to avoid conflict with the platform games. The story of the game falls in line with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day: to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor, and his mother, Sarah, from the T-1000, a mimetic... 117

Tetris is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is the version licensed by Russian company Elektronorgtechnica (Elorg) in 1988 to Atari - arcade coin-op machines, and Nintendo - home consoles and handhelds. The game features a standard endless mode, as... 5670

Titus the Fox is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Titus Interactive for the home computers. The main character of the game is a fox. The game was programmed by Eric Zmiro, with graphical design by Francis Fournier and Stephan Beaufils. Player's goal is to avoid dogs, construction workers, giant bees and similar creatures. The player can... 230

Turrican is an action platformer (run-and-gun) with smooth scrolling in all directions, created by programmer and Manfred Trenz for Rainbow Arts company. Turrican first released for the Commodore 64, Amiga and later ported to other home computers and consoles. Inspiration for Turrican was Metroid and Psycho-Nics Oscar games. Memorable music for game... 147

Universal Soldier is console conversions of Turrican II for the Mega Drive and Game Boy, produced by The Code Monkeys for Accolade, who had kept the rights for the console ports of the franchise. You control Van Damme's character as he turns against his platoon and attempts to bring down the corrupt government organization that created him. Turrican's... 92

Worms is an artillery video game developed by Team17, originally created by Andy Davidson. It is a turn based strategy game where a player controls a team of worms against other teams of worms that are controlled by a computer or human opponent. The aim is to use various weapons to kill the worms on the other teams and have the last surviving worm(s).... 295