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Disney's Aladdin is a video game based on the 1992 motion picture of the same name, is a side-scrolling platformer. The player controls Aladdin, who must make his way through several levels based on locations from the movie: from the streets and rooftops of Agrabah, the Cave of Wonders and the Sultan's dungeon to the final confrontation in Grand Vizier... 5290

Alien³ is a video game based on the movie sequel of the same name. The plot of the movie picks up directly after the end of Aliens. Ellen Ripley, the main character of the Alien series, is in cryo-sleep aboard the space ship Sulaco. The Genesis Alien³ game is a side-scrolling action game with large maze-like levels. In each level, you have to rescue... 517

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... 235

Batman Returns is a 1992 beat 'em up video game for various platforms based on the film of the same name. The Sega console versions were published by Sega while the NES and Super NES versions were developed and published by Konami. The Sega versions of the game are similar in design to its previous movie-based Batman game. While different versions... 685

Batman: The Video Game, is a group of platform games developed by Sunsoft for the NES, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx16 and Game Boy, loosely based on the 1989 film of the same name. Despite having the same title, each is actually a different game. The NES title is arguably the best known and contains five levels culminating in a showdown with the Joker... 1376

Blockout (Block Out) is the logical extension of Tetris into the third dimension. In regular Tetris, the player manipulates a set of tetrominoes which fall into a two-dimensional pit (seen from the side). The aim is to solve a real-time packing problem by forming complete rows, which then disappear and score points. Poor play leads to incomplete rows,... 246

Bram Stoker's Dracula is first-person shooter (PC version), based on the film of the same name. In the game the player takes the role of Jonathan Harker. Throughout levels Abraham Van Helsing will aid Jonathan in his quest by providing advanced weapons. Jonathan fights Dracula in numerous forms, Lucy Westenra as a vampire, Dracula's brides, and Renfield... 259

Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday is a computer role-playing game released by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1990, set in the Buck Rogers XXVC game setting. At the beginning of the game the player creates a party of six characters from a choice of five classes (Rocketjock, Warrior, Medic, Rogue, and Engineer) and six races (Human, Desert Runner, Tinker,... 196

Budokan is a versus fighting game, pitting the player against other martial arts practitioners in a great tournament known as the Budokan (taking place at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo). The player begins the game as a martial arts apprentice, and initially practices skills in four dojos, either Shadow Fighting or sparring with an instructor... 430

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... 258

Castlevania: Bloodlines, known in Japan as Vampire Killer and in Europe and Australia as Castlevania: The New Generation, is a platform game developed and published by Konami for the Sega Genesis. It is the only Castlevania video game released for the Genesis. The game's storyline concerns a legendary vampire named Elizabeth Bartley, who is Dracula's... 1100

Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy computer game with real-time battle sequences by Bits of Magic, designed by Kellyn Beck. The bulk of the game involved real-time battles (of a nature that can be argued to foreshadow later real-time tactics and real-time strategy games) against various enemies of the Roman Empire, including barbarians,... 764

The Chaos Engine is a top-down run and gun computer game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1993. Players choose two mercenaries from the group of six to take on the task of defeating the mad Baron Fortesque and the Chaos Engine itself. In one-player mode, the computer artificial intelligence controls the second... 464

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... 111

Daze Before Christmas is an action platformer developed by Norwegian company Funcom for the Mega Drive and published by Sunsoft in 1994 exclusively in Australia. It was ported to the Super NES and released in Europe and Australia. The player controls Santa Claus as he races to save Christmas from an evil mouse who has stolen the kids' presents, and... 245

Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf is the first game in the Strike series. The story follows the player, an AH-64 Apache pilot in a conflict inspired by the Gulf War. A year after the Gulf War, General Kilbaba takes over a small Arab Emirate and plans to start World War III, and the player must open way for ground troops by disabling most of his defense... 1289

Double Dragon is a 1987 beat 'em up developed by Technos Japan. The game is a spiritual and technological successor to Technos' earlier beat 'em up Renegade, but introduced several additions such as two-player cooperative gameplay and the ability to arm oneself with an enemy's weapon after disarming them. The player takes control of martial artist... 339

Double Dragon II: The Revenge begins with Marian, the heroine from the original Double Dragon, being shot to death by the leader of the Black Warriors. Once again, the player assume the role of brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee, who are now tasked with the duty of avenging Marian's death. The arcade version of the game is essentially an improved version... 191

Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone is explained on the game's attract sequence: while returning to their home from a training trip, Billy and Jimmy Lee cross paths with a fortune teller named Hiruko. The fortune teller cryptically tells the brothers that they must collect the three "Rosetta Stones" scattered around the world in order to face a mysterious... 213

Dragon's Lair features the hero, "Dirk the Daring", attempting to rescue "Princess Daphne" from the evil dragon Singe holed up in a wizard's castle. The screen shows animated scenes, and the player executes an action by selecting a direction or pressing the sword button with correct timing. The comedy of the game stemmed from not only the bizarre looking... 286