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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! is a point-and-click adventure by Roberta Williams, published by Sierra On-Line in 1990 as the fifth instalment of the King's Quest series. King Graham returns from a walk to find empty ground where his castle and family stood, and sets off with Cedric the owl to the land of Serenia in search of the... 23

Super Sprint is an arcade racing game developed and released in 1986 by the American company Atari Games as the successor to its Sprint 2 coin-op. Each of the 8 tracks fits on a single screen seen from above, and up to 3 players race on the cabinet at once against computer-driven cars. Oil slicks, puddles, traffic cones and small tornadoes wait on... 25

RoboCop 3 is a platform shooter based on the film of the same name, published by Ocean Software in 1992 and 1993. The ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and NES versions were developed by Probe Software, the SNES and Nintendo Super System arcade version by Ocean itself, and the Mega Drive, Master System and Game Gear versions by Eden Entertainment Software... 154

Wizardry 2: The Knight of Diamonds is the second scenario in the Wizardry series, published by Sir-tech Software in 1982. Andrew C. Greenberg and Robert Woodhead built it as a direct continuation of the first game: the original Apple II release had no character creation, so the party came over from a Proving Grounds disk, ideally at level 13 or above.... 144

Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! is a 1985 detective adventure, the first game by ICOM Simulations and the first title in the MacVenture series, published for the Macintosh by Mindscape. Private eye Ace Harding comes to in the bathroom of a Chicago bar in 1941 with no memory, a revolver missing 3 bullets and a corpse one floor up. Instead of typing... 215

An action game based on the 1984 film, written for the NES by the Canadian studio Radical Entertainment and released by Mindscape in December 1992 under a sublicence from Bethesda. It shares only its name with the other The Terminator games for the PC, the Sega consoles and the SNES. The player is Kyle Reese and works through 6 missions following the... 176

The game centers around six adventurers who are trying to discover the secret of the Inner Sanctum: a kind of "holy grail" quest in the land of VARN. While trying to discover the Inner Sanctum, the heroes discover information about Corak's hunt for the missing villain Sheltem. They end up unmasking Sheltem, who had been masquerading as the King, and... 240

Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust's success and polished implementation popularized the concept. Players assume the role of knights armed with lances and mounted on large birds (an ostrich for Player 1, a stork for Player 2), who must... 471

Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Players take control of a trio of gigantic monsters trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. Warner Bros. currently owns all rights to the property via their purchase of Midway Games and inspired by monster... 364

Metal Gear is an overhead military action-adventure game originally released in 1987 by Konami for the MSX2 computer in Japan and parts of Europe. Considered the game to popularize the stealth game genre, it was the first video game to be fully developed by Hideo Kojima, who would go on to direct most of the games in the Metal Gear series. A reworked... 908

RoboCop 2 is a side-scrolling action platformer based on the 1990 film, published for home computers by the British company Ocean Software. The cyborg RoboCop destroys stocks of the drug Nuke, rescues hostages and hunts down the dealer Cain, with a firing range and a memory puzzle between levels. The record covers the Amiga, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum,... 1775

Gun.Smoke is a 1985 vertical scrolling run & gun shooter arcade game by Capcom in which the screen scrolls upward automatically and players only have three ways to shoot, using three buttons for left, right, and center shooting. The player can also change the way the gunman shoots through button combinations. This Western-themed game was designed by... 429

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... 416

RoboCop is an action game between a beat 'em up and a run-and-gun, developed by Data East after Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film and released to arcades in 1988. The player walks the cyborg RoboCop side-on through Detroit, punching, shooting, collecting stronger weapons and facing bosses such as the ED-209 robot, with a first-person target range between... 295

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... 520

On the surface, Archon appears similar to chess, but there are a number of significant changes. While the board is similar to a chessboard and the various pieces are similarly designed to have various offsetting abilities, when one piece attempts to take another the removal of the targeted piece is not automatic. Instead, the two pieces are placed... 142

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... 197

Star Wars is a Family Computer / NES video game released in 1987 by Namco exclusively in Japan. The game is a side-scrolling platform game where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he travels to join the Rebellion against the Empire. Luke uses a lightsaber as his primary weapon and can also use the Force to execute special maneuvers like floating,... 552

Miracle Warriors: Seal of the Dark Lord (Haja no Fūin in Japan), is a role-playing video game developed by Kogado, released initially on the Japanese PC-88 in 1986 and then ported to various other systems, including a Sega Master System version which was released in North America. The game takes place in a world of five lands spread out over three... 60

Ghosts 'n Goblins (Makai-mura) is a run and gun platform game created by Tokuro Fujiwara and developed by Capcom, released in arcades on September 19, 1985. The series has subsequently been ported to and released on a variety of game consoles and mobile platforms and spawned several sequels and spin-offs. The player controls a knight, named Sir Arthur,... 782