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Commando is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released in 1985. It was released for several platforms. All versions of the game are very similar, with the same graphics (taking into account the various limitations of the platforms). The player (a soldier named Super Joe) starts by being dropped off in a jungle by a helicopter, and has... 518

Defender of the Crown is a strategy computer game designed by Kellyn Beck. The game is set in England in the Middle Ages where, following the death of the king, different factions are fighting for territorial control. The player assumes the role of a Saxon (Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Cedric of Rotherwood, Geoffrey Longsword or Wolfric the Wild) and tries... 1172

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... 691

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... 1870

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... 715

Dragon Quest III (known in North America as Dragon Warrior III) is the third installment in the Dragon Quest RPG series, first released for the Famicom in Japan. The game uses basic role-playing video game conventions, such as leveling up by gaining experience points and equipping items. Battle is turn-based like the other games in the series. The... 292

Dragon Wars was a fantasy RPG, developed by Interplay, contains step-by-step first person 3D wiew and turn-based combat system. Until a month before release the game was developed as `Bard's Tale IV`. Unlike its predecessors the game features a full-blown skill system, auto-mapping and many places to actually use all these abilities. Game setting was... 300

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... 1417

Dragons of Flame is a sequel to Heroes of the Lance. The style of the game is very much like it's predecessor, horizontally-scrolling fighting controlling one character at a time. The plot is a faithful representation of the books it is based on. It is based on the second Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Flame, and the second half of the first... 154

The game is set in Krynn, world of the Dragonlance saga, during the War of the Lance. DragonStrike combined elements of computer role-playing games and flight simulators. The player character is a knight who flies on the back of a metallic dragon equipped with a lance and various magic items (among other things a magic orb that acts as a radar in the... 98

DuckTales is a video game based on the Disney animated TV series of the same name. In this game, Scrooge McDuck travels around the world collecting treasures to become the world's richest duck. The player controls Scrooge McDuck throughout the entire game, searching for treasures to become the world's richest duck. DuckTales comprises five levels that... 4218

Elite is a seminal space trading computer game developed by David Braben and Ian Bell. Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wireframe 3D graphics with hidden line removal. The player, initially `Commander Jameson`, starts at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. Most of the ships that the... 242

Final Fantasy is a role-playing game created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, developed and first published in Japan by Square, originally released for the Famicom/NES. The game has four basic game modes: an overworld map, town and dungeon maps, a battle screen, and a menu screen. Final Fantasy was the first game to show the player's characters on the right... 287

Genghis Khan is the third game in the series of historical strategies developed by KOEI (Romance of Three Kingdoms, Nobunaga's Ambition). Unlike its predecessor, brings many news and especially the focus on character development - leaders, generals and their families. Everything is completely in turn-based mode and the game reflected the historical... 836

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,... 180

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... 133

The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated. You take control of a wizard, a dwarf, a barbarian and an elf, each with different strengths and weaknesses, who each start the 14 missions from opposite sides of the board. Strict turn-based movement rules... 453

Heroes of the Lance is a game based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It focuses on the journey of eight heroes through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, where they must face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve... 111

In the Home Alone game for the PC, the player must set up traps to hurt the Wet Bandits. In the Home Alone title for the NES, the player must avoid being caught by the Wet Bandits in 20 minutes. The game is an example of the trap-em-up genre, which also includes games like Heiankyo Alien, Space Panic, and Lode Runner... 1105

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a video game based loosely on the 1992 film of the same name; it was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis, Game Boy, MS-DOS and Super NES platforms. The game was released in late 1992 for all three Nintendo's consoles available at the time. Mechanically, the three versions are identical, with the... 217