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As in the movie (and the more-famous graphic adventure), your task is to find the Holy Grail. Before this can be done you must find the Cross of Coronado, a shield and a diary... 209

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an arcade platform game and scrolling fighter, and is based on the movie of the same name. The player assumes the role of Indiana Jones as he infiltrates the lair of the evil Thuggee cult, armed only with his trademark whip... 236

Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road enter the world of off-road racing as 4 vehicles will face each other, on a series of tracks which are based around flipped and reversed versions of a core selection. Fame, glory and bikini clad women await your victories and the taste of dirt awaits if you fail. Let a computer car beat you and you lose one of... 262

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu is a 1990 action platform video game, developed and published by Hudson Soft. The player controls Jackie Chan, the well-known martial arts stunt master, and brawls against many enemies during his quest to save his sister. The game is played through five levels (each with a boss at the end). Throughout the game, The player... 212

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... 104

Disney's The Jungle Book is a platform game based on the 1967 Disney animated film of the same name, released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1994 for the home consoles and computers. While gameplay is the same on all versions, technological differences between the systems forced changes - in some case drastic - in level design, resulting in... 1227

A game based on the hit movie Jurassic Park. The game starts just after the T-Rex pushes the visitor's van into it's pit. You play the role of Dr. Alan Grant, so you have to find Tim and Lex, take them to the Visitor's center and get everybody out of the island. But this time it won't be half as easy as it was on the movie... 171

Karateka is a 1984 computer game by Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia. The game begins with an impressive graphic of the fortress of the evil Akuma. Akuma is holding the lovely Princess Mariko. The player must defeat the guards of the castle and must eventually face Akuma himself in order to rescue the princess. Mechner adeptly used character... 574

The Legend of Zelda, originally released as The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda in Japan, is an RPG with action-adventure and puzzle elements, developed and published by Nintendo, and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on a boy named Link, the playable protagonist, who aims to collect... 5692

Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time. Lemmings is divided into a number of levels, grouped into four difficulty levels. Each level comprises both destructible landscape elements such as rocks, indestructible sections such... 369

Lethal Weapon is an action side-scrolling platform game based on the movie series of the same name. The player chooses one of the two police partners - Martin Riggs or Roger Murtaugh (Mel Gibson / Danny Glover) and battles it out with criminals around the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding area. Each character can walk, jump, swimm and kick or... 90

The Magic Candle is a top-down party-based RPG with turn-based battles, designed by Ali Atabek and published by Mindcraft, should be described as Ultima clone. Players begin with one adventurer, a human hero called Lukas. Additional adventurers can be found in the game's two castles. Players must assemble a group of six adventurers and journey across... 93

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... 567

Metroid is an action-adventure video game, and the first entry in the Metroid series. It was co-developed by Nintendo's Research and Development 1 division, produced by Gunpei Yokoi and directed by Satoru Okada, with music composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. Set on the planet Zebes, the story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve Metroid creatures... 532

Micro Machines is the first game in the series laid the foundation of the gameplay: a top-down racing game with miniature vehicles. The race tracks are unconventionally themed. For example, some races take place on a billiard table while others occur in a garden. The cartridge itself was gold (black in Europe) with a switch at the bottom in order to... 406

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... 20

Myth: History in the Making is a 2D platform game with a lot of fighting. The levels of this game deal with different mythologies, from ancient Greece to the Vikings, Egyptians and more. The gameplay consists of running and jumping through each level, collecting objects and weapons, fighting enemies and solving puzzles. Enemies include skeletons, demons,... 418

NARC is a 1988 arcade game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics programed by George Petro. It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the arcade game industry. The object is to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and drugs, and defeat `Mr. Big`... 441

Nebulus (Tower Toppler) is a platform game with some distinctive unique features. Your character, a small green creature called Pogo, is on a mission to destroy eight towers that have been built onto the sea, by planting bombs at the towers' peaks. Pogo's progress is hindered by enemies and obstacles, which he has to avoid in order to reach the top... 621

Ninja Gaiden, released in Japan as Ninja Ryūkenden (Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword) and as Shadow Warriors in Europe, is a side-scrolling cinematic action-platformer. Tecmo developed and published it for the NES; its development and release coincided with the beat 'em up arcade version of the same name. The story follows a ninja named Ryu Hayabusa... 357