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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... 360

Ski or Die is a 1990 winter sports game by Electronic Arts for the Amiga, NES, DOS and Commodore 64. It consisted of 5 minigames which could be played individually or in a set sequentially. Up to 6 players could compete against each other via hotseat in 4 of the minigames, and semi-hotseat in 1 of them (up to two players at a time). The sports and... 583

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... 108

Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito as coin-op cabinet and was one of the most ported arcade games of all time. The game is controlled with a fixed swivel mounted light gun controller attached to the cabinet, with force feedback to simulate recoil. The object of the game is to rescue the five hostages in the concentration... 206

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... 254

The sequel to Nobunaga's Ambition is a much more sophisticated than the first one. The game returns to the concept of generals (samurai here), similary to Romance of Three Kingdoms. The game takes place in Japan, of course, is a typical turn-based strategy from KOEI, so the map is divided into regions, which are gradually conquering by player, improving... 132

Nobunaga´s Ambition is the first title in the series of turn-based grand strategy role-playing simulation video games. It takes place during the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. As the title suggests, the player is tasked with achieving the ultimate goal of warlord Oda Nobunaga: the conquest and unification of Japan. Selecting Oda Nobunaga is optional,... 651

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... 1889

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... 737

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sangokushi in Japanese) is the first game in a series of turn-based tactical role-playing simulation grand strategy wargames produced by Koei. The games are based on events that took place in China during the 2nd and 3rd centuries, drawing ideas mainly from the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Gameplay... 1279

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... 497

Pool of Radiance, released in 1988, was the first of a long series of tactical role-playing games that shared a common engine that came to be known as the `Gold Box Engine`. The game takes place in the Forgotten Realms setting, in and around the Moonsea region and the City of Phlan, which has been overrun by forces of evil. The city had originally... 1106

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... 195

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... 307

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...... 318

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... 694

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... 456

Bomberman is an arcade-style maze-based video game developed by Hudson Soft. It was first released in 1983 for the MSX, NEC PC-6001/8801, Sharp MZ-700 and FM-7 in Japan, and for the ZX Spectrum in Europe (under the English language title Eric and the Floaters). Bomberman spawned the long-running series with many installments building on its basic gameplay.... 56496

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... 680

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... 313