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An action game based on the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, developed for home computers by Dementia and published by Ocean Software in 1991. As the T-800, the player protects young John Connor through a string of scenes from the film: one-on-one fights with the T-1000, a motorbike escape from a lorry, a shoot-out in the Cyberdyne labs, a chase with... 3

A light-gun shooter Midway put into arcades in 1991, released on home computers and consoles as T2: The Arcade Game. As a T-800 the player aims a crosshair at the machines of Skynet, first in the war of 2029 and then in Los Angeles, guarding 10-year-old John Connor against the T-1000. The characters are digitised from real footage and the levels copy... 4

A light-gun shooter Midway put into arcades in 1991, released on home computers and consoles as T2: The Arcade Game. As a T-800 the player aims a crosshair at the machines of Skynet, first in the war of 2029 and then in Los Angeles, guarding 10-year-old John Connor against the T-1000. The characters are digitised from real footage and the levels copy... 2

A point-and-click detective adventure by Mythos Software, released by Electronic Arts for PC DOS in 1992. In London in 1888 a young actress is found murdered behind a theatre and everything points to Jack the Ripper, but Sherlock Holmes sets out after a different killer. The investigation runs on questioning witnesses, analysing clues in the Baker... 3

A 1995 point-and-click adventure by the British company Adventure Soft and the sequel to Simon the Sorcerer. The evil wizard Sordid returns from the dead and sends a magic wardrobe to fetch Simon, but it breaks down on the way and drops the hero back in the fairy-tale world, where he has to find fuel to get home. The 12 verbs of the first game shrink... 3

Simon the Sorcerer is a point-and-click adventure released in 1993 by the British company Adventure Soft, previously known for horror games as Horror Soft. Twelve-year-old Simon follows his dog through a portal in the attic into a fairy-tale world, and before he can rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil Sordid he has to become a wizard himself. The... 6

Bloodwych is a 1989 real-time dungeon crawler RPG inspired by Dungeon Master. It was created by the British duo TAG (Anthony Taglione and Pete James) for the Image Works label. The player leads a party of champions of Trazere through a keep and 4 towers to gather the crystals, destroy the evil Zendick and banish the Lord of Entropy. The game's standout... 6

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep is a real-time dungeon crawler by FTL Games and the sequel to Dungeon Master, released first in Japan in December 1993 and in the West only in 1995 by Interplay. The soldier Torham Zed and 3 champions must find the 4 keys to the fortress of Skullkeep in the storm-swept province of Zalk and start up the Zo... 13

A science fiction point-and-click adventure about time travel, the 1989 game with which the Paris studio Delphine Software entered the genre. Paul Cuisset designed and programmed it, Eric Chahi, later the author of Another World, drew the graphics. An ordinary window cleaner stumbles into a war between mankind and the alien Crughons and travels from... 19

Capcom made this sequel to its arcade brawler Final Fight in 1993 directly for the Super Famicom and SNES, with no arcade original behind it. Of the old crew only Mayor Mike Haggar is left, and with newcomers Maki and Carlos he chases the remnants of the Mad Gear gang, who have kidnapped Guy's fiancée Rena and her father. Its 6 rounds lead from Hong... 107

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 1

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 61

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 14

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 28

Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-em-up released by Capcom in the arcades in 1989. Mike Haggar, a former wrestler and the new mayor of Metro City, sets out with Cody and Guy to rescue his daughter Jessica from the Mad Gear gang. 2 players fight at once, each of the 3 heroes has his own style, and the streets yield knives, pipes and katanas as well... 28

Wacky Funsters! The Geekwad's Guide to Gaming is a collection of 5 comic arcade mini-games released in 1992 by Tsunami Media, the company behind the adventure Ringworld. King Wacky sends a bespectacled hero, the Geekwad, through tennis against a robot, an Asteroids parody in which the ship is his own body, a shooting gallery in an enchanted forest,... 3

The third instalment of Sega's street brawler came out for the Mega Drive in 1994, again with music by Yuzo Koshiro. Axel, Blaze, Skate and the cyborg Zan track down the RoboCy firm, behind which Mr. X and his robots hide, alone or as a pair. The fighters can dash and roll, special attacks drain a strength gauge and 2 players can also fight each other... 43

Streets of Rage 2 is a beat 'em up Sega released for the Mega Drive in December 1992, made largely by outside studios, with graphic artist Ayano Koshiro of Ancient and composer Yuzo Koshiro. Mr. X has kidnapped Adam, and Axel, Blaze, Adam's brother Skate and the wrestler Max go after him, alone or in pairs, through 8 stages up to the Syndicate stronghold.... 21

Streets of Rage is a beat 'em up with which Sega answered Capcom's Final Fight in 1991, developed in-house for the Mega Drive. Three former police officers, Adam, Axel and Blaze, clean the city of the mysterious Mr. X's syndicate, alone or as a pair, over 8 rounds from the streets to the gang's headquarters. Each character has different power, jump... 11

Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comedy Wild West point-and-click adventure designed for Sierra On-Line in 1993 by Al Lowe, the creator of Leisure Suit Larry, and Josh Mandel. Former gunslinger Freddy, who lost an ear to Kenny the Kid, has opened a pharmacy in the little California town of Coarsegold and now has to save it from a string of... 16