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Mario Teaches Typing was released on personal computers and was designed to teach typing skills to children. The game was developed and published by Interplay Productions. It was first released for MS-DOS in 1992 and then for Windows and Macintosh in 1994. Mario is voiced by Ronald B. Ruben in the floppy disk version and by Charles Martinet in the... 1676

Xatax is a shoot 'em up computer game produced by Pixel Painters and released as shareware in 1994. The game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up similar to Gradius and R-Type. The player's ship must defeat waves of attacking aliens and defensive turrets over three levels before challenging the Xatax itself. Dead aliens drop power-up capsules which... 604

Xenon is a 1988 2D vertical-scrolling shooter computer game, originally released for the Amiga and quickly ported to other platforms. Excellent graphics, catchy soundtrack, and gameplay turned the game into best-seller on Commodore 64 and Amiga systems, although the PC version much less well received. Like all great SHMUPs, Xenon features smooth controls,... 560

Xenon is a 1988 2D vertical-scrolling shooter computer game, originally released for the Amiga and quickly ported to other platforms. Excellent graphics, catchy soundtrack, and gameplay turned the game into best-seller on Commodore 64 and Amiga systems, although the PC version much less well received. Like all great SHMUPs, Xenon features smooth controls,... 144

Xargon: The Mystery of the Blue Builders is a side-scrolling platform game very similar to Jill of the Jungle, but with improved graphics, released by Epic MegaGames, programmed by Allen Pilgrim with graphics created by Joe Hitchens. The basic goal of the game is to advance through the map by completing levels. To finish a level, the player must find... 156

Annals of Rome is a turn-based historical strategy game set in ancient Rome, created in 1986 by the British studio Personal Software Services (PSS). It appeared on a wide range of 8- and 16-bit computers - from the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC to the Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amiga and PC. The player takes charge of the Roman state from 273 BC, but the... 110

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a run and gun platformer released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third and final game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The game follows closely the standard set by the previous two Super Star Wars games, with the return of selectable... 263

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a run and gun platformer released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third and final game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The game follows closely the standard set by the previous two Super Star Wars games, with the return of selectable... 117

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a run and gun platformer released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third and final game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The game follows closely the standard set by the previous two Super Star Wars games, with the return of selectable... 379

Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1993 run and gun platformer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the second game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1980 film of the same name. The game follows closely the standard set by its predecessor, with multiple playable characters and pseudo-3D (Mode 7) vehicle sequences.... 319

Gods is a 1991 video game by The Bitmap Brothers where the player is cast as Hercules in his quest to achieve immortality. The game was first made for Amiga and Atari ST computers and then ported for various other platforms. Not unlike other Bitmap Brothers' games, Gods was highly praised by critics thanks to the quality graphics and music... 673

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... 229

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... 320

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... 269

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... 496

Super Star Wars is an action platformer game released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System based on the 1977 film Star Wars. Super Star Wars features side-scrolling run and gun gameplay, although it has stages which feature other challenges, such as driving a landspeeder or piloting an X-wing. It also features multiple playable characters... 456

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

Wolf is a life simulation game where the player takes the role of a wolf. The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is a scenario mode, where the player has to complete specific actions; this is comparable to quests given in RPGs. Game includes multimedia, such as clips... 818

Second installment in the Princess Maker series of life simulation games developed by the Japanese computer game and anime production company Gainax. You are a war hero who raises a girl to the age of 18. At the end of the game, your daughter goes into a line of work; what this work is, how much talent she has for it, her marital life, and her overall... 720

Princess Maker is a life simulation (bishōjo) game developed by video game and anime production company Gainax, originaly for the NEC PC-9801 system in 1991. The player is in charge of a war orphan, Maria, after defeating an evil demon. This game is similar to Princess Maker 2, but one cannot give pocket money to the daughter, and in this version,... 1262