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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1989 arcade game released by Konami and based on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series that began airing two years earlier. In the game, up to four players control the titular Ninja Turtles, fighting through various levels to defeat the turtles' enemies, including the Shredder, Krang and the Foot Clan.... 3110

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a side-scrolling platform game for the NES by Konami. loosely based on the 1987 cartoon series of the same name. The Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) are on a mission to retrieve the Life Transformer Gun from Shredder, a device that could restore their sensei Splinter back to his human form.... 489

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a side-scrolling platform game for the NES by Konami. loosely based on the 1987 cartoon series of the same name. The Ninja Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello) are on a mission to retrieve the Life Transformer Gun from Shredder, a device that could restore their sensei Splinter back to his human form.... 221

Xenon 2 Megablast is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. Unusually for the genre, the player's spaceship can reverse the scrolling of the play area for a limited distance, which is useful for escaping from dead ends. This game consists of five levels which are each divided into two sections. It is the sequel to Xenon, it was designed by the Bitmap... 102

Xenon 2 Megablast is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. Unusually for the genre, the player's spaceship can reverse the scrolling of the play area for a limited distance, which is useful for escaping from dead ends. This game consists of five levels which are each divided into two sections. It is the sequel to Xenon, it was designed by the Bitmap... 161

Xenon 2 Megablast is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up. Unusually for the genre, the player's spaceship can reverse the scrolling of the play area for a limited distance, which is useful for escaping from dead ends. This game consists of five levels which are each divided into two sections. It is the sequel to Xenon, it was designed by the Bitmap... 522

Castlevania: Bloodlines, known in Japan as Vampire Killer and in Europe and Australia as Castlevania: The New Generation, is a platform game developed and published by Konami for the Sega Genesis. It is the only Castlevania video game released for the Genesis. The game's storyline concerns a legendary vampire named Elizabeth Bartley, who is Dracula's... 1195

Super Castlevania IV is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. Following the same setting as original Castlevania on the NES, the game takes place in 1691 Transylvania, where the vampire hunter Simon Belmont must defeat the vampire Dracula. The gameplay consists of traversing... 694

Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure / RPG game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in August 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS. In the original Cadaver, Karadoc, who is a gold-hungry dwarf and really just hopes to find a treasure, is on a mission to seek out and kill the necromancer Dianos, the sole remaining inhabitant... 269

Castlevania: The Adventure is a platform game released by Konami for the Game Boy in 1989 and it is the first Castlevania title for the system. Set a century before the events of the original Castlevania, the player controls an ancestor of Simon Belmont named Christopher Belmont who goes on a quest to defeat Dracula. The game consists of four stages,... 224

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is an action platformer game produced and published by Konami in Japan in 1989 for NES/Famicom home consoles. Castlevania 3 is a prequel to the original Castlevania, set a few centuries before the events of the original game. The game's protagonist is Trevor C. Belmont, an ancestor of the original hero Simon Belmont.... 745

Beneath a Steel Sky is a British 1994 science fiction point and click adventure game in the cyberpunk genre. It featured comedy elements and was developed by Revolution Software and the backstory is introduced through a comic book, drawn by comic artist Dave Gibbons, which tells the story of a young boy called Robert who is the sole survivor of a plane... 202

Alien Breed is the first in a series of science fiction computer games played in the form of a top-down shooter for one or two players. Alien Breed consists of the player or players having to find the lift down to the next level, occasionally setting the self destruct sequence to blow up the level above them. The players collect or purchase a variety... 527

Abuse resembles a side-scrolling platform game. The game is marked for its unusual control scheme: The keyboard is used to move Nick, while the mouse is used for aiming the weapons. The basic gameplay consists of fighting various enemies and solving some simple puzzles... 584

Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts. The storyline within the Dark Forces is set in the Star Wars fictional universe and follows the character Kyle Katarn. Katarn is a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance. He discovers the Empire's "Dark Trooper Project", which involves the building... 599

It's 1939, at the eve of World War II. Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr., at the request of a certain Mr. Smith, retrieves a strange idol from the Barnett College museum to him and his friend Marcus Brody. However, when Indy presents it to Smith, he holds him and Marcus at gunpoint, takes the statue and escapes... 724

Tomb Raider follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures à la Indiana Jones. The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential. It spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media. The player controls the archaeologist Lara Croft in search of the three mysterious Scion artefacts... 612

Alien Trilogy is a 3D first-person shooter based on the first three movies in the Alien film series. In the role of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, the player is thrust into the storyline of the Alien franchise, concluding finally with Alien 3. However, aside from occasional CGI cut scenes, the plot is told through text-based mission briefings that guide... 992

Haunted Castle (Akumajō Dracula) is a side-scrolling platform game released by Konami for the arcades in 1987. The game is an adaptation of the original Castlevania, but is not a direct port of the NES version. Rather, it is a new game running on custom JAMMA-based hardware. The game has the player controlling Simon Belmont, who embarks on a journey... 1682

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is a platform-adventure game produced by Konami, originally released in Japan in 1987 for the Famicom Disk System. It is the second Castlevania game released for the NES, following the original Castlevania in 1986. Set sometime after the events of the first installment, the player once again assumes the role of vampire... 249