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Blockout (Block Out) is the logical extension of Tetris into the third dimension. In regular Tetris, the player manipulates a set of tetrominoes which fall into a two-dimensional pit (seen from the side). The aim is to solve a real-time packing problem by forming complete rows, which then disappear and score points. Poor play leads to incomplete rows,... 735

PowerSlave (Exhumed in European) is a first-person shooter, developed by Lobotomy Software. PowerSlave is set in an area around the ancient Egyptian city of Karnak in the late 20th century. The city has been seized by unknown forces, with a special crack team of hardened soldiers sent to the valley of Karnak, to uncover the source of this trouble.... 549

Reunion (also known as Merit's Galactic Reunion) is a space strategy game from Hungaria. In the 27th century, centuries of peace have allowed great scientific progress in the development of the first interstellar warp drive. Two research ships, designated Explorer-1 and Explorer-2, are outfitted with the experimental drives and sent to find new planets... 360

MDK is a third-person shooter, one of the first PC games to require a Pentium or equivalent processor. The game tells the story of its protagonist, Kurt Hectic, and his attempts to rescue Earth from an alien invasion of gigantic strip mining city-vehicles named 'Minecrawlers', which are not only removing all of earth's natural resources but are also... 990

Magic Carpet 2 fixed many of the design complaints present in the first Magic Carpet. The basic concept of the game remains the same as Magic Carpet, with the player being able to build a castle, collect mana, destroy creatures for their mana and battle rival sorcerers. It featured the addition of night-time levels, and underground levels, which not... 216

Magic Carpet is a video game released by Bullfrog in 1994. Its graphics and gameplay were considered innovative and technically impressive at the time. The player plays a wizard (on a magic carpet) flying over water, mountains, and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards (which are controlled by the computer) and collecting mana...... 324

Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter DOS game, released in 1993 by Epic Megagames. It was mostly coded by Ken Silverman, who went on to design the Build engine that was used for rendering a first-person viewpoint in Apogee Software's Duke Nukem 3D. It consists of three episodes, the first of which was released as shareware. Ken's Labyrinth is... 98

In Pursuit of Greed (also known as "Assassinators") is a science fiction-themed first-person shooter (FPS) game released in 1995 on DOS, developed by Mind Shear Software and published by Softdisk. Greed was written in C and Assembly and based on the Raven Engine (also used in Shadowcaster) by Id Software. This engine was roughly between Wolfenstein... 187

Hovertank 3D is sometimes claimed to be the first first-person shooter or even the first 3D game for MS-DOS. The game used the same combination of scaled sprites and drawn walls that would later show up in Catacomb 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, but the walls in Hovertank 3D were in solid color, without any textures... 182

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 132

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 181

Ancient Land of Ys is the first installment of Ys, an action role-playing video game series developed by Nihon Falcom in 1987. The hero of Ys I is an adventurous young swordsman named Adol Christin. As the story begins, he has just arrived at the Town of Minea, in the land of Esteria. He is called upon by Sara, a fortuneteller, who tells him of a great... 152

Star Wars is a Family Computer / NES video game released in 1987 by Namco exclusively in Japan. The game is a side-scrolling platform game where the player controls Luke Skywalker as he travels to join the Rebellion against the Empire. Luke uses a lightsaber as his primary weapon and can also use the Force to execute special maneuvers like floating,... 528

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 802

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is a 1990 horror game developed by the British studio Horrorsoft and published by Accolade. The player arrives at Killbragant Castle, where the famous TV horror hostess Elvira is held captive by the servants of her distant ancestor, Lady Emelda. The goal is to find six keys, reach a magical dagger and scroll, and stop Emelda... 516

Jagged Alliance is a 1995 turn-based tactical game with role-playing elements, the first part of the series, made by the Montreal studio Madlab Software and published by Sir-Tech Software. The player is tasked with freeing the island of Metavira from Lucas Santino by hiring mercenaries through the A.I.M. agency and taking the island back sector by... 384

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 802

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 458

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 368

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does... 418