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Shadow of the Beast II finds the hero in half-beast form, wandering the lands of Karamoon in search of his kidnapped sister. She had been taken away from her mother's cottage by the dragon-form of the Beast Mage, Zelek, servant to Maletoth. The game initially received praise for its high level cosmetics, although graphically inferior to the first game... 134

Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling platform computer game released for the Commodore Amiga, but the game has been ported to many other systems. Shadow of the Beast, however, was considered revolutionary because its graphics, with many more colours on screen and up to twelve levels of parallax scrolling backdrops, were of a level rarely if ever... 139

Sensible Soccer (Championship Soccer '94) is a football/soccer game developed by Sensible Software and first released for Amiga and Atari ST in 1992. It featured a zoomed-out bird's-eye (top-down) view, editable national, club and custom teams (original game includes the 1992 European Championships) and gameplay utilising a relatively simple and user-friendly... 13540

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 (released in Japan as Sangokushi II) is the second in the series of turn-based strategy games produced by Koei and based on the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Upon starting the game, players choose from one of six scenarios that determine the initial layout of power in ancient China. The player wins... 309

Psycho Pinball is a pinball video game released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and PC DOS. There are four differently themed tables; Wild West (American Old West), Trick or Treat (Halloween), The Abyss (Caribbean underwater), and finally Psycho (an amusement park). While the first three are regular tables, Psycho broke new ground; it is connected... 1622

Primal Rage is a traditional two-dimensional fighting game in which two players select characters to battle each other in one-on-one combat, or a single player finishes a campaign of fights against the CPU, over increasing difficulty. The final battle of the single-player game consisted of fighting all the other CPU monsters with an increased power... 852

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,... 400

Powermonger is a real-time strategy game derived from the Populous. The game features a 3-dimensional game map, although camera movement is limited to rotating the map by 90 degress or small discrete intervals and 8 pre-defined levels of zoom. Only the map topography itself is 3-dimensional; people, trees and other game objects are comprised of 2-dimensional... 151

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as being the seminal god game. In this game, the player adopts the role of a deity and assumes the responsibility to shepherd people by direction, manipulation, and divine intervention. The player has the ability to shape the landscape and grow their civilization with... 273

Pirates! Gold is a 1993 computer game, a sequel to Sid Meier's 1987 release, Sid Meier's Pirates!. MicroProse developed this 256-color version for MS-DOS, Macintosh, Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga CD32 and Windows 3.x featuring a MIDI score and mouse support (in MS-DOS and Windows versions). Sea, land, and sea-to-land combat were done in real-time strategy.... 3147

Mortal Kombat II (commonly abbreviated as MKII) is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in 1993 and then ported to multiple home systems. MKII was the second game in the Mortal Kombat series, improving the gameplay and expanding the mythos of the original Mortal Kombat, notably introducing multiple and varied... 4155

Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra is an classic party-based cRPG with turn based fights. After the defeat of Sheltem and his forces on CRON in MM2, a new party of adventurers from Sheltem's "homeworld" of Terra find themselves embroiled in the battle between the two Guardians. The adventurers must aid the mysterious Corak in stopping Sheltem once... 132

After the events of Might and Magic 1, the adventurers who helped Corak defeat Sheltem on VARN take the "Gates to Another World" located in VARN to the land of CRON (Central Research Observational Nacelle). The land of CRON is facing many problems brought on by the encroachment of Sheltem and once again the adventurers must travel through CRON, the... 156

Micro Machines 2 featured cars that require different handling techniques for each course and also hovercraft and helicopters. There are different playing modes including "head-to-head", in which each player earns points by driving a full screen ahead of the opponent. The PC version featured a track editor... 738

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... 473

The game involved the player controlling the pop star in a quest to save all the kids that had been kidnapped by Mr. Big. In the home version, all of the children are young blond girls termed "Katies"; in the arcade version, Katie was one of three types of children who could be rescued. The game's levels and music were borrowed from the film (though... 9485

Mega Lo Mania (Tyrants: Fight Through Time in North America) is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Sensible Software. The object of the game is to conquer 28 islands, divided into nine Epochs that span mankind's history. The player must take on the role of one of four Gods: Scarlet (Red), Oberon (Yellow), Caesar (Green) or Madcap (Blue).... 971

Lemmings 2: The Tribes, a computer game released in 1993, is the first real sequel to the popular puzzle game Lemmings. The gameplay remains mostly the same as the original game, requiring the player to lead all the lemmings to their exit by giving them the appropriate "skills"... 104

Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time. Lemmings is divided into a number of levels, grouped into four difficulty levels. Each level comprises both destructible landscape elements such as rocks, indestructible sections such... 548

The Lawnmower Man is an interactive movie based on the 1992 film of the same name. The film was loosely based on a Stephen King short story, and stars a pre-Bond-fame Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence Angelo. Dr. Lawrence Angelo is a scientist working for Virtual Space Industries (VSI) in `Project 5`, a secret research facility that attempts to increase... 42