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500cc Grand Prix was one of the first French-made games for the Atari ST. It is a motorcycle simulator game viewed from behind the bike. It was developed by Microïds in 1986 as their first game. It lets players ride on 12 circuits all around the world either alone or against a friend with vertically-split screen. GP 500cc contains two game modes -... 187

Trolls is an classic amiga platform game featured the small color-haired cutesy creatures that were popular around the time (plastic toy Troll Doll). You play a Troll roaming the levels in the hope of rescuing as many baby trolls as possible - each level gives you a set minimum to retrieve before you can leave via the Pigstop. Initially you have no... 851

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... 285

Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is a video game with a fantasy take on miniature golf, originally developed for Apple IIGS. The game is played in a 3D isometric viewpoint and allows up to 4 players. At the beginning of the first hole, all players are given five strokes. On completing each hole, the remaining players are given more... 264

Worms is an artillery video game developed by Team17, originally created by Andy Davidson. It is a turn based strategy game where a player controls a team of worms against other teams of worms that are controlled by a computer or human opponent. The aim is to use various weapons to kill the worms on the other teams and have the last surviving worm(s).... 333

Winter Challenge is a video game that portrays seven winter sports that are competed in during the Winter Olympic Games: Downhill, Giant Slalom, Luge, 2-men Bobsled, Ski Jump, Cross Country, Biathlon and Speed Skating. The game features a basic 3D engine which allows to simulate slopes with ease, which enhances the gameplay of some events such as the... 213

A light gun arcade game loosely based on the film of the same name. The home console versions are called T2: The Arcade Game to avoid conflict with the platform games. The story of the game falls in line with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day: to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor, and his mother, Sarah, from the T-1000, a mimetic... 374

Syndicate is an isometric real-time tactical game from Bullfrog Productions created in 1993 by Sean Cooper. The game puts the player in charge of a self-named corporation in a gritty near-future cyberpunk-style world. Game play involves ordering a four-person team of cyborg agents around cities displayed in a fixed-view isometric style, in pursuit... 152

The goal of Stormlord is to free several fairies from the bubbles in which the rotting crone has trapped them. The player can eliminate enemies by throwing a star-like weapon and travel rapidly from place to place by means of the falcon. The player has a limited amount of time to finish... 168

Shadowrun is a cyberpunk fantasy action role-playing video game for the SNES, adapted from the tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun by FASA. The game is loosely based on the novel Never Deal with a Dragon by Shadowrun co-creator Robert N. Charrette and set in the year 2050. The player takes on the role of Jake Armitage, a man suffering from amnesia... 359

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... 141

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... 13816

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... 1636

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... 873

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... 279

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.... 3178