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Lemmings is an action-puzzle game developed by the Scottish studio DMA Design and published by Psygnosis in 1991, originally for the Commodore Amiga. The player guides swarms of mindless, self-endangering lemmings to safety by assigning eight different skills to individual creatures — from digging and bridge-building to self-sacrifice by explosion.... 784

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... 57

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... 172

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... 152

Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a basketball video game developed by Electronic Arts. The game would be the first team basketball game to acquire full players names and rights without actually relying on the NBA Players Association. Established stars in the game include Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and... 418

King's Bounty is a turn-based fantasy computer and video game designed by Jon Van Caneghem of New World Computing in 1990. The game follows the player's character, a hero of King Maximus, appointed with the job of retrieving the Sceptre of Order from the forces of chaos, led by Arech Dragonbreath. King's Bounty is notably considered the forerunner... 5705

A game based on the hit movie Jurassic Park. The game starts just after the T-Rex pushes the visitor's van into it's pit. You play the role of Dr. Alan Grant, so you have to find Tim and Lex, take them to the Visitor's center and get everybody out of the island. But this time it won't be half as easy as it was on the movie... 1436

Jungle Strike is a 1993 action game by Electronic Arts and the second part of the Strike series. The player is back in a gunship, this time a Comanche, flying over Washington, the South American rainforest and snowbound mountains in an isometric view. The enemies are Ibn Kilbaba, son of the general from the first game, and the drug baron Carlos Ortega,... 643

As in the movie (and the more-famous graphic adventure), your task is to find the Holy Grail. Before this can be done you must find the Cross of Coronado, a shield and a diary... 439

Your job in this action puzzler is to help prehistoric man to evolve by helping them discover tools, the wheel, weapons, or even fire. Each level in the game will have a given task to help in this, and you are allotted a number of characters who must accomplish the task. The player can switch from person to person while moving the characters around... 146

Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation. The game features missions in seven regions, including: Training in the USA, Southeast Asia - 1st Air Cavalry Division, Central America - 82nd Airborne Division, Middle East - 101st Airborne Division, Western Europe - 3rd Armored Division. After selection of region, style, and enemies, the pilot is... 131

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... 248

FIFA 96 is the third entry in the FIFA Series and its tagline was Next Generation Soccer. Also, the game was the first in the series to feature real-time 3D graphics on the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, 32X, and DOS versions, using technology called "Virtual Stadium". The SNES and Genesis editions used the FIFA 95 engine. It is also the first in the series... 1174

FIFA International Soccer is the first game in the series was released in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1993. This greatly hyped football title broke with traditional 16-bit era games by presenting an isometric view rather than the more usual top-down view (Kick Off), side view (European Club Soccer), or bird's-eye view (Sensible Soccer). It only... 1341

The Faery Tale Adventure is an RPG/Adventure game, based around the quest of three brothers to retrieve and return the talisman of their home town, Tambry. Ahead of its time, there were no load screens in the huge world. The player began as Julian, the eldest of the three brothers; if unsuccessful with this character, they'd then take control of Philip,... 374

F-15 Strike Eagle II is an F-15 Strike Eagle combat flight simulator and is the sequel of F-15 Strike Eagle. Strike Eagle II was very similar in both appearance and game play to MicroProse's previous release F-19 Stealth Fighter. The plane is equipped with a M61 Vulcan and three different kinds of missiles, Sidewinders, AMRAAMs and Mavericks... 168

Earthworm Jim is a run and gun platform video game starring an earthworm named Jim in a robotic suit who battles evil. The gameplay of Earthworm Jim is very bizarre, to say the least. Launching cows, using Jim's head as a whip, and other bizarre twists add to the insanity. The player controls Jim at all times of the game. In the level sections, Jim... 1296

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty is based upon David Lynch's 1984 movie Dune, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name. While not the first real-time strategy (RTS) game, Dune II established a format that would be followed for years to come, and was the first to use the mouse to move units, allowing players to fluidly... 814

Dragon's Lair features the hero, "Dirk the Daring", attempting to rescue "Princess Daphne" from the evil dragon Singe holed up in a wizard's castle. The screen shows animated scenes, and the player executes an action by selecting a direction or pressing the sword button with correct timing. The comedy of the game stemmed from not only the bizarre looking... 340

Duke Nukem 3D is a 1996 first-person shooter by 3D Realms that moved its muscle-bound hero from two 2D platformers into first person. It runs on Ken Silverman's Build engine, which allowed looking up and down, jumping, swimming and flying with a jetpack, and it became known above all for how much of its environment the player can actually use. The... 659