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The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 on an HP 2100 minicomputer. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers... 631

Times of Lore was an early computer-based action role-playing game with a detailed world. The story tells of a kingdom where the monarch has died and the dukes and barons are wrestling for power. Barbarians are threatening to invade, and monsters are pillaging the land. The player must assume the role of one of three heroes and unravel the conspiracy... 149

Centurion: Defender of Rome is a turn-based strategy computer game with real-time battle sequences by Bits of Magic, designed by Kellyn Beck. The bulk of the game involved real-time battles (of a nature that can be argued to foreshadow later real-time tactics and real-time strategy games) against various enemies of the Roman Empire, including barbarians,... 1430

Stargoose is a sci-fi shoot 'em up game for Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC, developed by LogotroN. The game contains eight levels and takes place on the surface of an alien planet. The player's character, called Scouser-Gitt, has been hired by some kind of "tribal elder" to steal six jewels from each level. The levels in Stargoose scroll continuously upwards,... 411

La Abadia del Crimen is a videoadventure with 3D isometric graphics, where a franciscan monk, Fray William of Occam (William of Baskerville in the book) and his young novice Adso of Melk have to discover the author of a series of murders in a medieval Benedictine abbey. The game was originally conceived as a version of Umberto Eco's book The Name of... 814

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... 542

This is a parody of the Sierra-style game series like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, King's Quest, etc. Similar interface, sounds, and graphics - all created using the Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) engine... 1185

Perestroika (also known as Toppler) is a Russian video game released in 1989 by a small software developer called Locis (currently - Nikita online) in the Soviet Union in 1990, and named after Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of Perestroika. The game consists of controlling a small frog-like creature which jumps from one lily pad to another, trying to collect... 1324

Grand Theft Auto, the first title in the GTA series was released on PlayStation in 1997/1998 and also for Windows PCs. Grand Theft Auto is made up of a series of levels each set in one of the three cities in the game (Liberty City, Vice City and San Andreas). In each level, the player has a target number of points to achieve, and five lives to attain... 2486

The Legend of Zelda, originally released as The Hyrule Fantasy: Legend of Zelda in Japan, is an RPG with action-adventure and puzzle elements, developed and published by Nintendo, and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. Set in the fantasy land of Hyrule, the plot centers on a boy named Link, the playable protagonist, who aims to collect... 8761

Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, known as Estpolis Denki (officially translated Biography of Estpolis) in Japan, is a role-playing video game developed by Neverland and published by Taito in 1993, for the Super Nintendo. It is the first title in the Lufia series of video games and the only game from the series released under the Taito label in US. Lufia... 246

Alley Cat is a computer game created by Bill Williams and released by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and for the PC in 1984. The player controls an alley cat whose object is to perform certain tasks within the homes of people, ultimately causing mischief and finding female cats to romance... 1229

Sweet Home is a psychological horror role-playing game that was released for the Famicom in 1989, developed and published by Capcom in Japan only. The game is based on the Japanese horror film of the same name and is a forerunner of the Resident Evil game series, sometimes perceived as the original game in the survival horror video game genre. Plot:... 262

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... 1351

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... 915

Donkey, often known by its file name DONKEY.BAS, was a computer game written in 1981 and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system distributed with the original IBM PC. DONKEY.BAS was written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen to demonstrate the IBM PC and the BASIC programming language's capability to produce interactive programs with... 444

DuckTales: The Quest for Gold is a platform game, bears little resemblance to the Capcom game DuckTales released for the NES. Assuming the role of Scrooge, the player then gets 30 days to collect treasures from all around the world. Scrooge is assisted by his grandnephews Huey, Dewey and Louie and pilot Launchpad McQuack. Flying to different destinations... 1516

Worms (Červi in Czech) is a czech snake variant game for 2-6 players at hot-seat, were all the players control their worms on the same screen. From the very beginning, each worm is increased in length with same speed in certain direction. By default, player should not collide with other worm bending its increase to the left or to the right. However,... 2869

Betrayal at Krondor takes place largely in Midkemia, the fantasy world developed by Raymond E. Feist in his Riftwar novels. The game is designed to resemble a book, separated into chapters and narrated in the third-person with a quick-save bookmark feature. Gameplay occurs mainly from a first-person perspective while traveling in the overworld, dungeons,... 429

SimCity is a city-building simulation game, originally developed by game designer Will Wright. The inspiration for SimCity came from a feature of the game Raid on Bungeling Bay that allowed Wright to create his own maps during development. The objective of SimCity, as the name of the game suggests, is to build and design a city, without specific goals... 1206