Consoles and Home Computers 620-640 / 987

Grand Theft Auto is an open-world action game developed by the Scottish studio DMA Design and published in Europe by BMG Interactive in 1997. The player takes the role of a small-time criminal roaming three fictional American cities - Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City, in a top-down view, stealing cars, running jobs for the mob and shaking off... 2751

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... 16213

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... 274

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... 1268

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:... 387

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... 1449

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... 1034

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... 450

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... 1585

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,... 2925

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,... 442

SimCity is a city-building simulation by designer Will Wright, released in 1989 by the studio Maxis. It became famous for its goal-free concept - as mayor the player simply zones land into residential, commercial and industrial areas, builds roads and power plants, sets taxes and watches how the tiny Sims fare, with disasters ranging from tornadoes... 1320

SimCity is a city-building simulation by designer Will Wright, released in 1989 by the studio Maxis. It became famous for its goal-free concept - as mayor the player simply zones land into residential, commercial and industrial areas, builds roads and power plants, sets taxes and watches how the tiny Sims fare, with disasters ranging from tornadoes... 4278

Space Invaders is a remake of the famous arcade coin-op machine by Taito. This remake was developed by Slovak programmers Martin and John Rusnak under the name Felis Software for MS DOS operating system in 1995. Since the original version, of course, remake contains better graphics (VGA 320x200), sounds and music, supporting most standard sound cards...... 287

Dragon Quest III (known in North America as Dragon Warrior III) is the third installment in the Dragon Quest RPG series, first released for the Famicom in Japan. The game uses basic role-playing video game conventions, such as leveling up by gaining experience points and equipping items. Battle is turn-based like the other games in the series. The... 257

Shadow Knights is a platform game about ninjas. This is one of the several games written by id Software to fulfill their contractual obligation to produce games for Softdisk, where the id Software founders formerly were employed. It is a basic platform game with a considerable influence by the NES Ninja Gaiden games. Froggman released the gamne under... 594

Dragon Quest III (known in North America as Dragon Warrior III) is the third installment in the Dragon Quest RPG series, first released for the Famicom in Japan. The game uses basic role-playing video game conventions, such as leveling up by gaining experience points and equipping items. Battle is turn-based like the other games in the series. The... 434

The Lion King is a video game based on Disney's popular animated film. It followed Simba's journey from a young carefree cub to the battle with his uncle Scar as an adult. The game is a side-scrolling platform game, with the controlled character having to leap, climb, run and descend from platform to platform. There is an exception during the level... 8238

Eye of the Beholder is a 1991 grid-based dungeon crawler in the Dungeon Master tradition, developed by Westwood Associates and published by SSI under the AD&D licence from TSR. Built on 2nd Edition AD&D rules and set in the Forgotten Realms city of Waterdeep, the game has a four-character party descend through sewers, dwarven outposts and drow caverns... 835

Juggernaut is the first game in its own genre! Become a truck driver in an elaborate computer simulator for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Your task is to distribute goods in the small town, your opponents outlayed fuel and poorly controllable truck ... 1209