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Yendorian Tales Book I is an overhead view fantasy role-playing game. The player can create and control a party of up to six characters belonging to a variety of classes. Interaction with the NPCs is performed by typing in conversation themes, similarly to Ultima games. Combat takes place on separate screens; the player-controlled party and the opponents... 58

Fragile Allegiance is a 1996 real-time space strategy game developed by Cajji Software for Gremlin Interactive as a PC remake of the Amiga game K240. As a colony director of the TetraCorp mega-corporation, the player settles asteroids in the Fragmented Sectors, covers them with mines, power plants and living quarters and sells the ore to the Federation.... 89

Legend of Faerghail is a party-based RPG developed by the Hannover-based German studio Electronic Design and published in 1990 by reLINE Software (and internationally through Rainbow Arts and Electronic Zoo). It shipped for the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC DOS. Mechanically the game leans heavily on Interplay's The Bard's Tale – first-person grid-based... 135

Arcade Volleyball is a simple single-screen action game for one or two players, in which the players themselves are represented by figures with large, ball-like heads. The original version of the game was created by Rhett Anderson, and the complete source code for the Commodore 64 was first published in COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazine in June 1988. The... 87

Ramonovo kouzlo (Ramon's Spell) is a Czech point-and-click adventure game released in 1995 by Vochozka Trading for PC DOS. Development was led by Michal Janáček, later co-founder of the Pterodon studio. The game belongs to the first wave of Czech adventures kicked off by Tajemství Oslího ostrova, and stands out technologically by replacing hand-drawn... 51

Dungeon crawler from 1992 by the Hungarian studio ArtGame. 4 of the 12 petrified heroes of Kalynthia wake after 900 years beneath the temple of Heaven's Light to stop the mage Bronakh. The Dungeon Master style dungeons are played in real time from a first-person view, and between them the party travels a large world map on foot, on horseback, by ship... 24

KKND (Krush Kill 'N' Destroy) is a post-apocalyptic real-time strategy game developed by the Australian studio Beam Software under its Melbourne House label and published by Electronic Arts for PC DOS in 1997. 60 years after a nuclear war, the military Survivors, emerging from their underground bunkers, and the mutated tribes of the Evolved, who send... 141

The fourth big adventure of Dizzy the egg, published by Codemasters in 1990 as a low-price title for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It was the first in the series not programmed by The Oliver Twins but by Fred Williams of Big Red Software. The evil wizard Zaks has transported the Yolkfolk family to a fairy-tale world and trapped each... 217

The fourth big adventure of Dizzy the egg, published by Codemasters in 1990 as a low-price title for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It was the first in the series not programmed by The Oliver Twins but by Fred Williams of Big Red Software. The evil wizard Zaks has transported the Yolkfolk family to a fairy-tale world and trapped each... 168

The fourth big adventure of Dizzy the egg, published by Codemasters in 1990 as a low-price title for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It was the first in the series not programmed by The Oliver Twins but by Fred Williams of Big Red Software. The evil wizard Zaks has transported the Yolkfolk family to a fairy-tale world and trapped each... 26

The fourth big adventure of Dizzy the egg, published by Codemasters in 1990 as a low-price title for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64. It was the first in the series not programmed by The Oliver Twins but by Fred Williams of Big Red Software. The evil wizard Zaks has transported the Yolkfolk family to a fairy-tale world and trapped each... 457

Fantasy World Dizzy is an platform action - adventure for ZX Spectrum designed by the Oliver Twins with music by David Whittaker. The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was developed under the name Dizzy III. Fantasy World Dizzy featured many elements which later became standard for the series, such as having three lives, an improved... 95

Fantasy World Dizzy is an platform action - adventure for ZX Spectrum designed by the Oliver Twins with music by David Whittaker. The game is considered the third in the Dizzy series and was developed under the name Dizzy III. Fantasy World Dizzy featured many elements which later became standard for the series, such as having three lives, an improved... 237

Summer Challenge is a multi-event summer sports game developed for Accolade by the Canadian studio MindSpan and released for the PC in 1992, with a SEGA Mega Drive version a year later. It reuses the engine of the team's earlier The Games: Winter Challenge. Its 8 events run from archery, javelin and the 400 m hurdles to pole vault, show jumping, a... 205

Summer Challenge is a multi-event summer sports game developed for Accolade by the Canadian studio MindSpan and released for the PC in 1992, with a SEGA Mega Drive version a year later. It reuses the engine of the team's earlier The Games: Winter Challenge. Its 8 events run from archery, javelin and the 400 m hurdles to pole vault, show jumping, a... 108

A 1989 Breakout game for the ZX Spectrum by the Slovak duo JOPA (Jozef Paučo and Pavel Albert), handed out for free by Klub FIFO to advertise the upcoming FIFO magazine from Zvolen. Under the Slovak captions runs the British game Traz: the ball is lost in traps on any side of the screen, several bats move at once, and 64 screens are linked into a network.... 56

Neverwinter Nights (1991) was the first graphical MMORPG ever made. It launched in March 1991 on America Online, built on SSI's Gold Box engine and the AD&D 1st Edition ruleset. Players controlled a single character in and around the Forgotten Realms city of Neverwinter, founded guilds, fought in PvP matches and could meet up to twelve at a time on... 62

The game centers around six adventurers who are trying to discover the secret of the Inner Sanctum: a kind of "holy grail" quest in the land of VARN. While trying to discover the Inner Sanctum, the heroes discover information about Corak's hunt for the missing villain Sheltem. They end up unmasking Sheltem, who had been masquerading as the King, and... 236

Dylan Dog: The Murderers (Dylan Dog: Gli Uccisori) is a classic 2D platform game with elements of survival horror, created by Simulmondo based on the Italian cult horror comics from Tiziano Sclavi. The player is in the role of Dylan - detective investigating the of paranormal activity and mysterious crimes - after one visit to the mystery mansion,... 494

Husita (Hussite) is Czech real-time strategy from Phoenix Arts, set in the glorious period of Czech history in the first half of the 15th century. After the death of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, riots began and the "Chalice" Hussite movement spread. Sigismund, heir to the Bohemian throne, responded to this revolution by sending five crusades,... 386