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Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1993 run and gun platformer for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the second game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1980 film of the same name. The game follows closely the standard set by its predecessor, with multiple playable characters and pseudo-3D (Mode 7) vehicle sequences.... 301

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... 487

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 209

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 290

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 245

Star Wars is an action platformer based on the 1977 film of the same name, released in 1991 for Famicom/NES console. The game follows a sequence of events close to the storyline of A New Hope, where Luke Skywalker has to pilot a landspeeder around Tatooine, collect R2-D2 from the Sandcrawler, Obi-Wan Kenobi from a cave, and Han Solo from the Mos Eisley... 419

Super Star Wars is an action platformer game released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System based on the 1977 film Star Wars. Super Star Wars features side-scrolling run and gun gameplay, although it has stages which feature other challenges, such as driving a landspeeder or piloting an X-wing. It also features multiple playable characters... 413

On the surface, Archon appears similar to chess, but there are a number of significant changes. While the board is similar to a chessboard and the various pieces are similarly designed to have various offsetting abilities, when one piece attempts to take another the removal of the targeted piece is not automatic. Instead, the two pieces are placed... 128

Wolf is a life simulation game where the player takes the role of a wolf. The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is a scenario mode, where the player has to complete specific actions; this is comparable to quests given in RPGs. Game includes multimedia, such as clips... 776

Second installment in the Princess Maker series of life simulation games developed by the Japanese computer game and anime production company Gainax. You are a war hero who raises a girl to the age of 18. At the end of the game, your daughter goes into a line of work; what this work is, how much talent she has for it, her marital life, and her overall... 705

Princess Maker is a life simulation (bishōjo) game developed by video game and anime production company Gainax, originaly for the NEC PC-9801 system in 1991. The player is in charge of a war orphan, Maria, after defeating an evil demon. This game is similar to Princess Maker 2, but one cannot give pocket money to the daughter, and in this version,... 1236

A-Train (original title Take the A-Train III) is the 1992 computer game, and the third game in the A-Train series. It was originally developed and published by Japanese game developer Artdink for Japan, and was later published by Maxis for the United States. The game places players in command of a railway company. There are no rival companies; the... 479

Command & Conquer, now distinguished by the subtitle Tiberian Dawn, is a real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive for PC DOS in 1995. The player commands one of two sides in a war over an alien mineral called tiberium: the UN-backed Global Defense Initiative, or the secretive Brotherhood of Nod led by... 2798

Arcana (Card Master - Japanese title) is a 1992 role-playing video game for the SNES by HAL Laboratory. The game represents all of its characters as cards, but plays like a dungeon-crawling role-playing game rather than a card-based game. In keeping with this metaphor, the death of a character results in a 'torn' card, and the magical properties of... 303

The first game in the series introduces Gabriel Knight, a financially struggling horror novelist based in New Orleans. Gabriel is following a series of homicides, dubbed "The Voodoo Murders" for their apparent voodoo overtones hoping to use the police investigation, led by Detective Mosely, as the basis of a new novel. However, as he draws deeper into... 177

The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall is a first-person fantasy RPG developed and published by the American company Bethesda Softworks, released in 1996 for PC DOS. The player arrives in the Iliac Bay region of Tamriel on a double errand from the emperor: to lay the ghost of King Lysandus to rest and to recover a lost imperial letter. Built on the XnGine... 496

Albion is a fantasy role playing game. The gameplay has the basic statistic and level system most RPGs of its time had. You can have up to six characters in your party, led by Tom Driscoll, the only character who stays with you through the entire game. The Battle System in Albion is turn-based and takes place on a six-by-six grid similar to a board... 282

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... 401

The Great Escape is a video game which shares a title and similar plot to the movie The Great Escape. The player controls an unnamed prisoner of war who has been interred in a P.O.W. camp somewhere in northern Germany in 1942. The camp itself is a small castle on a promontory surrounded on three sides by cliffs and the cold North Sea. The gaming environment... 519

10th Frame is a ten-pin bowling is simulation game created by Access Software in 1986, as a follow-up to the hugely successful Leader Board golf game. Up to 8 players could take part in Open bowling or a Tournament. There was a choice of 3 different difficulty levels - Kids, in which the ball always went straight, Amateur, and Professional... 501