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Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods is the sequel to Bullfrog's god game, released in November 1991 for the Amiga and gradually ported to other computers and consoles. Peter Molyneux insisted the game be written from scratch, and moved it out of a vague medieval world into Greek myth: the player is a demigod, son of Zeus by a mortal woman, who... 28

Urban Strike is a 1994 action game by Electronic Arts and the third part of the Strike series. The player is back in a gunship, working through a list of objectives in an isometric view, watching fuel and ammunition as much as the shooting and flying rescued people back to base. This time the fighting happens neither in the desert nor in the jungle... 63

The Terminator for SNES is an action game based on the 1984 film, released by Mindscape in April 1993. It was written by the Canadian studio Gray Matter, so despite the shared name and publisher it is neither a port of the NES version nor related to the Sega or PC games. The player is Kyle Reese and alternates side-scrolling levels, shooting terminators... 95

Whizz is a 1994 isometric platformer by the British studio Flair Software. The hero is a rabbit in a magician's coat fleeing an evil rat in a hot-air balloon, who has to cross four worlds before the clock runs out. Instead of straightforward left-to-right jumping, the player works through maze-like levels using coloured keys that open wooden, brick,... 24

Oscar is a 1993 platformer by the British company Flair Software, created by reworking their game Trolls after the troll doll licence expired. The hero is Flair's own character Oscar, and the whole game takes place on movie sets: science fiction, western, horror, cartoons, dinosaurs, detective and a TV game show. Each world requires collecting enough... 21

Arkanoid: Doh It Again is a sequel to Taito's classic brick-breaker, released in 1997 for the SNES - by Taito itself in Japan and under the Nintendo label in the West. It offers 99 levels with boss fights every eleven rounds, multiple endings, a custom level editor and two-player play in cooperative or competitive mode, with SNES Mouse support. The... 127

Civilization is a turn-based single-player computer game. The player takes on the role of the ruler of a civilization starting with only one or two Settler units. The player attempts to build an empire in competition with between two and six other civilizations. The game requires a fair amount of micromanagement (although less than any of the simulation... 1096

Lost Vikings 2 is a 1997 puzzle-platform game developed by Blizzard (SNES) / Beam Software and published by Interplay. The sequel to The Lost Vikings, it features the original three characters plus two new playable characters: Fang the werewolf and Scorch the dragon. The gameplay remains largely the same, though the three Viking characters all have... 1007

Clock Tower is a survival horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Human Entertainment for the Super Famicom in 1995. It is the first installment in the Clock Tower series. The story follows orphan Jennifer Simpson soon after she is adopted by the Barrows family along with other orphaned girls. Shortly after arriving at the... 741

Populous is a computer game developed by Bullfrog in 1989 and is regarded by many as being the seminal god game. In this game, the player adopts the role of a deity and assumes the responsibility to shepherd people by direction, manipulation, and divine intervention. The player has the ability to shape the landscape and grow their civilization with... 202

Batman Returns is a 1992 beat 'em up video game for various platforms based on the film of the same name. The Sega console versions were published by Sega while the NES and Super NES versions were developed and published by Konami. The Sega versions of the game are similar in design to its previous movie-based Batman game. While different versions... 779

Wing Commander is a space combat simulator designed by Chris Roberts and released by the American studio Origin Systems for the PC in 1990. The player joins the carrier TCS Tiger's Claw as a freshly commissioned lieutenant and flies missions against the feline Kilrathi in the Vega sector. Between sorties he walks the ship, picks up gossip in the bar... 215

Castlevania: Dracula X (released in Europe as Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss) is a sequel to the successful action platformer series inspired by Bram Stoker and his Dracula, created and released by Konami for the SNES home console in 1995. It is a remake of the original Castlevania: Rondo of Blood released in Japan for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM² System... 1144

Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi is a run and gun platformer released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It is the third and final game in the Super Star Wars trilogy and is based on the 1983 film Return of the Jedi. The game follows closely the standard set by the previous two Super Star Wars games, with the return of selectable... 337

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

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... 425

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... 305

Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures is a 1994 action platformer released for the SNES developed by Factor 5 and published by JVC Musical Industries and LucasArts. It is a video game adaptation of the Indiana Jones films like Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). The... 672

War has never been so much fun. Cannon Fodder is war themed action/startegy game in top-down view. the player is in charge of a squad of between one to eight men that can be, for command purposes, split up to three groups. All men have a machine gun with unlimited ammunition, as well as limited caches of grenades and rockets that can be found on the... 325

Pinball Fantasies is an Amiga pinball game developed by Digital Illusions in late 1992, as a sequel to Pinball Dreams. Like Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies contains four themed tables with various difficulty levels: Party Land, Speed Devils , Billion Dollar Gameshow, Stones 'N Bones. Each of the pinball tables was now three screens high (instead... 393