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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... 944

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... 750

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... 612

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... 161

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... 610

Wing Commander is the first, eponymous game in Chris Roberts' science fiction space simulation series set in the 27th century, the games tell the story of humanity's war against the Kilrathi, an alien species of large feline bipeds. Launching from carrier ships, the player fulfills various missions in starfighters. The games were all notable for their... 177

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... 1028

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... 218

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.... 218

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... 267

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... 259

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... 463

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... 285

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... 302

Super Castlevania IV is a side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. Following the same setting as original Castlevania on the NES, the game takes place in 1691 Transylvania, where the vampire hunter Simon Belmont must defeat the vampire Dracula. The gameplay consists of traversing... 698

Shadow of the Beast is a side-scrolling platform computer game released for the Commodore Amiga, but the game has been ported to many other systems. Shadow of the Beast, however, was considered revolutionary because its graphics, with many more colours on screen and up to twelve levels of parallax scrolling backdrops, were of a level rarely if ever... 189

Lemmings was one of the most popular computer games of its time and several games magazines praised the game, giving it some of their highest review scores at the time. Lemmings is divided into a number of levels, grouped into four difficulty levels. Each level comprises both destructible landscape elements such as rocks, indestructible sections such... 267

Frogger is a 1981 arcade game developed by Konami and originally published by Sega. Frogger was positively received as one of the greatest video games ever made and followed by several clones and sequels. The game found its way into popular culture, including television and music. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one... 289

Daze Before Christmas is an action platformer developed by Norwegian company Funcom for the Mega Drive and published by Sunsoft in 1994 exclusively in Australia. It was ported to the Super NES and released in Europe and Australia. The player controls Santa Claus as he races to save Christmas from an evil mouse who has stolen the kids' presents, and... 216

Disney's The Jungle Book is a platform game based on the 1967 Disney animated film of the same name, released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in 1994 for the home consoles and computers. While gameplay is the same on all versions, technological differences between the systems forced changes - in some case drastic - in level design, resulting in... 378