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Xenon is a 1988 2D vertical-scrolling shooter computer game, originally released for the Amiga and quickly ported to other platforms. Excellent graphics, catchy soundtrack, and gameplay turned the game into best-seller on Commodore 64 and Amiga systems, although the PC version much less well received. Like all great SHMUPs, Xenon features smooth controls,... 538

Commando is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released in 1985. It was released for several platforms. All versions of the game are very similar, with the same graphics (taking into account the various limitations of the platforms). The player (a soldier named Super Joe) starts by being dropped off in a jungle by a helicopter, and has... 5385

Excalibur: The Sword of Kings is a text-based adventure game with color images. The parser recognizes two-word commands and it is possible to explore 29 screens. The game was originally released for the ZX Spectrum and was redesigned for HTML5 in 2019 with tutorial added. The evil witch Crania, was searching for Merlin to devour his power. In her quest... 128

The Neverending Story is a text adventure based on the movie of the same name by Wolfgang Petersen (rather than the novel by Michael Ende). The world of Fantasia is about to be destroyed by the "All-consuming Nothing", it needs someone from the "Real World" to believe in it again in order to be saved from falling into oblivion. The player takes control... 502

La Abadia del Crimen is a videoadventure with 3D isometric graphics, where a franciscan monk, Fray William of Occam (William of Baskerville in the book) and his young novice Adso of Melk have to discover the author of a series of murders in a medieval Benedictine abbey. The game was originally conceived as a version of Umberto Eco's book The Name of... 798

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 ... 1146

Operation Wolf is a one-player shooter video game made by Taito as coin-op cabinet and was one of the most ported arcade games of all time. The game is controlled with a fixed swivel mounted light gun controller attached to the cabinet, with force feedback to simulate recoil. The object of the game is to rescue the five hostages in the concentration... 736

Rick Dangerous is an action platform game developed by Core Design. The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes in the jungle, and Rick must escape from the enraged Goolu. When the game starts... 484

Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager is a football computer game that was released exclusively to Europe in 1989. This video game involves taking the role of Kenny Dalglish as he manages an English football team from the Football League Fourth Division right to the Football League First Division. The game is powered mainly by icons and menus; dragging the... 1255

Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. It uses an isometric engine that is similar to the Filmation technique first developed by Ultimate (Knight Lore). Head Over Heels is the second isometric game by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, after the Batman... 1205

Laser Squad is a turn-based tactics war game where the player completes objectives such as rescue or retrieval operations, or simply eliminating all of the enemy, by maneuvering the squad's team members around a map one at a time, taking actions such as move, turn, shoot, pick up and so on that would use up the unit's Action Points... 3612

Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge is the first game in the series was released in 1990 for most popular contemporary 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems, the Amiga version being the most technically advanced. The game allowed the player to race a Lotus Esprit Turbo SE car through several (32 in the Amiga version) circuit race tracks of varying scenery. Two... 977

The famous fantasy-themed board game was converted into an isometric-viewed role playing game in which the evil Wizard Morcar must be defeated. You take control of a wizard, a dwarf, a barbarian and an elf, each with different strengths and weaknesses, who each start the 14 missions from opposite sides of the board. Strict turn-based movement rules... 543

Turrican II: The Final Fight is the second game of the Turrican series. Turrican II can be described as a cross between Metroid and Psycho-Nics Oscar. The game is divided into five distinct "worlds" each with its own themed music provided by Chris Huelsbeck, plus a final showdown with the Boss known as "The Machine". Unlike other games of its type,... 666

Pipe Mania is a puzzle game developed in 1989 by The Assembly Line for the Amiga. It was ported to several other platforms by LucasFilm Games, who gave it the name Pipe Dream. Using a variety of pipe pieces presented randomly in a queue, the player must construct a path from the start piece for the onrushing sewer slime, which begins flowing after... 306

Rescue on Fractalus is an action game played from a 3D first person point of view. The game utilizes fractal technology to create the craggy mountains of an alien planet, where the visilibility was drastically reduced by the dense atmosphere. The player controls a fictional "Valkyrie" space fighter attempting to land and pick up downed Ethercorps pilots.... 230

Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off Road enter the world of off-road racing as 4 vehicles will face each other, on a series of tracks which are based around flipped and reversed versions of a core selection. Fame, glory and bikini clad women await your victories and the taste of dirt awaits if you fail. Let a computer car beat you and you lose one of... 352

Turrican is an action platformer (run-and-gun) with smooth scrolling in all directions, created by programmer and Manfred Trenz for Rainbow Arts company. Turrican first released for the Commodore 64, Amiga and later ported to other home computers and consoles. Inspiration for Turrican was Metroid and Psycho-Nics Oscar games. Memorable music for game... 458

Pinball Wizard (also known as `Macadam Bumper`) is a computer game, an arcade and pinball construction set. The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and even `tilt` capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the... 249

Gunship is an AH-64 Apache helicopter simulation. The game features missions in seven regions, including: Training in the USA, Southeast Asia - 1st Air Cavalry Division, Central America - 82nd Airborne Division, Middle East - 101st Airborne Division, Western Europe - 3rd Armored Division. After selection of region, style, and enemies, the pilot is... 562