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Dragons of Flame is a sequel to Heroes of the Lance. The style of the game is very much like it's predecessor, horizontally-scrolling fighting controlling one character at a time. The plot is a faithful representation of the books it is based on. It is based on the second Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Flame, and the second half of the first... 126

Heroes of the Lance is a game based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It focuses on the journey of eight heroes through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, where they must face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve... 266

Ace of Aces is a computer game flight simulator developed by Artech Digital Entertainment in 1986. The game takes place during World War II and the player flies a RAF Mosquito long range fighter-bomber equipped with rockets, bombs and a cannon. Missions include destroying German fighter planes, bombers, V-1 flying bombs, U-boats, and trains... 1206

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is an arcade platform game and scrolling fighter, and is based on the movie of the same name. The player assumes the role of Indiana Jones as he infiltrates the lair of the evil Thuggee cult, armed only with his trademark whip... 692

Grand Prix Circuit is a motor racing computer game released for the ZX Spectrum, PC, Apple IIGS, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC. There are eight GPs in the game: Brazil, Monaco, Canada, Detroit, Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. You can select a McLaren Honda MP4/4, Ferrari F187/88C or Williams Judd FW12 as your Formula One team. Generally, the Ferrari... 1160

Atomix is a puzzle game for the ZX Spectrum, created in 1990 by the Czech coding group Scorpion — Patrik Rak (code), Milan Matoušek (graphics) and František Fuka (music). It is an unofficial conversion of Thalion's original Atomix, in which the player slides atoms across the board until they hit an obstacle, assembling them into the required molecules.... 348

Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (also known as Arkanoid 2) is the direct sequel to Taito's arcade hit, released in June 1987. To the proven brick-breaking with the Vaus paddle it adds warp gates with a choice of route - a single playthrough covers 34 of the total 64 rounds - regenerating silver bricks, moving blocks, new power-ups and boss fights including... 2415

Arkanoid is a 1986 arcade game by the Japanese company Taito that revived the brick-breaking concept of Atari's Breakout. The player controls a paddle - the space vessel Vaus - and deflects an energy ball to destroy brick formations across 33 stages, catching falling capsules with power-ups such as lasers, paddle extension or ball slowdown. It became... 3335

Treasure Island is Dizzy's second adventure. This game is quite different from its predecessor, with a new inventory system and improved animations. The game notably contains fewer enemies than the previous title. It is more centred around inventory based problem solving. The aim of the game is to solve various puzzles in order to obtain a boat so... 712

Treasure Island is Dizzy's second adventure. This game is quite different from its predecessor, with a new inventory system and improved animations. The game notably contains fewer enemies than the previous title. It is more centred around inventory based problem solving. The aim of the game is to solve various puzzles in order to obtain a boat so... 1921

Dizzy, or Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure, was the first video game featuring the character Dizzy, an anthropomorphic egg. The game was designed by two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, published by Codemasters. The game is a platform adventure where Dizzy must search the fairy tale land of Katmandu for a Leprechaun's Wig, a Cloud's... 3521

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... 2225

Boulder Dash, aka Rockford, was originally created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray. The hero of the game, whom the player controls, is the brave prospector "Rockford". He must dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds, while avoiding various types of dangerous creatures as well as obstacles like falling rocks and the constant danger of being crushed... 2212

Nebulus (Tower Toppler) is a platform game with some distinctive unique features. Your character, a small green creature called Pogo, is on a mission to destroy eight towers that have been built onto the sea, by planting bombs at the towers' peaks. Pogo's progress is hindered by enemies and obstacles, which he has to avoid in order to reach the top... 699

Cisco Heat is an arcade racing game by Jaleco. The player takes on the role of an officer who must race his squad car through San Francisco in an attempt to win the first ever 'National Championship Police Car Steeplechase'. The gameplay is similar to that of other contemporary racing games, with a two-speed shifter and a chase view... 834

Pole Position is a racing video game released in 1982 by Namco. The game popularized the use of sprite-based, pseudo-3D graphics with its `rear-view racer format` where the player’s view is behind and above the vehicle, looking forward along the road with the horizon in sight, which would remain in use even after true 3D computer graphics became standard... 812

Golden Axe is a side-scrolling arcade hack and slash game released in 1989 by Sega for the System 16-B arcade hardware. It is the first game in the series. The game takes place in the fictional land of Yuria, a Conan the Barbarian-style high fantasy medieval world. An evil entity known as Death Adder has captured the King and his daughter... 3789

In Aaargh! the player controls a giant monster, either an Ogre or a Lizard, with the goal of crushing and destroying everything in its path, across different lands and periods of history. It was programmed by Steve Coleman and the artwork was by Joe Hitchens... 601

The Hobbit is an illustrated text adventure based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written in 1982 by Veronika Megler and Philip Mitchell at the Australian studio Beam Software and published by Melbourne House. The player takes the role of Bilbo Baggins, travelling with Gandalf and Thorin across Middle-earth towards the Lonely Mountain, where the... 4729

A sequel was developed and made for release in 1990, titled Deliverance. The story was not very different from Stormlord - Bahd had returned to ravish the land (this time in league with the Devil himself), there are fairies to free and monsters to mash all the while avoiding the platform traps. Deliverance fared just as well amongst the games critics.... 314