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The first game in Gremlin’s series of football management games. You start off managing a team in the Conference (the fifth tier of English football) and aim to progress up the leagues, either by improving your existing team or earning jobs at better clubs elsewhere. The features at your disposal include selecting training regimes, planning … Continue reading “Premier Manager”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis
Genre: Sports
Players guide Lt. Mike Harrigan as he tracks the Predator through seven levels based on the film. Mike’s primary concerns are the hostages held around the levels, and the legions of gang members out for blood. He also has to contend with the Predator, both as a boss at the end of each level, and … Continue reading “Predator 2”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Spy Daisakusen is a first-person adventure game with turn-based combat and slight RPG elements. It is based on the Mission Impossible TV series. You play as Mister Phelps, the leader of the Impossible Mission Force, a group of special agents that operate around the world and solve tricky cases. This time around you have to infiltrate a building … Continue reading “Spy Daisakusen”
Year: 1982
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Chitei Tanken (Underground Exploration) is believed to be the first original RPG to be developed in Japan. At the outset, you choose to take five explorers for an expedition (their stats are randomly generated each time) then spend some money to purchase medicine and food. Then you enter the cave to find treasure and hunt … Continue reading “Chitei Tanken”
Year: 1982
Platforms: PC-8000
Genre: Simulation
Theme: RPG elements
Wisperad is a small universe that consists of only a few star systems. Hundreds of years ago, light-speed travel was invented, allowing the inhabitants of different star systems to navigate spaceships and establish contact with each other. Three hundred years ago, a great leader named Dumna founded a centralized kingdom where the different races populating … Continue reading “Alshark”
Year: 1991
Platforms: FM Towns, PC-98, SEGA CD, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx CD
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
The follow-up to Zavas is, like its predecessor, a fantasy role-playing game with Japanese anime-like aesthetics, but more Western-oriented free-form gameplay with more emphasis on character development than on a character-driven plot. Through a series of choices the player make the protagonist (always named Majon, but with different family names) to be a prince, the … Continue reading “Zavas II: The Prophecy of Mehitae”
Year: 1993
Platforms: PC-98
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Described by its developers as a “New Type Role-Playing Game”, Zavas differs from the Japanese-made RPGs by resembling a Western-style RPG, in particular the Ultima games of its time. Retaining the characteristically Japanese manga/anime aesthetics in graphics, Zavas has little resemblance to Japanese RPGs in other aspects. It is not story- and character-driven; the player controls a knight named Mardy in … Continue reading “Zavas”
Year: 1988
Platforms: PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X68000
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
In this game you take on the role of 1 out of 8 teams who represent various nations trying to become the Powerball champions. Powerball is a game consisting of a hybrid of sports such as American football, soccer and rugby. You play on an 100 yard field trying to score on the opposing team. … Continue reading “Powerball”
Year: 1991
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
PowerMonger takes the basic design and concepts of Bullfrog’s previous game Populous, and places it in a war context. The game cast the player as a dispossessed warlord plundering his way through 195 territories on the way to world conquest. Several other leaders have the same goal. The gameworld is now made up of polygons, … Continue reading “Powermonger”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, FM Towns, Genesis, Macintosh, PC-98, SEGA CD, SNES, Sharp X68000
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy
Power Drive is an arcade racing game based around rally driving. Handbrake turns and lurid powerslides are both possible, and the steering is suitably loose. There are 3 types of stages – individual time-trials, head-to-head races against the computer, and some skill tests. There are 8 rounds of gameplay, set across countries ranging from Sweden to … Continue reading “Power Drive”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Game Gear, Genesis, SNES
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Racing/Driving