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P.T.O. is another military sim from KOEI. In this game you can choose to be either Japan or the Allies. By managing your fleets and ordering new warships you can control many different sides of the conflict (Ship development, Base defense, Fleet arrangement, Direct battle control, Economic decisions). There are many different options of play in … Continue reading “P.T.O.: Pacific Theater of Operations”
Year: 1989
Platforms: FM Towns, Genesis, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, SNES, Sharp X68000
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Wargame
Psycho Pinball is another pinball game in the style first introduced in Pinball Dreams and later popularized in Pinball Fantasies. Standard features of these types of pinball simulations include an animated backglass display, multiple bonuses including a multi-ball, extra ball, etc., and background music that changes based on active specials. There are three main tables:* … Continue reading “Psycho Pinball”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Browser, DOS, Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Pinball
Pro Quarterback is a football game featuring 27 different teams. Since this game doesn’t have an NFL or NFLPA license, there aren’t any real NFL teams or players here, although the teams included in the game represent the cities of their real life NFL counterparts and also mimic the colors of their team’s uniforms. The games … Continue reading “Pro Quarterback”
Year: 1992
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Prime Time NFL Football is one of the many football titles released back in the day. It features all 30 NFL teams at the time and the updated 1994 roster along with the standard modes such as Exhibition, Season and Playoffs. Along with signing free agents and trading players, players could also customize their playbook, change weather conditions, relocate their … Continue reading “Prime Time NFL Football starring Deion Sanders”
Year: 1996
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
A meteor struck the Earth and caused great chaos. Seven gods from ancient times awoke, and are now attempting to take control of the post-apocalyptic world. Primal Rage is a one-on-one fighting game featuring dinosaurs and giant apes as the fighters. The graphics are done with digitized stop-motion animation. Gameplay is similar to Mortal Kombat … Continue reading “Primal Rage”
Year: 1994
Platforms: 3DO, Amiga, Arcade, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Jaguar, PlayStation, SEGA 32X, SEGA Saturn, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Premier Manager 97 is the second Mega Drive game in the hit football managing game series of the early nineties. Similar to the first run of games in the series (released between 1992 and 1994), the manager starts (in the Full Game mode) as a lowly division 3 (not Conference) manager, where the goal is … Continue reading “Premier Manager 97”
Year: 1996
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Sports
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