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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
You play a god, gaming against other gods in a celestial game of conquest. To win, you must help your chosen people take over the world and wipe out the vermin who worship that other god. Each god starts out with a single human, dumped into the middle of the wilderness. Sometimes there is inhabitable … Continue reading “Populous”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, Macintosh, PC-98, SEGA Master System, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16, Windows
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy
Incarnation of the Disney cartoon; Pocahontas, along with a tag team partner in her raccoon friend, Meeko, goes about her homeland, helping her animal friends. As so is done, she will acquire animal spirits which will help her become stronger and bless her with new abilities. But soon enough she meets John Smith, and as … Continue reading “Pocahontas”
Year: 1996
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Pit-Fighter is a 3rd-person fight game that features digitized graphics of real fighters and zooming effects. Players select one of three fighters (Buzz, Ty or Kato) to take on anyone who dares. At the conclusion of a match, players are individually awarded a Knockout Bonus, Brutality Bonus, and a Fight Purse. Every third match is a … Continue reading “Pit-Fighter”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, Lynx, SEGA Master System, SNES, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is a side-scrolling action game in which you play adventurer Pitfall Harry Jr in search of his father Pitfall Harry. You battle your way through the Mayan jungles, waterfalls, deserted mines and can bungee jump and boomerang your way to safety. There are 13 levels and the action is fast and gripping. … Continue reading “Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Game Boy Advance, Genesis, Jaguar, SEGA 32X, SEGA CD, SNES, Wii, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform