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The official game of the Games of the XXV Olympiad, held in Barcelona in 1992, featuring seven different events: 100M Sprint, Hammer Throw, Archery, 110M Hurdles, Pole Vault, Springboard diving and 200M Freestyle Swimming. Gameplay features the typical button mashing formula used by Epyx during the 80s. 100M Sprint, 110M Hurdles and 200M Freestyle Swimming feature a … Continue reading “Olympic Gold”

Year: 1992

Platforms: Game Gear, Genesis, SEGA Master System

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sports


Normy is one popular surfer, especially with the ladies on the beach, however one day a UFO appears and kidnaps all the ladies on the beach and it is up to Normy to travel to 29 different alien worlds to bring them back to Earth. The gameplay is a side-scrolling action game, controlling Normy and … Continue reading “Normy’s Beach Babe-O-Rama”

Year: 1994

Platforms: Genesis

Genre: Action

Theme: Platform


Based on the 1994 movie of the same name starring Ray Liotta, the player takes control of Liotta’s character, Capt. J.T. Robbins, whose only objective of the game is to escape an island. After shooting his commanding officer, Robbins is imprisoned and eventually sent to the island Absolom as a war criminal, from where there … Continue reading “No Escape”

Year: 1994

Platforms: Genesis, SNES

Genre: Action

Theme: Platform


Nightmare Circus is a beat’em-up mixed with elements from platform games and fighting games, made for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. The hero, Raven, is trying to put an end to the nightmarish circus that only appears on stormy nights. He has to fight twisted and warped circus denizens through a variation of deadly circus levels.

Year: 1996

Platforms: Genesis

Genre: Action

Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler


46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinkaron (which translates to “The Story of 4 600 000 000 Years: The Evolution Theory”) is an unusual role-playing game that puts the player in control of an evolving creature. The playable character is a fish at the beginning of the game; after completing the “fish stage”, it becomes a reptile, and … Continue reading “46 Okunen Monogatari: The Shinkaron”

Year: 1990

Platforms: PC-98

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Turn-based strategy


Timing smiled on Gremlin with this licensed Formula 1 simulation, as Nigel’s long quest for a championship had finally come good. The game was pitched somewhere in between a full-blown simulation like F1 GP and action games like Continental Circus. Only 12 cars were in each race, which could last from between 3 and 20 … Continue reading “Nigel Mansell’s World Championship Racing”

Year: 1992

Platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, NES, SNES, ZX Spectrum

Genre: Racing / driving

Theme: Racing/Driving


The second part in Electronic Arts’ hockey series. It features the NHLPA license (so it has real player names), but not the NHL license (so it doesn’t have NHL team names). Gameplay is altered only slightly over the predecessor. Regular season and Playoff modes are available. Goalies have improved AI, there are more foul play … Continue reading “NHLPA Hockey 93”

Year: 1992

Platforms: Genesis, SNES

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sports


NHL All-Star Hockey ’95 is the standard hockey game complete with an NHL and NHLPA license complete with all 26 NHL teams and over 650 players from the 1993-94 NHL season including Mark Messier, Mario Lemieux, Jeremy Roenick and the Great One himself, Wayne Gretzky. The standard modes apply including Exhibition, Season and Playoffs which … Continue reading “NHL All-Star Hockey 95”

Year: 1995

Platforms: Genesis

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sports


NHL 98 features much faster and refined gameplay (now using four action keys instead of two, removing the need to double-tap to perform some actions), along other new features such as “in-the-fly” tactics developed by Marc Crawford, then manager of the Colorado Avalanche and new commentary lines from Jim Hughson and Darryl Reaugh and a … Continue reading “NHL 98”

Year: 1997

Platforms: Genesis, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES, Windows

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sports


1997 edition of EA’s NHL sport simulation series. Improvements in this edition come mostly in the graphical arena, with a refined version of the “virtual stadium” system that adds new camera angles (including the classical top-down one strangely missing from NHL 96), and polygonal players instead of the bitmap-based ones with motion-captured animations. Other extras … Continue reading “NHL 97”

Year: 1996

Platforms: DOS, Genesis, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES, Windows

Genre: Sports

Theme: Sports