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8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey Remastered Edition is a retro-styled JRPG with polish and personality, that focuses less on references (although there are plenty!) and more on telling a story… Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.A Warrior, a Thief, and a Mage go on a journeyto save the world by collecting three elemental treasures.What’s … Continue reading “8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey”
Year: 2015
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
As the peaceful kingdom Mythgard came close to being overthrown by the evil demon king Jardine the Mad, the Elemental Masters of the realm gathered to do battle. They fought Jardine until there was no more than four remaining. The four combined their powers to form the Elemental Blade with which the demon king could … Continue reading “Jewel Master”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Pigskin 621AD is a sort of dark-ages-medieval-fantasy-style combat rugby game in which two five-player teams take to the field to compete in a game of “footbrawl,” all the while dodging rocks, trees, pools, pits, furniture and other obstacles. Each player controls the team captain of one of the teams. The original coin-op cabinet was set up … Continue reading “Jerry Glanville’s Pigskin Footbrawl”
Year: 1990
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
This version of Jeopardy! focuses more on sports related themes with 700 different categories and 3,500 questions to answer related to sports such as baseball, football, hockey, etc., along with many other sub-categories such as players, sports equipment and the like. The rules are still the same as the others, there are three rounds where … Continue reading “Jeopardy! Sports Edition”
Year: 1994
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Game show / trivia / quiz
Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition is an updated version of it’s Jeopardy! predecessor which features over 3,500 different new questions along with the standard features of Jeopardy such as Daily Doubles, a digitized likeness of the host, Alex Trebek and even the theme music. Like it’s previous version, the player uses the buttons to buzz in and … Continue reading “Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition”
Year: 1993
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Game show / trivia / quiz
This is a tennis game featuring the game modes Exhibition, Circuits, and Training. Exhibition allows for either singles or doubles play. Circuits mode involves the player competing to win four major tournaments: the Sydney Open, Paris Open, London Open and the Florida Open. The player can also customize their own tennis player by choosing their race,sex, and tennis wear color. Players can … Continue reading “Jennifer Capriati Tennis aka: Grandslam: The Tennis Tournament”
Year: 1992
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
As the name implies, this is strictly a basketball game. It has a black-basketball theme (as seen in a lot of odd American movies) and has a myriad of game options (one on one, group, etc.). Also, it has a betting option, but other than that it’s your typical run-of-the-mill basketball game.
Year: 1994
Platforms: 3DO, DOS, Genesis, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Unlike the first game of the series, which was a mission-based game, and the second one, where your character had unique abilities such as observing the whole level and growing to unlimited height, James Pond 3 is a standard jump and run platform game. Pond can run very quickly (by holding down the A button) … Continue reading “James Pond 3: Operation Starfish”
Year: 1993
Platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, Game Gear, Genesis, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
In his second adventure, James Pond must retrieve the toys Dr. Maybe has stolen. Pond has been armed with an Inspector Gadget-style stretch device, which he can use to view higher areas or claw onto ceilings so as to slide across them. The gameplay takes place across worlds themed around particular types of toys, such … Continue reading “James Pond II: Codename: Robocod”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Genesis, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, SEGA Master System, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
James Pond: Underwater Agent is a parody of the famous James Bond character. You control Pond, a fish-like creature, who has to complete several missions while making his way through levels full of dangers and hostile creatures. It is not a typical “jump and run” game: instead of breezing through large levels, Pond has to complete … Continue reading “James Pond: Underwater Agent”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform