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Rumor says that the legendary Black Onyx, an artifact that grants eternal youth and happiness to those who can find it, lies within the Black Tower near the town of Utsuro. You assemble a party of brave adventurers and venture into the tower, defeating monsters on your way to the great treasure. The Black Onyx … Continue reading “The Black Onyx”
Year: 1984
Platforms: FM-7, MSX, NES, PC-6001, PC-8000, PC-88, PC-98, SG-1000, Sharp MZ-80B/2000/2500, Sharp X1
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Xyphus is a 2D fantasy RPG where the player can develop up to four characters with attributes such as hit points, endurance, strength etc. The available races are humans, dwarves and elves, with a mix of melee fighting and the use of magic for the professions. Slaying monsters is rewarded with experience and gold, used to … Continue reading “Xyphus”
Year: 1984
Platforms: Apple II, Commodore 64, Macintosh
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Despite its title, Adventure Construction Set is an editor that allows players to create their own role-playing scenarios. It is possible to customize a tile-set, maps, and objects to create RPGs reminiscent of the early Ultima games. Seven small ‘toolkits’ to build from include Sci/Fi, Spy, and Medieval setting templates, plus two complete games are … Continue reading “Stuart Smith’s Adventure Construction Set”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made. The road is … Continue reading “Frogger”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Android, Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, BREW, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Intellivision, J2ME, MSX, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, Odyssey 2, PC Booter, PC-6001, PlayStation 4, SNES, TI-99/4A, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Timex Sinclair 2068, Tomy Tutor, VIC-20, Windows Phone, ZX81, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade
Baseball player Frank Thomas licensed one of the first baseball games to use motion-captured 3D graphics and multiple camera angles. 28 stadia have been rendered in 3D, and each has its own visible and significant differences. There are 6 distinct game modes, allowing for single exhibition matches as well as full seasons on the playoffs. … Continue reading “Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball”
Year: 1995
Platforms: DOS, Genesis, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Forgotten Worlds features two characters known as The Nameless Ones, who both look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, one even has a mohawk. It’s their job to rid the planet of the attacking aliens. Guiding your character around the screen as they fly with jet-packs, guns on full auto, you control a satellite which you rotate around … Continue reading “Forgotten Worlds”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, SEGA Master System, TurboGrafx CD, Wii, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Before marketing fat-reducing grills, boxing legend George Foreman endorsed this boxing game with a 3rd-person view similar to Punch Out. A full range of punches and jabs are available, with full round-by-round scoring from the judges. You can choose from 3-12 rounds, and there are 2 camera views as well as an automatic switch option. You … Continue reading “Foreman for Real”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
This is a platform game based on the famous Flintstones series. The game features many original Flintstones characters, such as Fred, Wilma, Barney, and others. Instead of the usual “save the princess” or “liberate the world” kinds of a plot, “The Flintstones” is mainly based on small quests: Fred has to retrieve a lost item, … Continue reading “The Flintstones”
Year: 1993
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Flink is a jump-‘n-run game set in the fantasy world of Imagica. The evil wizard Wicked Wainwright has captured the four elders and it is up to Flink, a wizard’s apprentice, to set them free and defeat Wicked Wainwright. Apart from the usual platformer elements, the game has a unique feature: Flink’s ability to create … Continue reading “Flink”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Amiga, Genesis, SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
It has been 10 years since the ‘Barrow Hill Incident’, a terrible, unsolved mystery, when several people lost their lives to the force inside the hill. No-one knows what really happened, except you. Something to do with the ancient standing stones, the old Druid Circle. It was built by pagans, millennia ago, for purposes that … Continue reading “Barrow Hill: The Dark Path”
Year: 2016
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Graphic adventure