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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
Archaeology meets adventure in this game set in the desolate Cornish landscape. A dig at Barrow Hill is timed with the Autumnal Equinox, but is it wise to disturb this ancient burial place during an important pagan holiday? Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle is a first-person adventure game that combines accurate archaeological exploration with … Continue reading “Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle”
Year: 2006
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Graphic adventure
A female blue jay, named Flicky, must collect her chicks and lead them safely back to their nest, while they are chased by two cats. The cats make her chicks wandering off and try to eat her! Each level offers about a dozen objects like watering cans, hammers, and cups, to throw at and knock … Continue reading “Flicky”
Year: 1984
Platforms: Arcade, FM-7, Genesis, Linux, MSX, Macintosh, PC-8000, PC-88, SG-1000, Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500, Sharp X1, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Fire Shark takes place around a small island in the South Pacific. It is a continuously-scrolling aerial shooter with a top-down view. Your World War II era biplane has been modified to shoot lasers and drop powerful bombs. There are ten levels in the game in which you will face aerial, aquatic, and ground enemies. They … Continue reading “Fire Shark”
Year: 1989
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
It is 100 years into the future. Nuclear weapons, missiles and other weapons of mass destruction are banned, but a new piece of military hardware is about to shape the future. The N.A.P. (New Age Power-Suit), is the newest weapon, a mechanical tank, able to destroy anything in its path. You play as a soldier … Continue reading “Final Zone”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Genesis, Sharp X68000
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter