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A 3D snooker simulator. The table and cue can be turned through almost any angle, with shot strength and spin as required too. An on-screen dotted white line shows the path of your ball, including the next bounce. There is also a “trick-shot” mode, allowing you to recreate classic snooker trick shots (well, not the … Continue reading “Jimmy White’s ‘Whirlwind’ Snooker”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
A roguelite strategic deck builder, Deepest Chamber: Resurrection challenges players to endure a series of increasingly demanding randomized descents into the murky depths of a dying city. With the odds stacked firmly against them, three heroes set out to blaze a trail through the darkness and rescue their people from a fate worse than death. Easy to learn, … Continue reading “Deepest Chamber: Resurrection”
Year: 2023
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Cards / tiles
A Turn-Based RPG That’s More Than a Throwback! 8-Bit Adventures 2 is everything you love about NES, SNES and PS1-era JRPGs – with all of the charm, heart and soul, but none of the inconvenience. That means an earnest, engaging storyline; relatable, easy-to-love characters; strategic turn-based battles; deep party customisation; bizarre monsters; an unforgettable soundtrack; and … Continue reading “8-Bit Adventures 2”
Year: 2023
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
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