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The Black Bass is a simple fishing game. Players first choose from a few different lures. Then players have to cast the lures into the water using a meter to gauge the distance their fishing line is cast. Finally, players are presented a side view of the bottom of a lake. Players can move the lure … Continue reading “The Black Bass”
Year: 1986
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Rooms of the Abyss is a basic first-person perspective dungeon crawling game. Your quest is to … well there’s a long story in the MANUAL.TXT file (which you may want to look at anyways for gameplay controls / tips) but it doesn’t really matter. You need to wander through the dungeons, slaying monsters, finding keys, … Continue reading “Rooms of the Abyss”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Dungeon crawler
At some point during the 1980’s the world has become a stage of battle between the Federation and the Empire. The latter sees itself as the successor state to the malevolent Badds, also known as the Nazz. One day, the Federation discovers that the Imperial leader Generalissimo Killt decides to complete an unfinished project codenamed … Continue reading “Bionic Commando”
Year: 1988
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Metroidvania
The signature of former champion Bill Elliott adorns one of the first few NASCAR racing games. There are six tracks, including favorites such as Watkins Glen and Talladega. The game is played through an in car view. Aerodynamic modifications and the drafting effect are incorporated. It features a practice mode as well as full races. … Continue reading “Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, DOS, Macintosh, NES
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Sports
Bill and Ted are two surfer-speaking 1980s high school dudes from San Dimas, California. After the events of the film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, they seem free to build the band that will one day unite Earth’s people and bring about world peace. Except… Rufus returns from the future with a warning that someone has … Continue reading “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Video Game Adventure”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Monster truck game where you go from LA to NYC through different kinds of races. At every stop, you first drive a qualification round against your opponent, which is in top-down perspective. Here, you can collect money and several power-ups to use to win against your opponent. After this qualification, you go into a side … Continue reading “Bigfoot”
Year: 1990
Platforms: NES
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Sports
Best of the Best Championship Karate is a realistic fighting game. After you choose your fighter for his parameters (strength, stamina and resistance), you can choose from 55 different moves. You can now train your fighter at a gym before the real fights. To master the game, one must alternate training and fights, as training improves … Continue reading “Best of the Best: Championship Karate”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, NES, SNES
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Based on the 1988 Michael Keaton movie, Beetlejuice follows the rough storyline of the movie. A ghoul named Beetlejuice is hired by a recently deceased couple to scare away the new occupants of their old home. The game is a side scrolling action game where the lead character can run, jump, and stomp his way … Continue reading “Beetlejuice”
Year: 1991
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is a typical side-scrolling platform game based on the Disney movie of the same name. The player takes on the role of Beast. As Beast the player can walk around, jump and hit enemies with his fists. Beast can also climb against walls. The levels feature various power-ups that can be … Continue reading “Beauty and the Beast”
Year: 1994
Platforms: NES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
The Princess Lorri has been abducted by anonymous parties to some similarly unknown location. Which throne is she heir to? King Altheon, her father, has the answer to that question, and it is to him that your adventurer must go in order to take up the mission of her rescue and restore hope to the … Continue reading “The Rescue of Lorri in Lorrinitron”
Year: 1991
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy