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Following the successful gameplay of Dragon’s Lair, Don Bluth released this second conversion of his Laserdisc games series. You’re playing Dexter, a guy fighting the evil madman Borf who has kidnapped your girlfriend Kimberly and is now threatening the world with his dreaded weapon, the “Infanto Ray” which turns adults into small children. The game … Continue reading “Space Ace”
Year: 1983
Platforms: 3DO, Android, Arcade, Blu-ray Disc Player, CD-i, DOS, DVD Player, Jaguar, Macintosh, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, SEGA CD, Windows, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Full Motion Video
Soulstar for the Sega CD/Mega CD is a 3D shoot-’em up that combines several different types of gameplay into one game. Some levels in this game are on a fixed path, similar to Space Harrier or Star Fox. Other levels allow your space craft to hover freely around a 3D environment, and in other levels your … Continue reading “Soulstar”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Rail shooter
Snatcher is set in the futuristic Neo Kobe City, a city of madness and decadence. The year is 2047 (or 2042, according to the original Japanese version). Mankind is facing its gravest crisis. A mysterious bio-roid life form has appeared. Its true nature and purpose are unknown. Is it some country’s secret weapon, or an alien … Continue reading “Snatcher”
Year: 1988
Platforms: MSX, PC-88, PlayStation, SEGA CD, SEGA Saturn, TurboGrafx CD
Genre: Adventure
Free the Smurfs before Gargamel smurfs then all! Platform game where you will be able to play with the jockey smurf, the brainy smurf, the greedy smurf and the hefty smurf to resolve the adventure. All of the classic SMURF characters are along for the adventure, guaranteeing you a Smurf-tastic time.
Year: 1994
Platforms: DOS, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, SEGA CD, SNES, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Slam City with Scottie Pippen is a Full-Motion-Video basketball game. It uses proprietary technology to allow switching from one scene to another without lag, which allows for smoother interactive video. Gameplay is relatively simple, using little more than arrow keys, and is very different from any other basketball simulation. Basketball is merely the subject for the … Continue reading “Slam City with Scottie Pippen”
Year: 1994
Platforms: DOS, SEGA 32X, SEGA CD
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
In Silpheed, the player pilots a spaceship through levels of increasing difficulty, in a pseudo-3D vertically scrolling field, shooting everything in his path. New weapons will become available as he gathers points, and power-ups are sprinkled throughout the levels. The game is one of the first-ever that used music as a selling point.
Year: 1986
Platforms: Apple IIgs, DOS, FM-7, PC-88, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
“What they said about Sherlock I, you’ll say about Sherlock II”…reads the advert in the box, based on the nice critics about Volume I. But, each situation is completely different: “The Two Lions” involving the murder of circus lions, “The Pilfered Paintings” just bought by The National Gallery…and “The Murdered Munitions Magnate”, where hints reveal … Continue reading “Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volume 2”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS, Macintosh, SEGA CD, TurboGrafx CD, VIS
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Detective/Mystery
In this game, the player is cast into the roles of Sherlock Holmes, the greatest fictional detective of all times, and his friend and partner Dr. Watson, as they have to investigate and successfully solve three criminal cases: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective can be described as a hybrid of adventure game and simulation. Gameplay process involves … Continue reading “Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective”
Year: 1991
Platforms: CDTV, DOS, DVD Player, FM Towns, Macintosh, SEGA CD, TurboGrafx CD, VIS
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
In the future, maybe in the year 2000, people will be forced to move underground and live in tunnels. Unfortunately, these tunnels are infested with mutated rat/alligator creatures known as “ratigators.” You are the pilot of a Sewer Shark, a craft designed to navigate the Sewers and rid them of ratigators. It’s a dangerous job, … Continue reading “Sewer Shark”
Year: 1992
Genre: Action
Theme: Rail shooter, Full Motion Video
Overhead Shooter based in Japan. The bloodthirsty Chugoko Warlords of the west have ruled and ravaged the once-supreme Oda Clan. Time to get your revenge. This is an overhead shooter with large bosses and massive power-ups.
Year: 1992
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter