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Arcade basketball game where YOU are the ball. You can’t jump high enough on your own to go through the hoop, so you must bounce off other players. There are eight characters to choose from, powerups (and powerdowns) that affect your speed and jumping ability. Games can turn into fighting matches of sorts, as players … Continue reading “Bouncers”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
According to Blackhole Assault, the 22nd century sees earth technology advance to the point where exploration of the immediate solar system is not only possible, but necessary due to resource constraints. Humans are attempting to harvest the resources of the entire solar system but have met with trouble from alien invaders. It is up to a … Continue reading “Black Hole Assault”
Year: 1992
Platforms: SEGA CD, TurboGrafx CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
BC Racers is a kart racing game starring characters from the Core Design’s Chuck Rock series of games. Each of the racers in this game rides a prehistoric motorcycle with a sidecar. On each two-character team, one person drives the motorcycle, and the other fights off opponents using clubs, punches, kicks, etc. Graphics in BC … Continue reading “BC Racers”
Year: 1994
Platforms: 3DO, DOS, SEGA 32X, SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Racing/Driving
Battlecorps is a giant-mech game that takes place on a mining planet known as Mandlebrot’s World. The colony supercomputer has been infected with a virus, and now the planet’s giant machines are turning against the people who created them. You must pilot your bipedal attack machine through 12 missions to reboot the computer. The graphics in … Continue reading “Battlecorps”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Vehicular combat simulator
In the year 2500, humanity is attacked by the alien Gurzons. The Earth Defense Force doesn’t stand a chance, and whole cities are laid to waste by the evil invaders. There is still hope, however: enemies of the Gurzons from the planet Prism offer their help. If just a few EDF pilots can make it … Continue reading “A/X-101”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
In Android Assault an alien species called the Xias have targeted human beings for extermination. They have assembled a massive fleet that has crushed any opposing ship that has been sent their way and has started to attacking colonies stationed on nearby planets with a collision course to Earth and it is up to the … Continue reading “Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari-Arm”
Year: 1993
Platforms: SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
The third in Sega’s arcade flight sim series, After Burner III takes you back to the cockpit of the F-14 Tomcat in order to take on as many terrorist airplanes as you can with your arsenal of sidewinder missiles and your trusty vulcan cannon. The title is actually a port of SEGA’s arcade fight-sim Strike … Continue reading “After Burner III”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Arcade, FM Towns, SEGA CD
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Willy Beamish is a kid who likes to goof off and have fun. Naturally, all the grown-ups get in the way by making him go to school, making him clean his room, etc. But now that’s school’s out for the summer, Willy is determined to have a good time and maybe even have his pet … Continue reading “The Adventures of Willy Beamish”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, DOS, Macintosh, SEGA CD, Windows
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
Zoop is a fast-paced puzzle game in which the player eliminates colored shapes that are approaching his alter ego, another colored shape, before they reach the top, somewhat similarly to Tetris. In order to eliminate the other shapes, you must point your piece at it and ‘fire’. If the shape is the same color as … Continue reading “Zoop”
Year: 1995
Platforms: DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, Jaguar, Macintosh, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Tile matching puzzle
Zoom! is an arcade style puzzle game. Your character Zoomer (a Pacman lookalike with arms & legs) must trace the outline of the squares on the game board to light them up. Points are awarded when full squares are formed, although the game also displays how many lines must still be completed. You proceed to the next level … Continue reading “Zoom!”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade