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In the educational title Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio, players use any combination of 40 stickers to place animating objects into any of 6 wacky world environments. Stickers include Sonic the Hedgehog, Tails, Ecco the Dolphin, and many other SEGA characters. Then the players paint objects in any color they like. Once the Wacky World has been … Continue reading “Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Educational
Theme: Graphics / Art
Saban’s VR Troopers is based on the TV show of the same name and is made by the same company that produced the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. The story has the evil Grimlord transport the VR Troopers into (ironically) a video game and it is up to the player (literally) to save them and bring them back … Continue reading “VR Troopers”
Year: 1995
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Virtual Pinball is the spiritual successor to Bill Budge’s classic Pinball Construction Set. Programmed by Bill Budge, this Sega Genesis game allows the player to try different pre-built pinball tables and additionally create, save and play custom tables.
Year: 1993
Platforms: Genesis
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Pinball
Bart’s reality goes virtual when he is strapped into Martin Prince’s Virtual Reality experiment at the elementary school science fair. Each virtual reality program represents a stage in the game that Bart must play through in order to escape the machine before the programs crash. The game consists of three side-scrolling platform stages and three … Continue reading “Virtual Bart”
Year: 1994
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Virtua Racing is Sega’s first ever 3D, polygon-based racing game. The game consists of racing Formula-1-looking cars around a beginner, intermediate, or expert track, competing against a second player or computer drivers. Despite having Formula-1 cars, the game controls are very “arcadey” and players can see the leap they made from here to Daytona. The … Continue reading “Virtua Racing”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Arcade, Genesis, Nintendo Switch
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Racing/Driving
One year after after the first tournament Akira, Wolf, Pai, Jeffry, Kage, Jacky, Sarah and defending champion Lau are invited to the World Fighting Tournament, and are joined by the master of drunken Kung-Fu Shun-di, who wants to prove he’s more than an old geezer and Lion Rafale, who’s fighting for his freedom. Each fighter … Continue reading “Virtura Fighter 2”
Year: 1994
Platforms: Arcade, PlayStation 3, SEGA Saturn, Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Viewpoint is a top-down orthographic perspective game in the tradition of Zaxxon. The PlayStation and Saturn versions feature 3D rendered graphics with texture maps, unlike the other versions which primarily feature shaded polygons. One or two players (in hot-seat or cooperative mode) control a spaceship equipped with a laser cannon which can be charged (by … Continue reading “Viewpoint”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Arcade, FM Towns, Genesis, Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, PlayStation, Sharp X68000, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Walter Jones, an eccentric billionaire, is found dead on the Maldivian island of Sagorah. There, he had built an enormous Art Deco tower that he hoped to turn into an exclusive holiday resort. His death seems like a nightly accident at first, but turns out to be a mysterious murder. Furthermore, a heavy storm is … Continue reading “Sinking Island”
Year: 2007
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
Separation Anxiety is a 2D side-scrolling platform-action beat ’em up game featuring several prominent characters from the Marvel Universe and gripping storylines taken from the popular Spider-Man comics. The game is based loosely on a mini-series of comics about the Venom saga. In this game, 1-2 players can select and take control of Spider-Man and/or his … Continue reading “Venom and Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety”
Year: 1995
Platforms: Genesis, SNES, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Beat 'em up / brawler
This is a sequel to Vectorman. This time, the super-powerful little robot was attacked while coming back to earth in his spaceship. He falls down on the earth only to discover dark locations full of hostile creatures and to participate in a platformer full of fast and furious action. Fight your enemies, collect photons, jump … Continue reading “Vectorman 2”
Year: 1996
Platforms: Genesis, Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform