PLATFORMS
Using the mouse to determine the direction and strength of your putts, you must navigate 9 tricky holes of crazy / mini golf. Try to putt into holes protected by bouncing hamburgers, windmills, etc. Courses have several twists; one is a mad scientists’s lab, another is a pinball table. The final hole is especially bizarre, … Continue reading “Zany Golf”
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis, Windows
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Dragon’s Eye is an installment in the tile-matching game series initiated by Activision. Players try to remove mahjong tiles in pairs from a set pattern. Different versions of the game have up to eight different tile sets, twelve patterns based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac, and a layout editor for creating patterns. In … Continue reading “Shanghai II: Dragon’s Eye”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Apple IIgs, DOS, FM Towns, Genesis, MSX, Macintosh, PC-98, SNES, Sharp X68000, Wii, Windows, Windows 3.x
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Cards / tiles
Hardball is a baseball action game for one or two players. You can throw a variety of pitches from fast balls to curve balls, steal bases, select team members, and substitute players as the game is played.
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, MSX, Macintosh, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
In the sequel to Test Drive, you can play against the time or the computer. Choose between a Ferrari F-40 and a Porsche 959, and take on your opponent, who is in the other car. There is also traffic to avoid. Each stage has a different setting, including forests and mountains, with a wide range … Continue reading “The Duel: Test Drive II”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Macintosh, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Simulation
Theme: Racing/Driving
The Black Knight has brought misery to the land, and the end way to end this is to enter his haunted house to slay him. You are the brave adventurer taking on this quest through 14 increasingly-tough zones. The bulk of the game is side-viewed, involving single screens to pass through, which incorporate ropes, cages … Continue reading “Dark Castle”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, CD-i, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Blockout is a Tetris variant with an added twist: it’s in 3D. The player can rotate the blocks in 3D in order to fit them into the pit they are being guided into. Advanced users can play this game with odd three-dimensional pieces, or change the size of the pit, for depth of between 6 … Continue reading “Blockout”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Apple IIgs, Arcade, Atari ST, Browser, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, Lynx, Macintosh, PC-98
Genre: Puzzle
Theme: Falling block puzzle
A young physics professor named Lester conducts a particle experiment. Suddenly, something goes wrong, lightning strikes, and in a moment Lester finds himself in a strange alien world. Now he must fight for his life, first with his bare hands, then with a gun he finds. But what gives him courage is that he is … Continue reading “Another World”
Year: 1991
Platforms: 3DO, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis, Jaguar, Macintosh, SNES, Symbian, Windows, Windows 3.x, Zodiac
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform, Puzzle elements
You have 8 hours to prevent Elvin, a psychotic genius, from destroying the world in this sequel to Impossible Mission. Enter Elvin’s tower fortress, avoid his robots, assemble security combinations for each tower, recover musical sequences and tie them together into a full melody to reach Elvin’s central control room.
Year: 1988
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES, Wii, Windows, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Metroidvania
World Games is an Olympics-style sports game with arcade-oriented gameplay. The events players can compete in include: In the Sega Master System version, there is only four events:
Year: 1986
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, NES, PC Booter, SEGA Master System, Wii, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Another in the series of Epyx Olympic sports games. Compete in many different sporting events: Ski Jump, Hot Dog, Biathlon, Bobsled, Free Skating, Figure Skating, and more.
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, Macintosh, NES, PC Booter, PC-88, Wii, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports