PLATFORMS
Badh the queen has imposed a terrible vengeance on the land by kidnapping the fairies. To restore things to their rightful way, you must rescue them. As you progress through the levels of platform-adventure action, you will come across fairies which are rescued by touching them. Enemies include Venus Fly Traps, localized acid rain showers … Continue reading “Stormlord”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, Symbian, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Guide a team of up to six soldiers through 72 levels of combat in this top-down action/strategy hybrid, best thought of as Lemmings crossed with Commando crossed with Dune 2. The characters are controlled indirectly using the mouse or joypad, as you activate each soldier or group of them by highlighting them, clicking one button … Continue reading “Cannon Fodder”
Year: 1993
Platforms: 3DO, Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, DOS, Game Boy Color, Genesis, J2ME, Jaguar, Linux, Macintosh, SNES, Symbian, Windows
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Real-time strategy
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
aking a rather literal view of the term ‘slap-stick humour’, Rodland features two fairies called Tam and Rit, whose mission is to rescue their mum who’s been captured and taken to a castle. There are 40 screens to clear, all full of baddies, who are disposed of by grabbing them with a stick, and flipping them from … Continue reading “Rod Land”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Game Boy, NES, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Symbian, Windows Mobile, ZX Spectrum, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
You play a small green guy who needs to blow up eight towers because their presence is somehow poisoning the water of planets which could potentially be ideal colonies. Unfortunately, you need to get to the top of these towers to blow them up. You make your way up to the top of the tower … Continue reading “Castelian”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 7800, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, NES, Symbian, Wii, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Arcade