PLATFORMS

Brutal Deluxe doesn’t live up to their name – in fact they’re the worst team Speedball has ever seen. As their manager, it is your job to transform their fortunes. As well as the league system, which consists of 2 8-team divisions and challenges you to advance to the top, there are also 2 cup … Continue reading “Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe”

Year: 2020

Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Atari ST, BlackBerry, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Genesis, J2ME, SEGA Master System, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360

Genre: Action

Theme: Sports


Another game using the graphical adventure interface found in Déjà Vu and Shadowgate, Uninvited comes with a “horror” theme. While driving on a lonely road at night, a strange figure blocks your vision causing you to swerve and crash your car. When you regain consciousness, you find that your brother is missing (in the NES-Version … Continue reading “Uninvited”

Year: 1986

Platforms: Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES, Windows 3.x, Windows Mobile

Genre: Adventure

Theme: Turn-based strategy


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


NetHack is a roguelike role-playing game with both traditional ASCII graphics and a graphical tileset. The objective is to find the Amulet of Yendor and sacrifice it to your deity. In the beginning, you choose one of the classes – there are some traditional ones, like Priest or Knight, but also unusual ones like Tourist or … Continue reading “Nethack”

Year: 1999

Platforms: Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Android, Atari ST, Browser, DOS, GP32, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, PC-98, Windows, Windows Mobile, iPhone

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Roguelike


In this game you are Rif, a young fox, who is falsely accused of stealing the magical orb of storms. This orb is capable of predicting when storms will arrive. Obviously this is important to farmers, but it is just as important to the boar tribe, for their supply of mud. You’ll have to find … Continue reading “Inherit the Orb: Quest for the Orb”

Year: 1994

Platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Linux, Macintosh, PC-98, Windows, Windows Mobile, iPhone

Genre: Adventure

Theme: Graphic adventure, Puzzle elements, RPG elements


Warlords II is a 2D turn-based strategy game set in a fantasy world. The player is a commander from one of several races (like the people from the Kingdoms, the Dark Elves, Ussyrian Orcs, Sirians etc.). The player starts with one city, and must capture other cities (enemy or neutral) to produce new units. The … Continue reading “Warlords II”

Year: 1993

Platforms: DOS, Macintosh, Windows Mobile

Genre: Strategy / tactics

Theme: RPG elements, Turn-based strategy


After having brought peace to Britannia during his previous journey there, the Avatar returns to our world. However, he is haunted by ghostly dreams that warn him of great danger in Britannia. The Avatar decides to travel there once again. Upon his arrival, he witnesses the kidnapping of Baron Almric’s daughter. Found guilty of the … Continue reading “Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss”

Year: 1992

Platforms: DOS, FM Towns, PC-98, PlayStation, Windows, Windows Mobile

Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)

Theme: Dungeon crawler


You find Kate Walker continuing her journey exactly where the first game, Syberia, ended. Rather than return to her life as a New York attorney, Kate chooses to journey with Hans Voralberg to the frozen northlands of Syberia aboard his futuristic train. Kate, Hans and Oscar, the humorous automaton, will travel through four locations on their … Continue reading “Syberia II”

Year: 2004

Platforms: Android, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, OnLive, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox, Xbox 360, iPad, iPhone

Genre: Adventure

Theme: Graphic adventure


Kate Walker is a lawyer who has been entrusted by the Universal Toy Company to negotiate the takeover of an old luxury toy and automaton factory. Over the centuries, the factory has been developing clockwork devices, specializing in perpetual mechanical movement. The factory’s ambitions, however, are ill-suited to the contemporary economic climate, and the elderly … Continue reading “Syberia”

Year: 2002

Platforms: Android, Macintosh, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox, Xbox 360, iPad, iPhone

Genre: Adventure

Theme: Graphic adventure


Galaga is a vertical arcade shooter from Namco. You control a space fighter at the bottom of the screen, scrolling left and right in order to avoid oncoming bombs and kamikaze attacks from alien invaders–and to fire your own missiles to fight back! There are an infinite number of stages to progress through. Every third level … Continue reading “Galaga”

Year: 1985

Platforms: Arcade, Atari 7800, BREW, BlackBerry, FM-7, J2ME, MSX, NES, Nintendo 3DS, PC-98, Palm OS, PlayStation 4, Roku, SEGA Master System, SG-1000, Sharp MZ-80K/700/800/1500, Sharp X1, Sord M5, Wii, Wii U, Windows, Windows Mobile, Xbox 360, Xbox One

Genre: Action

Theme: Arcade, Shooter


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