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Autoduel is a hybrid game based on Steve Jackson Games board game Car Wars. It incorporates elements of role-playing, driving and action-based combat. The game is set in a futuristic version of USA, where gangs and vigilantes rule the wilderness, and people’s only protection are armored cars with mounted weaponry. The player is cast in … Continue reading “AutoDuel”
Year: 1986
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
Alternate Reality: The Dungeon directly follows its predecessor: The player is still captured by aliens and imprisoned in an alternate reality. After visiting the city, now he proceeds to the dungeon with only one goal in mind: surviving. While the predecessor was more about exploring the city, this installment has a largely linear path – … Continue reading “Alternate Reality: The Dungeon”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
In Alternate Reality: The City, you are one of many people who have been abducted from earth by aliens and transported to an alternate dimension where you are dumped in a strange, yet familiar city. Your quest is to explore the city, and find the clues that will lead you to your captors and help you … Continue reading “Alternate Reality: The City”
Year: 1985
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, TRS-80 CoCo, iPad, iPhone
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Real-time strategy
Haiiro no Majo is one of the several different games set in the fictional Lodoss War universe created by Ryo Mizuno. The game’s introductory plot loosely follows the events of the first novel, The Grey Witch, centering on the enigmatic character Karla and her influence on the world’s politics. Several popular characters from the cycle … Continue reading “Record of Lodoss War: Haiiro no Majo (The Grey Witch)”
Year: 1988
Platforms: FM Towns, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X68000
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Betrayed and left for dead, Mr. Wolf is hell-bent on finding his killer and enacting revenge – alone, and vastly outnumbered. Thankfully for Mr. Wolf, the world is your weapon in Bloodroots – a relentless action game that unfolds across the sprawling Weird West. You’ll choreograph spectacular, ultra-violent combos by making use of everything around … Continue reading “Bloodroots”
Year: 2020
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Windows Apps, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Playstation 5
Genre: Action
Theme: Hack and slash
This 32X-exclusive sci-fi shooter is similar gameplay-wise to Sega’s arcade game Zaxxon. The graphics consist of a diagonally scrolling playfield which creates a pseudo 3D environment. The backgrounds are drawn using 2D scrolling planes, but the enemy and ship objects are drawn using 3D flat-shaded polygons. Although the basic goal of each of the 9 … Continue reading “Zaxxon’s Motherbase 2000”
Year: 1995
Platforms: SEGA 32X
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
This entry in the World Series Baseball video game franchise features a full MLBPA license, which allows it to have all 28 teams and 700 real-life players. There are three main game modes: Exhibition, Full season, and Playoff. Exhibition is useful for a quick game between any two teams of the player’s choice. Full season allows the … Continue reading “World Series Baseball Starring Deion Sanders”
Year: 1995
Platforms: SEGA 32X
Genre: Sports
Theme: Sports
Virtua Racing Deluxe is an enhanced arcade-to-console conversion of Sega’s 3D racing game. This game is primarily an arcade-style affair; Players compete in a 5 lap race with timed checkpoints. It’s also possible to play with 2 players in a split-screen mode. The 32X version of Virtua Racing adds a couple of new features. There are now 3 … Continue reading “Virtua Racing Deluxe”
Year: 1994
Platforms: SEGA 32X
Genre: Racing / driving
Theme: Racing/Driving
Virtua Fighter is considered one of the progenitors of one-on-one fighting games with fully 3D environments and characters. The fighters and arenas are rendered in flat-shaded polygons. Unlike many fighting games, Virtua Fighter focuses on gameplay based on actual fighting styles, rather than outrageous special moves and storylines. There are eight fighters to choose from in … Continue reading “Virtua Fighter”
Year: 1993
Platforms: Arcade, SEGA 32X, SEGA Saturn
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Tempo is a grasshopper who lives on Planet Rythmia, the world of music. Unfortunately, the malevolent King Dirge is trying to steal all the rhythm from the planet. It’s unclear as to how a creature with no appreciation for music became King, but it’s up to Tempo to stop him! Tempo’s game is a side … Continue reading “Tempo”
Year: 1995
Platforms: SEGA 32X
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform