PLATFORMS
While flying your spaceship, you crash land on a planet covered entirely in slime. You and a friend explore the labyrinthine planet of slime, armed with a water pistol and all manner of gadgets you find along the way in an effort to find your way back out. The game world is a giant maze … Continue reading “Todd’s Adventures in Slime World”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Genesis, Lynx, TurboGrafx CD, Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Steel Talons brought realism-oriented helicopter combat to the arcades, and later to home systems. The action is viewed from behind your helicopter, with the 3D polygon world rotating around you, taking in mountains, rivers and deserts. There are 12 missions in total, each of which requires you to destroy targets in a set time limit. There … Continue reading “Steel Talons”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Arcade, Atari ST, Genesis, Lynx, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Vehicular combat simulator
While very young, Aarbron was kidnapped and enslaved by the Priests of the Beast Lord. He grew up on drugs made to destroy his own will and turn him into the Beast Messenger, a powerful creature serving Maletoth, The Beast Lord himself. He did his job, until one day he noticed a man about to … Continue reading “Shadow of the Beast”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, FM Towns, Genesis, Lynx, SEGA Master System, TurboGrafx CD, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform, Puzzle elements
In the year 2090, Earth is invaded by extra-terrestrials. The World Alliance of Nations has developed a supersonic attack fighter, Raiden, to defend the Earth. A pilot must take control of the experimental fighter to destroy the alien warships that just happen to look like odd variations of typical military tanks and planes with gadgets … Continue reading “Raiden Trad”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Arcade, DOS, FM Towns, Genesis, Jaguar, Lynx, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PSP, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, SNES, TurboGrafx CD, TurboGrafx-16
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
Pit-Fighter is a 3rd-person fight game that features digitized graphics of real fighters and zooming effects. Players select one of three fighters (Buzz, Ty or Kato) to take on anyone who dares. At the conclusion of a match, players are individually awarded a Knockout Bonus, Brutality Bonus, and a Fight Purse. Every third match is a … Continue reading “Pit-Fighter”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, Lynx, SEGA Master System, SNES, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Fighting
Ishido is a solitaire board game played with tiles, similar to Shanghai. The objective is to place all of the tiles onto the board and obtain the highest possible score by following specific rules of play. There are ways to play that can dramatically increase the score, which makes the game very strategic in nature. … Continue reading “Ishido: The Way of Stones”
Year: 1990
Platforms: Amiga, DOS, FM Towns, Game Boy, Genesis, Lynx, MSX, Macintosh, NES, PC-88, PC-98, Sharp X68000
Genre: Strategy / tactics
Theme: Cards / tiles
The gameplay of The Humans has similarities to Lode Runner and Lemmings. Your job in this action puzzler is to help prehistoric man to evolve by helping them discover tools, the wheel, weapons, or even fire. Each level in the game will have a given task to help in this, and you are allotted a … Continue reading “The Humans”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, Browser, DOS, Game Boy, Genesis, Jaguar, Lynx, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Platform
Hard Drivin’ is a 3D arcade hit from Atari Games. You are in control of a high-performance sports car. Your objective is to race around the course as fast as possible and hit as many checkpoints as possible. If you hit a checkpoint you gain extra time to go farther. You will see traffic on the … Continue reading “Hard Drivin’”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, Genesis, Lynx, ZX Spectrum
Genre: Action
Theme: Racing/Driving
The first game in the Strike series. A year after the Gulf War, a self-styled general named Kilbaba (Muababa in the GBA version) takes over an Arab Emirate and threatens to start World War III against his western enemy, the United States. The whole world holds its breath as the President has chosen you to … Continue reading “Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf”
Year: 1992
Platforms: Amiga, BlackBerry, DOS, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Gear, Genesis, Lynx, SEGA Master System, SNES
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
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