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Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare 1994 in the first of two special episodes developed and published by Epic MegaGames, Inc. starring everybody's favorite hare, Jazz Jackrabbit. Jazz must survive three areas of Holidaius using his own weapons to fight mongrels, monkeys, hands, ski turtles, and devils. The graphics have a `Christmas` theme to them, and that... 333

Ajax (A Jax or A-Jax) is a vertically scrolling shooter released in arcades by Konami in December 1987. Similar to Contra and its "Gryzor", there was a European release of the game called Typhoon, which is the name used for Imagine Software's ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 ports. The players control a "Tom Tiger" helicopter (in the 2D stage)... 112

ShadowCaster is a first-person/role-playing video game from 1993 developed by Raven Software and released by Origin Systems. A CD-ROM version was released in 1994, featuring two additional levels with new monsters, and replacing text boxes with FMVs and spoken narration through CD-DA audio tracks. The ShadowCaster used a heavily modified version of... 146

Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) is an action platformer developed and published by Ocean Software based on the 1989 film of the same name. The game consists of five levels based on events from the movie. Each stage has a time limit and a health gauge (represented by Batman's face turning into the Joker's), with Batman losing a life if he runs... 712

Jill of the Jungle is a 2D scrolling action platform game released in 1992 by Epic MegaGames. It was intended to rival platform games previously released as shareware by id Software and Apogee Software. Jill of the Jungle is the first episode of a shareware series. Player takes the role of an Amazon woman who can use various types of weapons and enhancements... 290

Vinyl Goddess from Mars is a 2D action platformer. The game plays similar to Epic MegaGames's Jill of the Jungle or alternatively Bitmap Brothers's Gods. As Vinyl, you must progress through levels and episodes and eventually repair your broken vessel. The game has three episodes (with only the first episode playable in the shareware version)... 227

Achtung, die Kurve!, also known as Curve Fever (or Dune 3 on Amiga), is a freeware, multiplayer computer game that supports from two-player up to six-player gaming simultaneously. The game is a clone of the lesser known Cervii (Worms) from 1993, differing in that the lines now have holes. Author is Filip Oščádal, aka Fred Brooker, from the Czech Republic... 1018

Gorillas, also known under the source code's file name GORILLA.BAS, is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5 and published in 1991 by IBM corporation. It is a turn-based artillery game. With allusions to King Kong, the game consists of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle... 2828

Tetris (The Soviet Challenge) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60. This is the version ported to home computers by Mirrorsoft and Andromeda Ltd and distributed by Spectrum Holobyte in 1987. Tetris is primarily composed of a field of play in which pieces... 2331

Tetris (Тетрис) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60 while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at their Computer Center in Moscow with Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the IBM PC. Tetriminos are game pieces shaped like tetrominoes,... 846

Alone in the Dark is a survival horror game developed by Infogrames. The game has spawned several sequels, as part of the Alone in the Dark series, and was one of the first survival horror games, after the 1989 Capcom game, Sweet Home. Alone in the Dark was also the first game to use 3D characters... 575

Alien Carnage, also known as Halloween Harry, is a side-scrolling platform game written by SubZero Software and distributed by Apogee Software. The game features 256 colour VGA graphics and background music in MOD format. Alien Carnage is composed of four episodes. The first episode was released as shareware, and the rest were distributed commercially.... 541

Monster Bash (called Graveyard during development) is a side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Apogee Software on 9 April 1993 for DOS. The game features 16-color EGA graphics and IMF AdLib compatible music. It was developed by Frank Maddin and Gerald Lindsly. The game is divided into three episodes. The first episode of the... 141

Project-X is a scrolling shooter game for the Amiga developed by Team17, it was regarded as one of the best shooter games for that platform at the time, both for its technical excellence in graphics and sounds, and for its difficult and interesting gameplay. The game resembles Konami's side-scrolling shooter games such as Gradius, Salamander and Parodius.... 286

Street Fighter is a 1987 arcade game developed by Capcom. It is the first competitive fighting game produced by the company and the first installment in the Street Fighter series. While it did not achieve the same worldwide popularity as its sequel Street Fighter II when it was first released, the original Street Fighter introduced some of the conventions... 365

The Secret of Monkey Island is the adventure game with point-and-click interface, memorable for its witty humor, primarily designed by Ron Gilbert, with Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. The game introduces Guybrush Threepwood, a youth who desires to become a pirate. At the beginning of the game, he washes up on the Caribbean island of Mêlée... 537

Mystic Towers is an isometric action game with RPG elements from Australian developers Animation FX and published by Manaccom domestically and Apogee Software internationally. It is a sequel to Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure, a platform game in which Baron Baldric battled an evil sorcerous ancestor. The player as Baron Baldric must explore 6 grand... 94

Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure is an side-scrollig action platformer adventure, originally designed for the Amiga by a professional animator, Lindsay Whipp of Animation FX. It is considered very rare since the registered version was only sold in the Australian territory by Electronic Arts Australia. The story of Baron Baldric takes place under Castle... 88

Prehistorik 2 is a sequel to the platform game Prehistorik. Like in its predecessor, the main character of Prehistorik 2 is a caveman who goes in quest for food, fighting various animals and humorous end of level bosses. The game is a simple platform game where the player walks and jumps his/her way through the levels and whacks enemies in the head... 1710

Prehistorik is a platform game developed by Titus. The playable character is a neanderthal armed with a club. In a search for food, the neanderthal must hit dinosaurs and other animals that come in his way. Some hostile beings can't be beat, so the player must dodge them. A boss awaits in every even numbered level. There are seven levels... 627